>Doug:
>"I do have some faith in science. So if the BBC report has scientific
>evidence that dirty bombs are a dud, then I want to hear it. Most
>serious scientists believe global warming - or climate change - is
>for real. What's inconsistent about that?"
>
>I am not a scientist, and I don't claim to know if global warming is
>happening or not. From what I've read about debates between
>specialists on global warming, the consensus is uncertain, and even
>those who think it is happening acknowledge that the evidence remains
>inconclusive.
You need to read more or at least read better documented information than you must have read up to this point if this is your conclusion.
>I think it's inconsistent to go with the flow on global warming - and
>to endorse the politics of austerity that is popularly bound up with
>it - while maintaining a sensibly sceptical attitude to dirty bomb fears.
>
>James Greenstein
I don't remember Doug endorsing a politics of austerity. Maybe he did and I missed it? The consensus I gather from this list when it come to the individuals with an understanding about climate change isn't austerity but rethinking the directions growth is taking and planning on making changes to insure growth is sustainable. As opposed to unplanned and unsustainable growth almost exclusively driven with profit taking in mind. Not as glamorous to shoot down as the austerity driven neo-Malthusian thinking climate skeptics like to push as the predominant mindset of those who believe. A belief that is pretty thinly held on this list.
John Thornton