Re: maybe it's not over- climategate

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

(In passing, it would help if you would avoid paragraph-length lines.)

> My friends who are solidly on the Left are [...]
> My friends who are solidly on the Right are [...]

> I don't understand the eagerness of either side to find proof that
> the world is either ending any minute or that we should be free to
> pollute without restriction.

> It's more than a little creepy from both sides.

While I haven't really studied this in detail - neither the climate
itself nor the political/psychological/sociological questions assocated
with the politicization you note - it does occur to me as plausible, at
least, that what you describe is an aspect of the noisy extremists
being the ones who get noticed - and mistaken for the entire sides.
Just thinking about the people I know, the ones who espouse positions
(either way) vigorously enough for me to be aware of them are a pretty
small minority.  While this quite possibly is a biased sample, so is
your "friends who are solidly on $SIDE".... :-)

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