There is more money available for ESCR with federal, state, and private sources than can currently be spent! It is Bush’s assertion of a moral principle, expressed through his policy, that embryos have intrinsic moral worth and should not be treated as harvestable crops, which is the actual cause of all the fuss.^[1]

The commissioner said she wanted to “unbundle” large companies such as Germany’s E.On, and Electricite de France - so that the businesses that generated power and supplied gas were not the same ones that controlled the network of pipelines.^[1]

I wonder how that will square with the socialist governance of France.

It must be really very comforting to be able to dismiss everyone who disagrees with you as uneducated. “Oh, he must be ignorant, or stupid, not to believe in global warming.” It is certainly far easier than actually questioning your assumptions. Today I read that the chief economist for Chrysler thinks that Europeans are being a little bit hysterical in their approach to global warming.^[1]

The article starts with a brief summery of where Mr. Jolissaint (the Chrysler employee in question) was speaking, and what he said. It concludes that summary with “Mr Jolissant’s remarks illustrate the yawning gap between mainstream opinion on climate change among the educated elites of Europe and America.”^[2] The implication here is clear: Mr. Jolissant, and the rest of the United States, is either not as smart or not as educated as those who believe in global warming.

The rest of the article, roughly half its length, is on an entirely unrelated set of topics. It is talking about the track record of economists from the General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler in economy. Apparently, if you failed to predict the extent of the rise in gas prices, or the slow down in the United States economy, you must be wrong when you say that Europeans are being hysterical. This sort of ad-hominem attack always makes a logically invalid argument, and if that is the support that Mr. Schifferes thinks best to offer as a refutation of Mr. Jolissant’s claims, we must consider that perhaps it is because Europeans are being “quasi-hysterical.”