[geeks] Global Warming causes...

[Dr Robert Pasken]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> >From: Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
> >Date: 2007/12/01 Sat PM 08:11:26 CST
> >To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: Re: [geeks] Global Warming causes...
>
> >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.
>
> Like the UN report where the politicians wrote the summary *before* the
> scientists wrote the actual report, and where scientist agreement is on their
> individual contributions, not the entirety of the UN report (if each man
> believes his piece of the report, then we can say that all men agree with the
> report! Hurrah!)
>
> Lionel
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Actually that is not true, the final report of the scientists was finished
as was their summary, the politicians then argued about how they were
going to change the wording to make it more palatable