Subj : Re: Katrina's real name
To   : richardw
From : Deuce
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 10:45 am

  Re: Re: Katrina's real name
  By: richardw to Angus McLeod on Thu Sep 08 2005 10:27:00

 > Sure there is.  It's our tax dollars.  Politicians provide research grants
 > to educational facilities, assuming of course they can dig up "facts" to
 > support the desired conclusions.  Of course these studies show global
 > warming is a fact!  And it's cow farts doing it!  Keep that grant money
 > flowing please sir, thank you very much!
 > 
 > The pro global warming lobbying is all about scare tactics, and fighting
 > "big business."  How can we honestly say we are changing the climate of
 > the planet, when we have only been keeping track of global temperatures
 > for _maybe_ 100 years?!?  Perhaps there's a cyclic thing going on here
 > we're ignorant of?
 > 
 > Supposedly, my great great grandfather once drove his old Ford Model T
 > car across a frozen Lake Mineral Wells.  This have never happened in MY
 > lifetime.  I believe this planet has a much stronger grasp of it's climate
 > than we can ever hope to acheive.  It's pretty much self-correcting, and
 > the little "gnats" called humans have absolutely no measurable influence.

I don't believe I've encountered anyone who can honestly belive that mankind
doesn't have SOME effect on the environment.  As individuals, I'd agree...
there's not much I personally could to to affect it.  But considered en mass,
we've been tinkering with the environment for centuries.  However, since you
honestly appear to belive that mankind has no influence on it whatsoever, I
don't see any reasonable starting point for a meaningfull discussion.

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