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To: i-node who wrote (613727)	5/29/2011 2:16:10 PM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578147

True, but Sagan based his claim on climate models that hadn't yet incorporated chaos theory. Now that they do, they're reliable enough to justify spending trillions to change the entire energy base of our civilization. Just ask CJ. Oh yeah, 95% of scientists agree .... and the other 5% all work for oil companies.

To: i-node who wrote (613727)	5/29/2011 8:08:50 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578147

"The ultimate voice of the scientific community." Uh, no. Uncle Carl was one of the best popularizer that science has ever had. And I will grant you that the media had anointed him as the spokesperson for science. But that doesn't mean the entire science community was happy with that designation, although most appreciated his work in that regard. This is sort of like when the media got all hysterical about the possibility of global cooling during the 1970s. Shorty has used that and claimed that it was the consensus at the time. But it was only the consensus in the media, in the scientific literature it was a different story. Even at the peak, it was an idea that accounted for only a minority of the publications. And it vanished as quickly as it started.