Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/03/2009 10:00:22 AM PDT by ClimateDepot.com
Professor William Calvin Unhinged! Calls on scientists to use 'interventional activism' to combat global warming! 'Climate will change our ways of doing science' - Claims 'long term thinking can be dangerous' Monday, August 03, 2009- By Marc Morano – Climate Depot
[Climate Depot Editorial Note: Dr. Calvin should consider heeding the wisdom of Dr. Richard Lindzen. See: MIT Climate Scientist Lindzen: 'Ordinary people see through man-made climate fears -- but educated people are very vulnerable' - July 6, 2009 ]
By William Calvin, Neuroscientist at the University of Washington School of Medicine; Author of “A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change.” Calvin's essay was posted online by The Edge as part of their “World Question Center 2009” series. Calvin also write for the left-wing website DailyKos.com. Calivn's full bio here and here.
Dr. Calvin excerpts (emphasis added): Climate will change our ways of doing science, making some areas more like medicine with its combination of science and interventional activism, where delay to resolve uncertainties is often not an option. Few scientists are trained to think this way — and certainly not climate scientists, who are having to improvise as the window of interventional opportunity shrinks. [...]
Climate will, at times, force a hiatus on doing science as usual, much like what happened during World War II when many academics laid aside their usual teaching and research interests to intensively focus on the war effort. The big working models of fluid dynamics used to simulate ocean and atmospheric circulation will themselves be game-changing for other fields of dynamics, such as brain processing and decision making. [...]
Long-term thinking can be dangerous if it causes us to neglect the short term hazards. A mid-century plan for emissions reduction will be worthless if the Amazon rain forest burns down during the next El Niño. [End excerpt of Dr. Calvin's essay.]
For Dr. Calvin's full essay see here.
[ Climate Depot Editorial Note: Kudos to Dr. Calvin for restraining himself and not following in the footsteps of Nobel-Prize Winning Economist Thomas Schelling who wished death and destruction on Americans in order to convince them man-made global warming was a threat.
See: 'Find ways to exaggerate': Nobel Prize-winning economist wishes for 'tornadoes' and 'a lot of horrid things' to convince Americans of global warming threat! - July 14, 2009 ]
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And...what was the amount of the government grant you received to write this "essay"?
If this professor wants action he needs to go quickly and tell his tale to Goosey Loosey, Ducky Lucky, Turkey Lurkey and Henny Penny.
They'll spread the word.
If what these “scientists” are saying is true, about the ice caps melting in 20 years, etc., we are already screwed. The CO2 will not go away over night, even if we all drive priuses, or even bicycles, and Al Gore stops flying around in his private jet and moves into a recycled cardboard box. The damage has already been done and anyone who says we can reverse it in the next 150 years is full of excrement. This is assuming that you believe them in the first place.
You forgot to mention Huey, Dewey and Louie...Quack, quack!
Does “interventional activism” mean to send the mean men with their guns, bombs, planes, ships and kinves?
“Interventional activism” to these pussies is another conference and some wine and cheese on recycled plates.
bttt
“Long-term thinking can be dangerous if it causes us to neglect the short term hazards. A mid-century plan for emissions reduction will be worthless if the Amazon rain forest burns down during the next El Niño”
Not to worry. It’s already being cleared to grow corn to make ethanol.
“Activist science” is a contradiction in terms. Examples of activist scientists are Lysenko, Mengele, and Al Gore.
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