Global warming is fearmongering brainwashing FUD
Brian Atkins
brian@posthuman.com
Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:00:22 -0400
I have his "Tampering with Nature" piece on tape, should I post a streaming
version of it? I'd love to see you poke some holes in the actual story
rather than sitting around making personal attacks based on stories you
read on biased Green or other websites. I think it would valuable for
everyone here to spend a little time realizing just how much they may
have bought into the FUD of the Greens and other fearmongerers.
Matt Jensen wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Kelley wrote:
>
> > At 04:08 PM 7/17/01 -0400, Brian Atkins wrote:
> > ><snip>
> > > > 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.
> >
> >
> > ROTF. did you write that ad for Colgate toothpaste?
>
> The real reason to ROTF is simply that Brian is citing John Stossel.
> Stossel has a long history of distortion. Not just in selective editing,
> mischaracterization, and insinuation, but in actively telling his staff
> what conclusions he wants them to reach with their research. Google on
> it, there's plenty of stuff out there.
>
> -Matt Jensen
> http://mattjensen.com
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Brian Atkins
Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/