Re: OT: interesting global warming quote found elsewhwere

On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:44:08 -0700, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On Aug 1, 11:05 am, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:55:10 GMT, James Arthur
<bogusabd...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The only hope for simulation, btw, is if there's net negative
feedback which serves to constrain the accumulation of errors.
Like the resistor across an integrator's cap.
Egad! If climate has serious nfb, there's no warming crisis. If it
doesn't, the models are useless. In either case, AGW panic is bogus.
It is bogus

That's John Larkin's ill-informed opinion, and apparenty your own -
equally ill-informed - opinion.


Let's not go there again. IMHO there is no iron-clad proof that there is
global warming and it is caused by humans.

AGW is more of a psychological Rorschach test than it is any sort of
physical science. Better than Rorschach maybe. Cheerful, optimistic
people either discount it or figure we'll adjust, or even that it's a
good thing on balance. Bummed-out neurotics and pessimists and
activists look at change with eager horror, and the politicians (and a
lot of the researchers) live on that fear.



but the real problem is that lots of politicos have bought it.

It's in their interest to buy it. Great opportunities for votes,
taxation, control.

Too many wusses in the world. That's an evolutionary artifact of
evolving in a dangerous world and living in a less dangerous world: it
leaves a lot more fear than we really need now. Intelligence is
useless when fed observations filtered by fear.

John


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