Sorry to chime in here but this is a good example of what I meant when I
said that some individuals are just not worth the effort because no
matter how much data and logic your present they will remain
intransigent. I strongly suggest you just ignore this guy - you're
wasting your time. Maybe ask him so just what would convince you? My
bet is that he would say nothing - he sees exactly what he wants to see.
Mitch Cruzan
On 7/5/2012 6:58 PM, David L. McNeely wrote:
Cherubini, the fallacy of your interpretation of the graph has been pointed out
several times on this list. What part of the explanations did you not
understand? You certainly have no reason to extrapolate that the temperatures
will not rise in the future on the basis of one short period in the graph.
That short period is only a few years out of a very long trend of increasing
temperature. I could just as easily pick out one of the periods when the
temperature rose dramatically more than at other times, and say that the
temperature might increase at that rate in the future. Good grief!!
So far as jobs being generated, institutions are going to want to study things
that exist. Makes sense to me.
David McNeely
---- Paul Cherubini <mona...@saber.net> wrote:
On Jul 5, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Beth wrote:
given the claim that so much money is involved in
advancing claims of anthropogenic causes for climate change,
I am interested to know the facts figures and comparisons
behind this claim that it's simply about salaries and 'influence'.
Consider the job postings to Ecolog-L the past 2 years.
At least half of them involve the study or mitigation of
(assumed) CO2 driven anthropogenic climate change.
That wasn't the case 10 years ago. So like Rob said,
"enormous wealth is being generated based on
consequences of the belief that anthropogenic CO2
emissions cause climate change."
If the warming trend line of this NOAA graph
http://tinyurl.com/6ca5gzt continues to stay relatively flat
for another 5 years then more and more people will
become anthropogenic doubters which in turn could
deminish the creation of climate change jobs and
threaten existing ones.
Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.
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David McNeely
