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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Max wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>> Even if we buy into the idea that global warming
<BR>> is real, significant, sustained, and largely <BR>> human-caused,
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Let me invite you off the fence Max. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Do you or don't you Max think global warming </FONT><FONT
face=Arial>is real, significant,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>sustained and largely </FONT><FONT
face=Arial>human-caused? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I don't know much about global warming as </FONT><FONT
face=Arial>I've not been</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>following it closely. Reputable, multiple </FONT><FONT
face=Arial>news sources</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>seems to be reporting that that is the </FONT><FONT
face=Arial>current scientific </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>consensus. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>They could be wrong but to me as a sort of Bayesian its
seems </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>they are together more </FONT><FONT face=Arial>likely
</FONT><FONT face=Arial>to be right. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I respect you as an independent thinker - </FONT><FONT
face=Arial>what do you </FONT><FONT face=Arial>actually</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>think? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I don't know anything about Chief Executive other
than</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>what the name suggests to me. (I am definitely no
socialist.)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Telling a b</FONT><FONT face=Arial>unch of </FONT><FONT
face=Arial>guys (probably Americans) that may want </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>to deny </FONT><FONT face=Arial>something
</FONT><FONT face=Arial>that's true in order </FONT><FONT face=Arial>to shirk
their responsibility</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>for doing </FONT><FONT face=Arial>something about
</FONT><FONT face=Arial>it isn't appealing. It looks like </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>appeasing </FONT><FONT face=Arial>and kissing up.
</FONT><FONT face=Arial>It looks like </FONT><FONT face=Arial>cash for comment
or </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>curry-favouring </FONT><FONT face=Arial>towards
that. But I could be </FONT><FONT face=Arial>wrong. I'm
just</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>being honest about what it looks like. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I would be wrong if you have thought through
independently</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>the situation on global warming and are standing up for
the </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>truth even if it is unpopular to do so. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Brett Paatsc</FONT><FONT face=Arial>h</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>PS. I respect that in the past you have not taken
positions in</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>favour of democracy. I hope you would not take a position
in</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>favour of fascism and promise breaking. I am
concerned </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>that the direction that the </FONT><FONT face=Arial>US is
moving is that way. I think the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>US could be a couple of </FONT><FONT
face=Arial>generations away from producing the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>global conditions that </FONT><FONT face=Arial>will see us
become a working instance</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>of the Fermi paradox.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Very high technology in the hands of very vengeful tribal
</FONT><FONT face=Arial>mortals</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>that don't care much when they die as long as they
</FONT><FONT face=Arial>can </FONT><FONT face=Arial>die </FONT><FONT
face=Arial>killing</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>what they oppose. And a lot of them are starting
</FONT><FONT face=Arial>to </FONT><FONT face=Arial>direct their</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>hate at the US hypocrisy. 300 million people
</FONT><FONT face=Arial>breaking social </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>contracts (real ones -treaties not imaginary </FONT><FONT
face=Arial>ones) with the rest</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>can do that. America is only part of
</FONT><FONT face=Arial>the West not all of it. Outside</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>of America are westerners </FONT><FONT face=Arial>that
if forced to live as second class </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>citizens will fight </FONT><FONT face=Arial>like Geronimo
(or like the US Founders) when</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>treaties are broken and that has not </FONT><FONT
face=Arial>the slightest bit to do with</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>radical </FONT><FONT face=Arial>Islam or Muhabbism. It has
to </FONT><FONT face=Arial>do with the resentment of </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>undeserved priviledge coupled </FONT><FONT face=Arial>with
broken promises - broken</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>treaties. In a way it is the most natural thing for
humans to do</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>when the paths to better ways are blocked by the baseness
of</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>others. </FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>