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pretty much any self respecting scientist accepts the reality of global warming. it may be hard to prove it as solid fact like its hard to prove the universe is infinite but there is enough data to safely assume it is true.
its not universally accepted by everyone because the changes required to "do something about it" are enormous that stretch to the very core of our way of life. there would need to be major changes to the way we live day to day and how governments and industries operate. some people aren't willing to make those changes
heres something i googled that seemed pertinent
| quote: | AMY GOODMAN: Ross Gelbspan, can you talk about this debate around global warming?
ROSS GELBSPAN: I can, Amy. And again, thanks so much for giving this subject the air time this morning. The very fact that you are using the word debate shows how pervasive this campaign of disinformation and deception has been. There really is no debate about global warming. What you have on the one side are more 2,000 scientists from 100 countries reporting to the U.N. in what is the largest and most rigorously peer-reviewed scientific collaboration in history. What you have on the other side are basically a very small handful of so-called greenhouse skeptics, the majority of whom have been paid by the coal and oil industries, and for that reason, it has -- because of the megaphone they have been given by industry, they have created the impression in the minds of journalists that it is really a debate, and as a result, most stories, until recently, have portrayed it as a he said/she said kind of thing. And I think the public basically took the attitude after a while, that, you know, come back and tell us what you know when you make up your mind. And as a result, the public has sort of turned off to this issue, even as the signals from the planet are becoming very shrill, and the timetable for action is very slow and narrow. |
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that or move to hawaii now and enjoy it all.
