[C38] I Believe I Can Fly

[Les]

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 07:55 -0500, Bill Haynes wrote:
> Paul, Thomas Friedman published an article yesterday that reflects my
> thoughts on Climate Change extremely well. I have extracted two
> paragraphs from it.  Check it out and let me know what you think.
>  
> Bill
>  
>  
> I Believe I Can Fly
>  
> Reading the headlines these days, I can’t help but repeat this truism:
> If you jump off the top of an 80-story building, for 79 floors you can
> think you’re flying. It’s the sudden stop at the end that tells you
> you’re not. It’s striking to me how many leaders and nations are
> behaving today as though they think they can fly — and ignoring that
> sudden stop at the end that’s sure to come. 
>  
> Closer to home, America’s climate-deniers mounted an effective
> disinformation campaign that made “climate change” a four-letter word
> in the Republican Party. This undermined efforts to get a clean energy
> bill — the sort that might break our addiction to oil and take money
> away from the people our soldiers are fighting in the Middle East. And
> all of this happened in 2010, which is on track to be the Earth’s
> hottest year on record. So here’s the math: 98 climate scientists out
> of 100 will tell you that man’s continued carbon emissions pose the
> risk of disruptive climate change this century. Two out of 100 will
> tell you it doesn’t. And “conservatives” today tell you to bet on the
> two. If the climate-deniers are right — but we combat climate change
> anyway — we’ll have slightly higher energy prices but cleaner air,
> more renewable energy, a stronger dollar, more innovative industries
> and enemies with less money. If the deniers are wrong and we do
> nothing, your kids will meet the sudden stop at the end. 
>  
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Please do not put politics in this mix.  There are different places to
post this stuff.

	As an rabid follower of data, with great experience in parsing data,
including datamining, there are many things I could say, but you
wouldn't believe them, and I will never believe there is anything like a
98% agreement among real scientists.  

	So lets not go down that road.  This is a place for stuff related to
our boats.

	Thank you.

Regards,
Les H