On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Whata Fool wrote:

> Steve Wallis   wrote:
>
>> I've also posted the following comment to
>> http://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming.htm
>> (on "Solar activity & climate: is the sun causing global warming?"):
>>
>>
>> I forgot to mention in the above comment that the whole argument that
>> the sun is not to blame is based on data/graphs that may be
>> fabricated.
>>
>> There are massive vested interests, on both sides of the global
>> warming debate, so fabrication of data is to be expected.
>>
>> Bearing in mind that one set of data for cooling during the post-war
>> boom (despite higher production of carbon dioxide than earlier in the
>> 20th century when temperatures were rising) is incorrect and clearly
>> fabricated, the same may be true of recent solar radiance data.
>
>
>      Get serious, I didn't realize leftists could be politically
> paranoid about conspiracy theories.
>
>
>      I can accept there might be some, even unconscious, manipulation
> of conclusions and presentation of fact due to personal opinions and
> political or commercial agendas, but data is recorded fact, and only
> an idiot would attempt to publish false data.
>

There is a whole spectrum among ostensible leftists. If you believe, 
as some alleged leftists do, that 9/11 was a conspiracy, then what the 
hey?

Fortunately, these are minority voices.

-jh-