On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:11:11 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:
snip a bunch of stuff
It's important because it's essential in sorting out a lot of the
propaganda. Again, do you feel that you understand it? I'm not asking you to
demonstrate it, only if you feel you understand the implications, for
example, of raising the CO2 level in the atmosphere from, say, 270 ppm (what
it was at the start of the Industrial Revolution) to 400 ppm, which it will
be very shortly.

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Ed Huntress
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I would be a *LOT* more impressed if the global warming fanatics
weren't playing "Yes, but."

Every proposal to limit or reverse co2 emissions is beaten down
except for us to stop having kids and go back to subsistence
farming, i.e. do it their way. This is just the 60s counter
culture with lipstick on.

A few specific examples:

(1) Wind power -- Yes but it ruins the view and might hurt a
bird.

(2) Wave power -- Yes but we never did it before and it might
hurt a fish.

(3) Hydroelectric power -- Yes but it drowns farmland and might
hurt a fish or stop wildlife from migrating.

(4) Reforestation -- Yes but we just don't like it and it might
not work.

(5) Adding iron to areas of Open Ocean to promote algae growth --
Yes but it might hurt the fish and it might not work.

(6) Nuclear -- Yes but we tried it once and didn't like it.

And on and on and on.

You can't come up with a solution that they do not "yes, but."

As long as we have had humans we have had the "yes buts," back to
the people against fire, animal husbandry and agriculture. [It's
not natural and it's dangerous...]

It is one thing to identify a problem, it is another to "yes but"
*EVERY* attempt or suggestion to solve the problem. Try asking
how much money/prestige they are making {Nobel Prize anyone} and
how "yes but" keeps their grift going. Also what these people
would do if the problem were magically solved. [I.e. on to the
next cause]


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).