http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm
- - - It's nearly impossible to have a rational debate with anybody about this anymore. Personally I don't see any point (and never did see any point) in denying a warming trend lately; but to jump from that point of common ground to Ceterum Censeo about its cause and needed measures to "reverse" it (assuming such a thing is even in our power short of inducing nuclear winter, let alone necessary) is to make a big, huge, monster leap of faith (actually, of two orders of magnitude) based on propositions that are hardly proven and facts that are statistically insufficient to prove them. As with the middle east conflict, all sense of proportion and historical perspective is lost. And so it goes. It is politically expedient to embrace the farce. I'm becoming increasingly anti- political, not just apolitical, as I grow older, and (hopefully) wiser. I don't want to slip into nihilism, but it's hard to take anybody seriously anymore. It's hard to avoid the sense that 'global warming' is just a scare tactic for the old left to regain its political footing and put our wallets on the table for demagogues to snatch. Meanwhile the real menace, radical Islam, gets a morale booster courtesy of our Congress, rushing into the military equivalent of Kyoto with their insane seppuku posturing on Iraq. Oh well. As with every disaster, natural or man-made: "And this too shall pass." - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
