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Crichton on global warming skepticism
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Crichton on global warming skepticism
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:29:31 -0500, Frank wrote:
http://www.crichton-official.com/spe...talfuture.html he is uneducated on the subject. |
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Crichton on global warming skepticism
AZ Nomad wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:29:31 -0500, Frank wrote: http://www.crichton-official.com/spe...talfuture.html he is uneducated on the subject. His version of climate change is like the Dan Brown (Da Vinci Code) version of Christian church history and for the same reasons, it sells books, gets you interviewed, invited to be guest speaker etc etc. David |
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Crichton on global warming skepticism
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:57:41 +1100, David Hare-Scott wrote:
AZ Nomad wrote: On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:29:31 -0500, Frank wrote: http://www.crichton-official.com/spe...talfuture.html he is uneducated on the subject. His version of climate change is like the Dan Brown (Da Vinci Code) version of Christian church history and for the same reasons, it sells books, gets you interviewed, invited to be guest speaker etc etc. He should publish a research paper. Should be a good laugh. |
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equal time to you guy's God
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equal time to you guy's God
Frank wrote:
http://atroshenko.com/NSAlBuddha.html You don't get it. It is not your God or your authority figure that matters - it is the evidence. David |
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Crichton on global warming skepticism
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Frank wrote: http://www.crichton-official.com/spe...talfuture.html Good for you, Frank, a real citation. If you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy then, maybe, we can have a conversation. Does not knowing the values of the variable in the equation N=N*fp ne fl fi fc fL change its' veracity? If species that we know are going extinct, why wouldn't species of which we are unaware, not going extinct? Whether you numb your brain on my cite or not, we still are left with the choices of (1) acting against greenhouse gas emissions (and look silly if "global warming' isn't happening), or (2) not acting against greenhouse gas emissions (causing unprecedented death and destruction around the world). Tell me, Frank, which bet would you prefer to lose? -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/...ting_activists http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/19/headlines |
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Climate Change bleevers
On 1/23/2010 3:14 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Frank wrote: http://atroshenko.com/NSAlBuddha.html You don't get it. It is not your God or your authority figure that matters - it is the evidence. David The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been caught with its pants down again, this time with bogus claims about the Himalayan glaciers. R. K. Pachauri has admitted the claims were false, but somehow this "only strengthened the credibility" of the IPCC. Best regards, Bob |
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equal time to you guy's God
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Frank wrote: http://atroshenko.com/NSAlBuddha.html So much for an honest intellectual discussion. Why let facts get in the way, eh, Frank, when you can use ad hominem attacks? Visiting one's wrath upon the messenger is soooo traditional, Frank. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2/15/AR2008021 502901.html?hpid%3Dopinionsbox1&sub=AR washingtonpost.com Opinions Outlook The Dumbing Of America Call Me a Snob, but Really, We're a Nation of Dunces By Susan Jacoby Sunday, February 17, 2008; Page B01 "The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today's very different United States. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble -- in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations. . . . the third and final factor behind the new American dumbness: not lack of knowledge per se but arrogance about that lack of knowledge. The problem is not just the things we do not know (consider the one in five American adults who, according to the National Science Foundation, thinks the sun revolves around the Earth); it's the alarming number of Americans who have smugly concluded that they do not need to know such things in the first place. Call this anti-rationalism -- a syndrome that is particularly dangerous to our public institutions and discourse. Not knowing a foreign language or the location of an important country is a manifestation of ignorance; denying that such knowledge matters is pure anti-rationalism. The toxic brew of anti-rationalism and ignorance hurts discussions of U.S. public policy on topics from health care to taxation. There is no quick cure for this epidemic of arrogant anti-rationalism and anti-intellectualism; rote efforts to raise standardized test scores by stuffing students with specific answers to specific questions on specific tests will not do the job. Moreover, the people who exemplify the problem are usually oblivious to it. ("Hardly anyone believes himself to be against thought and culture," Hofstadter noted.) It is past time for a serious national discussion about whether, as a nation, we truly value intellect and rationality. If this indeed turns out to be a "change election," THE LOW LEVEL OF DISCOURSE IN A COUNTRY WITH A MIND TAUGHT TO AIM AT LOW OBJECTS OUGHT TO BE THE FIRST ITEM ON THE CHANGE AGENDA (capitals mine). -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/...ting_activists http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/19/headlines |
