Addendum: and the debunking was great fodder for the newspapers.

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:09:52 -0700, Spike > wrote:

>Actually, through the past decades, there have been a number of
>studies, not just in Canada, where in the funding was provided only to
>those who published in support of the entity providing the funding.
>Not surprisingly, quite a number of papers were published in support,
>and later debunked. One of those, IIRC, about 25 years ago had to do
>with nuclear winter and pollution.
>
>On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:47:00 -0400, RichA > wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 01:19:30 -0400, pawn > wrote:
>>
>>>rw wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> You're wrong that, Spike. Peer-reviewed scientific opinion is unanimous
>>>> that man-made green-house-gas pollution is affecting the climate. It's
>>>> completely consistent with common sense if you look at the trend for CO2
>>>> in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution:
>>>
>>>Junk plain and simple. You're simply spewing the same crap the sprout
>>>eaters have been blabbing to the media for years. There was never any
>>>pier review involved in the so-called consensus, which was never
>>>unanimous, ever, even in the wildest dreams of the most sprout eating
>>>sprout eater.
>>>
>>
>>Two years ago, the Canadian government set up a $70m fund for
>>scientific research into global warming. One of the stiputations of
>>it was that you'd only get the money if you were trying to prove it's
>>existence, if you held an alternate view, you wouldn't get any money.
>>So much for scientific integrity.
>>-Rich
>>
>
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Spike
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"When the time comes to lay down my life for my country,
I do not cower from this responsibility. I welcome it."
-JFK Inaugural Speech