<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div>> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">These include a concept I mentioned a few days ago: all those who do not buy the entire global warming full meal deal, but who question *any* aspect, are tossed into a huge bucket with creationists and all skeptics, and are labeled "merciless enemies" by Dr. Ehrlich:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">Spike, I read the article (the full one at the Washington Times--ugh), and what you're implying, while it may be true, is not in the article. Context is important:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;
font-size: small; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; ">""Most of our colleagues don't seem to grasp that we're not in a gentlepersons' debate, we're in a street fight against well-funded, merciless enemies who play by entirely different rules," Paul R. Ehrlich, a Stanford University researcher, said in one of the e-mails"</span></span></div><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt">Ehrlich (of whom I'm no great fan) is not making the statement you're ascribing to him. Are you aware of him making claims elsewhere that any and all criticism of climate research should be treated exactly the same way? Are you aware of any scientists working in the
field who've made such a claim? </div><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> spike <spike66@att.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, March 5, 2010 9:27:34 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [ExI] paul ehrlich want to hit back at us again<br></font><br>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span class="015342017-05032010">Dr. Paul Ehrlich, a
local guy and author of The Population Bomb, is back in the news. His
comments are startling to say the least.
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span class="015342017-05032010">These include a
concept I mentioned a few days ago: all those who do not buy the entire global
warming full meal deal, but who question *any* aspect, are tossed into a huge
bucket with creationists and all skeptics, and are labeled "merciless enemies"
by Dr. Ehrlich:</span></font></div></span></font></div>
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