Re: But There Ain't No Global Warming.

From: Michael Davis (mdavis19_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:56:46 -0500

G. R. L. Cowan wrote:
> 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

What evidence?

> and say, "that's not
> evidence",

If it's not evidence, it's not evidence. You may be fooled by it, but
perhaps not everyone is quite so gullible. If any *real* evidence of
human caused global warming ever shows up the debate will go away,
because real evidence isn't debatable.

> 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.

Conspiracy theories and paranoia aren't evidence. Careful, you are
starting to sound like JW.

>
> 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?

Huh?

>
> 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.

That has got to be the lamest analogy I have ever had the misfortune of
reading, but I'll play along since it seems to be the best you can do.
As landlord I'd simply inspect my property and see if anything is
broken. If it is then heads will roll, if not no big deal. Where are the
broken windows of global warming? Can you produce any? 

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