Global warming is fearmongering brainwashing FUD
Brian Atkins
brian@posthuman.com
Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:40:10 -0400
Kelley wrote:
>
> At 05:08 PM 7/17/01 -0400, Brian Atkins wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> I didn't dig that deep, admittedly. But I think it would have been far more
well.. seeing your ignorance here...
> honest to reply to Matt's citation of climatologists with the statoid that
> 2000 climatologists, metereologists and atmospheric scientists signed it.
> Not some inane, vague "scientists". That would be a REAL comparison.
>
> Personally, I really don't give a crap about global warming. WTF cares?
> What I detest is ignorance, particularly ignorance of history and the use
> of statistics in facile ways as John Stossel uses. It especially irks me to
> see the educated on THIS list do so.
>
Perhaps you should look in the mirror and admit the possibility that you
just might be wrong about this too. Perhaps you swallowed some FUD and
didn't know it...
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Brian Atkins
Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/