[seul-edu] OT: all about global warming

[Ken Barber <kenb@nu-world.com>]

On Thursday 20 June 2002 11:18 am, mike eschman wrote:

> what's fringe about government efforts to mediate global warming effects ?

Well, for one thing, the assumption that global warming is actually occurring.  
Such has never been scientifically established (indeed, the best evidence 
suggests that the planet is actually cooling); there isn't even a consensus 
about it among the scientific community.

Yet, we have an effort to involve impressionable schoolchildren in "research" 
which is based on a questionable premise -- a premise which just happens to 
be a cornerstone of the political agenda of the far Left.

> there is no other local venue funded to perform real science with k-12
> particpation, so it is a good venue for our schools.

This is sad.  It is not, of course, "real science" -- it has about the same 
validity as the "creation science" being pushed by the fringe groups on the 
other end of the political spectrum.  Unfortunately, American school children 
are caught in the middle, being taught what to believe instead of how to 
think.

Ken Barber
-- 
"Today, as in the past, most philosophers agree that the ultimate standard of 
ethics is whim ... and the battle is only over the question of whose whim:  
one's own or society's or the dictator's or God's ... and that the three 
things barred from its field are:  reason -- mind -- reality.  If you ever 
wonder why the world is now collapsing to a lower and ever lower rung of 
hell, this is the reason.  If you want to save civilization, it is this 
premise of modern ethics -- and of all ethical history -- that you must 
challenge."
	-- Ayn Rand, "The Virtue of Selfishness"