[extropy-chat] Doubt and About

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal at smigrodzki.org
Wed Dec 10 03:00:47 UTC 2003


 Harvey wrote:
> Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] Doubt and About
>
>
> Mike Lorrey wrote,
>> I am sorry, Harvey, but global warming does not deserve to be
>> included in this.
>
> I disagree.  Most reputable scientists believe that the earth is
> warming and that humans are accelerating this.  There are only a
> small percentage of scientists who dispute this, and they seem to be
> right-wing extremists or funded by big energy corporations.

### Are you sure about this? Most reputable climate scientists profess to
have insufficient knowledge about the degree of warming, if any, or the
degree of human complicity, if any, to make any firm policy recommendations
(except "Spend more on research"). Admitting that "some" warming might occur
(with a 95% confidence interval sometimes larger than the postulated
effect), and vaguely surmising that humans might have "some" influence,
doesn't make most scientists into global warming believers.

Rafal





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