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On 15 Oct 2004 11:46:47 -0700, SamuelF566@AOL.COM (Sam) wrote:

> There is a very interesting program through distributed computing at
>ClimatePredition.net which lets you download a free App that sits on
>your desktop as a screensaver and crunches numbers trying to help
>predict future climate changes... Works Like Seti very much.. but
>instead of looking for Signals from outer space it tries to figure out
>future Climate from past Weather .

I'm a user of Seti's system:

http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_3422.html
6690 hours, but I haven't run it in a while.
"EAC" is "Evil Atheist Conspiracy", btw.  :)

But climate chance is a differnt kind of issue.  No one but a VERY
tiny handful of kooks have any agendas regarding the existance of
extraterestrial life.  There's no reason for anyone to claim it does
or doesn't exist, and anyone climing to know either is easily and
immediately recognized as a flake and not taken seriously unless they
have some VERY remarkable evidence supporting their claim.  Global
warming in quite different except in evidence.  The evidence
supporting it is identical... ZERO.   But the supporters often have
agendas.  Some believe it because they are gullible suckers the same
way si=ome believe that people who live in trailer parks ragularly get
abducted by space aliens, but there are also those who believe it
because it fits their view that the US is destroying the planet and
such BS. There are also those whe clain to believe it because they are
paid to. Finding no evidence is bad for business if you rely on
taxpayers for your next project.  There are also those who claim to
believe it because it lines their pockets in other ways, they can get
taxpayer dllars if they can sell it to enough suckers in the US, for
example, as in the case of third world dictators.

The disbelievers?  Those are the few who just respect and practice the
scientific method.  For them, the issues are identical. Meaningless
until there is evidence.  I fall into that catagory.  I believe there
is life elsewhere in the universe, I believe there is intelligent life
elsewhwere in the universe.  But to claim there is I demand evidence.
Unless and untilthere is such evidence, such a claim is BS.  Same for
global warming.   OK, since I understand the effect of water, I don't
believe the global warming claims, but I would if there were any
evidence.

William R. James