[lbo-talk] Penn Jillette on global warming

[John Thornton]

Jordan Hayes wrote:
> John Thornton writes:
>
>> Being skeptical of Climate Change is like being skeptical that Agent 
>> Orange poses a health risk or smoking causes cancer.
>
> I'm not so sure that's true.  But certainly when you frame it that 
> way, you're ending a conversation rather than furthering one.

More accurately.
The science of Climate Change is today roughly where the science of 
cigarette smoke was in 1984 when the Surgeon Generals warning label was 
mandated stating "Smoking Causes Lung
Cancer, Heart Diseaz, And Emphysema."
If we acknowledge that the evidence was sufficient then to justify that 
warning we should acknowledge that comparable evidence today justifies a 
similar unqualified warning.
That is a bit different than what I initially wrote. I was being lazy.

John Thornton