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Originally Posted by Daithi
I do much the same as WT Sharpe, but I came to a different conclusion a year or two ago. I don't know if global warming is occuring or not, but I don't believe the science is settled and find it extremelly disturbing that dissenting voices are ignored, ridiculed, and referred to as "deniers" as in holocaust deniers. I also could not understand the practice of not providing dissenters with the data and models the science was based upon. This was all before the emails from Jones, et. al. were released.
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I regard "global warming" as just another of the periodic outbreaks of pseudoscientific hysteria, of the same ilk as the outbreaks of religious or economic hysteria.
In my lifetime, the outbreaks have included the "global cooling" hyteria of the 1970s, along with the "overpopulation and famine" hysteria of the same period. And of course there is the ever popular and long running "we are running out of oil" hysteria dating from at least the 1960s.
The symptoms include those you have identified above.
Obligatory Book Reference: I recommend a free ebook: "Fantastic Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds."
http://manybooks.net/titles/mackaych2451824518-8.html