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Re: News Advisory: Still Crazy After Oil These Years!



On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Harold Brashears wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 JUL 1996 14:50:23 GMT 
> From: Harold Brashears <brshears@whale.st.usm.edu>
> Newgroups: alt.energy.renewable, alt.save.the.earth,
>     alt.sustainable.agriculture, talk.environment, sci.environment,
>     sci.energy, bionet.agroforestry
> Subject: Re: News Advisory: Still Crazy After Oil These Years! 
> 
> David Beorn <dbeorn@freenet.vcu.edu> wrote for all to see:
> 
> >John Dobitz wrote:
> >
> >> From: John Dobitz <dobitz@ibm.net>
> >> 
> >> Jay Hanson <jhanson@ilhawaii.net>Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:37 +0000 writes:
> >> >
> >> >Global warming: SCIENCE NEWS, Vol 148, Page 293, Nov. 4, 1995:
> >> >
> >> >WORLD CLIMATE PANEL CHARTS PATH FOR ACTION
> >> >
> >> >"An international panel of scientists and economists has shifted
> >> > the threat of climate change from the future squarely into the
> >> > present.
> >> >
> >> >"The United Nations-sponsored committee, which carries the
> >> > authority of over 2,000 investigators, has concluded that
> >> > humankind is now altering climate in an identifiable way. It
> >
> >Basically, they don't know what's going on - so what else is new on this 
> >topic.  
> 
> It is not actually the scientists.  There has been considerable
> controversy about the latest report.  The scientists who wrote the
> report claim that after they read and ok'ed the final version, the
> document was changed to make it appear as if everyone had agreed that
> the earth was in imminent danger.  Danger which requires immediate
> action.  This is now a political, not a scientific statement.  See the

Yep - it's P.C. to say that the world is coming to an end.  

> WSJ of the last 3 weeks for the ongoing reports.
>
> Regards, Harold
> -------
> "Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less 
> extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can 
> all get off."

There's more truth to that than the envirofascists would like you to know 
- but what they want is for the REST of us to get off.  

> 	---Chris Patten, Independent (London, 19 April 1989).


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