From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 12:11:43 MDT
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.
Harvey, scientists are unanimous on the dangers of cometary and
asteroidal impacts. This doesn't mean that they agree on what *causes*
such impacts. There is, in fact, a petition signed by over 18,000
scientists, many of whom produced the data that the UN Climate Change
panel based its conclusions on, who are contesting the conclusions
reached by the UN claiming that anthropogenic CO2 is the primary cause
and that its possible to do something about it without killing off a
large chunk of the human race and going back to a hunter gatherer
existence.
>
> This method of pulling children into the debate is a blatant attempt to tug
> on our heart strings and evoke pity. This is poor journalism whether it is
> on "our" side or "their" side. There also is the questionable tactic of
> interviewing children with permission of parents who think the interview
> will be sympathetic, and then showing these children as brainwashed dupes on
> national TV. These kids probably feel ambushed and embarrassed. They will
> probably never trust a journalist to interview them again. The parents
> probably feel that they gave their permission under false pretenses, and
> that the purpose of the show was other than what they were lead to believe.
Thats funny, cause I recall when I was in school the liberals were doing
this sort of crap all the time.
I was in grade school in the late 70's and early 80's, when lefties were
subjecting school kids to scare stories about nuclear annihilation, how
MAD and Ronald Reagan was going to kill us all, and how the nuclear
industry was going to poison us all if we don't blow up first from war.
A local tv crew tried that with my classroom in 6th grade, but I was
actually rather well researched on the issues and stood up and told them
off with facts and figures. They looked at me like I had three heads,
and not one bit of the footage of me wound up on the airwaves.
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