And anyone else who is interested in the non-political aspects of climate change. My most recent issue of Physics Today has an article about Paul Higgins, who is the director of the American Meteorological Society's Policy division. It's a digest of a larger writing of his called Climate Change Risk Management, which I have not read yet, but intend to. His idea is that we need to get away from the political noise that has surrounded the issue, and focus on a risk management approach. If I'm not mistaken, Spock recently said something like this in this forum, and it's an approach even climate skeptics could get behind, I think. It might get us away from arguing the subtleties of modeling and forecasting with small baseline data, and into arguing about cost/benefit analysis. We'd still be arguing, but I think it's an immensely more productive argument to have.
If anyone else is interested enough to track down any of Higgins's recent writing on this subject, I'd be interested to hear your take. I am not interested in yet more overheated rehashings of the current talking points on both sides of the aisle.
Reading recommendation for Spock and TMITSSS
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Reading recommendation for Spock and TMITSSS
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman
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Re: Reading recommendation for Spock and TMITSSS
http://www.cbsvideo.ametsoc.net/climate_basics2.mp4
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/15/a ... evel-rise/
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/ma ... /PT.3.2548
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014 ... r-to-ucla/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/15/a ... evel-rise/
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/ma ... /PT.3.2548
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014 ... r-to-ucla/
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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mellytu74
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Re: Reading recommendation for Spock and TMITSSS
I am interested in following up with this.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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Re: Reading recommendation for Spock and TMITSSS
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014 ... evel-rise/
Mayor Jerry Brown of Oakland, who is a former governor of California and a former presidential candidate, said in an interview today that the suit was necessary because "there's been such an abject failure on the part of the Bush administration to protect the people of this country from the seriously deleterious effects of climate disruption."
The Oakland city council, which voted on Dec. 17 to join the suit, contends that global warming could cause the sea levels to rise, putting the city's groundwater aquifers at risk of saltwater contamination and threatening to flood the airport and sewer systems.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.