| Rath said: @Happy. Or perhaps he is one of those rare politicians who follows the idea of what he believes is best for the people rather than what the people want.
Edit: I think its sad to lose such scientific opportunities as this but I believe other nations will reach the moon soon anyway. |
On the first point, a lot of people said Bush was the same way about the war on terror, but I doubt that you saw his stance on that as being principled (and I wouldn't blame you if you didn't). The argument can be easily made about any president or politician who goes against the grain and it that explanation is one of several possible reasons for them to do it - and not all of those reasons I would consider valid. In short - its pure speculation as to his reasons, so while I won't attribute malice to the decision, I'm also not going to assume it is a principled choice.
As for the public opinion not making it any less real, I agree. With that said however the several scandals that have hit the IPCC in just the last 2 weeks certainly do destroy much of its credability and in fact substantiates a lot of the points I raised to you months ago about the IPCC and their piss-poor adherence to their own standards.
I won't go into the specifics here since it isn't the topic, but suffice it to say at this point it would be more accurate to say AGW is hanging by a thread than it is to say there is any sort of scientific consensus on it.
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