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	Name:	MAJ USA RET -
	Subject:	Call Me on It!
	Date:	11/23/2009 8:34:51 PM

On this forum, I have repeatedly used the Chesapeake Bay as an example of the cyclical nature of global climate change. No one has challenged me on this. I stand ready to defend. YOU have a RIGHT to say that my hypothesis is whooee (horse hockey). Then you say, “What proof have you? Give me your data. Cite your sources. Produce your evidence.”

If I am on solid ground with my thesis, I start laying it on the line. I publish my work and give you a copy of it and the supporting data. I ask another scientist to go off, by himself and perform an independent, abbreviated “control” study (to keep me from embarrassing myself). I develop my PowerPoint presentation and invite you to listen. When I am finished presenting my case, you and your colleagues start asking questions… probing my work for holes… demanding answers for any shaky propositions. Then, you list questions that we can’t agree on. I go back and research those answers. I deliver. (This can, of course, be an iterative process… any of you who have defended a thesis KNOW what I am talking about here). Eventually… hopefully sooner than later… you either say, “Nice try, Bubba” or you validate my work.

If my thesis is either unsustainable or contrived, I dread that you will debate me. I avoid the occasion. If my real (maybe egregious) intentions are such that exposure to sunshine would result in immediate censure… and subsequent ruin, then I would persistently avoid debate.

What do we have here? Do you hear a bell ringing? Would you debate me on the Chesapeake Bay thing? Would you debate me on anthropogenic global warming?