> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 9:47 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: OT: Global Warming Called 'Fairy Tale'
>
>
> You all are missing the central point of the word "global." Local
> instantaneous weather is always erratic, but if you want to
> prove or disprove
> the global warming thesis, gather up the weather records from
> hundreds or
> thousands of sites world-wide and then plot their aggregate trend.
>

But what is also missing is the fact that the length of time we have been
gathering data is so insignificant in relation to the Earth's geological
clock as to be meaningless.

> That's exactly what the people who do worry about global
> warming have done.
> Their concerns aren't some fairy tale. If they weren't
> arguing from evidence
> to begin with, their hypothesis would have been shot down a
> long time ago.
> The most appealing thing about the scientific process is that
> it is rapidly
> self-correcting. You're free to say anything you want, but if
> you can't back
> it up with hard evidence, you're very quickly asked to sit
> down and shut up.
>

No, if you hold the Politically Correct viewpoint of the Environmental
extremists you can say anything you want, otherwise you are labeled an
enivironmental rapist/child killer/idiot.

After all we all know free speech is only for the PC liberals.

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