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Old 06-29-2009, 11:57 AM   #24 (permalink)
dippin
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Originally Posted by aceventura3 View Post
This issue centers around the "settled" global warming debate. I think the point of a historical reference to volcanic activity is to show how this planet has experienced real climate changes not caused by man and how the planet is able to recover or heal itself.

The issue of global warming has not been settled and more and more are beginning to acknowledge that.

From the opinion page of the WSJ, recently..



Strassel: The Climate Change Climate Change - WSJ.com
So the Polish Academy of sciences, a poll in the czech republic, and Jim Inhoffe's 700 scientists have a credibility that other academy of sciences or scientists don't?

And I specially love how credentials are fabricated to generate the impression of a hotly contested debate that simply doesnt exist. Like the 700 scientists, where the word "scientist" is stretched to include virtually anyone with a college degree, and even some without one. The list is rife with TV weathermen, several people from schools of theology, creationists and the like. I think that it is beyond any doubt that the "war of credentials" when it comes to global warming has been settled. Not that it should matter anyways.

But if people are still so convinced that there no global warming, that humans have had nothing to do with it (funny how they acknowledge volcanic activity, but never mention how much CO2 is produced by those, vs human activity), and that there is a massive conspiracy to cover it up, then instead of coming up with bogus lists, letters that were rejected, and the such, why not come up with a single scientific paper that debunks global warming that was rejected for bogus reasons? That is all it takes, instead of insisting that the fact that a creationist pastor with a doctor of divinity is a scientist and that the fact that science has refused to run his letter is evidence of a consipiracy.


By the way, the point still remains that global warming, though the most extreme, is far from being the only negative result of man made pollution.
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