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To: Sea Otter who wrote (26443)	12/14/2007 10:20:11 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217865

I have never been impressed by consensus. My experience is that mobs are usually wrong. I certainly don't think that because there are lots of them I must be wrong. If they [at least one of them] can't come up with something to show how I have it wrong, then it's a very good bet in my book that I am right and the mob is wrong. I do try to think how I might have it wrong, but it's often good to have other people scrutinize the ideas because it's easy to overlook something. It's not that I have anything invested in the idea that Global Warming is false and that accepting there is a huge problem is something I don't want to do. I was an environmentalist long before you were born. That doesn't mean I accept any moronic thing that somebody waving a green banner claims is true. I would be perfectly happy to become a CO2 doomster if I thought that was the right idea. But I don't. I'm already a doomster about bolides. Taupo is going to kill 100,000 and cut of Auckland's electricity and smash the economy [destroying the Waikato and a lot more besides]. I was all geared up to panic about H5N1 and laid in stocks of Tamiflu. I got breathing masks at the first hint of sars. I watch for AIDS - that was a great thing to panic about in 1983, when I had the timing of the peak of infections spot on and decided that the coffins business would not be very good. I railed against lead in petrol, aromatics in fuels, harbour destruction and was recycling before anyone else and doing it completely [now I realize it was a dopey thing to be doing, so I don't]. Mqurice