Posted by
Mick O. on Monday, July 16, 2007 3:56:22 PM
I keep hearing about this consensus of scientists about man made global warming. Does this make it so?
In the old world, there was a consensus that the world was flat. And for thousands of years people were persecuted and even killed if they said anything different.
When the new world was created and the United States was formed, there was a consensus that slavery was acceptable. Of course, years later we are still paying for that mistake. (John Adams and many other founders thought that slavery was wrong and should be abolished, but felt they would not get all the new states to agree on forming the union if it were included at that time. Therefore, it was put off until that issue could be tackled at a later time.)
So just because there is a consensus on anything, does that make it right? Not in my book!
Mick O.