Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] last days

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> 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?

No.  I was asking -- I forgot to put a question mark after "concerns you." 
My guess is that you think ABC can get scientist who will say whatever 
they want to hear, but I think they are more honest than that.


> > 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?

I don't know if you were referring to my statements or to the statements 
of the scientists I was paraphrasing.

Mike

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