On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Apptech wrote:
> Why the blind spot for one area of scientific endeavour and 
> *apparent* shilling to the media circus is puzzling. And why 
> reasonable discussion on a vexed subject is not felt 
> permissible is also puzzling. The treatment of this subject 
> comes exceeding close to the "Where they are burning books, 
> soon they will be burning men" of another era. Already we 
> have the (stupid) label "Global warming denier" and people's 
> careers are damaged if they don't follow the party line. Big 
> financial interests are undeniably at work. Saving the 
> planet can be a very profitable business if you sing the 
> right tune.

A scientist can also damage his career by insisting the world is flat.

There is a huge scientific body of evidence for global warming.  It is 
studied by a vast array of people from all sorts of fields, all kinds of 
colleges in all kinds of countries and it is generally agreed upon (except 
for a small minority and you ALWAYS have them) to be real and something 
that needs to be stopped or figure out how to deal with thr results.

I can not belive that there is some huge, global conspiracy secretely 
funding all these people.. and that the only ones who are speaking the 
truth are think tanks and a few people who are funded by... ahem.. big 
energy corporations.  Lets see, why might they want to spend millions 
trying to confuse the subject?  Who made tens of billions in profit this 
year that would be threatened if we started to conserve or find alternate 
energy sources?

Cherry-picking your data isn't a good method for getting to the truth.  
There is a huge, HUGE amount of work that confirms what is going on.
I can say, "But my room is COOL when I run my air conditioner so global 
warming is a myth.

I can point to the oil indurstry as being behind the majority of 
publications saying global warming is not happening.  A small amount of 
digging will show you where the money comes from.  Can you do the same?  
Who is funding these thousands of scientists you say are part of this 
conspiracy?  What companies are behind it and why?

(And I changed my part of this thread to OT because it really has nothing 
to do with electrical engineering.  Bladder surgery is a technical subject 
too but that doesn't belong in EE either. :-) )

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