[extropy-chat] Doubt and About

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal at smigrodzki.org> wrote:
>  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 is right, and the "2,500" scientists you said signed onto the
Climat Change report were most definitely NOT all climatologists, or
even hard scientists. A lot of them were sociologists, psychologists,
and other people completely unqualified to judge.

=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
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