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  • Thursday, January 15, 2009 02:29 PM

    Howdy, Iconoclast NOT and EnviroEngineer

    1) The current consensus is rapidly melting, way more rapidly and permanently than any ice caps.

    2) Consensus is useful determining what a group THINKS is right but not what is true.

    3) The researchers, as noted in a long-ago post on this topic, have been under pressure from people who threaten their grants, etc. If you think they aren't swayed by the prospect of losing grant money, I think you are underestimating.

    4) The researchers who have spoken out as contrarians to the "consensus" have been hassled most thoroughly by the left-wing Church of Global Warming Inquisitors.

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