indefatigable
Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
on Friday September 13, 2013 @09:19PM (#6384230)
I'm not sure absolute falsification is meaningful with this kind of prediction.
Then it's not science.
Re:The Conversation (1974)
on Friday September 13, 2013 @08:36PM (#6384121)
Yep, great movie.
Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
on Friday September 13, 2013 @08:16PM (#6384061)
OK that's good to hear. But read about the history of eugenics if you'd like to know how other people might misinterpret your argument.
Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
on Friday September 13, 2013 @08:07PM (#6384032)
What situation would falsify the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming? Or the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic ocean acidification?
Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
on Friday September 13, 2013 @07:59PM (#6384001)
When someone says they have the right to dictate not only how much energy I use, but also where that energy comes from, I call it fascism.
Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
on Friday September 13, 2013 @07:53PM (#6383970)
Yeah yeah, I read Ishmael too.
Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
on Friday September 13, 2013 @07:47PM (#6383942)
Stewardship means handing it over to fascists?
Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
on Friday September 13, 2013 @06:57PM (#6383707)
That's it, thanks!
Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
on Friday September 13, 2013 @06:38PM (#6383633)
We seem to disagree, as I'm convinced that a carbon tax would almost certainly be an unmitigated disaster.
Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
on Friday September 13, 2013 @06:20PM (#6383558)
Most scientists agreed that fire involved phlogiston not so very long ago.
Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
on Friday September 13, 2013 @06:12PM (#6383513)
Giving politicians the authority to levy a carbon tax is an absolutely terrible idea, and it has nothing to do with how I feel about China.
Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
on Friday September 13, 2013 @06:01PM (#6383461)
Someone laments the fact that we're all doomed and wants to upend the social order, then someone else replies with a casual implication that population control would be an effective remedy. What a surprise.
Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
on Friday September 13, 2013 @05:53PM (#6383420)
Actually it seems like that's not the correct attribution. It was probably Peter Marshall:
"Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for—because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything."
Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
on Friday September 13, 2013 @04:58PM (#6383112)
Someone famous once said something to the effect of: "When people believe in nothing, they will believe anything."
Interestingly enough most of those people are completely in denial about their own irrational zealotry.
Re:Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn
on Friday September 13, 2013 @04:50PM (#6383061)
Since regulating CO2 is such a useful political tool, it's not surprising that a new hypothesis justifying regulation has been making its way into the mainstream as the global warming movement collapses.
I doubt that the researchers involved are interested as much in the politics, but it's fair to say that they wouldn't be getting a fancy new media campaign if their results didn't support the movement. Remember Marcott et al?
Re:Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me
on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @03:16PM (#6329756)
Ah well, everybody has their off days.
Re:Our Newfound Fear of Risk
on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @03:53PM (#6323331)
Yet Germany has institutionalized the same mentality on a more abstract level.
"Global warming might be happening, shut down the energy industry!"
"We can't use nuclear power, someone might get cancer! Keep mining coal and etching solar panels!"
Re:Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me
on Friday August 30, 2013 @11:34PM (#6305669)
Wot wot pip pip cheerio get the torch line's engaged eat some crisps there's a good chap.
Re:How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
on Sunday August 25, 2013 @07:53PM (#6274294)
In other words, we should trust the DHHS and the IRS with information that the NSA can't be trusted to access? Am I reading that correctly?
Re:Fukushima leak is 'much worse than we were led to believe'
on Thursday August 22, 2013 @12:54PM (#6258303)
Your opinions are provided by PageRank? Good to know.
Re:29% of Bay Area's particulate air pollution comes from across the P...
on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @08:58AM (#6249856)
I'm getting a serious Poe's law vibe from this comment and username.