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Originally posted by ironweed
I know scoring points on the internet means a lot to you, but just take a step back and read what you're saying. If the average temperature of the planet were increasing, but the spikes were somewhere other than 1998, everything would be ok? Is a "bad effect" the unprecedented melting of the ice caps we're seeing right now? Rising sea levels? You want to tell me all of that is not happening? Bilmore said some strange shit, but he was never this dumb.
I don't care if the hottest year was 1998, 1968 or 1928. I didn't know what they thought it was before and I didn't much care, because I can look around me and see what's happening. I'm glad you have a nice little gotcha blog to tell you everything is hunky dory.
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Watching the global warming debate evolve is like viewing a really dark comedy that isn't very funny. First it was a scare about the actual temperature rise, then it was a skeptic-as-celebrity dispute about the conventional wisdom, then for a brief time it shifted to the hypocrisy of the Hollywood do-gooders behind a lot of the global warming awareness measure and now its a front page discsussion in Newsweek about the global warming denial industry.
I gave up caring about it when Vanity Fair sent me the "Green Issue" a couple months ago. I don't know whether that's a win for the Right or Left but one thing's sure - just like the hopeless Palestine/Israel situation, I'm not reading about it anymore. I've been skipping that section of the Times since 1987. I can skip the "Green" section I'm sure the Sulzburgers are sure to add soon enough.
