Oh, damn! I talk about a possible correlation between bible fanatics and AGW denial and guess who appears 1 minute later! HA!
2012/12/4 Jojo Jaro <[email protected]> > NO no no ... please don't drop off from this discussion. I'm thoroughly > enjoying this discussion. > > Robert L and Robert M, please continue this discussion and continue > putting out facts. It's about time somebody knowledgeable took the time to > correct all these anthropic global warming crap that keeps on cropping up > out of nowhere. It's like cockroaches, you can't seem to kill them all. > Like cockroaches, there're persistent, yucky and totally useless. > > Jed, is one of those people who complain loudly about the bias in the Hot > Fusion community against cold fusion, but he himself remains oblivious to > the fact that he suffers the same malady when it comes to his pet theories. > And he appeals to "majority authority" as vehemently as hot fusion > researchers appeal to their "majority" status. One big difference though, > these Hot fusion scientists probably know that they are being biased but > continue in it for finanacial reasons (ie. Research grants), but Jed is > simply deluded, blind and biased for no reason at all. No amount of facts, > statistics and/or sound experiments will convince a person like Jed, It a > religion to these people. > > Jojo > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert McKay" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 11:53 PM > Subject: Re: [Vo]:How bad is this news? Jed Rothwell > > > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 10:43:59 -0500, Jed Rothwell wrote: >> >>> Robert McKay wrote: >>> >>> I dont doubt that.. the climatologists themselves arent going to >>>> benefit much either way (although Im sure many of them make a modest >>>> livings out of it - and thats not nothing these days). Theyre merely >>>> needed to produce those tedious reports.. they just need to keep >>>> churning out talking points to keep the issue alive. >>>> >>> >>> Look, that is ridiculous. People do not act that way! A person does >>> not spend 5 or 10 years slaving away to get a PhD without being in >>> love with the subject. You dont do that just to get some meaningless, >>> dead-end job churning out fake data for corporations for 60 hours a >>> week. >>> >> >> I'm not saying they don't believe in what they're doing.. there must be >> lots of legitimate data showing climate change.. the climate does change >> after all. The point I was making that is that the climate science is >> simply irrelevant to understanding global warming / "the climate change >> issue" which is better understood as a political and financial phenomenon. >> >> I'm already regreting entering the discussion.. so I'll drop it, it >> doesn't seem like we'll be reaching any kind of concensus. :) >> >> Rob >> >> >> > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ [email protected]
