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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (6875)	7/6/2006 11:50:08 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Gore's gospel "According to Al Gore's new film 'An Inconvenient Truth,' we're in for 'a planetary emergency.' ... "Bill Clinton has become the latest evangelist for Mr. Gore's gospel. ... Mr. Gore assures us that 'the debate in the scientific community is over.' ... "That statement ... ought to have been followed by an asterisk. What exactly is this debate that Mr. Gore is referring to? Is there really a scientific community that is debating all these issues and then somehow agreeing in unison? Far from such a thing being over, it has never been clear to me what this 'debate' actually is in the first place" ... "So what, then, is one to make of this alleged debate? I would suggest at least three points. "First, nonscientists generally do not want to bother with understanding the science. Claims of consensus relieve policy types, environmental advocates and politicians of any need to do so. Such claims also serve to intimidate the public and even scientists -- especially those outside the area of climate dynamics. Secondly, given that the question of human attribution largely cannot be resolved, its use in promoting visions of disaster constitutes nothing so much as a bait-and-switch scam. That is an inauspicious beginning to what Mr. Gore claims is not a political issue but a "moral" crusade. "Lastly, there is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition. An earlier attempt at this was accompanied by tragedy. Perhaps Marx was right. This time around we may have farce -- if we're lucky.