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To: Ditter
So much conflicting scientific analysis must drive liberals crazy.

I have been thinking about *why* liberals believe that the world is getting hotter due to human activities.

Apart from the obvious reason that claiming that humans have caused global warming allows liberals to seize controlover more people (a very important motivator), I think there is another reason for this apparently unscientific belief.

If the world *is* getting hotter (which is very debatable), it is either getting hotter because of something within their control (other humans) or because of something outside their control (the sun or other natural processes).

I think they get so freaked out by something happening which is NOT subject to their control, that they all conclude that it MUST be caused by other (bad) humans. If it involves other humans, then laws will make it right. And they can feel in control.

If it is because of the sun, they feel totally impotent and valueless. Since most liberals don't (really) believe in a supreme being, their own sense of control over the world is supremely important to them. Anything that destroys that sense of control will plunge them into despair and result in an overreaction of trying to control the (innocent) activities of other people.

17 posted on 02/15/2002 6:16:32 PM PST by 07055
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To: 07055
You are right, or at least I think you are.

The other thing that bugs me about the Greenies is that none of them have actual science training. They are the ones that didn't do well on their freshman science exams and changed major to something less challenging for their doctorate. That's what I think about that. I might be wrong, there might be an actual scientist among them.

27 posted on 02/15/2002 6:42:08 PM PST by RightWhale
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To: 07055
"I have been thinking about *why* liberals believe that the world is getting hotter due to human activities. "

Yeah, because they won't tell Dasshole, Bubba and Teddy to shut the he!! up!

29 posted on 02/15/2002 6:46:26 PM PST by gc4nra
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