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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: greenspirit who wrote (7068)1/19/2012 9:43:00 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 85487
 
That is politics and you know it. When Einstein put forth his theory of relativity you could have had the entire world sign a petition saying it was nuts. But only a dozen or so people were really qualified to make the determination.

And anything less than a PHD in atmospheric chemistry, or a related science, probably should not be counted as it is a very complicated subject.

By pure chance, my son in law is one of those PHD scientists (PHD UC Irving/tenured professor)who has studied global warming for over a decade. He communicates with those scientists every day.

Believe what you will, but he has told me they know. I asked him the percentage and he said 99%. He was using that as a metaphor for eveyone that is sane or competent to say.

Who is the 1%? Hell, most people believe in ghosts and nutso's abound, so you can always get someone to say it is false. Especicallyy of the oil companies are asking them. You can find soemone who says cigarettes and hot dogs are good for you.

But what distrunbs me is that the right wing has taken this subject as a mantra i.e. you cannot even run as a Republican if you don't deny AGW e.g. Huntsman.

<<Koan, let's try and put a bit of logic into your thinking on this 99% concept. In order to determine whether 99% of a group agrees with a point of view, you first must determine the group. So, a simple question, where is the list of scientists upon which you've arrived at this 99% number. Simple question...And who specifically is a part of the 1% that disagree?

These kind of logical questions are what liberals refuse to answer. I expect none less in this response.

BTW, as an example, here's what a list looks like....
http://www.petitionproject.org/

http://www.petitionproject.org/signers_by_last_name.php
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