Re: President 'has four years to save Earth'

On 20 jan, 03:06, buleg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jan 19, 6:49 pm, bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:





On 19 jan, 13:19, buleg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

President 'has four years to save Earth'.  This is great, becuase if
we are past the point of no return after 4 years, then all these
people will shut the hell up - Right? - it will no longer matter!

Hooray!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/18/jim-hansen-obama

I wouldn't be too hopeful. The same nitwits who are now convinced that
anthropogenic global warming doesn't exist - because they don't fancy
the comsequences of doing something effecitve about it - would be
equally hard to persuade that it was irreversible, and would
vociferously insist that something should be done.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

The queation is not whether the (converted) skeptics will be quiet,
but whether the true believers (that know it is too late then) will be
quiet.

Your problem is in your assignment of the catagories "true beleiver"
and "sceptic". Todays' "sceptics" are people who haven't considered
the evidence in sufficient detail and with sufficient attention, and -
as one of them - you exhibit a foolish confidence in dismissing the
opinions of those who have dug a little deeper, and write them off as
"true believers", as if a small mountain of scientific evidence is to
be equated with Joseph Smith's revelantions fom the book of the
Moroni.

Since it now suites you to believe that anthropogoenic global warming
doesn't exist, you and your self-indulgent friends have seized on
denialist propaganda as a excuse to continue with business as usual.
When reality it catches up with you, you can be expected to seize on
some equally silly delusion and trumpet it to the roof-tops. Granting
your weakness in critical analysiis, you won't notice that the while
the story is claimed to have been written on sheets of gold, nobody
can actually find the book.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen


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