And they wonder why skeptic blogs get more traffic…

_Jim says:
January 27, 2013 at 2:39 pm
… you do realize who owns a majority of stocks (issued by corporations and held by private individuals, who vote said stock) do you no not?….
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And there is where you are DEAD WRONG. Stock used to be owned by individuals who voted the stock but that is no longer the case. Take for example Monsanto. Monsanto is 85% owned through mutual funds and the mutual funds vote the stock not the people who put up the cash. For example the Johnson family owns/controls Fidelity, Magellan fund and several others and therefore THEY not us vote a sizeable chunk of stock. Heck most people haven’t the foggiest idea of what stocks their money purchased.

World’s Stocks Controlled by Select Few
WASHINGTON — A recent analysis of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries has revealed that the world’s finances are in the hands of just a few mutual funds, banks, and corporations. This is the first clear picture of the global concentration of financial power, and point out the worldwide financial system’s vulnerability as it stood on the brink of the current economic crisis.
A pair of physicists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich did a physics-based analysis of the world economy as it looked in early 2007. Stefano Battiston and James Glattfelder extracted the information from the tangled yarn that links 24,877 stocks and 106,141 shareholding entities in 48 countries, revealing what they called the “backbone” of each country’s financial market. These backbones represented the owners of 80 percent of a country’s market capital, yet consisted of remarkably few shareholders.
“You start off with these huge national networks that are really big, quite dense,” Glattfelder said. “From that you’re able to … unveil the important structure in this original big network. You then realize most of the network isn’t at all important.”
The most pared-down backbones exist in Anglo-Saxon countries, including the U.S., Australia, and the U.K. Paradoxically; these same countries are considered by economists to have the most widely-held stocks in the world, with ownership of companies tending to be spread out among many investors. But while each American company may link to many owners, Glattfelder and Battiston’s analysis found that the owners varied little from stock to stock, meaning that comparatively few hands are holding the reins of the entire market…..

As usual you have not bothered to do you homework while I have nor do you ever back up your flaming. (Hows the job at the bank going?)

What proof do we have that the other alarmist blogs hasn’t reached or surpassed the 1,000,000 comment milestone?
It’s very possible that over one million comments have been SUBMITTED – and that the 97% applies to their REJECTION rate.
Of course, we’d need raw data for that…

@alexander feht
I think you need to read the rubric at the top of Anthony’s blog. It says
‘Commentary on puzzling things in life……’
That you don’t find some articles to your taste is your prerogative…but you really don’t have much of a case to slag him off just for publishing them.
Grow a pair.

@alexander feht
Whatever.

At 5:10 PM on 27 January, Gail Combs offered me the unsolicited pleasure of realizing that I’m not alone in my personal remembrances of Petr Beckmann (a merrily enraged refugee from the Soviet occupation of his homeland, and adamant opponent of socialist tyranny in the marketplace as well as in the sciences) and Hal Clement (whom I will always remember in the Atari-era ’80s taking inordinate joy in showing me his first efforts to “paint” with the ghodawful computer graphics programs available to those of us with home computers running 8-bit CPU chips).
Ms. Combs had written of:

…listening to Harry [Stubbs – Hall Clement] and Issac Asimov roast Dr. Anthony Lewis (physicist & SF author) on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday.
Harry and Tony had done nuclear experiments at White Sands. While driving away from the experimental site before the bomb blew, Harry had a tendency to pull back on the steering wheel when over taking another car since he learned to fly before learning to drive. Tony twitted him at the roasting about this quirk.

Well, in all fairness to Col. Stubbs, the wheel of an automobile is rather inordinately like unto the control yoke of a Consolidated B-24 bomb truck, and I understood full well that wrestling those Davis-wing’d monstrosities from the pilot’s seat gave one habits on the controls better suited for the operation of bulldozers than sports cars.

At 2:22 AM on 28 January, Pat Ravasio gripes:

Watts up with blocking my comment directing you to a report from 1981 showing that repubs knew climate change was a serious threat? Your censorship proves who you really are. Come on Anthony, keep the dialog open, at the very least. Let your readers see the whole sorry mess.

Not that its possible to conceive of this Web site’s operators (or most fervent frequenters) being uncritical partisans of the Rotarian Socialist right wing in our permanently incumbent “bipartisan” Boot-On-Your-Neck Party, any proof that the Red Faction clowns had given the “climate change” hysteria a pass “from 1981” is Mr. Ravasio inadvertently providing his political enemies a kind of praise rather than damnation.
Those dictating Republican policy on the preposterous demonization of anthropogenic CO2 in the ’80s had dismissed this allegedly “serious threat” as yet another letie-luzer “Liberal” lunkhead scheme to destroy industrial civilization for the political advantage of our National Socialist Democrat American Party (NSDAP) – and also, of course, to enrich themselves at public expense.
Doubtless their motivations were nakedly political (“Never give them bastids an inch!”), but talk about the proverbial stopped clock showing the correct time of day more or less by accident….
Mr. Ravasio, haven’t you yet realized that the attitude toward the political party which maintains the utterly corrupt and thoroughly gelded “Suntan John” as its leader in the U.S. House of Representatives is, among many of us skeptical of your beloved “We’re All Gonna Die!” climate catastrophism (emphasis on the “man-made” aspect), essentially that of H.L. Mencken?

“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”

And Pat,
In 1981 people like you were wetting their britches over global cooling. But you do not know that, do you?

[Nah. You give us too much credit. Most of us mods can read a whole comment in 5 – 20 seconds … 8<) Mod]
[But doing the spell check takes a bit longer. Mod]

Dear Moderators,
We, who are on this journey through the wastelands of the intentional scientific biases supporting alarming AGW by CO2, respect your fair light ways.
I dedicate these lines to thee,

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Take care.
John

Congratulations to Anthony and his merry crew of volunteer moderators.
While some posters may have an axe to grind on moderation, etc., the
large majority appreciate the quite light moderation here. My impression
has always been that if you have something to contribute and express
yourself in a civil way, your comments will get through.