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Even Bush's experts now agree on global warming

May 2, 2006 11:00PM PDT
Federal Study Finds Accord on Warming.

>> A scientific study commissioned by the Bush administration concluded yesterday that the lower atmosphere was indeed growing warmer and that there was "clear evidence of human influences on the climate system." <<

Maybe the die-hards here will finally agree too?

-- Dave K, Speakeasy Moderator
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Federal Studies ...
May 2, 2006 11:24PM PDT

... no better than a Sierra Club study AFAIC, no matter who sits in the White House. They're all gunning for research funding dollars, and right now that's in human caused global warming no matter how the "evidence" has to be twisted to show it. The only human effect is HUMAN life itself. Volunteers?

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There's that nasty reliance on science and knowledge again.
May 3, 2006 3:39AM PDT

Studies would be SO much easier if you started with the conclusion you wanted and worked backwards... Oh wait -- wee done that; it's why we're in Iraq! In this case, though, given that Bush commissioned the study, you know the result wasn't pre-ordained. Just like his earlier study, which was inordinately weighted with skeptics, yet still reached the same conclusion about four years ago.

-- Dave K, Speakeasy Moderator
click here to email semods4@yahoo.com

The opinions expressed above are my own,
and do not necessarily reflect those of CNET!

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DK! Careful! You're dangerously close to revealing your
May 3, 2006 11:44AM PDT

approach to science, politics, and life.

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That's what is being done too many times DK
May 3, 2006 10:12PM PDT

Read the report yet?

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(NT) (NT) Don't count on it, DK
May 2, 2006 11:30PM PDT
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(NT) (NT) Many times, there is an oh so predictable echo.
May 2, 2006 11:50PM PDT
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Ain't that the truth!
May 3, 2006 1:12AM PDT
Devil
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Care to take bets ...
May 3, 2006 2:39AM PDT

... on whether DK will ever even read the executive summary, or rely on the NYT's hack job to do his thinking for him? There's much more in this first of 21 reports that the NYT's doesn't mention. And although there is mentio of human influence, it's not quite what the article implies. You would have to go to the source to find that out though.

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DK doesn't need more information. His mind is already made
May 3, 2006 11:52AM PDT

up, and he's not going to change it now.

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(NT) (NT) Sounds like your's
May 3, 2006 10:15PM PDT
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(NT) (NT) and yours.
May 3, 2006 10:35PM PDT
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DK must have these things charted on a calendar. Every x
May 2, 2006 11:48PM PDT

days, post an item on global warming, or George Bush's poll numbers, etc. He never learns from responses to his previous posts. He just drones on repeating the same things over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over........

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A quick read at the NYT ...
May 2, 2006 11:50PM PDT

... and the Executive Summary of the report shows that things are already not *quite* so definitive or groundbreaking as the NYT would lead one to believe. Surprised? LOL

Evie Happy

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(NT) (NT) And the derision goes on and on and on and on and on and on
May 3, 2006 6:41AM PDT
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(NT) (NT) Why not delete it?
May 5, 2006 7:13AM PDT
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(NT) (NT) Nope
May 3, 2006 8:35AM PDT
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Aren't you
May 3, 2006 11:56AM PDT

rather selective (cherry picking as it were) with the Bush "experts" that you trust