Re: [asa] agw: Skeptics vs Believers

Schwarzwald wrote:
> Murray,
>
> Come on. We're going to let the discussion reduce to this?
>
> It couldn't be your point. You told me you "know of no other instance in
> which this line of argument is used with any seriousness." Banal is
> commonplace, unsurprising, typical. In other words, I'm saying there's
> quite a lot of instances where this line of argument is seriously
> advanced. Are you going to ask me to give me examples where "Are we sure
> this course of action will work, and even if it can work in some way,
> will it do so in the time frame needed?" is seriously asked? I'm willing
> to meet the request. After all, I have no problem explaining things that
> are ban... er. "Commonplace."
>
> ;)

No, you don't need to give examples - clearly I misunderstood the point of your remark.

I took you to be arguing simply that "we can't stop the effects of GW, so let's not do anything".

Clearly I failed to read your post carefully enough and I apologize for the misunderstanding.

Blessings,
Murray

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Received on Sun Dec 6 20:43:04 2009