"Ronnie" wrote:

"The Web site JunkScience.com has raised its "prize" offering from
$100,000 to $125,000 for anyone who can actually supply proof that
human emissions of greenhouse gases are causing global warming.

The Nobel committee has apparently decided that Al Gore has already
done so.

In presenting its Ultimate Global Warming Challenge, the Web site
states: "If you think it's a no-brainer that humans are causing
catastrophic global warming, here's your opportunity to earn an
easy $125,000."

The challenge: "$125,000 will be awarded to the first person to
prove, in a scientific manner, that humans are causing harmful
global warming."

If you really beleive in Gore's stuff, go for it. Get a bunch of
money easily. All you gotta do is prove your claims. No one has,
so far.

I guess it depends on what you consider a standard for proof. In the
scientific community, it's not 100%. There is always the
understanding that scientific certainty about future events such as
catastrophic climate change is simply not attainable until after the
fact. The problem is that if Gore is right there might not be a
scientific community after the fact.

I'll leave it to more smarter, knowledgeable folks to say whether
Gore is right. I read his book and I've read a few others on the
subject. I've also had conversations with a friend who is a
scientist with the NAS. From what I've been able to learn so far, it
seems to me that we're on the path to disaster. Then again, I could
be wrong.

I'm old enough that it probably won't be in my lifetime so I may
never know for sure. But I have children and one of these days I'll
have grandchildren. I sure hope we leave them a habitable planet.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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