Low Risk Asbestos
Is it a coincidence that global warming “skeptics” make a lot of scientifically questionable claims?
Roy Spencer is a huge proponent of Intelligent Design (he also claimed the lower atmosphere was cooling until his analysis was proven wrong). Roy Lindzen doesn’t think secondhand smoke causes lung cancer. Neither does Fred Singer, or that CFCs caused the hole in the ozone layer.
An article written by columnist Christopher Booker has recently been cited by “skeptics”. Booker has previously argued that asbestos is “chemically identical to talcum powder” and “poses no measurable risk to health”.
Why is it that these sources of global warming “skepticism” so frequently make such scientifically questionable (or more often, just flat-out wrong) claims?
correction – I meant *Richard* Lindzen.
Does accuracy and evidence matter to someone whose mind is already made up that in no way will they admit that a warming planet is a fact of life? A sceptic does not care about evidence any more than does a young earth creationist and quite often they are the same people. Before accepting reality they are ready to accept the absurd and there is obviously money selling the absurd. One just needs to see the saddle on the dinosaur at the Creationism Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky to see the absurd in action. Fred Singer who you mentioned is a prime example, he is ready to rent his PhD to sell any message for cash, facts be damned. Ethics are of no concern to people like this, but money sure is. We know about the money from oil companies, but there is also money for writing articles that sell papers and there is money in speaking tours. All you need is a message that the sceptic on the street is willing to pay to listen to.
If they wanted facts, the Farmer’s Almanac (old or otherwise)would have been out of business 150 years ago.
Albany Mesothelioma Lawyer Martin Harding amp Mazzotti
May 11th, 2010 at 3:11 am
Waking up SOOOO early tomoro, like 6. Argh. Well atleast I'm not gonna be at school breathing in asbestos lol.
May 17th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
http://www.industrialdiseaseexperts.co.uk/site/home/?ref=google&gclid=CLit2dy374wCFQ3nlAod3EcG9Q