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Old 05-05-2007, 12:22 PM  
David - PG
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
"Something is happening" but as of yet I don't believe what anyone is saying. Years ago it was the ozone layer, but that problem seems to have fixed itself - rather quickly too I might add.

The truth is that we are guests on this planet and we have been here long enough to gauge what the weather is really like.
Hmm I like your contrarian approach, but wouldn't that mean that whenever a bunch of scientists alarm us about anything in the future we can just dismiss it and say it's non-sense and there's a "natural cause"?

- Mass fish dying in continental rivers in the 70s
- Forests dying rapidly in early 80s due to "sour" rain from sulphuric emissions
- Smoking's influence on probability of death due to lung cancer
- ...

The list could go on and on. Sometimes they're right, sometimes they're wrong. But it always started with a group of scientists that were in a minority in the beginning and decades later we largely accept reality as if public opinion never was any different. How can we just dismiss the remote chance of a danger lying ahead of us by our personal opinion or (cough cough) party affiliation?

Now I am not saying Al Gore and his minions are right. But what if he is?
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