On Dec 1, 9:16*pm, Jerry Avins <j...@ieee.org> wrote:
> brent wrote:
> > On Dec 1, 2:40 pm, spop...@speedymail.org (Steve Pope) wrote:
> >> Rune Allnor *<all...@tele.ntnu.no> wrote:
>
> >>> On 1 Des, 19:21, spop...@speedymail.org (Steve Pope) wrote:
> >>>> Don't buy it! *Don't let them control the debate.
> >>> Keep the politics out of this.
> >> Um, sorry, posting links to Wall Street Journal articles is
> >> injecting politics into. *Don't blame me.
>
> >>> In plain English: The climate models aren't good enough.
> >> "Aren't good enough" for what purpose? *What standard of
> >> proof is needed to make a political decision to implement
> >> more pollution controls?
>
> > The whole point of the global warming debate is whether CO2 is
> > pollution. *Why not use the word "CO2" instead of pollution. *I, for
> > one, do not view CO2 as pollution.
> > The CO2 controls (which you seem to think is clever to call pollution
> > controls) that seem to be desired by the GW folks, are really economic
> > controls and individual liberty controls.
>
> Rules against pissing in our well also limit our liberty. Are they a bad
> thing?
>
> >> *Ultimately this is a political
> >> decision, isn't it?
>
> >>> The argument has nothing to do with politics.
> >> Sure it does.
>
> >> Steve
>
> Jerry
> --
> Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
> ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
When do you plan to stop driving your automobile or stop using
electricity? Please do not try to tell me that you use a
"responsible" amount. You are a dirty gross polluting - piss in the
well- human being if you are emitting CO2. I am simply taking your
point to its logical conclusion.