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  •  you can't say that (0+ / 0-)

    Bald faced lies?  Does anyone understand scientific theory? No one can say the climate control study paper that concluded CO2 was driving global warming is a FACT...it's a hypothesis which a lot of people agree with.

    Perhaps one day the consensus will switch and say that CO2 is an effect of warming & not a cause; and the cause is actually solar activity.  It doesn't really matter to me, as long as it scares people & corporations into cleaning up their wasteful, poisonous habits.

    Counterpunch is an opinion journal; why is everyone getting their panties in bundle?  It's not like the original poster reads it except to find something to grind his axe on...

    •  I enumerated several of his bald-faced lies (0+ / 0-)

      for example:

      There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend.

      and

      Thus it is impossible to assert that the increase in atmospheric CO2 stems from human burning of fossil fuels.

      and

      It's a notorious inconvenience for the Greenhousers that data also show carbon dioxide concentrations from the Eocene period, 20 million years before Henry Ford trundled his first model T out of the shop, 300-400 per cent higher than current concentrations.

      There are many more things in his screed which are gross distortions at best.

      You write:

      Perhaps one day the consensus will switch and say that CO2 is an effect of warming & not a cause; and the cause is actually solar activity.  It doesn't really matter to me, as long as it scares people & corporations into cleaning up their wasteful, poisonous habits.

      But that's not possible at all, since the facts contradict this hypothesis, as I pointed out in the diary.  No amount of wishing will make a contrafactual hypothesis anything other than garbage.

      John McCain - all aboard the lobbyist express!

      by jrooth on Tue May 08, 2007 at 10:49:03 AM PDT

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