Comment on Energy policy discussion thread by cui bono
Kat. of Ar. Did Dr Curry get engaged at the age of 3? Wicked! Happy birthday Dr. Curry!
View ArticleComment on Energy policy discussion thread by Pooh, Dixie
The url above was truncated. Let me try something else: [url]http://dea.org.au/news/article/the_population_bomb_revisited_by_paul_r._ehrlich_and_anne_h._ehrlich[/url] or...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 2/24/12 by Fred Moolten
“And speaking of equivalency, I don’t see how you can blame its detractors from assigning just as much importance to the HS as its proponents. After all, this was heralded by your side as all the...
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The neo-Mals don’t want any energy source that works. They want modern civilisation to fail. There are enough comments to that effect in their works. There was a good review in ‘Psychology Today’....
View ArticleComment on Why target Heartland? by Vaughan Pratt
<i>people are smart enough to figure out that a theory that can account for everything is unfalsifiable and unscientific, even if they’ve never heard of Karl Popper.</i> But Gerard, there...
View ArticleComment on Energy policy discussion thread by johanna
Pekka: Sorry, I can’t follow your reasoning here – forgive me if I’m being dense. My point is – $40.9 million is being spent on additional infrastructure (which will then have to be maintained and will...
View ArticleComment on Why target Heartland? by Vaughan Pratt
Hacking is actually less of a legal offense than impersonating for the purpose of fraud, from my understanding. Oh great, another bush lawyer. Fraud is illegal. Impersonating a police officer is...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 2/24/12 by Pekka Pirilä
That the evidence given by the multiproxy analyses on past temperature variations is weaker than Mann and his collaborators claim is a view shared by many main stream scientists including both...
View ArticleComment on Why target Heartland? by Brandon Shollenberger
Vaughan Pratt, the bug you’re talking about is one which has been discussed, and diagnosed, here on this blog before. The problem is HTML allows you to include extra characters in certain flags without...
View ArticleComment on Gleick’s Testimony on Threats to the Integrity of Science by...
I have posted the following at Horgan’s blog: Should global-warming activists lie to defend their cause? Absolutely not. There are no shades of grey here – either you are committed to honesty and...
View ArticleComment on Why target Heartland? by Vaughan Pratt
Personal is not the same as important Quite right. That’s certainly how Newt Gingrich feels about his intimate relationships vs. his public persona.
View ArticleComment on Why target Heartland? by Vaughan Pratt
AGW is a hate based movement So eco-Nazis, right, cwon14? (Don’t be shy, you can say it.)
View ArticleComment on Why target Heartland? by Vaughan Pratt
Thanks very much for clarifying this, Brandon. So is there anything one can type in a comment that will fix the bug? Or does Judith have to edit the thread herself to fix it? And if the latter, is it...
View ArticleComment on Energy policy discussion thread by Pekka Pirilä
Johanna, I didn’t check the actual numbers of that case. The cost of $40.9 for the additional infrastructure sounds quite a lot. The wind turbine(s) cannot be a big part of that. Thus the question...
View ArticleComment on Why target Heartland? by Vaughan Pratt
Maybe, but I wasn’t about to pass judgment. I only object to obvious inconsistencies like Lindzen’s rubbish.
View ArticleComment on Why target Heartland? by Pekka Pirilä
It’s clear that the problem is slightly more complex. WordPress can close the case of a missing tag. Thus it must recognize the erroneous closing tag as somehow related to the opening one. It changes...
View ArticleComment on Why target Heartland? by Brian H
“If on the other hand it continues to get more and more violent” Say what? Frequency of virtually every major storm type from tornado to sandstorm has been dropping for some time. ACE is declining....
View ArticleComment on Gleick’s Testimony on Threats to the Integrity of Science by Frank
Judith: Although I love the quote from Feynman you cite, Steve Schneider’s infamous quote does an excellent job distinguishing between scientific integrity – “tell the truth, the whole truth, and...
View ArticleComment on Gleick’s Testimony on Threats to the Integrity of Science by johanna
Cripes, I almost got flecks of spittle in the eye through the computer screen reading that comment. I am not competent to judge the scientific issue under discussion. But I can read, and fail to see...
View ArticleComment on Gleick’s Testimony on Threats to the Integrity of Science by kch
Fred - “…even if what Peter Gleick did was wrong – and it was – that shouldn’t be taken to mean that his scientific integrity was lacking.” I agree that the one does not necessarily follow from the...
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