On 19/10/2006, at 12:07 AM, John W Redelfs wrote:
On 10/17/06, Charlie Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 18/10/2006, at 2:31 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> (Printed in the local paper this morning. I found it on-line at
> Jewish World Review Oct. 16, 2006 / 24 Tishrei, 5767)
Global warming... just a theory...
I've read that Mars and Jupiter are also warming, and that it has
something
to do with the output of the sun. Is that true?
I don't know.
The point I was making is that knowing that something is happening
and knowing all the details of exactly how and why it happens are two
different things, and both creationists and global warming denialists
use the same conflation of these two to sow doubt.
The Earth has warmed recently. That's a fact.
The Earth has warmed in a way that seems to be outside of any of the
short and long term cycles that we are aware of. This warming seems
to correlate very well with human activity. That's the theory part.
The details of this and the precise component of human influence are
still not totally understood, but the science is pretty convincing.
I noticed this article that Ronn posted used all the same crank
tropes that the Discovery Institute uses - accusations of orthodoxy,
a list of "top scientist defectors". It paints the people in a bad
light, but it does not actually deal with any of the actual science,
or explain the data in another way that actually supports the data.
Charlie
_______________________________________________
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
