Well if you you people went off topic. What a terrible thing to do
and the mods doing it as well
So ill join in
Host,
I think your main problem is that you expect people to think like you. We don't and not all information reads the same. Thus as you try to make your point with nothing but quotes others either don't get it at all or see something else. This obviously leads to quite a bit of frusturation on both your part and us the readers.
Now every now and then you come out of your quote posting shell and express your own conclusions. You did so in your recent thread concerning Jim Sharp. I was delighted to see your expressing your views and THEN posting info on how you obtained them.
Ironically, I thought this thread and the picture it painted was well constructed and rather clear. Though perhaps smaller quotes would do the trick.
In responce to the original topic:
I think everyone is a "parashootist" of sorts. People will generally only get (seriously) involved with something out of personal gain.
I don't think your analogy is dead on though. All but the corporate owned scientific bodies agree that climate change is rapidly happening. Golobal warming is far from a myth and most people will agree that somthing is happening to climate as a result of personal experience (I don't know about you guys but our weather has been pretty un-usual for the past decade or so).