Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-10 Thread Gruss Gott
"Like I said before, if there was a promising solution investor would want some of the action." For the record, if there's a promising solution then it's really just growth investing rather speculative investing. And that said there is hundreds of billions of speculative investor $$ in clean

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-08 Thread Sam
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:26 PM, William Bowen wrote: > >> My solution is you shouldn't drink from the well that I sit on. > > How about you stop "sitting" in our drinking water? Or should you (and > by extension corporations) just be allowed to "sit" wherever you want? Again, if you're going to

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-07 Thread William Bowen
> My solution is you shouldn't drink from the well that I sit on. How about you stop "sitting" in our drinking water? Or should you (and by extension corporations) just be allowed to "sit" wherever you want? > So is it all or nothing? We stop using fossil fuel to save the planet > or do we make

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-07 Thread Sam
My solution is you shouldn't drink from the well that I sit on. So is it all or nothing? We stop using fossil fuel to save the planet or do we make it more effective? Who's to say we're not doing the earth a favor by ridding it of this possible cancer? So many ways to look at it. . On Wed, Dec

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-07 Thread Medic
Making it cleaner doesn't mean making it clean. If you have a water bowl with ten turds in it, removing one will make it cleaner. It's still a far cry from drinking water though. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Sam wrote: > > Most of the US electricity comes from coal. Don't you think making

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-07 Thread PT
I doubt Google servers produce *that* much heat. Then again ... If you tap too much > geothermal energy would that cool the earth faster? I don't know. Would it? Worth looking into. I foresee a similar debate on that topic as to what we are seeing about global warming. > I see they're t

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-07 Thread Sam
And whoever harness that energy will make a fortune which means if there were great potentials companies would invest. You can't always force breakthroughs, sometimes it just takes time. There's also the impact of alternatives, like Google proposing to use the oceans to cool it's servers would the

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-07 Thread Sam
Most of the US electricity comes from coal. Don't you think making it cleaner is better than rolling blackouts? . On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Medic wrote: > > Cleaner coal plants and factories. Kind of like farting through a > Kleenex... it still stinks. > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:12 AM,

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-07 Thread PT
On 12/7/2011 9:12 AM, Sam wrote: > > Well, we've been making cleaner factories for years and they're > getting better as we go. Coal is also used in a much cleaner way. > Solar and wind are huge wastes that only help friends of Dems. One > day, when done right, they might be worthwhile. I won't

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-07 Thread Medic
Cleaner coal plants and factories. Kind of like farting through a Kleenex... it still stinks. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Sam wrote: > > Well, we've been making cleaner factories for years and they're > getting better as we go. Coal is also used in a much cleaner way. > Solar and wind are h

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-07 Thread Sam
Hide the decline baby! Actually I do know a thing or two about this. You on the other hand seem to be getting your scientific knowledge from mediamatters. . On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > If you knew what you were writing about. Pardon that if you had a scintilla > o

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-07 Thread Sam
Well, we've been making cleaner factories for years and they're getting better as we go. Coal is also used in a much cleaner way. Solar and wind are huge wastes that only help friends of Dems. One day, when done right, they might be worthwhile. The rush in is to close factories in the US and move

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-06 Thread Judah McAuley
Pigs are pretty smart. I bet you could teach them basic algebra. The hard part would be motivating them to care about it and finding the tools for them to express themselves. Actually, that sounds just like teaching kids algebra now that I think about it. Judah On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:27 PM, L

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-06 Thread Larry C. Lyons
If you knew what you were writing about. Pardon that if you had a scintilla of an inkling of what is involved, then I'd give your post th response it would deserve. But as you have demonstrated multiple times, discussing the issue with you is like explaining algebra to a pig, it does no good and o

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-06 Thread PT
You assume that doing it right necessarily follows proper analysis and that proper analysis precludes rushing in. It is most likely that rushing in will happen whether or not proper analysis is done and doing it right won't be an initial option because of time wasted bickering over proper anal

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-06 Thread Sam
The data doesn't support anything. That's why it's bogus science. . On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > you hope. the data doesn't support the idea that this is going away > any time soon. I just hope that when it bites us in the ass AGW > doesn't destroy us. >

