--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "handsonmaui" <handsonmaui@> > wrote: > > > > This is why I have not gotten my panties in a bunch over global > > warming. There is only one verifiable reason for temperature > > change of any significance on this or any other planet in our > > solar system...the SUN (and our orbit in relationship to it)! > > If you should by any chance be interested in > actually informing yourself about the significance > of Mars warming vis-a-vis warming here on earth, > check this out: > > http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=192
Judy's response is typical of global warming alarmists: instead of being HAPPY about hearing news that contradicts man-made global warming and the belief in the ensuing catastrophe that such a belief entails, she is resentful. Judy has on numerous occasions demonstrated this very same attitude of close-mindedness and anger in the past on this forum when similar news is presented to her. I submit that this is an irrational response. And I'd like to give you an analogy to make my point. Suppose you went to your doctor for your annual check-up and, as a result of your blood test, he sits you down and tells you that you have inoperable brain cancer and you have only 3 months to live. Devastated, you start to get your affairs in order. But you nevertheless go to another doctor for a second opinion. Sadly, he confirms the first doctor's opinion. However, just to be on the safe side, you go to a third doctor. And he tells you: "the other two doctors made a typical mistake with this kind of diagnosis. I've been in this field for years and it's a common mistake. The other doctors, while well-meaning, are wrong. Not only do you not have brain cancer, you're in perfect health and you're going to live until you're ninety!" How would you feel after hearing such news? Would it be safe to say that, at the very least, you would feel cautiously optimistic and, at most, ecstatic? Sure, at this point you'd probably want to go to yet a fourth doctor and even revisit the first and second to get a final consensus but I think we can conclude that you would be starting to see the bright side of life and you'd feel that your prospects were looking up. Here's the point: if global warming is supposed to be the horrible, terrible thing that the alarmists claim it is, you would think that they would be the first ones in line to await good news about the whole thing. You'd think that they would, upon hearing good news about the future of our planet that, at the very least, they would express cautious optimism upon hearing about the polar ice caps on Mars melting. A rational person would respond: "Boy, I do very much hope that you are right! Wouldn't it be wonderful if I and Al Gore and all the rest of us who have sincerely and truly believed that this catastrophe would soon befall us were wrong and that global warming is not going to happen? A rational person would be on their hands and knees saying: "More than anything I want to be proven wrong! How great it will be that our dire predictions were mistaken!" But, no, the alarmists are unhappy at the mere suggestion that global warming may not be happening. They resent and reject out-of-hand any information that contradicts their conclusion that the-sky-is-falling. And that's why I suspect their motives. Their almost universal response to opposing viewpoints is irrational. It simply doesn't gel with either reason or the scientific approach, let alone the emotional response that one would expect. > > > The climate change on Mars as well as its direct correlation > > with the change on earth has been known for some time (but > > the news media doesn't seem to care). > > Possibly because it has nothing to do with > earth's warming trend? > > <snip> > > What about the will of God... maybe the Age of Enlightenment > > has an average temperature similar to Maui year around??? I'd > > take that. > > There are also lots of sites on the Web that > run down the potential consequences of global > warming. >
