Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] last days

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
> > Mike Miller wrote:
> >
> > > > http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2319986
> >
> >
> > > Scientists they interviewed said that it is now established that 
> > > global warming is happening and that it is caused by human activity.  
> > > They also said that the dozen-or-so scientists who persist in making 
> > > claims to the contrary are no more credible than Holocaust deniers 
> > > and some of them are being paid to lie by the energy industry.
> >
> >
> > While I'm not wishing to dispute the content of these statements, 
> > nevertheless I'm afraid that the argument "scientists appearing on ABC 
> > said so" doesn't help convince me.
>
>
>
> Fine.  Does "scientists said so" have no effect on you, or is the 
> involvement of ABC what concerns you.  Why in the world would ABC want 
> to bias their report?  I have no clue.

Am I so predicatable that you can predict which of these two has no 
effect on me?

> Find one reputable scientist who says that human activity is having no 
> effect on global temperature.

What part of "not wishing to dispute the content of these statements" 
don't you understand?

> The thing is, you are religious and you believe that Bush will promote 
> your religion.  You desperately want to promote your religion, so you 
> tend to be very slow to recognize the validity of anything that works 
> against Bush's ideas.  One of Bush's ideas, which seems to get no 
> support even from the scientists he has picked for himself, is that the 
> case for an effect of human activity on global warming has not been made 
> convincingly. You are very predictable in that way.
>
> Mike
>
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