tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post116130261921643449..comments2024-03-07T11:39:09.758+11:00Comments on Will Type For Food: Having the Weather Over For BreakfastTimThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1161410792745786182006-10-21T16:06:00.000+10:002006-10-21T16:06:00.000+10:00Ah, yes, but Don Quixote scuttled your plans, kick...Ah, yes, but Don Quixote scuttled your plans, kicking off with "All jokes aside ... ", and bang, Bob's your uncle, they were!<BR/><BR/>Thing is, the left and right are all blinkered twits. <BR/><BR/>I don't care what any of them say, or what corporations have to say: it's the science that matters. <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, in order to do anything constructive on a national and international level politicians need to be involved. And we know how good they are at policy 101, no matter whether on the left or right or green or purple or impaled on the fence.Cazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1161404158382699092006-10-21T14:15:00.000+10:002006-10-21T14:15:00.000+10:00The main point of this post was satire, but I stil...The main point of this post was satire, but I still think that some of the ideas articulated above were sound. <BR/><BR/>Both 'left' and 'right' in the climate change debate are full of contradictions, and are more interested in ideology than ideas.TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1161403916650468432006-10-21T14:11:00.000+10:002006-10-21T14:11:00.000+10:00There was a quote by Mark Twain I was going to pre...There was a quote by Mark Twain I was going to preface this post with. <BR/><BR/>"So much talk about the weather, and yet so little is actually done about it!"TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1161403847198040492006-10-21T14:10:00.000+10:002006-10-21T14:10:00.000+10:00Some pertinent thoughts from Einstein:"Technologic...Some pertinent thoughts from Einstein:<BR/><BR/>"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."<BR/><BR/>"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."<BR/><BR/>"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."<BR/><BR/>"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."Cazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1161403524772434282006-10-21T14:05:00.000+10:002006-10-21T14:05:00.000+10:00It actually can't be reversed: read the stats on ...It actually can't be reversed: read the stats on emission forecasts. <BR/><BR/>The targets aren't, and can't be, to stop emissions, or to even cut the total, merely to slow down the exponential output. <BR/><BR/>It's quite a lame goal, all things considered, but I suppose it's the best they argue, short of telling everyone, including a few billion Chinese and Indians that they are not allowed to develop - at all - and telling a few billion Westerners that they have to cease and desist from their entire lifestyle - right now. <BR/><BR/>We're not nearly as clever as we think we are. <BR/><BR/>I actually don't believe the planet will be wiped out: humans are extraordinarily adaptable. Look at how well we took to creating carbon emissions, and how we continue to do so with such vigour and committment! See, we can adapt, and we will. It will be different, not dead.Cazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1161399403513102682006-10-21T12:56:00.000+10:002006-10-21T12:56:00.000+10:00If we have it in our power to cause a greenhouse e...If we have it in our power to cause a greenhouse effect, as is claimed, then isn't it just possible that we also have it in our power to cause the reverse?TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1161399010360485412006-10-21T12:50:00.000+10:002006-10-21T12:50:00.000+10:00Of course, we could just wait to see if the permaf...Of course, we could just wait to see if the permafrosts all melt, releasing squillions of tonnes of CO2, then it would simply be all over red rover. <BR/><BR/>Yeah, let's wait to see if that happens.Cazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1161396037927530402006-10-21T12:00:00.000+10:002006-10-21T12:00:00.000+10:00Actually, it's what the scientists tell us is scie...Actually, it's what the scientists tell us is science, and is demonstrable, and consistently measurable and true.<BR/><BR/>The MSM couldn't beat up a story like this to save themselves. They may report on it badly and inacurately, but that's because they're stooopid and hysterical and are pandering to a public that is the entire cause of the problem and don't have the time or energy to bother understanding what's going on, and have minimal inclination to change their entire way of life - which is what would be required, merely to minimise the exponential growth of greenhouse gas emissions - no hope of reversing the levels, none. Besides, let the next generation worry about it, 'eh? Or the next. Wait until the "proof" is 150% evident, instead of settling for 100%.Cazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1161395514026435142006-10-21T11:51:00.000+10:002006-10-21T11:51:00.000+10:00Don Quixote has you over a barrel (er, vacuum) on ...Don Quixote has you over a barrel (er, vacuum) on this one Timmy.Cazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1161391215204406552006-10-21T10:40:00.000+10:002006-10-21T10:40:00.000+10:00Wah? The Greens are poll driven because they won't...Wah? The Greens are poll driven because they won't put forth a proposal to vacuum the atmosphere clean? <BR/><BR/>Ahhhh, I see what you're doing; you're bringing gallows humor to the topic in order that we go down enjoying ourselves: you're a cellist furiously striking a tune even as the waters lap at your feet on the sinking titanic.