From “Pragmatic”, on the Lindzen on negative feedback thread:
“What most alarmists don’t seem to fathom is that real people want balance in their decision/learning process. Balance arrives on the wings of debate.”
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To make a balanced judgement we need to see all the facts and that imvolves a debate
There has been no debate therefore they are hiding something.
OFF TOPIC:
National Geographic doesn’t like this year’s Arctic ice. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090406-sea-ice-younger.html
Working Stiff (15:15:42) :
OFF TOPIC:
National Geographic doesn’t like this year’s Arctic ice. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090406-sea-ice-younger.html
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“Quick to melt ice”. Fingers crossed eh Walter ??
Oh please, please God, anyone – please destroy the Arctic ice, so I can save everyone from the destruction of Arctic ice !!
Get therapy dude.
edcon (10:45:39) :
Recently when I received my university’s news magazine its engineering articles were all about the “green” aspects of their investigations/studies and I assume this is true for most engineering universities. They fail to consider alternate conclusions that made lead to plans to prevent or ameliorate worldwide disasters.
My first university, Missouri-Rolla, has been caught up in the green hype since before I graduated in 1990. Oddly, none of the professors I had leaned that way. The IEEE, arguably the most prominent, and probably largest, professional engineering society, is big time in the tank. Fortunately, they are not “OH NOES!!! GW is going to kill us all!!!” more like “here’s what we can do to ameliorate .”
Oddly, none of the engineers I know (that I’ve discussed this with) buy into the hype even the slightest bit.
Mark
“Debate” is really only for the dreamer; or so this New York Times story seems to imply. It has nothing to do with global warming/climate change in its subject matter; but everything about the power available to at least attempt to force an agenda.
But that prediction is based on an estimate based on extrapolations based on assumptions that have yet to be demonstrated despite a half-century of efforts
Public Policy That Makes Test Subjects of Us All
Mark T
“My first university, Missouri-Rolla, has been caught up in the green hype since before I graduated in 1990.”
It is with dismay, that I viewed the Spring Issue of Mizzou cover with the modern wind turbine next to a decrepit barn and the inside story, Wind Power Changes Missouri’s Landscape. When I graduated U of Mo, Columbia, in 1958, the physics and math professors were apolitical (one professor was a fan of Tom Lehrer) and political science was a separate course in the foundation of our system of government and the interactions of the different branches of government.
There was a course in philosophy called logic. I wonder if the course is still taught?
Re: Graeme Rodaughan (17:58:37) :
“I would like to see a strong commitment to a decision making process by our Politicians that included substantial work on Cost/Benefit analyses with a full array of options examined.”
That would be the Politicians of fairyland you are talking about – right?
Sorry, in over 37 yrs I’ve never met one of those….
realitycheck (18:39:18) wrote: “Sorry, in over 37 yrs I’ve never met one of those…”
Check the bottom of your garden.