Comments on: An inconvenient truth http://handyfloss.net/2006.11/an-inconvenient-truth/ Because FLOSS is handy, isn't it? Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:21:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Iñaki Silanes http://handyfloss.net/2006.11/an-inconvenient-truth/#comment-22 Iñaki Silanes Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:19:00 +0000 http://handyfloss.net/?p=143#comment-22 I haven't read it, but I have heard of it. I can hardly believe that what the author critizises (brainless "environmentalist" paranoia), has anything to do with solid scientific facts as average temperatures rising, CO2 level far above highest levels in last million years, poles and glaziers melting... and all that connected to human-produced amounts of CO2. Remember how lead content in the atmosphere went up because of lead contents in gasoline, then went down because of tight environmental regulations. Or the same for the CFCs and the ozone layer hole.<br /><br />Apparently the hole in the ozone layer was a "coincidence", right? Then CFC-less regulations came, coincidentally, at the same time the ozone layer thickened... yeah, right.<br /><br />Have you ever heard of petroleum lobbies intoxicating public opinion by creating a false illusion of debate in the scientific community, when in fact there is agreement? Perhaps it gives a hint of why some people "argue" that there is no human connection to GW. Perhaps what they want is not to keep on making money at any cost, but rather making the world a better place... What? It could be so! I haven’t read it, but I have heard of it. I can hardly believe that what the author critizises (brainless “environmentalist” paranoia), has anything to do with solid scientific facts as average temperatures rising, CO2 level far above highest levels in last million years, poles and glaziers melting… and all that connected to human-produced amounts of CO2. Remember how lead content in the atmosphere went up because of lead contents in gasoline, then went down because of tight environmental regulations. Or the same for the CFCs and the ozone layer hole.

Apparently the hole in the ozone layer was a “coincidence”, right? Then CFC-less regulations came, coincidentally, at the same time the ozone layer thickened… yeah, right.

Have you ever heard of petroleum lobbies intoxicating public opinion by creating a false illusion of debate in the scientific community, when in fact there is agreement? Perhaps it gives a hint of why some people “argue” that there is no human connection to GW. Perhaps what they want is not to keep on making money at any cost, but rather making the world a better place… What? It could be so!

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