When Guesswork Masquerades As Science

Interesting discussion going on over supposed global warming issues, at Q&O. My response to one of the commenters will give you a taste:

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The problem arises when trying to make the same argument for the current warming –

Of course, physics do not work that way. God does not roll dice with the universe, not does He do public opinion polling.

Don Surber.

Dirty Harry Reid is against spilling of American blood to wage to global war on terror.  Yet Dirty Harry would rather have American motorists die as result of driving a Yugo than to drill for American oil in the Alaskan

No, Bitsblog has not become a Star Trek board and this is not the latest version of Al Gore.  For those who with the immense good sense not to watch Star Trek: The Next Generation, Odo, pictuired, was a Shape

It’s easy to see why Al gore’s [sic] movie should not be shown in schools. An Inconvenient Truth is a political commercial that misrepresents a whole area of science.

Kristen Byrnes, age fifteen, via Sister Toldjah.   A high school

We’ve been watching this monstrosity known as the Kyodo protocol diagrams slow death for some time now.  Stratfor seems willing to say the thing is dead. It’s a long discussion, but it’s well worth the time to read.

TOKYO-AP- Honda Motor Co., Japan’s No. 2 automaker, will continue to make gas-and-electric models of its Civic sedan, but stop offering the hybrid Accord with the new model expected to go on sale later this year, company spokesman Yoshiyuki Kuroda

Steve Gilbert, Sweetness & Light, has a great photo esssay of urban warfare in Germany:

ROSTOCK, Germany (AFP)

An estimated 100,000 protestors from anti-globalisation and anti-war groups will gather in this northeastern German port on Saturday to

“LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Reuters) -: An aspiring physicist was sentenced to more than eight years in prison on Monday and ordered to pay $3.5
million for his role in a spree of arson and vandalism that targeted gas-guzzling Hummers and

Noted in passing:

That Dutch TV show about the dying woman with the kidney she was trying to  select someone to receive as if it was some kind of game show? It’s all a hoax.

Personally, I had always thought

Boortz, this morning:

A recent issue of Geophysical Research Letters (surely you’re a subscriber) revealed that Neptune has been getting warmer since 1980.  Researchers are investigating whether increased output from the Sun might be the cause.

This warming of Neptune

The late Rachel Carson(1907-1964), author of Silent Spring,  is an iconic figure to the enviromental movement.  Yet while I suggest that Carson was not per se an evil person of the nature of say Adolf Hitler, the deaths

Thus “reason,” as Al Gore uses the term, refers to the ability of the leftist elite to impose its conventional dogmas on the national debate, without the need to persuade or convince others.

Robert Tracinski, Real Clear Politics. 

Noted at AJ Strata’s place:

I hate to say to the liberals I told you so, but I have been saying the ‘science’ on the matter of what is the force behind the Global Warming does not exist in

The National Center for Public Policy Research has challenged Greeneeace’s assertion that donations affect a group’s policy positions.   Greenpeace has criticized groups which accept donations from Exxon/Mobil, because the company often supports positions at odds with those of Greenpeace.

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