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Hi Paul, Let me try posting this message again - hopefully better formatted this time. Dear Sust-Mar members, I've always assumed that Global Warming was a scientific fact and that its detractors were plain naive, mis-informed, or worse. But I'm not so sure any longer. Horror of horrors, could Suzuki have gotten it all wrong? Competent physicists who know much more about earth climate models than I do have disputed the prediction of the global warming crowd. Here is a brief excerpt from a discussion on the issue: "Everything since then has been a triumph of spin over science, an epicycle hunt, quackery, imposing on the scientific ignorance of most greens first and and most of the public second, and ends justifies means talk internally." "Finally, the last refuge of the scaremongers is always the argument from ignorance, or "we can't be sure, so we better do something anyway, because the consequences could be so big if we are wrong." This is exactly Pascal's theological argument, merely redirected. It doesn't matter what the probability is, because the postulated effect is so huge. A moment's reflection will show, that if the consequences are merely allegations and not facts about which anything is known, then this argument reduces to the claim that one ought to obey whoever says "boo" the loudest. Because anybody can allege anything as consequences of not doing what he says. And he can change what he alleges at will, until it is something you will regard as undesireable and large. Acting this way is therefore open to every superstition, with the only thing left to choose between all the shouting scaremongers, being who shouts loudest." Jason Cawley To read the complete discussion go to: http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3ad729f23c97.htm (see post 121, in particular) Regards, Steve d'Apolonia -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on Sustainable Maritimes (sust-mar) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- TELL A FRIEND! The more people who join sust-mar, the more interesting and diverse views we'll see ... and more people to read *your* messages. So ... pssssst! Pass it on ... To join sust-mar just send email to <majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca> As the text of your message type "subscribe sust-mar" (without the quotes)
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