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Raveninghorde  
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From: Raveninghorde <raveninghorde@invalid>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:00:41 +0000
Local: Wed, Nov 4 2009 12:00 am
Subject: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.

It's offical. AGW is protected as a religious belief.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8339652.stm

"His solicitor, Shah Qureshi, said: "Essentially what the judgment
says is that a belief in man-made climate change and the alleged
resulting moral imperative is capable of being a philosophical belief
and is therefore protected by the 2003 religion or belief
regulations."


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From: Bill Sloman <bill.slo...@ieee.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:39:24 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.
On Nov 3, 2:00 pm, Raveninghorde <raveninghorde@invalid> wrote:

> It's offical. AGW is protected as a religious belief.

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8339652.stm

> "His solicitor, Shah Qureshi, said: "Essentially what the judgment
> says is that a belief in man-made climate change and the alleged
> resulting moral imperative is capable of being a philosophical belief
> and is therefore protected by the 2003 religion or belief
> regulations."

Once again, Ravinghorde doesn't understand the evidence he is
presenting. AGW is being protected as a philosophical belief, rather
than as a religion.

Since the philosophy underpinning the idea is modern physical science,
what the law has done is to recognise that  the protection available
to people's religious delusions also protects people who have widely-
shared  realistic evidence-based beliefs.

This is necessary, because people who are too dumb - like Ravinghorde
- or too ignorant - like the management at Grainger plc - can be
remarkably confident about their irrational delusions.

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Raveninghorde  
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From: Raveninghorde <raveninghorde@invalid>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:30:24 +0000
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:39:24 -0800 (PST), Bill Sloman

If he was dismissed because of his knowledge he would not have had to
resort to these regulations.

The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003

from:

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2003/20031660.htm

"In these Regulations, "religion or belief" means any religion,
religious belief, or similar philosophical belief."

Which makes it clear that philisphical is equivelent to religious in
the context of these regulations.


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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:22:07 +0000
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.

Raveninghorde wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:39:24 -0800 (PST), Bill Sloman
> <bill.slo...@ieee.org> wrote:

<usual predictable anthropological diatribe snipped>

He was on C4 news this evening with some minister of the church as a
comparison and he's obviously got a bee up his whatsit.

I guess it's an original angle to try to get back at an employer who
most likely fired him because of his one man crusade...

Regards,

Chris


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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:33:24 +0000
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.

Yes, I read it that way as well !

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Bill Sloman  
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From: Bill Sloman <bill.slo...@ieee.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:32:05 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.
On Nov 3, 10:22 pm, ChrisQ <m...@devnull.com> wrote:

> Raveninghorde wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:39:24 -0800 (PST),Bill Sloman
> > <bill.slo...@ieee.org> wrote:

> <usual predictable anthropological diatribe snipped>

Anthropological diatribe?

Pointing out that Ravinghorde can't do joined up logic isn't really
anthropology, and who needs a diatribe when you can point out that the
conclusion being drawn isn't supported by the evidence adduced.

But ChrisQ not only reads the Daily Telegraph, but also takes
Christopher Monckton seriously, so he isn't all that sensitive to
logic that doesn't add up.

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Bill Sloman  
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From: Bill Sloman <bill.slo...@ieee.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:32:21 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.
On Nov 3, 6:30 pm, Raveninghorde <raveninghorde@invalid> wrote:

Why do you think that? What alternative plan of action might he have
followed?

> The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003

> from:

> http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2003/20031660.htm

> "In these Regulations, "religion or belief" means any religion,
> religious belief, or similar philosophical belief."

> Which makes it clear that philosophical is equivelent to religious in
> the context of these regulations.

True, but that doesn't make anthropogenic global warming a religion.

You really do need to learn how to construct logical arguments.

The man sued on the basis that even if his scientifically soundly
based  belief in anthropogenic global warming had - in fact - been
some kind of irrational conviction (like your denialism), his
employers weren't allowed to fire him for it.

