Re: OT: Global Warming Validation

From: <Steve>
Date: Sun Jul 01 2007 - 00:33:00 EDT

Just so long as I dont have to give up my motorcycles....

If Ebell is the best the contrarians can muster, then I will sleep a little easier. However biassed journalism does make me uneasy.

I suspect Sustainability is soon to be the new black.

Cheers

Steve

>From: Christopher Wright <chrisw@skypoint.com>
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>To: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=LWPfHs6oK_a_o8AapAevGOyNwYhSq07P9jTkWRdp46Oa76ORiHhHVu-ViOlILKJuNU96Odu0xR7ijbQ5cimIdeN1">PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com</a>
>Subject: Re: [PipingDesign] OT: Global Warming Validation
>Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:58:47 -0500
>
>
>On Jun 30, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Steve McKenzie wrote:
>
> > The Vanity Fair article was interesting, although the author
> > appeared to be
> > losing the impartiality struggle.
>I don't think there's any question about whose side the author is on.
>The reason I recommend the article so strongly is that it juxtaposes
>an über-contrarian against the climatologists he's criticizing.
>
>I don't think I flatter myself too much to say that I have a pretty
>highly evolved crap detector, and nothing triggers it faster than
>opinions based on cherry-picking data. You can see how shallow
>Ebell's foundation is by the way he flits between positions when he's
>confronted.
>
>I really do believe that eliminating, to the greatest extent
>possible, dependence on fossil fuels will make the world a far better
>place to live. To begin with, it's put an absolute burden on US
>Middle East policy, forcing us to do things we'd never dream of
>otherwise. Coal mining is destroying enormous areas in several US
>states in addition to generating acid rain and a host of other
>horrors. And it's in the process of doing the same thing to China. I
>really do believe we can do better, but first we have to stop
>worshipping the status quo.
>
>Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
>chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.
>.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania
>1864)
><a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/</a>
>
>

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