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Thread #84801   Message #1567518
Posted By: Wolfgang
21-Sep-05 - 06:29 AM
Thread Name: BS: Hurricane Rita, Mother Nature, & FEMA
Subject: RE: BS: Hurricane Rita, Mother Nature, & FEMA
Global warming, causes of global warming, and hurricane cycles are quite different things that get muddled in posts like Bobert's and Hubby's.

(1) You can find close to no scientist who doubts global warming is occuring right now.
(2) You have a strong majority of scientists who think that global warming is caused mainly by human activity, but less than in (1).
(3) Even among those who would agree that global warming is man made there is a large number who think that hurricane cycles are not very much related to global warming. But the same scientists could agree that the number and strength of hurricanes increases right now.

Neither are all scientists who doubt a certain interpretation paid or quacks, nor does an agreement upon a finding mean agreement upon the interpretation.

Simplistic argumentation like Bobert's is not helpful for it makes it far too easy to portray the environmentalists as stupid.

Wolfgang