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To: LoneClone who wrote (126212)12/5/2009 7:53:07 PM
From: tom pope6 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 206092
 
science is not done by an industry-bankrolled organisation illegally hacking into a database and cherry-picking exactly which out of context tiny pieces of a huge effort they can misconstrue

That's simply not proven. Where's the cherry picking smoking gun? What I see is a gang of intellectual thugs.

My attitude towards GW is based in part on Pascal's bet, the French theologian who put forward the idea that if you believe in god and it turns out there is no god, nothing worse happens to you than going to sleep when you die. But if you choose not to believe, and it turns out there is indeed a god, then the consequences are dire - eternal damnation.

Same with GW. If we make no preparations then we run the risk of catastrophe. So I'm prepared to accept sacrifices (tax-wise) that will accompany emissions reductions spending in the expectation that they will have a mitigating effect if the theory turns out to indeed be explanatory for the retreat of the ice cap etc phenomena.

That said, I still think there are a lot of smug ideologues in the GW camp who remind me of the Red Guards during the Great Cultural Revolution. And hypocrites like Gore who are carbon neutral only because they can afford to buy credits so they can maintain their extravagant carbon belching life style.

(Of course, the flaw in Pascal's bet is that if you make a calculated decision to believe in god, god will see through you and still condemn you to hell. And if he doesn't, then there is indeed no god.)
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