tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post2456042513471926865..comments2024-03-29T08:09:40.730-04:00Comments on Borepatch: NASA Scientist: Global Warming a load of hooeyBorepatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-46792137161110111192009-01-29T21:43:00.000-05:002009-01-29T21:43:00.000-05:00Dirtcrashr, I think that a good public mocking can...Dirtcrashr, I think that a good public mocking can be as effective as jail, <I>pour encourager les autres</I>.<BR/><BR/>Repeated application may be required in the case of high-profile scientists, and particularly Nobel lauriates.Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-64136188439618322622009-01-29T18:36:00.000-05:002009-01-29T18:36:00.000-05:00Science-frauds not skeptics should be jailed, and ...Science-frauds not skeptics should be jailed, and fraudulently awarded Nobel Prizes revoked - and Pulitzer prizes too for that matter (Duranty).NotClauswitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14358707844087117280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-707175527754157492009-01-29T15:06:00.000-05:002009-01-29T15:06:00.000-05:00Shoothouse, that's an excellent point. There are ...Shoothouse, that's an excellent point. There are indeed real (and very well documented) problems - deforestation is a good example.<BR/><BR/>All the talk about carbon tax and cap/trade is defocussing everyone off of these. It's all well and good to say "why not do both" but reality is that we need to choose what is more important.<BR/><BR/>I think that this is Bjorn Lomborg's point - if you were to spend the better part of a trillion dollars on an economic problem, would it be this one? More importantly, if you say that the point is to save lives and improve quality of life, isn't something like, say, malaria control more important? If not, they what is the goal, and why aren't lives more important?<BR/><BR/>At that point, the discussion typically degrades into shouting ...Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-37068184025203090612009-01-29T12:53:00.000-05:002009-01-29T12:53:00.000-05:00I don't consider myself militant about man-made gl...I don't consider myself militant about man-made global warming, however, I do think that man-caused damage to the planet, such as deforestation and air/water polution, are real and serious issues. I think one of the reasons why we come to blows with the "man-made global warming is real and everyone who says otherwise is a heretic" bunch is that they believe that if one doesn't accept global warming, that one automatically believes everything is dandy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01645993671366588101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-50480317012161447242009-01-29T09:40:00.000-05:002009-01-29T09:40:00.000-05:00This is exactly why people like us are looking at ...This is exactly why people like us are looking at this as the nutty Gaia worshipping religion that it is.<BR/><BR/>It will all blow over eventually. Hopefully are elected leaders won't do irreparable damage in the mean time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com