Matt Ridley’s wonderful book The Rational Optimist provided some upbeat fodder for Reader’s Digest which Matt has posted on his blog.
As it has been ‘Planet under pressure‘ week I thought I would join in.
Matt Ridley’s wonderful book The Rational Optimist provided some upbeat fodder for Reader’s Digest which Matt has posted on his blog.
As it has been ‘Planet under pressure‘ week I thought I would join in.
Matt Ridley is sane, coherent and interesting, but the man is going to starve!
Nobody’s going to fund an optimist.
As always, pure genius from Josh…
Soory OT but can someone please direct me to the data on ocean pH. There is a great deal of hype but I have seen very little data.
Thanks
Nice one Josh.
Oh, noes! It’s not as worse as we thought!
“Global trade enriches us”
Who exactly is “us”?
Mugs, T-shirts, we now need the lot!
Love it–thanks Josh!
Ray says:
April 2, 2012 at 10:29 am
Who exactly is “us”?
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Us is every person on the planet.
Thanks guys!
Ray, do follow the link to Matt’s blog – worth reading the whole article, and indeed the book.
😉
Ray says:
April 2, 2012 at 10:29 am
“Global trade enriches us”
Who exactly is “us”?
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Pretty well everyone whose paycheck isn’t signed by a regulatory monopoly.
RE: Brian H says: Oh, noes! It’s not as worse as we thought!
Yes it is, we’ll have to invent a new fake crises!!!! :-))
Ray says: “Global trade enriches us”
Who exactly is “us”?
Perhaps they meant U.S. (of A.)?!
Wait, I thought there was supposed to be no pressure.
I like the oil rig, crafty.
Wild life is getting nasty, watch out for swans near Ell Pie Island.
Ray says:
April 2, 2012 at 10:29 am
“Global trade enriches us”
Who exactly is “us”?
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It ain’t Karl Marx.
He’s dead.
Super image Josh! It’s given me an idea.
With Josh’s permission, this image can be printed, full colour, as a poster – ideally with the WUWT logo and web link prominently positioned at the bottom. An A2 sized poster (420×594 mm, 16.5×23.4 inches) costs £2,217 – $3,549 for… 50,000 copies!
Once done, volunteers could order several free copies from WUWT to deliver to their local schools, colleges, libraries etc, and/or readers can order their own copy to display as desired. The only fee involved would handling/cover postage costs.
Now. It may be said that most schools etc would throw the poster straight in the trash (deeming it unPC). But that is not the main point. The actual appearance of these posters would at least challenge a PC point of view (which maybe doesn’t get challenged that often) and there might be a surprising number of educators who actually agree with the message and act to hang the poster up for everyone to see – the fact that it is a very attractive image only encourages this to happen.
In the meantime, I guess lots of regular WUWT visitors (especially the younger ones) would love to have a fab poster of their favourite website to display and it would advertise WUWT get everyone who sees it taking.
WUWT could even produce a dedicate web page explaining each of the claims Josh lists.
With Anthony’s huge visitor base, I wouldn’t imagine it would be long before the print cost is covered by generous donations.
It’s time to start playing the Warmies at their own game… and I can’t think of a better way than Josh’s delightful image to do so.
Ooops…
“and it would advertise WUWT and get everyone who sees it talking.”
Peter S, nice idea! Hope a suitable patron thinks so too.
Those asking about “Global trade enriches us” clearly have nor read Ridley’s book.
The Rational Optimist traces the anthropological origins and significance of trade throughout human history. Trade is one of the prime factors driving human evolution because trade allowed individuals to specialize in particular goods and services.
There’s much more to the book, but that’s one revealing take-away message I gained.
Buy it. Read it. Learn from it.
Energy, of course, does not cost less. Natural gas is cheap for the moment, but that’s likely to reverse for both short and long term reasons. The oil supply looks likely, to me at least, to peak in the next two years.
“Energy costs less” I don’t understand the context of this. “Energy” in the UK is heavily burdened in various ways which drives up costs for the consumer.
It’s what you would expect when political lunatics plan to govern by energy & climate policy.
The idea of making a big deal out of the fact that the oceans warmed over the past century should give an academic pause in that to reach any other conclusion would be stupendously idiotic. We were in the grips of the LIA for several centuries. During that time one would expect the oceans to cool. We only started out of the LIA 150 years ago. During THAT time one would expect the oceans to warm. This is like saying that the average temperature of swimming pools in Los Angeles is higher in summer than it is in winter. DUH!
That oceans have warmed over the past 100 years does not indicate that anything is wrong or that we are causing it. It is simply validation of what we already know; that climate was colder during the LIA than it is today and that it has warmed gradually and the sea and atmosphere didn’t just jump to a higher temperature one morning.
RobW says:
April 2, 2012 at 10:21 am
That’s because there is little data … you could start with my post The Electric Oceanic Acid Test.
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Matt Ridley’s father died recently.That means that Matt must now be called by his new title, Viscount Ridley.