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Kickaha
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2006-07-08, 06:55

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Originally Posted by Dorian Gray
By the way, people who argue against the Kyoto Protocol remind me of people who refuse to give money to homeless people on the street by saying "they have places to go, so I'm not going to help them continue their homeless existence", while of course giving sweet FA to the charities who are supposed to deal with homelessness. The truth is exposed: arguing against Kyoto is an excuse to do nothing at all, just as the homeless reasoning is an excuse to give nothing at all.
The problem is, by using shoddy science, they opened themselves up to the argument by those who were looking for an excuse. If they had chosen either of the models, or simply said "We don't know which one of these is more likely, but jesus, *look* at them, either one sucks!" that would have been honest. Instead, they moved out of the realm of science and into fear-tactic politics, and ended up shooting themselves (and everyone else) in the foot by providing the opponents with a wedge. Idiots. The science they finally presented as the rationale *was* crap, even if the climatological research otherwise is pretty solid. They got to within sight of the goal, then flubbed it.
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