Very true. the same sort of propaganda is used by those who stand to lose profits over this.
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Really? Again I'll go with either the Royal Society's conclusions or >> the Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology's report. [...] > > > ..hijack... > > This entire debate reminds me so much of cigarette industry's long term > battle insisting that cigarettes were not bad for you. It's a good analogy > in many ways, except it's not just the air in your lungs up for debate, > it's the air across the entire planet. > > It's like a bunch of doctors are telling the patient "smoking is bad and > you need to stop", but the patient keeps quoting that one doctor who says > "there is no conclusive proof!" But in this case the patient is the planet. > > At one point that was a real debate - is smoking really bad for you? But > then during that time, even if 100% of doctors didn't agree, if your doctor > told you "you really need to stop smoking or it's going to kill you", then > you would at least acknowledge his advice. Because even if you weren't > sure that smoking was really going to give you cancer, the consequences of > it being true (lung cancer) are so deadly serious that you really have to > take it seriously. > > A majority of scientists feel that climate change is caused by human > activity. They are telling us of the deadly serious consequences. Even if > you aren't entirely convinced that it's true, I really don't understand the > strong denial of the potential consequences. > > What if it's true? Aren't the consequences so serious that we need to be > doing something about it? > > -Cameron > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345647 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