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Climate Change bleevers
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:01:07 -0600, zxcvbob wrote:
On 1/23/2010 3:14 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote: Frank wrote: http://atroshenko.com/NSAlBuddha.html You don't get it. It is not your God or your authority figure that matters - it is the evidence. David The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been caught with its pants down again, this time with bogus claims about the Himalayan glaciers. R. K. Pachauri has admitted the claims were false, but somehow this "only strengthened the credibility" of the IPCC. You can find bullshit in any science. However, it is irrelevent as it'll be discredited. This is really basic stuff. |
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Climate Change bleevers
In article ,
zxcvbob wrote: On 1/23/2010 3:14 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote: Frank wrote: http://atroshenko.com/NSAlBuddha.html You don't get it. It is not your God or your authority figure that matters - it is the evidence. David The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been caught with its pants down again, this time with bogus claims about the Himalayan glaciers. R. K. Pachauri has admitted the claims were false, but somehow this "only strengthened the credibility" of the IPCC. Best regards, Bob http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/sc...Envirobrf.html Regret on Himalayan Glaciers Estimate By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Published: January 20, 2010 An international scientific panel overseen by the United Nations expressed "regret" on Wednesday for publishing an unsupported estimate of the speed at which Himalayan glaciers were melting. The estimate, included in a landmark 2007 report by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said that the glaciers in the Himalayas could disappear by 2035. The figure was culled from a dated magazine interview with an Indian glacier scientist who now denies that he used that number. Although there is abundant evidence that glaciers are retreating, scientists differ on the speed of that trend and which glaciers will be affected. -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/...ting_activists http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/19/headlines |
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Climate Change bleevers
In article ,
zxcvbob wrote: On 1/23/2010 3:14 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote: Frank wrote: http://atroshenko.com/NSAlBuddha.html You don't get it. It is not your God or your authority figure that matters - it is the evidence. David The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been caught with its pants down again, this time with bogus claims about the Himalayan glaciers. R. K. Pachauri has admitted the claims were false, but somehow this "only strengthened the credibility" of the IPCC. Best regards, Bob http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...layan-glaciers -mistake -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/...ting_activists http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/19/headlines |
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equal time to you guy's God
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message ... Frank wrote: http://atroshenko.com/NSAlBuddha.html You don't get it. It is not your God or your authority figure that matters - it is the evidence. David What evidence? |
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Crichton on global warming skepticism
"Wildbilly" wrote in message ... In article , Frank wrote: http://www.crichton-official.com/spe...talfuture.html Good for you, Frank, a real citation. If you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy then, maybe, we can have a conversation. Does not knowing the values of the variable in the equation N=N*fp ne fl fi fc fL change its' veracity? If species that we know are going extinct, why wouldn't species of which we are unaware, not going extinct? Whether you numb your brain on my cite or not, we still are left with the choices of (1) acting against greenhouse gas emissions (and look silly if "global warming' isn't happening), or (2) not acting against greenhouse gas emissions (causing unprecedented death and destruction around the world). Tell me, Frank, which bet would you prefer to lose? -- If the earth was cooling (as thought in the 70's and 80's) would you be trying to burn more fossils fuels? A slight warming is actually a good thing,(natural occurrence) it gives more land to grow things that are needed for an expanding population. In the next 100 years technology will completely change everything as we know it. Make believe greenhouse gas emissions isn't going to cause unprecedented death and destruction. |
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