Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Fox News and global warming

[Jack Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 15:42 -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> It is interesting that one network is playing such a strong role in 
> promoting distortions of science:
> 
> http://foxattacks.com/

Humans causing global warming is a theory, not a fact. A theory is
nothing more than an idea about how something happens or has happened.
It will be impossible to attribute climate change to any one cause as it
is impossible to have a control and it is also impossible to isolate the
system and test just one factor. Thus human-caused global warming will
never become more than a theory as we can never prove it. Theories are
just educated or semi-educated guesses and can and will be challenged
and attacked, simply because there's no way to prove the critic nor the
defender right or wrong. 


> I have been especially disappointed by John Stossel recently because he 
> used to seem so good to me:  A genuine skeptic and critical thinker, or so 
> it seemed.  But when it comes to global warming, gasoline prices and a few 
> other issues, he seems to have a blind spot.  I have to wonder if he's 
> getting paid.

Of course John Stossel gets paid- he has a job. So do you and I. And
Stossel *is* skeptical of the globlal warming theory and the
gasoline-price conspiracy theories.

> Most of the people shown in the Fox News clips are being paid by oil 
> companies either directly or indirectly (via "think tanks").

And you don't think that perhaps some scientists want to pursue a topic
that is not only not definitvely able to be proven one way or the other
but also is very easily hyped up to be able to get a bunch of grant
money and write a lot of papers? Or that some of the people yelling the
loudest about global warming have vested interest in companies that
stand to benefit from CO2 caps and such? Or stand to gain politically?

jack


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