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<DIV><FONT size=2>There is nothing wrong with being a skeptic. In fact,
that in part is how science progresses --rechecking data experiments etc,
and, forming and testing alternative hypotheses.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>When it comes to deciding if action is necessary, how
necessary, and what that action should be, then there the matter of highest
probability to consider.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>W.</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=godshatter@yahoo.com href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">Paul
Rumelhart</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=rforce2003@yahoo.com
href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com">Ron Force</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, January 17, 2010 5:20
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Why you're not
getting anywhere, Ted</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>You know, I wouldn't spend so much time trying to defend the
skeptical <BR>viewpoint if it weren't for the following:<BR><BR>- Apparent
data manipulations such as the hockey stick graph that erases <BR>the
previously accepted medieval warm period and little ice age in order <BR>to
show a politically powerful graph.<BR><BR>- Data chart manipulations such as
splicing proxy data and temperature <BR>data together in order to make a graph
show something that the proxy <BR>data didn't show, instead of throwing out
the proxy data as unusable <BR>because it conflicted with the temperature
data.<BR><BR>- Climate scientists doing back flips to avoid FOIA requests for
data <BR>and having an adversarial relationship with anyone who has the nerve
to <BR>question their findings instead of making any and all data freely
<BR>available to the public.<BR><BR>- A climate (no pun intended) in which the
main stream media has made <BR>people who question any part of the
AGW-hypothesis out to be flat <BR>earthers or holocaust deniers, while
promoting the most outlandish <BR>doomsday scenarios as if they were
unquestionably true.<BR><BR>- The fact that the climate scientists mentioned
above have the ear of <BR>the President and control the UN IPCC and have the
potential to sink our <BR>economy.<BR><BR>and, lastly,<BR><BR>- The refusal of
AGW-hypothesis proponents to talk about any of the <BR>above without using the
refrain "please cite a peer reviewed paper", <BR>when the peer review process
is controlled by these same individuals <BR>with political influence and who
have threatened in the Climategate <BR>emails to manipulate that process if
they had to.<BR><BR>I only look into this deeper because the whole things
smells to me of <BR>bullshit, and because the more I look into it the more
reason I have to <BR>believe that most of the current warming is natural and
not man-made. I <BR>could easily be wrong, but don't expect me to be
shamed into silence any <BR>time soon.<BR><BR>Paul<BR><BR>Ron Force
wrote:<BR>> <A
href="http://www.treelobsters.com/2010/01/118-skeptics-charlatans.html">http://www.treelobsters.com/2010/01/118-skeptics-charlatans.html</A><BR>><BR>>
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