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As a comment I once heard said... "Religion is merely early mankind's attempts to communicate with the weather.".


And now we've got anthropogenic global warming.

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SafeSpeed wrote:
pogo wrote:
As a comment I once heard said... "Religion is merely early mankind's attempts to communicate with the weather.".


And now we've got anthropogenic global warming.

... which, if you look at the terminology used by its proponents has become far more of a religion than a science... "Deniers" are attacked ad-hominem as if they'd committed heresy rather than any attempt being made to debate the science rationally.

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pogo wrote:
As a comment I once heard said... "Religion is merely early mankind's attempts to communicate with the weather.".


And now we've got anthropogenic global warming.

... which, if you look at the terminology used by its proponents has become far more of a religion than a science... "Deniers" are attacked ad-hominem as if they'd committed heresy rather than any attempt being made to debate the science rationally.


My point exactly.

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Yes. A qote from Milliband the environment minister. "fortunately there is no debate now about the fact of man-made global warming" - my heart sank.
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Yes. A qote from Milliband the environment minister. "fortunately there is no debate now about the fact of man-made global warming" - my heart sank.


"Fortunately there is no debate now" - six words which sum up this Government's attitude.

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