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If he's focusing upon his trade journals, then there may be a quasi-consensus among the vocal minority. If that is the "feeling" he's trying to convey, then I understand. However, if one surveys as a layperson, ignorant of the actual science, but capable of reading what trends the literature suggest, other than an acknowledgment that climactic change is occurring, man's contributions seem indeterminable. And Seattle's insert appears to me to be the reality of the science. It's politics, not science to promote an agenda that may result in some good, but at what cost?
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That's why I think the article is deceptive.
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If I were a lawyer presenting him before a jury, he would be persuasive, and your dismissal of him would go over like a lead balloon. I'm not denying your dismissal of the other two.
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Anyone that is even moderately conversant in multiple regression analysis, time series analysis and has even a faint understanding of the difficulties in identifying and accurately measuring the major contributors to global climate, especially on a HISTORICAL basis, should be skeptical of the conclusions foisted upon the public by the Global Warming alarmists.
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And to examine a data field of 150 years at best, without using the same methods of measurements in order to make prognostication about the happenings in a system over billions of years, makes no sense to this non-scientists. Now having read a little, very little, I note the climatologists also examine the earth and what's below it to make determinations, not just man's measurements for the last 150 years. So if good scientists know we know so little, why is their hysteria? There is a political agenda which must benefit those sounding the alarm, that is the purpose of all hysteria and agendas. Jeff detracts from the anti-hysterians by laughing off Crichton, all the while he seems to be accepting of the hysterians' hyena, Gore, without a mention.
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Jeff, try to be dispassionate. In front of a jury, I can state, the two are not the same. Distant past contracts, or imminent current or future contracts, which appear to create a greater conflict?
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