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-06 Thread Larry C. Lyons
you hope. the data doesn't support the idea that this is going away any time soon. I just hope that when it bites us in the ass AGW doesn't destroy us. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:48 AM, GMoney wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:39 PM, PT wrote: > >> >> History says that the likelihood of us not

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-06 Thread Sam
You can rush in new laws that you have to read to know what's in them or do a proper analysis first and do it right. Imagine that. . On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:39 PM, PT wrote: > > History says that the likelihood of us not really doing anything about > it until it starts biting us in the ass is

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-06 Thread GMoney
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:39 PM, PT wrote: > > History says that the likelihood of us not really doing anything about > it until it starts biting us in the ass is almost a certainty. > Not really. History suggests we'll soon forget about it and move on to our next crisis of the decadeand the

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-05 Thread Robert Munn
Metaphorically speaking, of course. The little things in life are precious. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > Science will find the truth eventually. Meanwhile, I see the truth in > everyday life, everywhere I look. It's all around us, everywhere. The love > of my wife and ch

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-05 Thread PT
History says that the likelihood of us not really doing anything about it until it starts biting us in the ass is almost a certainty. - "Because I can lie beautiful true things into existence ..." Neil Gaiman on Why I write. On 12/5/2011 5:16 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > We need to learn a w

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-05 Thread K-Sea - dvsDJTV.com
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > Science will find the truth eventually. Meanwhile, I see the truth in > everyday life, everywhere I look. It's all around us, everywhere. The love > of my wife and children, the passing of the seasons, the comings and going > of the world. >

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-05 Thread Robert Munn
Science will find the truth eventually. Meanwhile, I see the truth in everyday life, everywhere I look. It's all around us, everywhere. The love of my wife and children, the passing of the seasons, the comings and going of the world. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Sam wrote: > > I have real

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-05 Thread Sam
I have real issues with this so-called science: http://di2.nu/foia/foia2011/mail/4195.txt >-Original Message->From: Phil Jones [mailto:p.jo...@uea.ac.uk]>Sent: >05 January 2009 16:18>To: Johns, Tim; Folland, Chris>Cc: Smith, Doug; Johns, >Tim>Subject: Re: FW: Temperatures in 2009>>>  

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-05 Thread Judah McAuley
I think we have established that it is causes, plural, and we have a pretty decent understanding of what they are but the way in which they combine and the way that variation of certain inputs (man-made expulsion of CO2 as an example) change local, short term variables and long-term global variabl

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-05 Thread Robert Munn
People should keep searching for the root cause. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Sam wrote: > > Et tu brutus? > > . > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Larry C. Lyons >wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> > http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/b

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-05 Thread Judah McAuley
It's going to be rough. Not only is the task really big, it is also complicated in ways we are still trying to figure out. That's part of the frustration I have with climate change deniers. They see real issues with climate science (most science, really) because we have conflicting studies, gradua

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-05 Thread Sam
Et tu brutus? . On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > >> >> >> http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/how-ignorance-greed-and-ideology-are-warping-science-and-hurting-democracy-2015#ixzz1fgCiFxdc >

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-05 Thread Larry C. Lyons
it depends on how bad-ass you want to get. How about a giant shade that cuts off 10% of the available sunlight. Thing is the more we do now the less expensive it is later. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > >> >> >> http

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-05 Thread Robert Munn
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > > http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/how-ignorance-greed-and-ideology-are-warping-science-and-hurting-democracy-2015#ixzz1fgCiFxdc > > Turns out you were right about man-made climate change. Geo-engineering pro

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-05 Thread Larry C. Lyons
ing Science and Hurting Democracy >> >> RS Politics Daily >> >> by: Julian Brookes >> >> >> 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America' by Shawn Lawrence Otto >> Rodale >> "Whenever the people are well informed" an optimis

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-05 Thread GMoney
logy-are-warping-science-and-hurting-democracy-2015#ixzz1fgCiFxdc > > How Ignorance, Greed and Ideology Are Warping Science and Hurting Democracy > > RS Politics Daily > > by: Julian Brookes > > > 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America' by Shawn La

'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-05 Thread Larry C. Lyons
: The Assault on Science in America' by Shawn Lawrence Otto Rodale "Whenever the people are well informed" an optimistic Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government." Sure – but what if the people have no clue? Most of the big challenges faci