[geeks] Global Warming causes...

[Phil Stracchino]

Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Dec 1, 2007, at 7:19 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
>>> You know this how?
>> Know what?  That there isn't unanimity?  Because some scientists
>> disagree.  That there is consensus?  Because the majority (more than  
>> two
>> thirds, according to what I've read) agree.
> 
> Two thirds of what scientists?
> 
> The ones who the media interviews?

The ones writing papers on climate.

> There was no consensus at all, and a good number of them reported  
> cosmic radiation, natural disasters, and orbit variation as larger  
> factors in global temperature.
> 
> The main reason you don't hear about those other factors is that they  
> are not popular.  They don't sell ads, they aren't boogymen, they have  
> no emotional appeal, and it requires real work rather than knee jerk  
> reactionism to cope with it.

There's three problems in climate change and global warming:  the
climate change itself, the people who say "It's anthropogenic, the
natural factors are insignificant", and the people who say "It's
natural, the anthropogenic effects can't possibly be significant."


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