tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post163834663603357260..comments2024-03-16T05:00:38.826-04:00Comments on Egnorance: 'All experts agree...', vintage 1970.mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-2801213039489094522014-05-27T08:03:34.171-04:002014-05-27T08:03:34.171-04:00I should've said "environmental protectio...I should've said "environmental protection."Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-56164239810755185662014-05-27T08:02:43.562-04:002014-05-27T08:02:43.562-04:00Excuses. What they're doing isn't science,...Excuses. What they're doing isn't science, it's alarmist propaganda for the sake of wealth redistribution and increased control under the veil of "environmental control." Now the EPA has set its sights on friggin' stoves and fireplaces, because they're <i>insane</i>.Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-45087291485292469112014-05-26T18:17:17.407-04:002014-05-26T18:17:17.407-04:00Ben,
Scientists predict what you refer to as '...Ben,<br /><br />Scientists predict what you refer to as 'shrieking, alarmist scenarios' because they've happened in the past and could happen in the future.<br /><br />There have been many episodes of climate change in the past associated with mass extinctions of varying sizes. Such as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum 55 MYA due to an increase in atmospheric CO2 levels similar to what we're causing now.<br /><br />Or the Malthusian crisis of the early 14th century in Western Europe in which the population was too large for the agricultural technology of the time, when it was impacted by bad weather in the period 1315-17, resulting in the death by starvation of around 5-10% of the population.<br /><br />You believe the predicted disasters were avoided. I think that they were delayed. The global population in 1970 was 3.7 billion. Today it's 7 billion. In 2050, it will be 9 billion. We've managed to feed the increased population without too many famines and by overfishing the oceans (which accounts for the protein intake of a billion people) to the point of collapse, as a result of having cheap abundant oil and natural gas to manufacture fertilisers and agricultural pesticides and using almost all of the available arable land.<br /><br />In the next 40 years, we've got to increase the global food production (or work out how to stop wasting so much of it due to spoilage - which is quite significant in poor countries), with energy becoming progressively more expensive.<br /><br />I really do hope that there will be some new technological advance which will allow us to avoid increasing famines. Eventually, our present agricultural technology will run up against the Malthusian limit. Malthus was only proved 'wrong' in the past, because new technologies, and whether they'll work, are unpredictable.bachfiendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14752055891882312204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-70542418653179239572014-05-26T11:39:16.396-04:002014-05-26T11:39:16.396-04:00Trog: "Who is this professor Peter Gunter?&qu...Trog: "Who is this professor Peter Gunter?"<br /><br />:-D<br /><br />Great question from an anonymous troll!Commissar Boggs, Ministry of Truthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-61039405968984695472014-05-26T10:22:35.555-04:002014-05-26T10:22:35.555-04:00"All experts agree..." my ass. A few che..."All experts agree..." my ass. A few cherry-picked examples mixed with religious propaganda does not equal consensus. <br /><br /><i>“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”<br />• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University </i><br /><br />Who is this professor Peter Gunter? A well-known demographer? Nope. A professor in the department of philosophy and religion studies, virtually unknown except for this one quote which has been recycled over and over and over again by conservative nutters and professional liars such as Egnor.troyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05136662027396943138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-51600595857051121672014-05-26T09:40:27.554-04:002014-05-26T09:40:27.554-04:00Speaking of possible ecological disasters, thank t...Speaking of possible ecological disasters, thank the Devil that Eve ate that apple. If she hadn’t there would be no death, and if Adam and Eve and all of their descendants followed God’s instructions to be fruitful and multiply the Earth would be covered with a sea of humans hundreds of miles thick by now.<br /><br />-KW<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-76240905832516162272014-05-26T09:11:42.300-04:002014-05-26T09:11:42.300-04:00Stop reminding them of their past failed predictio...Stop reminding them of their past failed predictions. That's not fair. <br /><br />Science is supposed to have predictive power. A hypothesis, if it's worth its salt, should serve as a guide to how certain phenomena will interact. Yet the current crop of hypotheses have given us only shrieking, alarmist nightmare scenarios that never come true.<br /><br />Who are the real science-haters here?<br /><br />BenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-75305623036931840122014-05-26T07:53:13.744-04:002014-05-26T07:53:13.744-04:00The environmental alarmists are insane. It's a...The environmental alarmists are insane. It's an ice age, no, it's a worldwide famine, no wait, it's global warming, no, the ocean is rising.<br /><br />(By the way, give us more money.)Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-30684158444761332802014-05-26T07:35:14.838-04:002014-05-26T07:35:14.838-04:00To my missing friends and family on Memorial Day. ...To my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg0VQ5LQuEk" rel="nofollow">missing friends and family</a> on Memorial Day. I remember you. I thank you.Commissar Boggs, Ministry of Truthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-86825466400708951932014-05-26T07:19:35.805-04:002014-05-26T07:19:35.805-04:00GENEVA, 8 January 2014 (The Onion) – With the impl...<i>GENEVA, 8 January 2014 (The Onion) – With the implementation of tighter carbon emissions caps and more responsible household energy use, it is not too late to reverse the dire course of global warming, [according to] a panel of scientists who know full well that it is far too late...</i><br />--- The Onion<br /><br />It's too late. We're past the Tipping Point. Chaos is descending...<br /><br /><i>Everything seemingly is spinning out of control.<br /><br />Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism.</i><br />--- Fram & Putnam (AP, 2008)<br /><br />We will witness signs and wonders. The very seas will rise from their appointed bounds and overwhelm the planet despite the Vows of Berlin and the Kyoto Protocol.<br /><br />My advice: loot a liquor store and party down. Commissar Boggs, Ministry of Truthnoreply@blogger.com