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There have been scientific teams measuring and filming the melting of glaciers, the polar caps, the permafrost on all angles for many years. Quibbling about this or that study or this or that glacier (based on misinformation, mostly) is simply an excuse to ignore the undeniable fact of global warming. In fact, there's no reason to think the "deniers" here actually care enough to get anything of it right. It's sophomoric argument for argument's sake. It's one thing to miss the big forest for the trees, but these people are focusing on a pixel that's not green and postulating a conspiracy that trees are actually blue. Frankly, the patience of the moderator with all of this (I hope it's amusement as much as anything) astonishes me. This entire discussion reminds me of a student who brought her mommy in with her to complain about getting a failing grade on the paper. Mom hadn't actually read the paper, so I asked her to read the first paragraph. It explained how Columbus forced the Indians to get on the boat with him, took them forcibly to America, and treated them very badly once they got here. Mom was taken aback for a milli-second, but, without skipping a beat, began insisting that her darling had hit all the main points--Columbus, Indians and America--and the rest were merely details over which I was being arbitrarily picky. ML ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