That he won his case doesn't have any bearing on the nature of his
belief, and doesn't constitue any kind of legal endorsement of the dim-
witted view - that you share with Rich Grise - that anthropogenic
global warming is some kind of religious dogma. Granting your
repeatedly demonstrated incapacity to draw logical conclusions from
straightforward evidence, it is easy enough to see why you can't
follow the scientific case for anthropogenic global warming, but there
are quite a few people around who can do better.

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Raveninghorde  
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From: Raveninghorde <raveninghorde@invalid>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:39:18 +0000
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.

I notice our pet alarmist has crawled out from under his rock.

Not only is he a self proclaimed expert in AGW but now as a unemployed
whatever living in the Netherlands he reckons he knows more about
English employment law than an English employer. If it wasn't so sad
it would be funny.


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From: Bill Sloman <bill.slo...@ieee.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:44:20 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.
On Nov 4, 12:39 am, Raveninghorde <raveninghorde@invalid> wrote:

Ravinghorde is priceless. He thinks that because the legislation  that
protects someone's right to believe in anthropogenic global warming
would also cover their right to hold a religious belief, it follows
that anthropogenic global warming is thus a religious belief.

Having made a fool of himself by drawing this fatuous conclusion, he
now wants to claim that his bogus expertise in English employment law
gives him some unique right to his illogical conclusion.

I've spent enough time working in the UK to know quite enough about UK
employment law to be aware that Ravinghorde is clutching at a broken
straw. The man would have to be terminally stupid to think that he
could get away with this pathetic excuse for an argument, so I guess
that he has to be suffering from some kind of strange distortion of
his reasoning process.

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From: "Phil Allison" <phi...@tpg.com.au>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:14:32 +1100
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.

"Bill Slowman"

> Ravinghorde is priceless.

** Unlike BS who is way over the top on his own value.

> He thinks that because the legislation that
> protects someone's right to believe in anthropogenic global warming

** The UK legislation was designed to protect folk of various religious
faiths & philosophical positions from being unfairly dismissed by their
employers solely or mainly on grounds of them holding those beliefs.

Makes it an offence for employers of one faith or philosophy to give the
boot to someone of another cos they cannot abide them or prefer to have a
one faith work place.

OTOH, an obvious conflict of belief with one's job would not be so
protected -   ie, a devout fatalist would not make an effective safety
officer nor an anarchist a good magistrate.

> would also cover their right to hold a religious belief, it follows
> that anthropogenic global warming is thus a religious belief.

** It has put belief in AGW into the same category as other protected
beliefs  -  makes following the dictums of  AGW look like it is the same as
following Scientology.

Problem with the case in question was that the guy tried to force his rabid
AGW beliefs onto his employer, causing
constant conflict with management and making him an ineffective and
disruptive employee.

So they had every right to sack him.

> I've spent enough time working in the UK to know quite enough about UK
> employment law to be aware that Ravinghorde is clutching at a broken
> straw.

 ** While BS is clutching at sinking ones.

....  Phil


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From: John Devereux <j...@devereux.me.uk>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:27:59 +0000
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.

Raveninghorde <raveninghorde@invalid> writes:
> It's offical. AGW is protected as a religious belief.

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8339652.stm

> "His solicitor, Shah Qureshi, said: "Essentially what the judgment
> says is that a belief in man-made climate change and the alleged
> resulting moral imperative is capable of being a philosophical belief
> and is therefore protected by the 2003 religion or belief
> regulations."

Of course this says nothing about whether AGW is actually *real*. But it
is difficult to see it as anything but an own goal for AGW proponents
(with whom, on balance, I would include myself). I bet they are cursing
this guy right now.

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Bill Sloman  
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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:47:25 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.
On Nov 4, 7:14 am, "Phil Allison" <phi...@tpg.com.au> wrote:

This is Ravinghorde's fallacy. The legislation protects all kinds of
opinions - "any religion, religious belief, or philosophical belief" -
and while people who believe in anthropogenic global warming can claim
the same protection as people who follow Scientology, it doesn't
follow that every belief protected by the legisatlion is as silly as
Scientology, or as irrational as many of the religions.

