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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

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