In article >,
Landon > wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:51:55 +0000 (UTC),
>(Steve Pope) wrote:
>
>>In this case, it's likely that the U.S. is producing its proportionate
>>fraction of worldwide pollution. If you want to believe it is
>>different from this, you will have to tell me why.
>>
>>Steve
>
>No, that's not true. A Scientist would say; "It's possible that the US
>is producing its proportionate fraction of worldwide pollution. Now
>lets investigate the actual data and see if this is actually true."
Fine
>You haven't shown any data that supports your claim.
Yes I have; you are merely discounting that data, without presenting
any conflicting data.
>I won't change my position on this.
In other words, denial.
>I've offered to review any data
>you submit that supports your guesses, but you keep dancing around the
>fact that you have no data, only guesses.
At this point, you are simply being disingenous. If you don't believe
the study I referenced, fine, but don't claim it doesn't say what
it ways. That's silly. If you have a different conclusion as to
the body count than I do, please tell us numerically what it is.
This is not a trivial matter either; as a matter of public policy
we need to know how much damage our pursuits are causing. You
are saying "you must ignore the damage until I see more numbers". That
is the sort of thinking that leads to uncontrolled environmental
damage and relentless morbidity/mortality from the wanton behavior
of polluting industries.
Steve