[wellylug] Schools not renewing MS office licences

[Jonathan Harker]

Bruce Hoult wrote:
> On 5/29/07, Rimu Atkinson <rimu1 at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>> the media always needs to find a dissenting voice, so they can be
>> 'balanced' in their reporting.
>>
>> .... even if the dissenter is in a tiny minority, such as in the global
>> warming 'debate'.
> 
> Politicians and media are certainly pretty much all in agreement.
> Just a pity that scientists aren't.
> 
> Why, for example, did Al Gore make a big big thing of his huge chart
> showing the correlation between the earth's temperature and CO2 levels
> over a period of many hundreds of thousands of years, as determined
> largely from ice cores ... which is perfectly correct, as far as it
> went ... and then NOT mention that the temperature changes come
> *first*, by several hundred years, and *then* the CO2 change?
> 
> Because he wants you to believe that CO2 levels cause temperature
> changes, not the other way around.

1. You are wrong, 2. This is a Linux list, 3. you're still wrong.