[debate] global warming is b/s? nice hatchet job
Brian Loe
knobdy at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 12:26:37 UTC 2009
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Peter Jukes <pdjukes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hold on. Why is this whole debate geared round the problems of action? What
> if the majority of scientists are right, and the main problem is inaction?
> Just sayin'. Having lived nearly 50 years on this planet, the voices of
> those who say 'it's ok' are, in my experience, the loudest
>
What majority? In case you missed it, the argument is over the word
"consensus" (which I'm pretty sure doesn't mean just a majority ).
As for which group is loudest, I would argue that it depends on the bias of
reporting. Small liberal groups are generally louder than the largest
conservative groups (so far as getting their point of view out).
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