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PF...
...thanks for some data from the front line, as it were. Keep up the good work!
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posted by
DamonLeigh
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December 12, 2004
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ExStud...
...I'm glad this blog was missed! For you, I'll focus more on it from here on in.
You make some good points. Indeed, a while back, I tracked down the main dissenting voices in the scientific community and found out some interesting 'coincidences' about who they work for and who funds them.
The post is way back in this blog. It's called 'Oh, But Global Warming is Just Scare-Mongering From the Environmental Left' and can be found about halfway down page 5.
Not sure why Jethro still thinks there's any major dispute about climate change. Unless he exclusively reads 1975 magazines!!
Thanks for reading.
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posted by
DamonLeigh
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December 12, 2004
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Damon Leigh, I'm so glad you finally posted in this blog. I have to confess, I was so depressed every time I opened my favorites list and found nothing new in this blog that I finally had to erase it from my favorites list just to protect myself emotionally from the disappointment. Yes, I have issues and no, it is not your fault. lol...anyhow, you picked an easy target. It reminds me of a man on CNN's Talk Back Live a few years back -- I think it was around 1998 -- who in defending the Confederate flag cited a circa 1978 opinion poll that showed a majority of Americans supporting flying the flag. Obviously, by citing a 20-year-old poll for support, he made himself look ridiculous and diminished any credibility he might have had.
This blogger, if indeed his only support was a 1975 article, made himself an easy target in a similar way. That said, it was probably because he had no other choice. He would be hard-pressed to find credible studies that refuted the claims of global warming. Those who still deny global warming are either on fossil fuel industries' payroll or are ideologically opposed to the sort of government activism that credible fears of global warming would recommend. But I don't think most people are being fooled. People might understand intuitively that the massive consumption and waste they see around them will someday come back to bite us in the ass.
Besides which, I suspect that the global warming consequences you list will actually come to threaten corporate interests -- maybe not fossil fuel interests, but others which depend on fertile lands or would be hurt by widespread fear of global warming or depend on labor sources whose lives would be threatened by global warming. There are any number of ways that global warming will worry big businesses and thus, purely by coincidence of course, bring about great change very quickly in environmental policy. Sort of like how the Vietnam War ended very abruptly after the "business community" turned against it and the education-deferral laws protecting the sons of Congressmen from military service expired.
posted by
Dylan24
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December 11, 2004
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It's assinine to think that what we've done to the atmosphere/soil/oceans
and forests would have no affect on it!
As a disaster worker, I can tell you first hand that natural disasters are increasing in severity and strength and also in frequency. This past hurricane season here in the US was the freakiest thing anyone has ever seen. Two major hurricanes made landfall 3 weeks apart and only 30 miles apart. A total of 4 major hurricanes hit Florida and other states this year as well as a half dozen tropical depressions that dumped large amts of rain onto unsuspecting residents.
The culprit: Global warming
posted by
Passionflower
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December 7, 2004
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