On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:50:44 -0700, RHF
wrote:

On Oct 23, 10:18 pm, Ross Archer wrote:
On Oct 21, 1:53 am, RHF wrote:
- You can choose to ignore what science says,
- but you cannot claim that scientific opinion
- says something other than what it does.
- Humans are causing the majority of recent warming.
- That is the state of current best scientific knowledge.
- This is not opinion. It is documented fact.

RA - DUH ! - Scientific 'Opinion(s)' is NOT
Indisputable Incontrivertable Scientific Fact [.]

Documenting a Group of Like 'Opinions'
Does Not Make These 'Opinions' Facts.

and thems is the facts ~ rhf
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- Scientific opinion = what the available facts and evidence indicates
- after the application of REASON.

RA - Alas It Is Still 'Opinion' -and- Not A Hard Fact [.]

- What, in the absence of absolute proof,
- would you use to establish what's true?

RA - Actual Hard Facts -and- The Truth
-not- a Collection of 'Opinions'

- Reading tea leaves?
- Using divining rods?
- Praying to the Pink Sky Unicorn?

RA - There You Go Off-the-Deep-End
-Point-of-Fact- I never suggested any of those.

- Sorry, but when the majority of scientists make a statement based
- on evidence and reason, it's by far the most likely to be true.

RA - Selective Evidence and Skewed Reasoning
Does Not Make Foregone Conclusions True.

- Scientific "opinion" is the closest to fact.
- I don't know what you're using, but it's inferior.

RA - 'Close To' a "Fact" still is NOT A FACT [.]

That's Common Sense -and- The Answer To The Fear Mongering
of Global Warming is the Understanding that Climate Change does
Exist and that We 'may-be' Loooking at a Period of Climate Change
in the Future of Mankind upon this Planet that We Call The Earth.

- -- ross-

RA - You Are Simply Entitled To Your 'Opinion'
-and- That's A Fact ~ RHF
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Wouldn't it be prudent to prepare for the worst just in case? What
harm would it do?