> Problem with the case in question was that the guy tried to force his rabid
> AGW beliefs onto his employer, causing
> constant conflict with management and making him an ineffective and
> disruptive employee.

You may be right. Since Tim Nicholson was allowed to take them to
court for wrongful dismissal, it doesn't look as if his employers made
this obvious when they made him redundant.

> So they had every right to sack him.

Only if he was an ineffective and disruptive employee - and they
should have made that explicit when they made him redundant. If they
had, he wouldn't have been able to take them to the Employment Appeal
Tribunal.

<snip>

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From: "Phil Allison" <phi...@tpg.com.au>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:22:45 +1100
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.

"Bill Slowman"
 "Phil Allison"

This is Ravinghorde's fallacy. The legislation protects all kinds of
opinions - "any religion, religious belief, or philosophical belief" -
and while people who believe in anthropogenic global warming can claim
the same protection as people who follow Scientology, it doesn't
follow that every belief protected by the legislation is as silly as
Scientology, or as irrational as many of the religions.

** It puts it in the exact same category.

    In the minds of the public.

> Problem with the case in question was that the guy tried to force his
> rabid
> AGW beliefs onto his employer, causing
> constant conflict with management and making him an ineffective and
> disruptive employee.

You may be right. Since Tim Nicholson was allowed to take them to
court for wrongful dismissal, it doesn't look as if his employers made
this obvious when they made him redundant.

**  Totally unsupported assertion.

> So they had every right to sack him.

Only if he was an ineffective and disruptive employee - and they
should have made that explicit when they made him redundant. If they
had, he wouldn't have been able to take them to the Employment Appeal
Tribunal.

** Bollocks.

No matter what kind of reason were to be proffered for a person's
smissal   -   that person is still able to dispute the assertion in a court
or tribunal and say that another and illegal motive was the actual one.

Happens every single day.

Happening in this case too.

.....  Phil


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From: "Phil Allison" <phi...@tpg.com.au>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:30:17 +1100
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.

"John Devereux"

> Of course this says nothing about whether AGW is actually *real*. But it
> is difficult to see it as anything but an own goal for AGW proponents
> (with whom, on balance, I would include myself). I bet they are cursing
> this guy right now.

** Absoblominglutely !!!

Taken to its logical conclusion, such a judgement raises the spectre of
making current, international government plans to FINANCE  the goals and
ideals spouted by AGW theorists  ILLEGAL  !!!

Cos in all secular democracies  -  taxpayer fund cannot be allocated to
directly support a religion or philosophy.

Think about it......

....  Phil


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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:44:21 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.
On Nov 4, 11:22 am, "Phil Allison" <phi...@tpg.com.au> wrote:

The catagory of "things that people believe in", which is all-
inclusive

>     In the minds of the public.

In the minds of the dim and undiscriminating public, who can read the
"Sun" and other Murdoch papers without noticing that they are being
treated as a bunch of gullible suckers.

You'd like to think so, but to make that claim you'd need more
evidence than Ravinghorde adduced. Your masculine intuition doesn't
cut the mustard.

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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:52:37 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.
On Nov 4, 11:30 am, "Phil Allison" <phi...@tpg.com.au> wrote:

And the Australian governments investment in vacines and anti-viral
medications to protect the populaton against the Mexican flu is
equally illegal? It is - after all - motivated by a philosophy that
says that we can predict and manipulate the future on the basis of
current scientific observations and theories.

There don't seem to be any flu denialists around at the moment, but
AIDS denialists managed to recruit enough of the South African
government a few years ago to save that government from spending money
on effective treatments for AIDS.

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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:22:54 +0000
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.

I don't think it applies to *all* kinds of opinions:

"In these Regulations, 'religion or belief' means any religion,
religious belief, or similar philosophical belief."

<http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2003/20031660.htm#2>

So indeed by definition the only way it can be applied to AGW is to
assert that belief in AGW is a "religion, religious belief, or similar
philosophical belief".

I don't agree that it is at all similar to a religious belief, but that
is what the guy himself seems to be trying to claim. He is doing massive
damage to his own cause.

These sort of laws are stupid anyway.

