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Subject: Re: global warning
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At  1/9/2006 07:34 AM, you wrote:
>Skepticism of all things is a good thing.  It is at the heart of
>the scientific world.


That being the case, I remain skeptical of most of the pontification on
global warming. It is the scientific way.

There is no doubt that the earths climate is not static, but to blame the
changes on man's pitiful activities is too much for me to swallow.

One volcano eruption, a tsunami caused by an earthquake, etc. is anecdota=l
evidence enough for me to perceive that we probably do not significantl=y
effect the long term climate changes. The Democratic activists, that woul=d
blame Bush for the earthquakes, benefit from such drivel.

All this reminds me of the arguments that evolved around Keplers proposal
that the earth is not the center of the universe (read - Man is not the
cause of most things in the universe). There was much debate about religi=on
and man's place in the cosmos, but in the end, calm investigation and the
development of ever more sophisticated instruments for actually measuring
events held sway.

My father was one of a team of two that experimentally proved part of
Einsteins theory of relativity and that Doppler effect holds true in ligh=t
as well as sound. The latter the basis for determining the size and shape
of the universe as well as modern radar. So, I don't doubt the scientific
method and I look forward to new discoveries every day, but I detest
generalization of anecdotal. Theories are fine, and needed in science, bu=t
many of us have a tendency to present them as fact, not theory.

Devise and perform a controlled experiment that proves man is a significa=nt
cause of global climate change {as my father and Dr, Ives did for
relativity) and I'll be the first to concede that we're more powerful tha=n
I think we are,