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[Fairlight]

Only Bill Campbell would say something like:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010, Fairlight wrote:
> >Don't forget that of the "greenhouse gases" actually causing -any- sort
> >of warming effect, which is vastly overexaggerated as "global warming" or
> >"climate change" normally attributed to anthropogenically-caused CO2, the
> >-reality- is that 98% of it is normal, ordinary water vapour.  And of the
> >CO2, as you say, a lot of it comes from natural sources.  The one that
> >made me laugh the hardest in one book I read was the positioning of a CO2
> >monitoring station positioned just a mile or few downwind of an active
> >volcano.  Brilliant!!!  We won't even get into totally ignoring solar
> >activity or an actual multi-decade -cooling- trend...
> 
> Mark:
> 
> It's time to go back and re-read James Hogan's ``Kicking the
> Sacred Cow'', probably the most interesting and readable book on
> this subject, and several other too.

That's largely from where I pulled what I was saying, albeit from memory.
The eBook is sitting here in c:/eBooks though.  :)

I agree with your opinions on this book.  It really upset a lot of people,
but that's kind of to be expected when you question dogma.  I don't claim
James's conclusions are 100% right (although the book was well and heavily
researched), but I also don't think that any free-thinking person could
read the book and not come away at least -questioning- some things.  Key
point being that there aren't nearly enough free-thinkers left in the world
these days.  And the others left over are where the vitriol and outrage
come from when someone dares to question the official lines.  Myself, I
have no such limitations...in fact, I question everything.

> One thing I find interesting is that Hogan said in an e-mail that
> ``Kicking'' was his most successful book with the publisher, but
> that they refused to do another printing when that was sold out.

That is true.  Baen did very well with that book compared to some of the
others, but they refused to re-issue it.  We had a lot of theories as to
why, but in the end James gave up speculating and resigned himself to a
weary, "Who knows?"

Given James' recent passing, and having seen a little of what's going on
behind the scenes with some of the unpublished work that was completed
as well as some older work that it's being combined with, it would not
entirely surprise me if the book got reprinted in one way or another in the
future.  It depends what Baen still has the rights to, really, because they
still offer the eBook form of the book through webscription.net.  I don't
know who holds physical printing rights at this point, or if they're even
separated out.  I'd have to talk to one or three people to find out.  But
if it happened at all, it'd likely be Tim Gleason that led the charge to
make it happen.

mark->
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