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Alastair McDonald k
writes:
Philip supports the policies of Margaret Thatcher, has no
qualms about writing for that Tory rag The Daily Telegraph,
and sets up a UK weather newsgroup with the restriction that
global warming should not be discussed because it is
political.

This is a distortion. First, Philip didn't set up the group, but merely
proposed it. Second, and more importantly, there is nothing in the
group's charter saying that global warming should not be discussed. All
the charter says something to the effect that discussions should be from
a scientific rather than from an environmental activist standpoint. So
if you post an article presenting scientific evidence for global
warming, there is no problem with it at all.
--
John Hall "Do you have cornflakes in America?"
"Well, actually, they're American."
"So what brings you to Britain then if you have cornflakes already?"
Bill Bryson: "Notes from a Small Island"