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Re: What would you do to combat this thinking?
Posted by also anon on 5/05/08

    The refusals I'm reading here to even conditionally agree that climate
    change is caused by human activity are obviously not based on any kind
    of credible scientific evidence.

    It's the same kind of ugly, dishonest, self-serving politics that got
    us into a disastrous 3 trillion dollar war with a country that wasn't
    any threat to us.

    It's too bad that there wasn't the kind of soberly reasoned skepticism
    about Iraq's WMDs and ties to AQ back in 03 that's now being served up
    about a phenomenon that's a threat to billions of people and that's
    agreed upon by 98% of the climatologists and geophysicists on the planet.

    On 5/05/08, anon wrote:
    > We teach other things in our schools that we KNOW are not accurate.
    > For instance, we still teach and use the Bohr model of the atom
    > because it is useful in making predictions about chemical
    > reactions. However, we KNOW it is wrong. Why do we still use it?
    > Probably because it does make useful predictions and quantum
    > mechanics is far too hard for the normal high school students to
    > fathom... and quantum mechanics is slowly being displaced by even
    > more complicated theories.
    >
    > There are many other scientific certanties that have been proven
    > false. We no longer think the earth is flat... we no longer think
    > proteins carry the genetic information in the cell. No one person
    > can say for sure that global warming is caused by man. I really do
    > not see it the teacher's place to say "I'm right, your wrong" when
    > we really do not have enough evidence to say that. Convictions are
    > not reality.

     
     

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