[MD] CO2 catcher
ian glendinning
psybertron at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 12:46:54 PST 2007
I agree SA,
You snipped out my final para .... it takes effort (leg work, as you
say) to find the coherent patterns of value (truth) in a mass of
dialogue and narrative.
No leg work, no truth.
No leg work, no vote, maybe ?
(Only kidding)
Democracy is participatory, someone said.
Ian
On 2/13/07, Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com> wrote:
> [Ian]
> > Remember I'm an "excluded middles" kind of
> pragmatist.
>
> Yes, I understand where you come from. Science
> is political, for politics is a group of people
> recognizing a common interest, and with scientists
> this common interest is science. They do have to
> understand the data and correctly communicate their
> findings. Yet, what of strict politics which doesn't
> go into the field and see the pollution or ignores the
> pollution. Politicians without the leg work are the
> same as ivory tower scientists without the leg
> work/field work. Would not middle ground be found
> with those doing the leg work and consistently
> arriving at similar conclusions amongst a group going
> in different directions (around the earth) and coming
> back with similar findings. This is where the debate
> begins. The debate is with those that don't do the
> leg work, don't look at the data found by those that
> do the leg work, and just come up with conclusions
> based on it's all politics so ignore these scientific
> conclusions.
> Platt has provide more sources for his
> conclusions, but I've asked him what about those
> conclusions has lead to his 'ignore global warming'
> conclusion. I've also asked what lead to this
> conclusion of his. Was it his 'no leg-work' ivory
> tower view, and/or has somebody persuaded him, and/or
> has he looked at the data and come to this conclusion
> on his own?
>
> SA
>
>
>
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