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- From: titmas@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Eric Titmas)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,sci.geo.meteorology,sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Lawyer's science vs. unbiased presentation of the facts
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.184146.18257@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 18:41:46 GMT
- References: <1992Jul14.024608.6191@meteor.wisc.edu> <1992Jul15.110126.21690@techbook.com> <1992Jul17.204754.12012@meteor.wisc.edu> <1992Jul20.164701.8222@techbook.com>
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- In article <1992Jul20.164701.8222@techbook.com>, szabo@techbook.com (Nick Szabo) writes:
- |>
- |> No, this is not "quite clear" at all. You haven't even come close to
- |> demonstrating this. All that has been shown is that some such impacts
- |> are _possible_. A CO2 doubling timespan of 300 years (including at
- |> least 100 years into the future) is being used for the theorized IPCC
- ^^^^^
- |> 2.5C warming; we have several decades to learn more about the phenomenon
- |> and several decades more to respond before most of the predicted temperature
- |> changes would come about.
- ...
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- ENSO is rare? Ice age transitions are rare? Pinatubo-sized volcanoes
- ^^^^^
- ...
- |> From the numbers I have, this claim is nonsense. Younger Dryas was a
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- I assume the jargon is known to sci.environment & sci.geo.meteorology readers
- but could you please be a little less cryptic for the benefit of those who
- only read sci.skeptic.
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- Eric Titmas Motorola ASIC titmas@chdasic.sps.mot.com
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- ...the most important change which extensive government control produces
- is a psychological change, an alteration in the character of the people.
- Friedrich A. Von Hayek
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