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3/16/2004

You Don't Believe Studies from the Tobacco Companies . . .

You Don't Believe Studies from the Tobacco Companies . . .

. . . yet you'll buy studies from a group whose sole purpose in life seems to be to promote and engender fear and dollars over global warming?

What happened to your famous skepticism, my lib friends?

I love the underlying assumptions made in this article. For example, this first quote:

Damage from Warming Becoming 'Irreversible,' Says New Report

Britain's most influential scientist, Sir David King, recently excoriated the Bush administration for withdrawing from the Protocol and ignoring the threat posed by climate change. "In my view, climate change is the most severe problem we are facing today," he wrote in Science magazine, "more serious even than the threat of terrorism."

"Britain's most influential scientist", eh? I wonder what Stephen Hawking would think of that?

Here are some interesting comments on the state of GW science (from 1999).