This list seems to have been posted completely unironically. West Hollywood? Well, I’ll buy that, if the women aren’t looking for straight men. But why aren’t Fire Island and San Francisco, or Key West on the list?
Category Archives: Science And Society
A Climate Bet
…and the skeptic won, of course. All these true believers are natural marks.
[Mid-morning update]
More from James Delingpole.
Ten Space Trends
…for 2012. I hope he’s right.
Why We Love To Loathe John Edwards
It’s science. Of course, I always thought he was a duplicitous douche. The Democrats should be ashamed that he even came close to being vice president.
The End Of The Aztecs’ Fourth Sun
Was it caused by an impact event in the mid-Atlantic?
A Ten-Year Anniversary
…of science blogging, from Derek Lowe. Congratulations.
Average Women
…are quite attractive. I have to say, though, that my faves are Israeli, Peruvian and Russian.
[Evening update]
Comments would indicate the age-old aphorism that there’s no accounting for taste.
Don’t Know Much About Science
Some thoughts about the “moderate” Jon Huntsman:
Nearly everything “liberal” about Huntsman is symbolic. His campaign’s iconic moment was an unprovoked Twitter comment in which he wrote: “To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.”
While politically loaded, this statement is nearly substanceless. A president’s “Belie[f] in evolution” has not had any bearing on public policy in a good while. And scientifically, the statement doesn’t mean much — “believing in” something is more the business of faith than science.
And “trust[ing] scientists on global warming,” taken literally isn’t actually agreement with Al Gore’s fevered warnings of 20-foot sea-level rises or endorsement of Democrats’ big-government energy proposals.
Science involves detail, nuance, and acknowledgment of uncertainty. Bluster about “believing in science” is just a self-congratulatory liberal trope meant to denigrate conservative rubes from the red states clinging bitterly to their guns and religion.
It’s identity politics, and Huntsman is identifying as a liberal or a moderate. That MSNBC hosts and liberal writers fall for this trick is telling, but just as telling is how much conservatives also buy into it.
It comes back to the mistaken concept of many that “science” is knowledge, rather than a process by which we achieve it. It is my own belief in science that creates my skepticism about AGW, because the process is intrinsically flawed, and the leading practitioners of “climate science” have betrayed it.
[Update a few minutes later]
I often joke about firing up the SUVs to stave off the next glacial advance, but now there’s a paper that says greenhouse gases will do exactly that. Of course, they still think that global warming is worse than a mile-thick sheet of ice. Have to stick with the narrative.
250 Notable Emails
…from Climaquiddick. It’s hard to read these and still believe that “the science is settled.”
The Green Movement
…is dead in the water. But it continues to do a lot of economic damage.