<BR/><BR/>I like the method you're employing. I think that further to your suggestion, the same vacuum cleaner, once having been used to eliminate the global warming problem, should also be put to work solving the Iraqi problem. In fact if the wavering coalition of the willing didn't also use that vacuum cleaner to simply suck up all the insurgents then they wouldn't REALLY be serious about the threat of global terror!<BR/><BR/>TimT and Don Quixote: solving the world's problems one keystroke at a time.Don Quixotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15291358604872256004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1161388651304832422006-10-21T09:57:00.000+10:002006-10-21T09:57:00.000+10:00I was serious - well, no, half serious, then. I ac...I was serious - well, no, half serious, then. I actually think that some of these methods would work. I mean, really, how hard would it be to make a gigantic mirror? All you need is a tonne of white paint and a tonne of empty space. How many freezers making ice cubes are there in the world? We could stop the poles from melting, just like that. Or if we really wanted to screen out the heat from the sun by throwing dust up in the atmosphere - well, we don't have to worry about a comet. There's tonnes of dust just IN MY HOUSE that they could use for that. Anyone up for flying a dust-bomber into the stratosphere?<BR/><BR/>I remember when the media really started getting into a frenzy about the greenhouse effect, I started thinking, 'well, why can't we go up there and take the carbon dioxide back?' Stupid thought, maybe - I mean, where are we going to plug the vacuum cleaner in? But still - maybe it could be done ...<BR/><BR/> Of course, if environmentalists were REALLY worried about the greenhouse effect, and REALLY accepted the science, wholesale, then I think they would start putting ideas like this forward. <BR/><BR/> Why haven't they? <BR/><BR/> I think they haven't because: <BR/> a) they know it will make them look ridiculous and the public will laugh at them. (The Australian Greens are just as unprincipled or 'poll driven' as the Liberals or the Labor Party)<BR/> b) they secretly doubt that the greenhouse effect is happening, and want to just whip up public hysteria to get votes. <BR/><BR/> I can get away with things like this because people think I'm not being serious ... bit of a paradox, really!<BR/><BR/>So come on, people - it's time for half-serious, full-on crazy suggestions! Think outside the square!TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1161361326269504562006-10-21T02:22:00.000+10:002006-10-21T02:22:00.000+10:00No jokes aside then. Letting both deadly humorous ...No jokes aside then. Letting both deadly humorous arguments stand, the jury shall decide.Don Quixotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15291358604872256004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1161355821796478352006-10-21T00:50:00.000+10:002006-10-21T00:50:00.000+10:00One vote for putting the entire world in a large r...One vote for putting the entire world in a large refrigerator. Seriously, I would not complain if I never experienced anything >23 degrees C.Mishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10820334665086731631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1161330280893376142006-10-20T17:44:00.000+10:002006-10-20T17:44:00.000+10:00Who said I was joking????Who said I was joking????TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529903.post-1161329645508118132006-10-20T17:34:00.000+10:002006-10-20T17:34:00.000+10:00All jokes aside, in a random sample of 1% (600) of...All jokes aside, in a random sample of 1% (600) of the scientific papers written on global warming all agreed with the premise that we're unnaturally warming the globe; however in an equal sample of news articles, only something like 65% agreed with the science. So when you say that global warming is a media beat-up you're right, only not in the way that you think.<BR/><BR/>And in a period of climatic change coming as a precursor to an ice age the global temperature raises about .5 of a degree every thousand years. We've raised the global temperature by a degree in fifty years, and most estimates have us raising it by another degree in the next twenty - forty years.<BR/><BR/>But hey, screw the scientists (because the notion of a media beat-up is as bunk as democracy for Iraq or greater media diversification through the promotion of the Packerstellasphere). In the words of ExxonMobil: "Carbon Dioxide, they call it pollution, we call it life." Bon Appetite!!Don Quixotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15291358604872256004noreply@blogger.com