Re: But There Ain't No Global Warming.

From: G. R. L. Cowan (gcowan_at_eagle.ca)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:12:52 -0500

Michael Davis included:

> I'd like to see some actual hard evidence of some CO2 driven
> global warming before buying into this end of the world scenario
> du jour. Is that really too much to ask?

Well, as an honest man, you wouldn't put your fingers in your
ears at every presentation of evidence and say, "that's not
evidence", right? But you probably can appreciate that what
with the huge influence of fossil fuel revenue, both private
and (especially) public, many would do, will do, and in my opinion
are doing exactly this.

When enough actual hard evidence to satisfy you turns up,
it will not yet be time to buy into an end of the world
scenario, right?

Consider a property-management analogy.
You rent a house to some tenants, and they begin
playing ball indoors. They point out the extreme
softness of the rubber balls they're using,
deny that any windows could possibly get broken,
assert that the windows are all robustly intact.

To rumours of breakage, they point out that
the betting industry that makes money off people
who bet on the games, and the government that taxes
both the winnings and the betting shops' take,
plus levies a rubber ball tax, have created
a climate of fear such that while all
assertions of window breakage are false,
it is Official Doctrine that they are true,
and a scientist who points out the windows' intactness
does so at his own peril ...

As landlord, especially if you live upstairs,
you may find this disturbing even if you aren't afraid
they're going to burn the house down.

-- Graham Cowan, former hydrogen fan
http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/Paper_for_11th_CHC.html --
How individual mobility gains nuclear cachet

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