We interrupt this blog to bring you a bulletin from Hollywood!

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By Babsadential decree, Barbara Streissand has declared a global warming emergency!

Of course, her facts are about as wrong as possible- which is about what one would expect of someone with absolutely no credentials in the field of meteorology, and a track record of looney Left positions about as extreme and unreasonable as even Hollywood could imagine.
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Anonymous said…
Barbara Streisand doesn't have to be anything more than the enunciator of the findings of the researchers, meteorologists, and scientists who have been warning the idiots-that-be in this country and the world, that the slowly- rising average temperature of this planet is causing some subtle but alarming changes in our eco systems.
It is your sheer ignorance and stupidity that makes you mock the bearer of this information, instead of heeding and studying the warnings. You must not turn off your powers of reason and become a "looney" right wing nut yourself, either.
9/27/2005 05:18:00 PM
Anonymous said…
I might begin by pointing out something which you folks on the Far Left seem to have a great deal of trouble getting your minds around: that ad hominem arguments are not a substitute for facts. Some day you guys will get into a debate and actually raise arguments, rather than call your opponents names. I'm not sure I'll live to see it, but I have confidence in you guys. I note with satisfaction that you stopped short of including me personally in those against whom you directed your ad hominem. Perhaps that's a good sign.

Secondly, you appear not to be aware of the relatively short period of time in which this warming has been going on- much too short to see the changes to which you refer as anything more than a normal cycle. One of the advantages of being old enough to remember the 'Sixties is that I recall the same consensus of scientists warning us that massive global cooling was leading us inexorably into a new ice age. In fact, the consensus was far more decisive than
the "global warming" consensus, such as it is, is today; just about everybody accepted it as a given that civilization was going to freeze to death.

In short, the data you cite is convincing to alarmists and those with a political agenda. Many scientists regard it as junk science.

Finally, you would have done well to have read the article, which lists the Category 5 storms which have come and gone during Streissand's lifetime. Her suggestion that they are recent phenomena related to Bush administration's policies is precisely, as I observed, as wrong as possible.

You might heed your own advice. Rather than accepting the ideologicaly driven, politically correct statements of those on the Left without challenging them, become acquainted with the other side. As your mind opens, I think you'll find yourself moving toward the Center- and developing your capacity for critical analysis of people's arguments.
9/27/2005 07:19:00 PM
Anonymous said…
I just re-read your post. You exempt me from some if your ad hominem, but not all.

Ah, well. I suppose you couldn't help yourself. If you are willing to actually listen to the people you disagree with, I still think there's hope for you.
9/27/2005 07:22:00 PM
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