Paging Mr. Gore......

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i put that as a point of comparison due to the vast amount of people who want to teach creationism/intelligen design in science class as a rebuttal to the theory of evolution. try telling them it doesn't fit! but that's a whole different subject.

back to global warming tho. some scientists think it's true, others do not. both have credentials. so how to move forward?
having grown up during a time when the next ice age was rapidly approaching, i guess i'll take the warnings of the exact opposite suddenly occuring with a grain of salt.

I understand your first point- I just disagree with it as a comparison, because creationism/intelligent design/whatever people want to dress it in, is still a religious belief, and whatever else one says about the global warming debate, I haven't seen any religious arguments form the basis for either side.
This one, I think, is affected by business and political arguments, and in the end, the anti-global warming side is likely to win, because all they have to do is create enough doubt to stall any sort of action on the issue- it takes a major catastrophe to get real action on anything (and sometimes that's not even enough- Katrina) and right now we're not at catastrophe stage. So, I suspect we're going to find out whether they're right.