Who let the dogs out?

Washington Times ^ | January 14, 2002 | Patrick J. Michaels

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Scientific American has sicced the big dogs on Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg for having the audacity to publish a highly referenced book, "The Skeptical Environmentalist," which argues that global warming and many other environmental "threats" are overblown. What gives?

Why draw so much attention to a book you don't want to sell? Clearly, the editorial boards of Nature and Scientific American, as well as the leadership of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, the publisher of Science) perceive a big threat if Mr. Lomborg goes unanswered.

[Robert357]

And I thought I was going to declared a tinfoil hat person. You are seeing conspiracies! Just joking! Thanks for the heads up on this.

[longshadow]

Then to look for the simplest solution there should be some linkage between the two plannets warming and it likely has something to do with the Sun.

Or, it is due to natural but independent processes ongoing on each planet respectively.

[PatrickHenry]

Or, it is due to natural but independent processes ongoing on each planet respectively.

Indeed. Ice caps have only 3 possibility: grow, shrink, or remain stable. At any specific moment, the ice caps on earth and on mars doing one or the other (either for independent reasons or because of some cosmic cause affecting both planets). We've observed no remarkable changes in the sun lately (at least I've not heard of anything in that regard). So assume the ice caps on both planets are subject to independent forces. It's a 1 in 9 chance that they're both growing, or both shrinking, or both stable. It's a 1 in 3 chance that they're both in sync, doing the same thing. Not remarkable that we witness what we're now witnessing.

[ken21]

in short, i think the dems realized with the advent of ronald reagan in the 1980s that their time was up unless they found a new gig. and this is it.

attack the u.s. constitution and the right to property with environmentalism.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It started long before Reagan!

See this:

The Four Horsemen of the Frankfort School

[ken21]

i must admit that i'm no follower of buchanan.

i would agree with the critique of the frankfort school, having lived thru' the 1970s and read the stuff in college.

but buchanan is hardly the discoverer of the frankfort school as bad guys; it's been discussed in conservative literature for decades.

[SierraWasp]

"Repository Opposition"

I think they need a...

Supository Requisition!

We only wanna stick a few nukes up their Yucka Mountain, WHERE'S THE BEEF?

Are they afraid it'll singe their pucker brush too much?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFLMAO!!!!

[Movemout]

I do not believe that we are in disgreement on most of your points. Like you, I believe in a balanced approach to the preservation of our environment. I detest enviro-terrorists who attack property rights and have hidden agendas. I firmly believe that the market place does not abide those who destroy the environment to deliver a product, at least in the long term. Short term effects can be, and have been, masked. If you want an example of putting the government in charge of such concerns, one need look no further than the Soviet Union to find examples on a grand scale of ruined lands.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

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You were the last poster so I pinged it to you. BTW, it's good to know who's spreading this stuff.

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