[rollei_list] Re: OT: Light the Fuse, Carlos! Global Warmi

  • From: Peter Mattei <petermattei@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 16:12:38 -0700

Mike,  Coincident to the 60's Keynes nonsense, we were also treated to the
coming ice age predictions by scientists laureate and tenured alike.  As
well, Ancel Keys and his theory of cholesterol-heart disease causative
synergy had captured the medical world and held it hostage to this very
day. Global warming, global cooling, evil cholesterol...all are being
viewed with more wisdom today by those not economically motivated to repeat
the shrill cries of Luddites and scoundrels.  Peter

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Mike Bischof <nbg90455@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Even scientists are wrong sometimes -- in the 1960s (sounds like a long
> time ago, but that's where the bulk of our user-grade Rolleis are from :-)
> ), about 90% of economists thought that Keynesian fiscal policy was the
> ultimate (and only correct) approach to the woes of business cycles, and
> anything else was unscientific nonsense -- 90% of economists of today think
> the opposite...
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
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> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT:  Light the Fuse, Carlos!  Global Warming?
> From: Laurence Cuffe <cuffe@xxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:38:10 +0100
>
>
>
> Sent from an iPad,
>
> On 13 Jul 2012, at 20:38, Allen Zak <azak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jul 13, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Marc James Small wrote:
> >
> >> At 01:44 PM 7/13/2012, Bigler Emmanuel wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >The important point, eventually, is not that YOU understand the
> reasons;
> >> >the important point is that scientists do agree on a good scientifc
> >> >reason: global warming ;)
> >>
> >
> > According to the following poll, taken in 2009, 97% of climate
> scientists and 82% of earth scientist believe that the global warming
> phenomenon exists and is caused by human activities.
> >
> > http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf
> >
> > But what do they know?
> >
> > Allen Zak---
> > Rollei List
>
> Well, only 40% of Americans believe in evolution, so i don't think that we
> can regard scientific truth as being established by democratic process.
> Whatever the constructivists may think.
> But aren't we veering into politics and religion here with the climate
> change thing?
> All the best
> Laurence Cuffe
>
>
>
>

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