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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (355263)10/18/2007 12:07:18 PM
From: longnshort   of 1577109
 
Popular delusions

A prominent environmental scientist, who does not deny that the Earth is warming, says climate alarmists have veered from reality.

"Global warming doesn't matter except to the extent that it will affect life — ours and that of all living things on Earth. And contrary to the latest news, the evidence that global warming will have serious effects on life is thin. Most evidence suggests the contrary," writes Daniel B. Botkin, president of the Center for the Study of the Environment and professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Mr. Botkin, writing in the Wall Street Journal, added: "I'm not a naysayer. I'm a scientist who believes in the scientific method and in what facts tell us. I have worked for 40 years to try to improve our environment and improve human life as well. I believe we can do this only from a basis in reality, and that is not what I see happening now.

"Instead, like fashions that took hold in the past and are eloquently analyzed in the classic 19th-century book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,' the popular imagination today appears to have been captured by beliefs that have little scientific basis."
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