[...]

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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:16:37 -0800
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:27:59 +0000, John Devereux

Just finished reading the book "Superfreakonomics" and it has a great
section on AGW.  It includes a way to fix it!  Seems some geniuses up
in Seattle got together, and looked at the Mount Pinatabo (sp?) data,
and figured out how to duplicate the effects for $60M!  You need to
inject a small, steady stream of SO2 into the statosphere, and you can
reverse any and all of man-made global warming.  They worked out where
and how to do it.  However the warmingists are having a major hissy
fit about it, because it is too cheap, simple and easy, and doesn't
give them any leverage on controlling people!  Plus, it means that we
are geo-engineering the planet, which is a sacriledge!

He also says the same guys have a way to reduce hurricanes cheaply,
with the same folks having the same objections.  You float a big ring,
say of old tires, with a plastic collar that goes down about 600 feet.
When a wave washes over the top of the ring, it forces warm water down
the collar below the thermocline, where it mixes with the cooler water
down there.  Remove heat energy from the surface, and you reduce the
energy available to create hurricanes!

Charlie


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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:28:09 -0700
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:16:37 -0800, Charlie E. <edmond...@ieee.org>
wrote:

Now, Charlie!  You must be careful.  The black helicopters will be
visiting you ;-)

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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:10:25 +0000
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.

Jim Thompson wrote:

> Now, Charlie!  You must be careful.  The black helicopters will be
> visiting you ;-)

>                                         ...Jim Thompson

Harrumph !!. Far too out of the box thinking. Must put a stop to it
immediately :-)...

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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:42:13 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.
On Nov 4, 1:16 pm, Charlie E. <edmond...@ieee.org> wrote:

You might find this interesting:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/11/01/the_freak...

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Richard the Dreaded Libertarian  
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From: Richard the Dreaded Libertarian <freedom_...@example.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:12:54 -0800
Local: Thurs, Nov 5 2009 9:12 am
Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:16:37 -0800, Charlie E. wrote:
> it.  However the warmingists are having a major hissy fit about it,
> because it is too cheap, simple and easy, and doesn't give them any
> leverage on controlling people!  Plus, it means that we are
> geo-engineering the planet, which is a sacriledge!

Well, what do the warmingists intend, if not "geo-engineering the planet?"

Thanks,
Rich


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Charlie E.  
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From: Charlie E. <edmond...@ieee.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:41:48 -0800
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Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:42:13 -0800 (PST), Silvar Beitel

Yes, but not unexpected.  The sacred ox has been gored, and the
priests must respond immediately!  In other words, we don't like your
attitude and approach, so you must be wrong!

All this article does for me, is realize how right the book is!

Charlie


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From: Charlie E. <edmond...@ieee.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:43:20 -0800
Local: Thurs, Nov 5 2009 9:43 am
Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:12:54 -0800, Richard the Dreaded Libertarian

<freedom_...@example.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:16:37 -0800, Charlie E. wrote:

>> it.  However the warmingists are having a major hissy fit about it,
>> because it is too cheap, simple and easy, and doesn't give them any
>> leverage on controlling people!  Plus, it means that we are
>> geo-engineering the planet, which is a sacriledge!

>Well, what do the warmingists intend, if not "geo-engineering the planet?"

>Thanks,
>Rich

But, they want to do it in such a way as to PUNISH all those evil
people (preferably by killing most of them, and enslaving the rest...)
and put themselves in control over them.

The very idea of actual geo-engineering scares them silly!  It has
NUMBERS attached to it!  ;-)

Charlie


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From: Silvar Beitel <silverbee...@net1plus.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:08:50 -0800 (PST)
Local: Thurs, Nov 5 2009 10:08 am
Subject: Re: AGW is protected as a religious belief in UK.
On Nov 4, 2:42 pm, Silvar Beitel <silverbee...@net1plus.com> wrote:

I apologize to those of you in this newsgroup who are interested in
electronics design (and who perhaps foolishly think this newsgroup is
for the purpose of discussing electronics design) for posting off-
topic.  Won't happen again.

--
Silvar Beitel


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