[Coral-List] global warming

[Curtis Kruer]

Good information Dr. Risk. Thanks.

And, as in the case of the Florida Keys, South Florida, the Caribbean and elsewhere, Nero keeps 
playing the fiddle while what is left of Rome burns.

C. Kruer



Michael Risk wrote:
> I can always depend on Gene to turn my crank, but this time I will hold
> my tongue. Instead, I will direct -listers to:
> 
> http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/denialmachine/index.html
> 
> -which is a CBC TV special shown last night, tracing the histories of
> those scientists who are global-warming "skeptics." It may be viewed
> on-line, and for those who have access to CBC TV, will be repeated at
> some future times.
> 
> Turns out there are no surprises, and some surprises.
> 
> No surprises: the skeptics aren't skeptical at all, they are funded by
> Big Oil, in most cases through channels that are hard to uncover.  They
> are paid to say what they say, no matter what the science. Amongst
> serious climate scientists, the debate is over. Was over a decade ago.
> 
> One surprise, at least to me: many of these so-called "skeptics" are
> retreads from the Great Tobacco Court Cases! Remember all those PR
> firms, and those "scientists", who kept saying "correlation is not
> proof?" Well, their job was to delay action while the cigarette
> companies raked in more dough. The same people now show up as "climate
> skeptics." Their role, again, is to delay action. It's a dirty game
> here.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:27:55 -0500
>  Gene Shinn <eshinn at marine.usf.edu> wrote:
> 
>>  Co2 global warming advocates might find this of interest. 
>>http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=265956
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