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Published Letters: 175 Editor's Choice: 9
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They are already losing
[Read the article: Yeah, but did Hitler invent the Internet?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You will notice that Beck didn't actually come out and say "Global Warming Does Not Exist". Instead he attacked the messanger and painted spooky scenarios about how the problem is going to be solved- basically admitting that there IS A PROBLEM.
To repeat- he did not attack the research, he did not attack the science, he did not bring up new discoveries- he attacked the most politically volatile messenger possible.
Re: the adds. GOOD! We need to see what team red-stupid is up to, we need to force ourselves to sit through their aguments so we can refute them.
I myself will be handing several of my red-stupid co-workers their asses tomorrow on this issue, and to do so I have to watch this stupid show.
Remember, above all the truth must carry away the victory.
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Responding to an American
[Read the article: Yeah, but did Hitler invent the Internet?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry it took me so long to reply.
Global warming IS a big issue. Thus the concern, the backlash, and the ongoing misinformation campaign.
Your comments re: god of the universe and taking responsibility for planetary climate patterns makes no sense and I won't address it.
As far as global warming and its man-made causes, there is very little doubt about both. Let me say that again: THERE IS VERY LITTLE DOUBT ABOUT BOTH. Global warming is happening, and humans' increased carbon dioxide output bears the lion's share of the blame.
Unfortunatly, the data very nicely equates that rising CO2 levels are causing the current warming trends. Of all the variables, CO2 and its effect on climate is one of the most understood and most researched and most observed.
Sun-spots do have an effect. The 11-year cycle has an effect on earth's climate. That effect is not as large as what you get with the increase of CO2, and in fact the increased solar energy is in turn amplified by CO2 levels.
The lion's share of the climate change is due to increased C02 in the atmosphere, the lion's share of the C02 is coming from human activities. Its' a simple enough problem to describe, but a very hard one to solve.
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Sorry I missed all the fun!
[Read the article: God grief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was out of town for the week when this article first got posted.
However, I'm heartened to see another voice added to the chior of disbelievers. Outstanding. Keep up the confidence, guys!
Also, I must give props to the various disbelievers who've manned the trenches here in the letters section (Jhillr64 and others).
To address the review itself, Mr. Harvey is fishing too far downstream when he says "what led humans to create gods was not simply fear but a desire to harness and account for those sustaining moments when we receive our lives most abundantly."
Wrong! Humans created gods to control other humans. That different states of conciousness exist, leading us "recieve our lives most abundantly" is not in the least bit surprising. What is amazing is that every human society has lacked the courage to KEEP it's lazier members from taking those transcendental moments and yoking them to a world of fear and insecurity and using it all as a path to power.
It is a very sad failure on our part.
Further, Mr. Harvey states "Man cannot live on reason alone, and for those who are unable to find in literature the sustenance for mind and soul of which Hitchens speaks, religion will continue to give existence purpose and meaning."
Give it time, Harvey, give it time. With each book demolishing superstition written, each tirade against it spoken, more and more people are learning that, good or bad, you can pretty much pick your own "purpose and meaning" if you just have to have it.
Over and over this is what we see reflected in the letters section. "My god wouldn't-" "My spirituality-" "My beliefs-" Each of these is another chink in the armor of organized superstition- which let me assure you- tells you EXACTLY WHAT YOUR GOD IS, AND YOUR BELIEFS SHOULD BE.
Lastly, Harvey sounds almost like he feels sorry for the fundamentalists hammered by Hitchens in his book. Puh-leez. Fundamental religious belief is a huge, real, and viral threat to every society on this planet. It is one of the worthiest of foes.