Comments on: The Insanity of the Climate Change Debate http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3240 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: more signal - less noise http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3240&cpage=1#comment-768 more signal - less noise Fri, 03 Sep 2004 19:30:25 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3240#comment-768 <strong>The politics of science</strong> Another problem I have with the Bush administration is their tendency to politicize science. Back in the good ol' days (about 4 years ago), the White House used experts in groups like the NSF to shape policy that related to... The politics of science

Another problem I have with the Bush administration is their tendency to politicize science. Back in the good ol’ days (about 4 years ago), the White House used experts in groups like the NSF to shape policy that related to…

]]> By: Kerry McEvilly http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3240&cpage=1#comment-767 Kerry McEvilly Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:43:30 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3240#comment-767 ...replacing the 300,000,000,000+ kilowatt hours per month of fossil-fuel generated electricity in the U.S. represents more than just social and political challenges - it represents enormous capital and infrastructure challenges. …replacing the 300,000,000,000+ kilowatt hours per month of fossil-fuel generated electricity in the U.S. represents more than just social and political challenges – it represents enormous capital and infrastructure challenges.

]]> By: Jeffrey Davis http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3240&cpage=1#comment-766 Jeffrey Davis Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:26:17 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3240#comment-766 The essayist makes a distinction between urban heat sinks and global warming. That has always struck me as a fatuous distinction. Heat from cities has to "go" somewhere, and cities are both persistent and spreading -- their influence will be as important and long-lasting as any component of the atmosphere. The essayist makes a distinction between urban heat sinks and global warming. That has always struck me as a fatuous distinction. Heat from cities has to “go” somewhere, and cities are both persistent and spreading — their influence will be as important and long-lasting as any component of the atmosphere.

]]> By: giordano bruno http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3240&cpage=1#comment-765 giordano bruno Mon, 16 Aug 2004 07:27:24 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3240#comment-765 In the Jurassic, it was hot all over. Not clear if that was CO2 caused. A lot of nice people say that "Nature recycles everything". Well all that coal isnt getting recycled, except through human furnaces. (Eventually it might go under a tectonic plate, and outgass in Volcanoes, I suppose). In the mean time, we are Nature's recycling agents. It looks almost certain that our wondrous "Limited Liability Corporations" ( or clones therof, calling themselves "Peoples Liberation whatever") will recycle it so fast that we get a mass-extinction event, and a civilization collapse. Civilizations so far have all collapsed, mostly through lack of firewood, it seems. Pity is that with a bunch of Regulations applied even-handedly, those Corporations could be happily churning out electric trains & taxis, efficient pumps and motors & heat exchangers, and PV roof tiles etc etc... Instead of which they drive around deserts in big tanks chasing pipeline saboteurs... In the Jurassic, it was hot all over. Not clear if that was CO2 caused. A lot of nice people say that “Nature recycles everything”. Well all that coal isnt getting recycled, except through human furnaces. (Eventually it might go under a tectonic plate, and outgass in Volcanoes, I suppose). In the mean time, we are Nature’s recycling agents. It looks almost certain that our wondrous “Limited Liability Corporations” ( or clones therof, calling themselves “Peoples Liberation whatever”) will recycle it so fast that we get a mass-extinction event, and a civilization collapse. Civilizations so far have all collapsed, mostly through lack of firewood, it seems. Pity is that with a bunch of Regulations applied even-handedly, those Corporations could be happily churning out electric trains & taxis, efficient pumps and motors & heat exchangers, and PV roof tiles etc etc…
Instead of which they drive around deserts in big tanks chasing pipeline saboteurs…

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