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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: TimF who wrote (17748)11/27/2007 3:46:05 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (3) of 36921
 
Your statement isn't very coherent. And it starts with the assumption that the analysis is stupid, which isn't exactly a good way to prove it stupid.

Sorry if it was not clear what I meant. Your Cato chap was basically laughing at the notion of Greenlands icesheets melting based on looking at the current rate and projecting that forward. IIRC, his point being that all those "alarmist" GW nutcases were idiots for thinking this was a problem.

Now, assume that instead he was making similar arguments wrt to Social Security. Please note that Cato is one of the organizations much inclined to "alarmism" wrt to the future of SS, but not GW, so there is a nice symmetry here. If someone bashing the SS "alarmism" noted that the current deficit run by SS is not an issue, therefore projecting forward there is not a problem, what would you think of that "analysis". But when a Cato hack uses the same poor logic to bash GW, you think it worthwhile enough to post it here. Why?
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