Re: Al Those Great Scientists Here

bjw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> 
> One man's impending catastrophe is another
> man's hysteria.  Perhaps I feel about global warming
> the way you feel about creeping statism; perhaps
> what both of us write on the subjects looks like
> screeching to an outsider.
> 
> But I'm not writing to screech about what should be done
> (statistly or otherwise) about global warming.  I have
> opinions, of course, but how best to do something, if it
> should or can be done, is really a question of implementation
> that economists can try to figure out.  My opinions on that
> aren't terribly informed, so it's up to you, Krugman, and
> Salma Hayek to figure it out.  The only part of my opinions
> that are moderately informed are on the evidence,
> which is actually fairly solid.
> 
> I just don't like seeing the "well, we have to look at both
> sides of the argument" when one side is Senator Inhofe
> obfuscation and wishful thinking.  There are people
> (powerful people, not Kunich people) who
> are perfectly happy to deny the facts when they don't
> behave as desired, and those people are willing to
> screw the reality-based community on many subjects,
> not just climate change.  So I don't feel comfortable
> wa****ng my hands of the argument just because I'm
> not a climate scientist.
> 
> Ben
> 


"reality-based community"---I love it!  When do we move?

Steve

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