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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (105471)	9/27/2009 10:15:20 PM
From: GST	1 Recommendation Respond to of 110194

LJ introduced the word stupid -- I merely agreed with him -- and he is right. If you had a brain several tens of thousands of times more powerful and access to data feeds from all over the world from all relevant disciplines and spanning several decades then you would not be too stupid to figure it out -- but alas, that is not so close to reality. Any of us working alone would have been too stupid to figure it out -- including any of the thousands of individuals who have worked together on climate change science. Everybody has hunches. Everybody has theories. Everybody has a point of view. But none of this was going to be good enough. What was required was a level of cooperation and pooled effort that would allow us to overcome our own individual limitations. Now I know there is a hydrologist who in his spare time counts sunspots -- but I would call anybody who thinks that his counting of sunspots is front page news, or worth discussing in any serious way at this stage -- stupid, or at least sadly ignorant.