Re: [greenyes] Neither Side is Going to the Gas Chambers

[Alan Muller <amuller@no.address>]

At 02:13 PM 2/18/2005 -0600, Peter Anderson wrote:
>     In the continuing controversy over my posting on GreenYes of a Wall
> Street Journal article about Stephen McIntyre, who is a global warming
> critic,

I have not been reading this thread but want to chime in support of the 
points (I take it) Peter is making here.

The vast majority of professional global-warming-deniers I've encountered 
have not impressed me.  Most of them seem to be whores of fossil fuel 
interests or whatever.  But not all.  And the integrity of science as a 
truth-finder requires respectful attention to good-faith contrarians.

Aside from that, the people out there listening to the debate--or not now 
listening--are the ones needing to be reached.  I doubt that 
highly-inflated rhetoric is the way to do that.  (I suppose a lot of people 
would consider the American Petroleum Institute seems a pretty credible 
source....)

Aside from that, hey, lets notice that we have "won" if that's the 
term.  it's not debatable any more among reasonable people:   Warming is 
happening and has to be addressed.  Even the nutballs now running the US 
will have to shift their positions pretty soon.

I think the time has come to recognize that the basic debate is over and to 
shift the discussion to "what do we do about it " and how sustainable 
materials management fit's it.

Alan

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