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Category Archives: Science And Society
“Don’t Freak Out”
Some advice for John McCain, from Bjorn Lomborg.
I expect the ad hominem attacks on Mr. Lomborg to commence shortly.
“Don’t Freak Out”
Some advice for John McCain, from Bjorn Lomborg.
I expect the ad hominem attacks on Mr. Lomborg to commence shortly.
“Don’t Freak Out”
Some advice for John McCain, from Bjorn Lomborg.
I expect the ad hominem attacks on Mr. Lomborg to commence shortly.
The Month Of The Natural Disaster
May ’08 has been a pretty rough month for the planet and its inhabitants, what with the volcanoes and tornadoes and cyclones and earthquakes, <VOICE=”Professor Frink>and the drowning and the crushing and the evacuating and the staaaaarving, glavin</VOICE>.
Jeff Masters has a roundup and some history, and some inside info on why the death toll in the country formerly known as Burma was so high.
Some Questions For John McCain
From George Will:
You say that even if global warming turns out to be no crisis (the World Meteorological Organization says global temperatures have not risen in a decade), even unnecessary measures taken to combat it will be beneficial because “then all we’ve done is give our kids a cleaner world.” But what of the trillions of dollars those measures will cost in direct expenditures and diminished economic growth–hence diminished medical research, cultural investment, etc.? Given that Earth is always warming or cooling, what is its proper temperature, and how do you know?
You propose a “cap and trade” system to limit the carbon dioxide that many companies can emit. Is not your idea an energy- rationing proposal akin to Bill Clinton’s BTU tax?
He has more, not related to climate change.
Not Again
Quite a bit of jousting in comments (including some by yours truly) about Expelled, science, epistemology, etc., over at WOC.
Making The Sahara Green
Through global warming. See, climate change ain’t all bad.
Expelled Exposed
SciAm has an article on the six things that Ben Stein doesn’t want you to know about the movie. Just the first one is sufficient to me to think the whole thing a contemptible fraud.
The Logic Of Superstition
For what it’s worth, I set my watch to the destination time zone when they close the plane doors.