[ricks_place]

Scientists mated with the eco-activists creating "illegitimate science". The progeny cannot be trusted.

[lawnguy]

Friedman lives in a freakin' estate that has a carbon footprint that I will never approach.

He's an idiot.

I say drill, baby, drill.

[parsifal]

True. And it will get worse. Al Gore is back.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2452149/posts

parsy,who is going to bed,now after shamelessly providing the above link.

[maro]

Why does anyone care what Friedman thinks? He studied Renaissance literature. It is evident that whether the weather gets warmer or colder, it will confirm Friedman’s nonscientific faith in AGW.

[DH]

You can’t help but wonder how the article would read if they had an extremely hot summer.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

The New York Times is still in business?

[Minn]

Those who favor taking action are saying: “Because the warming that humans are doing is irreversible and potentially catastrophic, let’s buy some insurance

Ah yes, the old Precautionary Principle. Let's take out an insurance policy with a $100 trillion premium to insure against a million dollar risk. It's all so logical.

People like Freidman have to just be crying in their beer. Just a short time ago he occupied the moral high ground. Now he's party to one of the biggest frauds in history. So you see him hedging is bets. Mildly chastising the most flagrant practitioners of the crime, while saying he fully understands whey somebody up against the evil forces they face would resort to fraud.

[detective]

“the climate-science community should convene its top experts — from places like NASA, America’s national laboratories, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, the California Institute of Technology and the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre — and produce a simple 50-page report. They could call it “What We Know,” summarizing everything we already know about climate change in language that a sixth grader could understand, with unimpeachable peer-reviewed footnotes.”

How about a two sentence report.

There is no man made Global Warming science. All there is are trend models using falsified data.

It is interesting that Global Warming can now be said to cause anything. Snow in the east coast, no snow in Vancouver, drought in Australia. Any weather at all can be explained as being caused by global warming.

[Minn]

Nothing better serves their interests than to see Americans becoming confused about climate change

Unfortunately for you and the stupid books you write, Tommy boy, Americans are becoming less and less confused about "climate change" all the time.

[Rastus]

Friedman and Krugman should be persona au gratin around here. I guess it’s all about seeing what the opposition is doing.

[Cobra64]

I guess Al Gore, the jerks at the NY Times didn't read Time magazine in the 1970s...

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Nor did they take a science class...

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[reaganaut1]

global warming ping

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...the fact that it has snowed like crazy in Washington — while it has rained at the Winter Olympics in Canada, while Australia is having a record 13-year drought....

What nonsense. Our drought is over. Matter of fact everyone on the eastern seaboard is praying for just one day of clear skies about now.

[Eye of Unk]

Its time for mankind to evolve.

Like in an alternate flooded world we will have webbed feet and gills.

Now that global cooling is becoming the new weather pattern its time to grow fur.

The alpha females of the future will be those with the most body hair.

[Impy]

Speaking of Global Weirding. While flipping through the channels last night I caught the last 5 minutes of a Star Trek TGN episode I’d never seen before. It was about warp drive hurting the fabric of space time. I could tell immediacy it was a lame evriopropaganda allegory. They decided to put a speed limit on ships to combat the problem. Obviously they dropped it later, possibly without even mentioning it again. LOL.

[rlmorel]

Thomas Friedman is an “intellectual”. Thomas Sowell has a new book out titled “Intellectuals and Society”.

It explains Thomas Friedman perfectly. Both Friedman and Karl Marx were intellectuals, and while Sowell doesn’t mention Friedman (yet), he does mention Marx. Sowell holds up the work of Marx as a sterling example of what happens when intellect is combined with the wrong set of premises.

“Das Capital” is a brilliant work written by someone who actually studied economics, but it is build on a faulty foundation (In Marx’s case, that the only real wealth is found in the hands of those that labor, or the direct result of their labor)

Friedman is no dummy, but like Marx, he is simply wrong, and he writes book after book full of his ingenious mental machinations on the same faulty foundation. I read Friedman’s work “The World is Flat”, and that was it for me. After that, I tried reading two more, and I dropped both of them before finishing them.

Once you conclude that someone is building all of their arguments on the same faulty premises, you realize they are saying the same thing over and over again in different ways, but it is still wrong.

[highlander_UW]

Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man stuff like renewable energy, solar panels and carbon taxes. Just drill, baby, drill.

Stupid progressive...the problem is, the AGW crowd claim the snow proves global warming. So either it's evidence or it's not evidence...and it's your side that says it is.

As for renewable energy and solar panels...nice straw man argument. Is AGW the only reason why they should exist...apparently so in NYT's view.

[Pollster1]

In my view, the climate-science community should convene its top experts — from places like NASA, America’s national laboratories, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, the California Institute of Technology and the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre — and produce a simple 50-page report...

Good idea: "Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT’s peer reviewed work states “we now know that the effect of CO2 on temperature is small, we know why it is small, and we know that it is having very little effect on the climate.”"

[Mr. Peabody]

A 50 page report!
Not 10 pages, not 100 pages but 50.

[a fool in paradise]

Climategate denier. He’s trying to get those straggling off the plantation back in line.

“These are the talking points”.

He ends his piece by saying even if the cause is overstated, with rising global populations, we will need increased sources of cheap energy anyway.