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indefatigableon Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

I'm not sure absolute falsification is meaningful with this kind of prediction.

Then it's not science.

indefatigableon The Conversation (1974)

Yep, great movie.

indefatigableon Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

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.

indefatigableon Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

What situation would falsify the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming? Or the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic ocean acidification?

indefatigableon Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

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.

indefatigableon Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

Yeah yeah, I read Ishmael too.

indefatigableon Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

Stewardship means handing it over to fascists?

indefatigableon Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

That's it, thanks!

indefatigableon Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

We seem to disagree, as I'm convinced that a carbon tax would almost certainly be an unmitigated disaster.

indefatigableon Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

Most scientists agreed that fire involved phlogiston not so very long ago.

indefatigableon Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

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.

indefatigableon Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

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.

indefatigableon Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

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."

indefatigableon Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

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.

indefatigableon Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

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?

indefatigableon Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

Ah well, everybody has their off days.

indefatigableon Our Newfound Fear of Risk

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!"

indefatigableon Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

Wot wot pip pip cheerio get the torch line's engaged eat some crisps there's a good chap.

indefatigableon How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater

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?

indefatigableon Fukushima leak is 'much worse than we were led to believe'

Your opinions are provided by PageRank? Good to know.

indefatigableon 29% of Bay Area's particulate air pollution comes from across the Pacific (2010)

I'm getting a serious Poe's law vibe from this comment and username.