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- From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Bad science
- Message-ID: <77616@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 17:48:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.195331.16086@vexcel.com? <4066@master.CNA.TEK.COM>
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- Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA
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- In <4066@master.CNA.TEK.COM> mikeq@freddy.CNA.TEK.COM (Mike Quigley) writes:
-
- |In article <1992Dec15.195331.16086@vexcel.com? dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
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- |*stuff deleted
-
- |? Three thousand years before Christ, the saplings of
- |? bristlecone pines poked through the earth and began
- |? recording what would become 5,000 years of climatic
- |? changes. In studying these trees, University of
- |? Arizona scientists have detected no fatter outer
- |? rings that would inevitable announce the so-called
- |? greenhouse effect.
- |?
- |? The findings of UA`s Laboratory of Tree Rings Research
- |? will hardly shake up most climatologists: Only one in six
- |? accepts the apolcalyptic version of global warming. But
- |? pity true-believing environmentalists, the oft-mocked
- |? "tree-huggers." One of their major tenets is weaker than
- |? before, thanks to the perfidy of the pine.
- |?
-
- |*stuff deleted
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- |Okay. Now that we've reduced the greenhouse-effect theory to shambles, well work on
- |our spelling and grammer next.
-
- |By the way, who's sponsoring this study, the chemical industry?
-
-
- Excellent technique, instead of trying to discredit his data, you try to
- discredit him. First by flaming his spelling, and then by charging him
- with bias.
-
- What's your next trick going to be?
-
- --
- Mob rule doesn't become any prettier, just because the mob start to call itself
- a government.
- It ain't charity if you are using someone else's money.
- Mark.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
-