Comments on: Camille Paglia on “fancy-pants, speculative, climate models”

By: Freeman Dyson on Heretical Thoughts and Climate Change « Watts Up With That?

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:04:58 +0000

[...] and Climate Change 5 11 2007 Previously I wrote about Camille Paglia’s view of “fancy-pants, speculative, climate models”. Like Paglia, Freeman Dyson is listed as one of the top 100 intellectuals in the world today, [...]

By: Evan Jones

Evan Jones — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:27:27 +0000

I think the credit mobilier scandal or Lesseps’ canal shares is more like it.

By: Evan Jones

Evan Jones — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:58:38 +0000

Oh, the tulips were valuable, actually. As were cowrey shells.

It just got to the point where (mega-) inflation kicked in!

Theorectically there’s nothing wrong with using flowers or shells for exchange (after all, we use paper) so long as the money supply is kept under control . . .

By: Tina

Tina — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:47:22 +0000

That such a sophisticated, educated generation could actually beleive this hoax may make the Dutch Tulip Craze and other great hoaxes look insignificant in comparison.

Sophisticated and educated?

The “number of years attended school” numbers may be up and wearing Armani, & livin large may pass as sophistication but I still think of my generation of Americans as those half naked, drugged out, writhing rock and rollers playing in the mud at Woodstock…the corker is they think it “meant” something, and still do!

This hardly qualifies as sophisticated or educated. These require a level of enlightenment and depth that preening in front of mirrors, and styling for the cameras, just doesn’t bring.

Loved the tulip craze comparrison…and I agree with you completely…we are a generation of many fools.

By: Evan Jones

Evan Jones — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:51:15 +0000

Climate not being the only thing that goes in cycles. #B^1

By: Evan Jones

Evan Jones — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:45:10 +0000

I doubt it. I guess that in 100 years GW will be as forgotten as Limits for Growth or The Population bomb.

No doubt by then we will have found (or made) some other bugaboo(s) which is (or is not) threatening all existence.

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Top Posts « WordPress.com — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:19:19 +0000

[...] Camille Paglia on “fancy-pants, speculative, climate models” Camille Paglia is listed as one of the top 100 intellectuals in the world today, in fact she’s at number […] [...]

By: bgraef

bgraef — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:07:53 +0000

Climate change, global warming, extreme weather may well be regarded 100 years from now as one of the most incredible hoaxes of our era.
That such a sophisticated, educated generation could actually beleive this hoax may make the Dutch Tulip Craze and other great hoaxes look insignificant in comparison.We may be the laughingstocks for generations to come.
And this huge swindle has cost mainly western governments hundreds of billions of dollars already, in the form of silly electric vehicles that no one wants, forced lifestyle changes, subsidized urban transport that few people desire, rube goldberg schemes of pumping carbon dioxide gases into the ground, insanely expensive “alternatives” for fossil fuels, grain ethanol manufacturing which will cause global food shortages and higher prices,etc. I could go and and on…….and dont forget about the huge Kyoto swindle, the most elaborate socialist extortion scheme ever devised.

By: Tom Davidson

Tom Davidson — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:37:13 +0000

“Even a broken clock will be right twice a day.” But to know when its right you need to know yourself just what the time really is.
This time Paglia is right.

By: Steve Moore

Steve Moore — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:30:28 +0000

Ah, Camille!

I’ve always loved her.
Not because I always agree with her (I don’t), but because she has STYLE!

By: wattsupwiththat

wattsupwiththat — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:06:10 +0000

BCL, one could say the same about you. By eating a scorpion and then blaming Native American Indians for your own ill feeling and lapse of judgement, this also seems to indicate your own powers of logic may have waned. By your own application of logic towards Paglia, by your own making of a mistake in public view, should we then discount anything further you have to say?

Check it out here: http://bigcitylib.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-bigcitylib-will-now-eat-bug.html

Not to worry though, there are others on that 100 list saying similar things. More on that soon.

By: bigcitylib

bigcitylib — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:15:51 +0000

Camille also argued with great passion that, while Madonna had the very right to strip in public, Britney did not. Her best days are behind her.

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:50:18 +0000

This is the first part of what Anthony linked to

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2007/04/11/global_warming/index3.html

Very interesting.

By: George M

George M — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:15:18 +0000

So, there!

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:45:46 +0000

Camille, as always, gives a nice, pithy critique that cuts right to the core of the matter. Not that she’s always right, but here its good to see she’s telling it like it is.

Anthony, isn’t there a qualitative difference between the 2-week-out weather prediction models and the next-century-out climate prediction models? The former seem to be trying to specify conditions at a locus whereas the latter are trying to come up with averaged global conditions.

By: Evan Jones

Evan Jones — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:38:15 +0000

Pfft! to any list which touts Noam Chomsky as the #1 intellectual in the world!