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A good read..
Posted on 08/10/2007 11:44:05 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
Much like early physicians and surgeons used bloodletting to treat a variety of ailments, the followers of Gore want to drain the financial resources of the rich to cure the planet. They feel that doing something, even if it makes the problem worse, will demonstrate their commitment to the cause.
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Who will be the next top nation? China is the obvious candidate. After that it might be India or Brazil.By 2070, nearly the entire current population of China will be dead, and nearly three halvings of the Chinese population (1 child families) will have taken place. The only reason there will be any wealthy Chinese will be tontine style inheritance.
10,000 Germanic tribesmen sacked Rome in 410, as I recall. 10,000 barbarians just did whatever they wished with impunity. At the time the population of Rome was about one million.
The Roman Army at that time was largely made up of Germanic tribesmen, Goths, Vandals, etc. The Commander in Chief of the Roman Army in Italy was a fellow named Stilicho, a Vandal tribesman.
The Romans were all on welfare or working for the government. It had been more than a hundred years since moving or changing jobs without official permission had been prohibited. The value of the currency had been destroyed by inflation and with it the value of savings. Pretty much everyone was in permanent debt. Everything most people owned had had to be sold to pay debts. The farms were worked with slave labor.
Hu Jintao (smart cookie) is putting in place a most thorough and universal police state (the “public health” stuff is all about that).
The Shanghai faction had very nearly escaped Beijing’s clutches at long last (conquest of south by Beijing based governments ran 970 to 1279) after the death of Mao. That is no longer in the cards.
A war with China can be prevented even though China has a great excess of young men over young women. The only real difficulty in aborting this coming “Taiwan Straits” war is American homegrown Left dementia.
Pretty much. I see Europe in that condition, USA not too far behind, all because of creeping Liberalism. Conservatives are the last bastion of hope for the West.
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New!!: Dr. John Ray's
GREENIE WATCH
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But economic greatness does not necessarily translate into political and military power, at least without a long delay, as America's own history shows. Politically, China is already over extended. Freedom for China will mean at least a pullback, and possibly outright political breakup - none of which will be a tragedy.
Perhaps, instead of asking what nation will come out on top, we should anticipate the end of the era of nation states.
The whole article is pretty good, but he accepted (without question!) the fallacy that GW is CAUSED by the increase in CO2 from man’s emissions.
Ignores the counter-relationship between temps and cosmic radiation/sunspot activity/cloud/vapor levels. Ironically, he mentions some of these factors, but ignores their influence.
bumpers!
Freeman Dyson rocks. I watched an older documentary about a project going to Mars using very small atomic bombs that he was heavily involved with. I don’t understand half of what he says at times, as I’m not that scientific, but if he says it’s not as bad as Al Gore claims, I’d agree with him much more than some of these climatologists
Not completely accepted and not a fallacy. He pointed out that extra CO2 warms the dry polar regions, but has no effect on the temperate or tropical regions. He left out the fact that CO2 also warms the upper troposphere. But he correctly pointed out that "global warming" does not exist.
I agree — unless those 40 million extra men get churned up in an internal war of some sort (Tibet, or in some reprise of the “cultural revolution”), neighboring countries have something to fear.
The whole article is pretty good, but he accepted (without question!) the fallacy that GW is CAUSED by the increase in CO2 from man’s emissions.
Well, I see that Dyson says this: "One of the main causes of warming is the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere resulting from our burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal and natural gas." I'd guess that he would argue that the phrase "one of the main causes" leaves open the possibility of other causes.
Ignores the counter-relationship between temps and cosmic radiation/sunspot activity/cloud/vapor levels. Ironically, he mentions some of these factors, but ignores their influence.
Remember that this piece is just an excerpt from his book; it could be that he goes into more detail in rest of the book (although I don't know this since I've not read it).
I agree with you Robert.
But might Dyson have written such marches as John Philip Sousa?
What a remarkable mind.
When I presented this in another forum of supposed intellectuals and scientists it wasn’t even read. Who are the deniers now?
Nice post. Bookmark for later.
Jerry Pournelle predicts the coming demonization of Dyson by the GW fanatics. He also thinks that as more people come on board with the GW skeptics, that the fanatics will turn to violence.
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/view479.html#Monday
Good article, and one that we all need to think about.
There are many things that the culture at large refuses to think about. One is that “global warming” is not quite true (I fully expect the next tactic will be global cooling, and it will start in a few years), another is that evil exists and must be confronted.
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