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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] global cooling
  • Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:49:46 -0600

Discussion might change a few minds.

---- Original Message ----
From: billg@inebraska.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] global cooling
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:34:00 -0600

>
>> I hope this doesn't raise a guttural backlash on the board here,
>but
>> it is time to be hashing this out (well the time was actually
>probably
>> in the 70's but we cannot go back)
>
>
>Unfortunately, if we don't accept the scientific consensus - the
>overwhelming consensus of climatologists, the people who actually
>KNOW
>something about it - then clearly NOTHING will change our mind. After
>
>all, it's just ridiculous that us laymen would know more about this
>scientific issue than the scientists who specialize in that
>particular
>field, those who have both the education and the experience to judge
>competing claims.
>
>For us laymen, it's just going to be anecdotes (often erroneous, but
>we
>don't know that) and politics (whether or not we watch Fox News or
>listen to talk radio). So I really don't see the value of discussing
>it
>here. It's not going to change any minds, and it's just going to get
>people upset when they really want to believe otherwise.
>
>Bill
>Lincoln, NE (zone 5)
>
>http://garthright.blogspot.com/
>
>--
>I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being
>ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. - Rodney Dangerfield






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