Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Except for a few persistent naysayers, there’s a broad public consensus that we need to take action against global warming. We’ll see how well that resolve holds as we start learning about the upfront costs of changing our carbon-spewing lifestyles.
I chose to link to the FARK thread instead of to the article itself, since the thread was green-lit and from there the actual San Jose Mercury News editorial is one click away.
And also, I agree with what the guy said at 2007-12-26 04:58:51 PM EST.
That’s funny; most of the people I see with their panties in a bunch over global warming don’t have any children. And most of us who have children would prefer to conserve what freedom we have left in this country for them.
There are exceptions to every trend, but now that he mentions it I see this one is pretty strong. And I find the explanation to be reasonable.
Well now that we have this “broad public consensus” here are some ideas for the next thing I’d like solved. I haven’t seen these questions answered anywhere as of yet.
How much carbon dioxide do we want to remove from the atmosphere? Or rather, prevent from being exuded into it.
What — exactly — do we think this non-saturation of carbon dioxide is going to do to the “mean global temperature”?
Will this do something to maintain whatever control we think we have over the global climate?
In other words…let’s have less talk about costs, and more talk about benefits. What are we hoping to get out of this? It’s impossible to say whether it’s a worthy enterprise or not, if we aren’t going to discuss that.
And to date, I’ve not seen so much as a suggestion of any evidence whatsoever, that 1) we have control over the global environment; 2) we are in danger of losing that control; 3) we can keep that control if we take steps to lower carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
I’ve seen a lot of factoids that make people want to think those things. But nothing to give people one or several logical reasons for thinking them. And, please note, all three have to be proven true, or at least strongly suggested to be true, to make any investment of money and other resources, something even close to a good idea. Even the seemingly-rugged “just in case, since we don’t know who’s right or who’s wrong” argument collapses under its own weight if all three of those things are not shown to be probable.
It’s a crock, folks. It’s Tobacco Litigation II. Obscene amounts of money, flowing from people who produced things, to people who just talked about a lot of stuff. The billions of dollars will be handed over, nothing will change, and the administrators and lawyers and pencil-pushers will laugh all the way to the bank. There’s nothing new about any of this.
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