Robert Shiller accurately predicted the recent housing bubble long before it burst. But he got no more attention in the Wall Street Journal than Jim Hansen gets for predicting severe climate change. If they can’t get their own turf right, why should people listen to them about other things?
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The penny drops.
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Both ‘sides’ of the climate debate should be judged by the same set of rules which means we should hold Heartland to the same standard to which we are currently holding Peter Gleick.
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Philosophers talk about the “dirty hands” problem: are lies OK in the pursuit of truth?
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UPDATED! Now with MORE SCIENCEY GOODNESS!!! Fred Singer is going around claiming that most “tree rings, ice cores, lake and ocean sediments, stalagmites… haven’t shown any warming since 1940″. Fred Singer is wrong.
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Anything goes unless some of your cousins, aunts and uncles or grandparents would think it rude at a family dinner.
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Heartland threatens to sue those who comment on the leaked documents and Peter Gleick comes clean as the source of the leak. There will be lawyers and the public debate seems about to move further away from the science of climate change. But perhaps this incident will spark a long overdue interest by journalists and others to look deeper into the inner workings of Heartland and other ‘think tanks’, because it is well past time they received real scrutiny.
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Do this, please. And please spread this video around.
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Pretty clear statement of the consensus. Almost any scientist would say almost exactly the same things in response to those questions. In fact, if they said anything substantially different, I would be concerned about their competence to discuss climate at all. But I wonder about public education stuff at the end. How should science be…
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Carbon negativity is not necessarily poverty.
Non-procreation is not necessarily chastity.
The longest future is the one where we have the most fun.
- Florifulgurator's principles.