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

To: Land Shark who wrote (10672)	3/21/2007 10:18:20 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

Good idea.

To: Land Shark who wrote (10672)	3/21/2007 10:19:40 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36921

WOW you cannot tell or visualize the connection between the tilt of the earth and solar energy reaching the earth. The global climate is impacted by the interaction of hundreds of different systems. A correlation is shown between the output of the sun. Using the term output of the sun to any with half a brain is about how much solar energy impacts the earth for all of the possible reasons. And NASA is saying nothing, Some individuals at NASA have put together several web pages relating and explaining the physics of the Earths movement and observations of past temperature proxies. Clearly your posts reveal a science ignoramus who cannot comprehend the complexity of Global climate and in ignorance has some need to grab a foolish simpleminded explanation. There is no consensus in the scientific community that man-made CO2 is the current singular driver of recent decade temperature increases or is the singular driver of future global temperature increases. I have found only a fools consensus of your proffers.

To: Land Shark who wrote (10672)	3/21/2007 9:41:05 PM
From: mistermj	Respond to of 36921

Interestingly, the peer review process in most scientific journals does not use a consensus based process. Referees submit their opinions individually and there is not a strong effort to reach a group opinion. en.wikipedia.org -------------------------- Critics of consensus decision-making often observe that the process, while potentially effective for small groups of motivated or trained individuals with a sufficiently high degree of affinity, has a number of possible shortcomings, notably: Abilene paradox: Consensus decision-making is susceptible to all forms of groupthink, the most dramatic being the Abilene paradox. In the Abilene paradox, a group can unanimously agree on a course of action that no individual member of the group desires because no one individual is willing to go against the perceived will of the decision-making body en.wikipedia.org