[palmer]

He’s written a few opuses, but apparently we are too stupid to be left unsupervised.

[ohioman]

LOL. So true. We are “too stupid” for his climate change dogma.

[cogitator]

palmer politely prodded me into responding. I initially tried to bow out, because of the monotonous repetitiveness of Happer's misstatements. But when someone of palmer's acumen apparenlty couldn't find anything wrong in the statement, I was compelled to respond. (I have a small feeling that someone as smart as palmer probably wanted to find out why I thought the good Dr. Happer's statement was so bad.)

If it makes you happy, I've basically stopped responding to actual stupid statements about global warming here on FR. There just isn't enough time in the year. This was a classic about the underwater volcano eruption in the Tongan archipelago: "It gave me an opportunity to explain and illustrate with these pictures the fact that most of the “global warming” on the planet is due to a natural phenomenon: underwater volcanic activity, especially prevalent in the Pacific “ring of fire”. (Someone else bombed that one.) Or this: "I have read that volcanism produces more particulate matter and CO2 in a year than the entire cumulative output of all machines, vehicles, and factories since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution." Fortunately someone else responded to that one, too. (And there is a difference between the amount of particulate aerosol produced and the amount of CO2, but only a significant volcanic eruption -- such as the recent Chaiten -- puts a lot of ash into the atmosphere. Actually, darn it, I'm going to have to investigate this one.)

Later.