Re: OT Gas Prices and the Blame Game

On 23 mei, 22:30, Richard The Dreaded Libertarian <n...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Fri, 23 May 2008 07:57:26 -0700, bill.sloman wrote:
On 23 mei, 14:54, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Richard The Dreaded Libertarian wrote:
bill.sloman wrote:

It would be interesting to hear what the guys doing the patching think
about what they are doing, and why they are doing it - one can imagine
all sorts of explanations, but there's no way of finding out which
explanation is right without getting some input from the guys doing
the patching.

It's simple: Garbage In, Garbage Out. ;-)

And like most simple explanations, it's probably wrong.

Like the IPCC's fabrications too. Couldn't agree more.

The sad thing about you is that when you accuse the IPCC of
fabricating their results you really aren't lying, just too pig
ignorant to realise that the IPCC's job is to review and precis the
peer-reviewed scientific literature on climate change.

The problem is, you're advocating massive disruption of the economy,
and essentially exhorting us to knuckle under to a worldwide totalitarian
state that would dictate your behaviour - no doubt with concomitant
violence perpetrated on those who don't comply.

Oil price rises produce massive disruption of the economy every few
years. Hurricane Katrina produced a fairly massive disruption of the
New Orleans economy not all that long ago. Adjusting our economy to
produce less carbon dioxide per head doesn't have to be disruptive if
it is done gradually, and I don't see any need for a world-wide
totalitarian state to do it.

As a Libertarian, you do have rather odd ideas about what constitutes
totalitarianism

That would just be evil, it's that simple.

As opposed to virtuously waiting until global warming is irreversible
and accepting the concommitant disruptions to agriculture which are
likely to see a fairly large proportion of the human population
starving to death?

Try reading Tony Hallam's "Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The
Causes of Mass Extinctions". ISBN-10: 0198524978 ISBN-13:
978-0198524977

A couple of mass extinctions seem to have been caused by runaway
global warming.
While there's no particular reason to suppose that we will set off a
global extinction, there are superficially plausible ways in which it
could happen, and we aren't exactly the kind of animal that survives a
global extinction.

Is Algore running for chancellor, or what?

I haven't seen any sign of it yet.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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