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- From: jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker)
- Subject: Re: has anybody heard of this letter?
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:41:04 GMT
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- Mark Wilson (mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM) wrote:
- : In <115110001@misty.boeing.com> small@misty.boeing.com (steve small) writes:
-
- : |I read a very brief newspaper article a couple of weeks ago describing
- : |an open letter signed by about 200 prominent scientists from around the
- : |world (a number of them Nobel winners) which was soon to be sent to world
- : |political leaders. Apparently the letter predicts catastrophic consequences
- : |in a few decades at most if fundamental changes in environmental policy are
- : |not made soon.
-
- Wilson's hot-headed comment:
- : It has always amazed me how just because somebody starts putting Phd. after
- : their name, they begin to feel they are experts in all fields.
- : Unless these so called scientists have their degrees in meterology, their
- : opinions are worth no more than yours or mine.
- :
- : --
- : Mob rule doesn't become any prettier, just because the mob start to call itself
- : a government.
- : It ain't charity if you are using someone else's money.
- : Mark.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
-
- Note that the text says "environmental policy" and not greenhouse
- gas warming. A Ph.D. in groundwater hydrology might know something about
- groundwater contamination due to a lower water table. A Ph.D. in
- chemical oceanography might know something about methyl mercury contamination
- in the oceanic food chain. READ before you react.
-
- Jim Acker
- jgacker@neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov
-