Thread: Doom and Gloom
View Single Post
  #20   Report Post  
posted to rec.boats.cruising
[email protected] tsmwebb@gmail.com is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Sep 2006
Posts: 859
Default Doom and Gloom

On Oct 31, 12:34 pm, Red wrote:
... Therein lies the problem... how specifically do you *know* it isn't
fact? Maybe you haven't been exposed to other information because like
politicians the press pretty much only carries the doom and gloom
message. Have you done any of your own research into what other
scientists are saying? ...


Have you seen: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conten...306/5702/1686?

I certainly wouldn't argue that scientists are super humans, perfectly
disinterested, unaffected by fads, fashion or grant money. Nor are
they able to escape the limits of talent, time or resources. And it
seems axiomatic that politicians aren't always truthful with their
constituents. But how does it follow that there is a conspiracy to
deceive? If nothing else, Occam's razor suggests that a complex
theory like yours with its complete perversion of academia, media and
politics is less likely than the simple theory that most climate
scientists are telling the truth as they see it. So, I've got to ask,
where is your evidence for this conspiracy?

-- Tom.