----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling" Subject: Re: Global warming was: The Nine-spotted
> Another fallacy, you don't have to believe it if you don't want to, but > the reason why Julian L. Simon won his bet with Paul Ehrlich is the same > reason we'll not run out of resources. You can read about it here if > you want to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrlich-Simon_bet In fact > one one of the important Metals expected to be in short supply by the > end of the last 20th century is now considered an abundant toxic waste, > can you guess which one? (It wasn't part of this bet). Sustainability > assumes no change and everything always changes. Ok, not quite done. >From the above linked page: "Paul and the other scientists knew that the five metals in the proposed wager were not critical indicators and said so at the time.... " So, you are basing your arguement on non critical indicators? How clever of you. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
