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Posted on 03/14/2007 11:33:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Dear Larry,
I'm a Democrat, and I enjoy your work. And I get very frustrated by those on the left who whine and are thin on the facts. This brings me to my reason for this letter: Global warming.
The global warming debate is unique to humanity. If those who advocate "wait and convince more scientists" are wrong, following their advice may affect hundreds of millions of people, with possibly many killed by famine and flooding. On the other hand, if the people who advocate doing something now are wrong, the worst is mostly economic. That's a price I'm more than willing to pay to hedge my bets to protect the millions of lives at risk, as well as the ecosystems and animal species facing extinction.
Following the advice of the vast majority of the world's atmospheric scientists sounds like a bet all humans should take. -- Mr. Ph.D.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
But he wants to use my money too. I am not willing to pay for what is basicly B.S.
Mr. PhD should look into Pascal's wager since he is a cost/benefit man.
This is socialism, this is about having o br authorized to be born and merely breath air, this is about some minority of freak thugs imposing formalities on others while they can fondle our pants with swine like informality' it's a back door police state in the name of "hedging".... it's frightening... nd they admit that if they're wrong there should be no consequences... just what the communist perv doctors ordered again.
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On the other hand, if the people who advocate doing something now are wrong, the worst is mostly economic.
Unless of the course the fact that the earth spends 90% of its time in deep ice ages is taken into account, and anything we might undertake to prevent warming could operate with an unintended concequence much worse than any global warming scenario.
Ice Ages & Astronomical Causes
Brief Introduction to the History of Climate
by Richard A. Muller
Origin of the 100 kyr Glacial Cycle
Figure 1-5 Climate for the last 420 kyr, from Vostok ice
That's a price I'm more than willing to pay to hedge my bets to protect the millions of lives at risk, as well as the ecosystems and animal species facing extinction.
The real question is how is 9:1 odds of accelerating the earth into into a deep iceage going to protect mankind, ecosystems or species facing extinction?
I am more than willing to pay to hedge my bets against an iceage by doing anything I can to encourage abit of warming myself.
Dear Mr. PhD,
In ancient Greece, the vast majority of scientists believed that the Earth was the center of the universe. One scientist, Aristarchus, proposed that the Earth revolved around the Sun. Who was right?
Oh, and if you don't like the Democrats' whining, leave them. They may have been patriotic in the days of Truman and Kennedy, but they've abandoned their loyalty to America just as surely as the Raiders and Rams have abandoned Los Angeles.
The argument that we should blindly follow the global warming scare tactics because the result will only be to decrease greenhouse gases or pollution does not make sense to me.
Why must we accept being bullied with junk science to reach a particular end result?
What is wrong with promoting a reduction of greenhouse gases based on it's own merits?
The fear mongering and Lysenko-esque tactics being used against anthrocentric global warming skeptics only makes me want to resist any effort to reduce greenhouse gases. In fact, it only makes me want to fire up my SUV and drive it around the block a few hundred time out of spite.
Lets just assume that every doomsday hypothesis that is proposed by any and every group with a chip on its shoulder is automatically correct and needs to be acted upon to prevent a catastrophe -- no matter what the cost!
Good comeback.
Following their advice without any real scientific basis or evidence for the cause of alleged "Global Warming" may also affect hundreds of millions of people, with possibly many killed as a result of abandoning efforts to bring borderline areas up to the standard of living that this fellow is accustomed to.
In addition, it will devastate current "1st world nations" by ravaging their middle and lower classes economically.
But this is what the "Global Warming" high priests have planned all along.
Look, they tried this when I was in 2nd grade with the "Coming Ice Age" threat. It didn't work on a 2nd graders and it's not working now. I will oppose them to their last breath and after after that I still might not take my foot off their chest.
follow the money
Gore does.
So a global recession with hundreds of millions of people out of work as a result of the banning of fossil fuels is a price some people are more than willing to pay on the CHANCE that the scientifically illiterate AlGore and all the other hypocrites supporting him might be right?
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This attitude comes from the same kind of mind that says about some proposal,"if it saves just ONE innocent life it is worth whatever it costs, you can't put a price on human life". Those who live in the real world know better.
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