Posted on 03/16/2014 9:49:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
And just like way back then, The Church worked to enrich itself, and keep the people "in darkness." In this case, they really DO want to turn out the lights (and electricity).
One of the reasons that Gore has become so unhinged was that he was slated to become the world's first "Global Warming" billionaire with the passage of cap and trade.
Mark
The one good thing about liberalism... it is ALWAYS wrong.
So if you want to know what to do, or what will happen. Just find out what liberal want you to do or think will happen and do the opposite or plan for the opposite.
For instance I became 100% convinced that we were heading into a new ice age the minute liberals started pushing global warming.
Well Larry,if CW2 starts-I’ll look for you on the field.
What a doofus,too lazy to even shave properly.
If Dr. Larry is going to opine on the philosophy of science, he should at least read the seminal work on that matter, namely “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Thomas Kuhn.
BTW, Dr. Larry, they locked up Galileo for denying what the 99% “consensus” of existing “scientists” had to say about the fundamental “settled science” of astronomy, but the earth continued to rotate around the sun anyway.
BTW, a few of the other scientists who correctly bucked the 99% consensus were, Louis Pasteur, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Alfred Wegener, Antoine Lavoisier, and Robin Warren and Barry J. Marshall. Fortunately, Dr. Larry wasn’t in charge of jailing scientific heretics during those times, or otherwise we would be living in a far different and a far poorer world than today.
Just Leftists being their normal fascist selves. Politics trumps science like everything else
:-) snicker
Stealthy and very low cost without requiring much wood.
rocket stove mass heater
http://www.richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp
Some techs. are working on developing related, low cost stoves with mass and masonry heaters for those who need to pass inspections.
There are many modifications for the above and many more kinds of projects in the works. Sometimes, we should acknowledge a negative and ongoing political and economic reality and choose to adapt and overcome.
Look at this oven (dowload the manual).
On "cooling off," one Freeper painted his house with a special reflective paint, superinsulated the house and continued with other related projects. Sorry I haven't had time to do more study and experimentation for hot climates. It very seldom gets above 65 degrees here (but often lower than 30 below).
The more influential political folks want to start playing the "carbon" game. Make them pay us, instead (see Linux, open source legal successes).
We don't play with camping toys. We're not Walter Mitty. We don't mess around. Sanctions first.
Michael Crichton on “science” and “consensus”:
http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/Crichton2003.pdf
(hint: he said they don’t play well together)
Ah, on Walter Mitty... For those who haven’t read it, it’s an enjoyable and very short short story.
Fiction
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
by James Thurber
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1939/03/18/390318fi_fiction_thurber?currentPage=all
“The left would LOVE to be able to imprison anyone who disagreed with them.”
That’s where it always leads. Demonize then criminalize the opposition. Then come the re-education camps, then the death camps.
“is an “assistant professor of philosophy” considered to be a scientist? A climate scientist?”
It must be nice to be an Ass. Prof of Philosophy. Everything is just a matter of opinion. No right or wrong, no need to prove your point. Just run your mouth all day, write your BS opinions and get paid. Its like being a journalist, use your “freedom of speech” to say whatever BS you want while advocating the elimination of free speech for others.
Larry Torella
My research interests include ethical theory, and applied ethics, social and political philosophy, and scientific skepticism. Current projects investigate the practical consequences and ethical responsibilities implicit to democratic citizenship in morally pluralistic societies, particularly in the domains of medicine and education, the environment and animal welfare, public policy and political discourse. My recent work pursues the moral implications of global warming denialism, as well as other forms of science denialism.
It is said that mathematicians require pencil, paper and a trashcan. Philosophers dispense with the trash can.
“denialism”. Learn a new word each day. You must have also noted that among this clown’s research interests is “scientific skepticism”, something that he himself does not appear to practice.
On 13 March 2014, Assistant Professor Lawrence Torcello published a blog posting[1] entitled Is misinformation about the climate criminally negligent? at a tendentious propaganda website, “The Conversation”. In that posting, he committed the following breaches of the Institute’s policies:
1. Mr Torcello describes himself as “Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology” and makes no effort to comply with the explicit requirement of the principles on academic freedom by indicating that he writes neither on behalf of the Institute nor in his capacity as an assistant professor there but as a private citizen.
2. Mr Torcello offends against the requirement of accuracy stated in the principles of academic freedom in that his posting falsely said “the majority of scientists clearly agree on a set of facts” about “global warming” on which they do not in fact agree. Mr Torcello links his cited statement to a reference to three papers each claiming a “97% consensus” to the effect that most of the global warming observed since 1950 was manmade. However, as Legates et al. (2013)[2] have demonstrated, a review of 11,944 papers on climate published in the 21 years 1991-2011, the largest such review ever published in the scientific literature, had marked only 64 papers, or 0.5% of the sample, as explicitly endorsing that proposition. Though it may well be that 100% of scientists publishing in relevant fields accept that – all other things being equal – our returning CO2 to the atmosphere from which it once came will be likely to cause some global warming (though the record amounts of CO2 we have emitted recently have not caused any warming at all for up to 17 years 6 months[3]), legitimate scientific doubt remains about the quantum of future global warming that may be expected, with an increasing body of peer-reviewed papers moving towards a climate sensitivity of only 1-2 Celisus degrees per CO2 doubling[4], and the IPCC itself drastically reducing its predictions of global warming over the next 30 years.
There should be a nice stay in the artic for him...a vacation of sorts.
He fits right in with the draconian pre-enlightenment approach to science. At the time it was settled that the earth was flat and anyone daring to say differently were punished by the Noble class.....
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