Re: The Mann and the Hockey Stick

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From: Bill Ward
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:22

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On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:52:16 -0700, Billy wrote:

> In article <SLqdnewhTOMUG-LSnZ2dnUVZ_j2dnZ2d@giganews.com>,
>  Bill Ward <bward@ix.REMOVETHISnetcom.com> wrote:
> 
>> > I seem to be dealing with people of profound, bone numbing ignorance.
>> 
>> Why?
> 
> Good question. I guess I'm afraid that they will spread their ignorance
> to others.
> 
> Look, if we spend lots of money cleaning up the fossil fuel producers
> mess, and it turns out it wasn't a problem, those who accept the science
> of Global Climate Change will look silly. (But then you'd also have to
> overlook the dying reefs, and reduction of the fish populations from the
> acidification of the oceans.) On the other hand, to do nothing, and have
> Climate Change  be true, will unleash misery on a scale that has never
> before been seen with many deaths from storms, and starvation.
> 
> So, if you're going to play the game, do you play not to look silly, or
> not to look dead?

First I learn the rules, physics in this case.  The problem is that too 
many people think the rules are determined by politics.  That's why 
they're so profoundly, bone-numbingly ignorant of the real world.

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