From: J. Goard (wyattoil@foothill.net)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 12:44:02 MDT
At 09:51 AM 6/28/01 -0500, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>No offense, but I would almost be tempted to raise my hand. I know that
>this is politically incorrect sentiment on this group, but most scientists
>do believe in the dangers of global warming. Although scientists are never
>"unanimous" on any issue, this one is clearly divided between the majority
>and minority. Although there is a very vocal minority of scientists that
>discount global warming, most of these are funded by business to fight
>global warming. In any case, there is not enough evidence to claim global
>warming is such a fraud that it is brainwashing to teach it to children.
That "vocal minority of scientists" consists largely of those who are
experts in climatology, generally employed by universities rather than
propaganda arms of NASA and the DoD. I wouldn't be surprised at all if
scientists in general professed belief in the phenomenon. It is a
well-established phenomenon of luddite doomsday hoaxes that the collection
of individuals' ratings of their own local environments is vastly higher
than their ratings of the overall situation.
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J. Goard
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The Beyond outside us is indeed swept away, and the
great undertaking of the Enlightenment complete;
but the Beyond *inside* us has become a new heaven
and calls us to renewed heaven-storming.
--Max Stirner
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