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February 18, 2005
No!
CNN.com - Scientists: Global warming is real - Feb 18, 2005
Who are you going to believe, these scientists, or the tireless crusaders for truth who work so hard to deny global warming for no reward except massive cash payouts from polluters?
I haven't posted this for awhile, but here are the stages of global warming denial, or any other denial of obvious environmental problems:
1. There is no such thing.
2. Okay, there is such a thing, but people aren't at fault.
3. Okay, people are to blame, but it's really a good thing.
4. Okay, it's a bad thing, but there was no way to avoid it.
5. We were against it all along, but regulators kept us from pursuing the market solution which was the only way to avoid it, so deregulate now before it's too late.
Posted by Mac Thomason at February 18, 2005 10:36 AM
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I'm #3. I think there'll be more benefits to it than not.
I will say that I'm a bit more dubious about "political" science than science which has no real public policy angle. It's hard not to see the correlation between the Kyoto Treaty and the sudden release of global warming stories all over the place as dubious.
It's like how we haven't heard a peep about terrorism since the election (no orange alerts or scare tactics), but as soon as the President says he wants provisions of the Patriot Act renewed, all of a sudden there's Rumsfeld and the rest saying that terrorists want to attack the country.
Posted by: Paul at February 19, 2005 05:26 PM