Didn't Bush come out several months ago and finally admit that Global Warming may be man-caused? ISTR a statement like that... Damon.
sort of... http://www.greenoptions.com/blog/2007/05/15/bush_wants_action_on_global_warming_emissions_sort_of bush treats science, education, war, even natural disasters, as politics. his politicization of the justice department is just one example. i have to agree with what president carter said today, that bush has the worst foreign policy in american history. Does "bushco sycophants" sound like wording which considers all viewpoints? -- Ronn! :) i guess not, when you put it that way, -- jon One of the hard learned lessons learned by longtime listmembers here is that it does more harm than good to use any kind of language that is politically inflammatory. One has to consider that there are people here who <GASP> actually voted for Bush in one or more elections and feel like they had good reason to do so. One thing that one could do that would certainly rile our list conservatives and some of our centrists is to state an opinion in such a way as to make it appear that you assume everyone here is in total agreement with your own political views. In an earlier post today you said: " i don't know anything about the regulars here, but i assume most are admirers of the brin perspective " Let me assure you that such is not the case. We all like Dr Dave and are fans of his fiction (and to a lesser degree his non-fiction), but we have known the good Doctor in both the best and worst of times. We have seen his strengths and his flaws. We have enough common history that he is more or less one of the listmembers albeit the primary member in many ways. Even though he is not part of the daily life of the list, he is the reason most of us came here in the first place. i have stooped to the same level as karl rove and stand corrected. it's not so much that i assumed everyone on this list agrees with dr. brin's politics, i assumed that bush republicans would not participate on this list. perhaps they would be more likely to be fans or pournelle or niven. now that i think about it, however, i usually disagree with jerry's and larry's politics, but i like their books. i believe larry and jerry both recognize that the neocons have created more chaos in the mideast. anyone on this list would but i am interested in your viewpoint, and i have made an effort to understand why bush and company are so adamant in their denial that humans play a significant role in causing global warming. the only rationale i can come up with is they don't believe humans have a significant impact on the ecology, and that to implement drastic interventions to slow down the progress would be too destructive to the economy. i believe that this is starting to change, partly due to al gore's efforts, and partly because there is a profit to be made in alternative sources of energy. -- jon It seems to me that Bush and Co are a business oriented group and strongly wish to *not* believe Global Warming has a human caused component. For them, this would be the cause of a dismal future for commerce and for our nation and the world. There are a lot of people out there who basically believe the world to be more or less static and/or cannot comprehend much less believe in the chain of logic/causality that is required for a belief in human caused global warming. If there is anything to be argued about, it is that some are trying to turn a scientific debate into a political debate as if human caused global warming could be voted away or voted into existence. xponent A Speck I Am Maru rob Knowledge is Power ____________________________________________________________________________________Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
