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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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Tue, 9 May 2000 17:02:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Peter White writes:
> 
> > > If you want to really get worried, think about mosquito-borne diseases, in a
> > > world that is slowly warming, these are the growing concerns.
> > 
> > Agreed. Fortunately, ours isn't (slowly warming). At least that's what the
> > data indicate when not interpreted by "junk science" advocates.
> 
> Pretty much everything I’ve read or seen indicates that scientists generally
> agree we are in a warming trend, but those scientists don’t agree on the
> ultimate effects of that warming.  For that matter, they don’t even agree
> whether it’s a long-term or anecdotal phenomenon.
>  The problem, as in most issues of this sort, is that the scientists
> backed by Greenpeace see global warming as a deadly axe about to fall, while
> scientists funded by the fossil-fuel industry say it’s part of the natural,
> cyclic climate of the planet.
>  It seems that junk science abounds in both camps, at the risk of
> obscuring the facts.  Are there any independent firms performing respectable,
> legitimate research in this arena?

I'm not sure, but I suspect everyone doing research is in one camp or the
other.

Myself I'm on the "it's part of the cyclical nature of climate" side of the
fence, I tend to suspect that we're still in the "emerging from the little Ice
Age" temperature upswing.

++Lar

> 
>  Dave!



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(...) Does it matter why? There is a global warming going in as we speak. There is a very fair chance that in a few years, the icecaps will melt and all the major coast cities (NYC, Boston, LA, SF, need I continue?) will be flooded. Does it really (...) (26 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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