Re Comments? Re New York Times defends hiring extreme climate denier: 'millions agree with him'

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Jay Fenello <Jay () fenello com>
Date: Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [IP] Re Comments? Re New York Times defends hiring extreme
climate denier: 'millions agree with him'
To: <dave () farber net>, ip <ip () listbox com>


I believe there is data supporting both sides of this issue ...

For example, here's a graph showing CO2 versus temperature over the last 4
billion years that appears to show little if any correlation between the
two:

[image: http://www.biocab.org/Geological_Timescale_op_712x534.jpg]

Given the difficulties involved in accurately distilling the worlds varying
regions into a single global temperature, as well as measuring  the minute
amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere *over **millions **of years*, a little
skepticism on both sides of this issue would seem prudent.


On 04/23/17 9:43 AM, Dave Farber wrote:

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From: Dave Burstein <daveb () dslprime com>
Date: Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [IP] Comments? Re New York Times defends hiring extreme
climate denier: 'millions agree with him'
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>


Dave

A few times a century, something important is demonstrated that 99.9% of
scientists believed impossible. (Ramanujan.) I doubt climate will be an
example, but thinking so should not by itself make someone a pariah,
especially if they do exemplary other work.

Climate change deniers, of course, have very little data on their side. The
same is true of any religion, including my own.

I don't think the New York Times should automatically exclude someone
because he believes in a scientifically unprovable religion, whether
Judaism or Wahabi Islam.

Most of us have at least one belief with less evidence than his. That's not
enough to make everything else we write a mistake.

Dave

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Dave Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Jay Fenello <jay () fenello com>
> Date: Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 9:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re New York Times defends hiring extreme climate denier:
> 'millions agree with him'
> To: <dave () farber net>
>
>
> All of this fuss over a projected 25% increase of CO2?
>
> To put that in real terms, from .04% of the atmosphere, to .05%.
>
> No doubt the climate is changing, but a little skepticism about the cause
> being CO2 is warranted.
> --
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> On April 22, 2017 9:41:45 AM EDT, David Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > *From: *"Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
> > *Subject: **Re: [IP] Re New York Times defends hiring extreme climate
> > denier: 'millions agree with him'*
> > *Date: *April 22, 2017 at 9:39:11 AM EDT
> > *To: *dave () farber net, Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan () gmail com>
> > *Cc: *ip <ip () listbox com>
> >
> > Also, let's be charitable and say that there are 1 and a half million
> > climate change deniers on Earth, out of a total population of 7.5 billion
> > is 2%
> >
> >
> > 1.5 million out of 7.5 billion is 0.0002, or 0.02%. Think you missed a
> > decimal or something.
> >
> > However, there are more than 1.5 million climate change deniers in the US
> > alone.
> >
> > --
> > TTFN,
> > patrick


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