Global warming is fearmongering brainwashing FUD

[Brian Atkins]

Kelley wrote:
> 
> At 01:46 PM 7/17/01 -0400, 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.
> 
> That too. I googled on the 17,000 scientists bizzo and WOW i'm impressed. A
> plant pathologist signed the thing. An oncologist. Oh, and a consumer
> scientist who works at the department that, 50 years ago, would have been
> the Purdue University Home Ec dept.  Woohoo!

You sure have a very selective set of blinders on. The "Oregon Petition"
with all those signatures has over 2000 climatologists, meteorologists and
atmospheric scientists. So again I have to question the assertion that
the majority of scientists believe that global warming is any kind of
real near term threat.
-- 
Brian Atkins
Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/