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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (252363)	12/26/2007 12:33:33 PM
From: Lou Weed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<Unfortunately, the tide of american opinion seems to be swayed by the mountain of crap that is broadcast daily about global warming. Oh, look Hurricaine Katrina! Global Warming! Oh, look a drought in Atlanta! Global Warming! Oh, look an icestorm in the Midwest! Global Warming!>> Only last month Nadine you were touting your 8 inch snowfall in Vermont as evidence against GW. Physician heal thyself....

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (252363)	12/26/2007 2:14:01 PM
From: c.hinton	Respond to of 281500

ironic isnt it......just like iraq and no evidence about wmd's.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (252363)	12/27/2007 3:09:41 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine, please don't ever give up on your efforts to bring some rationality to the Global Warming (oops, Climate Change) hysteria. I am amazed at the blind faith people place on scientific pronouncements -- when their own intellect tells them that something just doesn't add up. In their search for "truth," scientists are influenced by politics and biases just like the rest of us. Throughout history, the scientific establishment often has had to be dragged kicking and screaming into paradigm change. It was true in Galileo's time, and true in Einstein's time. As I write, Boston is one inch short of the all time record for snowfall in December. In the Midwest, a hundred have died from bitter cold. South America this year had it coldest winter in decades. South Africa had its first significant snowfall in 25 years. In April, a killing freeze destroyed most of the peach crop in South Carolina and most of North Carolina's apple harvest, while setting the lowest temperature ever recorded in that area for April. You would think such news stories would shake the confidence of those who are committed to the belief that a global warming disaster is at our doorstep. But I guess not, when a scientist can explain, "Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter." Who else could make this stuff up and get away with it? Does anyone wonder how scientists can be so sure the world is warming up alarmingly, when the thermometer was invented only 300 years ago? Is anyone curious as to how they can be sure what the temperature was at any time and place before that in the last 4-1/2 billion years? I mean, doesn't it require a bit more of an accurate perspective to be making these claims when the circumstantial evidence points to the opposite? People should stop believing everything they read and trust their five senses and their own brain. Until that happens, others like yourself are helping keep some sanity here. JC