tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post423300219433444871..comments2023-12-31T03:18:37.403-06:00Comments on "E pur si muove!": Michael-ManiaLester Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-56412547446607533052009-07-02T12:15:58.014-05:002009-07-02T12:15:58.014-05:00Thanks for the rec. I've been a Mike Judge fa...Thanks for the rec. I've been a Mike Judge fan since the Beavis and Butthead era, but I haven't seen that one.Lester Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-73458739824564036712009-07-02T06:46:01.350-05:002009-07-02T06:46:01.350-05:00Have you watched Mike Judge's 2005 movie "...Have you watched Mike Judge's 2005 movie "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/" rel="nofollow">IDIOCRACY</a>?" <br /><br />It will either give you a good laugh or a good cry.Craig Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09411024383213082193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-28403425406680128092009-07-01T11:11:07.651-05:002009-07-01T11:11:07.651-05:00What makes that Krugman piece particularly bizarre...What makes that Krugman piece particularly bizarre, at least for me, is the fact that treason is generally punishable by death, even in countries that don't otherwise have capital punishment. From the point of view of the state, and of statists like Krugman, it is the über-crime.Lester Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-62723203093823547222009-07-01T09:50:40.753-05:002009-07-01T09:50:40.753-05:00Global warming computer models predict a 'hot ...Global warming computer models predict a 'hot spot' in the atmosphere at about 10km up. There is no evidence for this from satellite data. I wonder how many politicians at this point really believe or even care whether, or to what extent, humans are influencing weather. They see it as a way to collect more taxes through cap-and-trade bills. Earlier governments in the past (before separation of church and state) maybe could invoke the wrath of god to keep the populace in line, do their bidding. The fear of god is largely gone in modern society - but maybe catastrophic pseudo-science scenarios can now serve as a useful proxy for a wrathful god? The kind of belligerent bullying that goes on by Hansen and Gore supporters, their unwillingness to engage in civil, empirical scientific debate with legions of thinking people who have lots of troubling questions about their assertions, tends to support the idea of this AGW movement as mostly a modern Gaia-religion of sorts. My husband was raised as a Baptist (he is not religious at all now), and as a kid he asked curious, inconvenient questions about the bible during bible school. His questions were answered with anger and moral outrage - who was he to dare question the righteous peer-reviewed religious assertions? I've never cared for Paul Krugman, but now he's out saying to not do cap-and-trade is treason against the planet? I guess he's decided to become a priest now, instead of an economist.Annnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-79074233955950267172009-06-30T17:35:30.400-05:002009-06-30T17:35:30.400-05:00When I said that there has been no global warming,...When I said that there has been no global warming, I meant that the actual temperatures on planet Earth had not risen during that period. The site you direct me to looks at "moving averages" to discover and "underlying trend" of warming. Maybe it is my ignorance of statistics, but this just sounds like mumbo-jumbo to me. Another argument is that things look different if we subtract 1998, which was hot for natural reasons. You can prove all kinds of things by erasing data. I think a better argument would be that climate warming is "on hold" because unknown natural causes are swamping the contributions to climate change made by technology. But that raises the question of how strong the human contribution actually is, if it can me swamped in this way.Lester Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-88242602527213723732009-06-30T16:04:38.644-05:002009-06-30T16:04:38.644-05:00"though there has been no global warming sinc..."though there has been no global warming since 1998?"<br /><br />You're wrong. See:<br /><br />http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-stopped-in-1998.htmPeter L. Winklerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16005846686173676213noreply@blogger.com