On Tue, 27 May 2008 23:59:58 +0100, "Bill Wright"
 wrote:

>
>"Robin Faichney" <robin@robinfaichney.invalid> wrote in message 
>news:dseo34dv665p8qsdp9r3pspbhdfovce8oc@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 26 May 2008 19:54:46 +0100, "Bill Wright"
>>  wrote:
>> 59 cm is unfortunately not the "worst case".
>> http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=427
>
>And doesn't that just make my point? Look at the spread of predictions. It's 
>so wide they might have well used a set of darts and a blindfold. Absolutely 
>meaningless.

The writer's main point is that the range of uncertainty is wider than
the commonly quoted one of 18-59cm. These people are interested in the
science, so for them, less certainty means more research is required.
Only somebody looking for an excuse to dismiss it all would react as
you did there.

>And that website is an absolute hoot. It's priceless and I advice everyone 
>to read it from end to end. I quote:
>
>5) Return to simple pleasures, like playing music, making love (using birth 
>control), reading and writing, drinking beer, smoking grass, bird-watching, 
>woods-walking, wood-carving, knitting, yoga, jogging, card-playing, 
>story-telling and listening, rowing, swimming, walking the dog, visiting 
>friends and old folks for no good reason.
>
>In other words, we will tell you how to spend your time. Never mind if your 
>kid's autistic and gets massive pleasure from his computer and his video 
>games, send him out into a muddy wood to hug a tree. And smoking grass?
>
>10) Avoid religions and philosophies that degrade Earth in favor of any 
>supernatural heaven or afterlife.
>
>What utter cheek! Now the greenies think they can tell us what religion to 
>follow! This is of course typical of their Stalinist mentality.

These are suggestions for people who are concerned about climate
change, on what they can do about it themselves, not instructions that
everybody is supposed to follow. And they're in the comments section,
so they don't come from the people who run the site anyway.
http://www.realclimate.org/?comments_popup=427 (comment 308, from
"stormboy")
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