--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Go find another planet to pollute and have a big money and sex orgy.
Go divert money from AIDS research and other worthy endeavors to fund a project that has zero basis in science. You're like the idiot anti-DDTers who did everything they could to outlaw DDT even though 10s of millions died as a result. > > shempmcgurk wrote: > > >Chill out over global warming > >By David Harsanyi > >Denver Post Staff Columnist > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent > >in a free society. > > > >Why not give it a whirl? > > > >Start by challenging global warming hysteria next time you're at a > >LoDo cocktail party and see what happens. > > > >Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science. That puts > >me in exactly the same position as most dogmatic environmentalists > >who want to craft public policy around global warming fears. > > > >The only inconvenient truth about global warming, contends Colorado > >State University's Bill Gray, is that a genuine debate has never > >actually taken place. Hundreds of scientists, many of them prominent > >in the field, agree. > > > >Gray is perhaps the world's foremost hurricane expert. His Tropical > >Storm Forecast sets the standard. Yet, his criticism of the global > >warming "hoax" makes him an outcast. > > > >"They've been brainwashing us for 20 years," Gray says. "Starting > >with the nuclear winter and now with the global warming. This scare > >will also run its course. In 15-20 years, we'll look back and see > >what a hoax this was." > > > >Gray directs me to a 1975 Newsweek article that whipped up a > >different fear: a coming ice age. > > > >"Climatologists," reads the piece, "are pessimistic that political > >leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic > >change. ... The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will > >they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become > >grim reality." > > > >Thank God they did nothing. Imagine how warm we'd be? > > > >Another highly respected climatologist, Roger Pielke Sr. at the > >University of Colorado, is also skeptical. > > > >Pielke contends there isn't enough intellectual diversity in the > >debate. He claims a few vocal individuals are quoted "over and over" > >again, when in fact there are a variety of opinions. > > > >I ask him: How do we fix the public perception that the debate is > >over? > > > >"Quite frankly," says Pielke, who runs the Climate Science Weblog > >(climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu), "I think the media is in the ideal > >position to do that. If the media honestly presented the views out > >there, which they rarely do, things would change. There aren't just > >two sides here. There are a range of opinions on this issue. A lot > >of scientists out there that are very capable of presenting other > >views are not being heard." > > > >Al Gore (not a scientist) has definitely been heard > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------ --- > >----------- > >Advertisement > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------ --- > >----------- > > > > > > > > > >- and heard and heard. His documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," is > >so important, in fact, that Gore crisscrosses the nation destroying > >the atmosphere just to tell us about it. > >"Let's just say a crowd of baby boomers and yuppies have hijacked > >this thing," Gray says. "It's about politics. Very few people have > >experience with some real data. I think that there is so much > >general lack of knowledge on this. I've been at this over 50 years > >down in the trenches working, thinking and teaching." > > > >Gray acknowledges that we've had some warming the past 30 years. "I > >don't question that," he explains. "And humans might have caused a > >very slight amount of this warming. Very slight. But this warming > >trend is not going to keep on going. My belief is that three, four > >years from now, the globe will start to cool again, as it did from > >the middle '40s to the middle '70s." > > > >Both Gray and Pielke say there are many younger scientists who voice > >their concerns about global warming hysteria privately but would > >never jeopardize their careers by speaking up. > > > >"Plenty of young people tell me they don't believe it," he > >says. "But they won't touch this at all. If they're smart, they'll > >say: 'I'm going to let this run its course.' It's a sort of mild > >McCarthyism. I just believe in telling the truth the best I can. I > >was brought up that way." > > > >So next time you're with some progressive friends, dissent. Tell 'em > >you're not sold on this global warming stuff. > > > >Back away slowly. You'll probably be called a fascist. > > > >Don't worry, you're not. A true fascist is anyone who wants to take > >away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike. > > > >David Harsanyi's column appears Monday and Thursday. He can be > >reached at 303-820-1255 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Home is just a click away. Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/DHchtC/3FxNAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
