tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post5075812194118236417..comments2024-03-18T03:27:18.777-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: EliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-9964716215438495522009-03-13T11:11:00.000-04:002009-03-13T11:11:00.000-04:00Where do they find these people?o_OWhere do they find these people?<BR/>o_OAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-13730359841985488032009-03-10T12:04:00.000-04:002009-03-10T12:04:00.000-04:00Well, they, meaning the civil servants, were tryin...Well, they, meaning the civil servants, were trying to get the nuclear industry re-started back in the late 70's, when Benn had a run in with them and realised they were torpedoeing all other options except nuclear, and of course there was a mistake made with Salters duck figures which made them seem twice as expensive than they actually were, although it might have been an honest mistake.<BR/><BR/>Torness, being the newest, was actually begun in the 70's and finished in the 80's, and as far as I can tell we didn't need any more power stations after that, and anyway they realised it would take massive public subsidy to get commercial.guthriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17992984293423290387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-21599013993069455062009-03-09T20:23:00.000-04:002009-03-09T20:23:00.000-04:00Guthrie, "Apparently" it was Maggie's plot to get ...Guthrie, "Apparently" it was Maggie's plot to get the nuclear industry restarted - outflank the greenies. <BR/>Trust me - I'm a denialist.<BR/><BR/>Doesn't seem to have worked - not many nukes built in the UK since she got power.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-58102940792185623552009-03-09T20:22:00.000-04:002009-03-09T20:22:00.000-04:00Eli said:As far as Eli and the rest of the world i...Eli said:<BR/><I>As far as Eli and the rest of the world is concerned, the Expert Reviewers, volunteered their comments, and had no ongoing relationship with the IPCC.</I><BR/><BR/>Here's how I think it might work. Anyone can sign up to be an expert reviewer (even me). But once you do, you get on the IPCC list and get an "invitation" next time around. We'll see if that holds up in my case when AR5 rolls around.<BR/><BR/>Don't know about Courtney, but some of the "experts" appeared to have violated IPCC terms against citing or quoting the draft report - like the authors of the Fraser Institute's Independent Summary for Policy Makers (ISPM), which was a "summary" (more like distortion and cherrypicking) of the second draft.<BR/><BR/>There are good reasons for the IPCC embargo on drafts of course. And when I wrote the <A HREF="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Independent_Summary_for_Policymakers" REL="nofollow"> SourceWatch article on the ISPM</A>, I had to chase down several incorrect cites that had moved or changed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-38946476552232128612009-03-09T18:15:00.000-04:002009-03-09T18:15:00.000-04:00Thatcher used AGW as a political ploy? Why, was s...Thatcher used AGW as a political ploy? Why, was she a secret communist or something?<BR/><BR/>The last I knew, Thatcher set up the Hadley centre to study climate change, partly because she did actually have a scientific background, unlike the majority of MP's and journalists these days, and also it was an easy way to meet critiscism of her not caring about the environment.guthriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17992984293423290387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-43880261561535495992009-03-09T11:47:00.000-04:002009-03-09T11:47:00.000-04:00Eli,I would like to note that Boulder now appears ...Eli,<BR/><BR/>I would like to note that Boulder now appears to have a "team" to use RPJr's favorite line, or a "tribe" to borrow from Mr. Defender of the First Amendment Keith.<BR/><BR/>I think that team is very clearly RPJr, Tom Yulsman, and Keith Kloor. But if it was a "dance team", I would argue that they can't seem to quite get the rhythm. <BR/><BR/>Mus musculus anonymouseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-24405665031638804092009-03-09T09:47:00.000-04:002009-03-09T09:47:00.000-04:00I can't help but think on the irony in one of RSC'...I can't help but think on the irony in one of RSC's comment over there:<BR/><BR/>"<I>I suspect you have given me this honour because I began promoting science in opposition to the pseudo-science of man-made global warming in the early 1980s when Mrs Thatcher (then UK PM) began to use the issue as a political ploy. Hence, I was among the first (possibly the first) scientist to speak out against the pseudo-scientific political promotion that is man-made global warming.</I>"<BR/><BR/>And who was Mrs T's "scientific adviser" (well, one of them -- but that is usually passed over in resumés it seems)? None other than Viscount PseudoScience hisself!<BR/><BR/>Chortle, chortle!<BR/><BR/><I>Cymraeg llygoden</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-9586200837871333692009-03-09T07:36:00.000-04:002009-03-09T07:36:00.000-04:00"Richard S. Courtney, not of Epson, but"Is this a ..."Richard S. Courtney, not of Epson, but"<BR/><BR/>Is this a printing error? :-)<BR/><BR/><I>Cymraeg llygoden</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com