Global warming is fearmongering brainwashing FUD

[Brian Atkins]

Matt Jensen wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Brian Atkins wrote:
> 
> > Here are some actual facts and figures you might be interested in reading
> > up on. The takeaway is simply: global warming is so far down the list of
> > things we should be worrying about that it is silly to even bother with it.
> > The other takeaway is that the "Greens" are pretty much the lowest form of
> > scum, way way worse than Microsoft, Scientology, or just about anything.
> 
> Gee, that sounds bad.
> 
> I have read, below, only "Spike Jones"' summaries of the referenced
> papers, not the papers themselves, but Spike does not seem to offer the
> takeaway that you are taking away.  ALso, he doesn't denigrate those with
> whom he disagrees.

Well IMO the Green party and many of the groups they associate with deserve
a little denigration. Just my opinion.

In terms of facts, I don't see a maximum rise of 2 ft in sea level over
the next 100 years as being very important. If you do, you are not in
tune with reality. See my other message re: existential risks.

> 
> The majority of climatologists believe global warming is happening, and

Strange, I watched a nice story by John Stossel on ABC a few weeks back
where he showed that about 1700 scientists had signed a declaration that
global warming exists and is important, and yet he also showed that
17,000 scientists had signed a document with the opposite viewpoint.

> that it will cause ocean levels to rise.  A minority disagrees.  Perhaps
> you could point to the best article below that illustrates your claim,
> that climatologists are not just poor scientists, but antiscience Luddites
> intentionally misleading people.

I made no such claim. What I claimed was regarding the Greens.
-- 
Brian Atkins
Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/