On 12/25/06, Steve Farnham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Non-scientists have opinions all over the map, and > many of them are politically motivated. > > Climatologists, that is scientists who have spent > years learning the underlying science and more years > studying the climate by actually going out and > measuring things, and in general are not political, > pretty much agree that mankind has contributed to > global climactic change and that the change may become > irreversable in the near future. What disagreement > exists amoung climatologists is more to do with timing > than anything else. > > So, people who don't know what they're talking about > claim that the people who do know what they're talking > about are mostly wrong. What does that tell you?
more interesting reading here: http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1978534,00.html <quote> "Britain's leading climate scientist has challenged those who question the impact of the human population on global warming to defend their claims that car and factory emissions of carbon dioxide are not heating up the planet. Alan Thorpe, chief executive of the Natural Environment Research Council, said yesterday he planned to defeat so-called 'deniers', first on-line and later at a public debate." </quote> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
