tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post5315182557706676296..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: McCracken Fisks Happer @ Climate Science WatchEliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-40770667336081585102011-09-28T19:35:27.753-04:002011-09-28T19:35:27.753-04:00As scientific blood sports go, Livermore- Jason d...As scientific blood sports go, Livermore- Jason dustups are more entertaining than most Congressional hearings, so Mike & Will should be encouraged to have at it.<br /><br />I suspect the science editing at First Things may have been a bit thin, as the editors seem content with the intellectual climate of the medieval warm period.THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-54836688450115125732011-09-28T13:06:57.715-04:002011-09-28T13:06:57.715-04:00Asylum comments reminds me of a great book I read:...Asylum comments reminds me of a great book I read:<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Professor-Madman-Insanity-English-Dictionary/dp/product-description/006099486XAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-11499918609528606122011-09-28T10:15:12.239-04:002011-09-28T10:15:12.239-04:00What's the matter with Happer?
This little st...What's the matter with Happer?<br /><br />This little story might help answer that question.<br /><br />A traveling salesman gets a flat tire on the way to an important appointment. He pulls his car to the curb right in front of an insane asylum. He gets out of the car, opens the trunk, pulls out jack and spare, and jacks up the car.<br /><br />As he removes the lug nuts, he carefully places them in the hubcap that he had just removed. He then walks around to grab the spare; while doing so, he steps on the hubcap and sends all the lug nuts skittering down a nearby storm-drain.<br /><br />He immediately starts yelling and cursing, "Now what the @!&^ am I going to do? I'm going to miss my *#!@ appointment!".<br /><br />As it turns out, one of the inmates in the asylum was watching him the whole time. The inmate calls out to the salesman, "Why don't you just take one lug nut off of each of the other wheels and use them on the spare? Then after your appointment, you can stop by a service station and buy some more lug nuts."<br /><br />The salesman paused, and then replied, "That's a great idea. I would never have thought of that myself..... say, what's a sharp guy like you doing locked up in a place like that?"<br /><br />The inmate replied, "I'm not here because I'm stupid; I'm here because I'm crazy".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-24244100149366090722011-09-28T09:30:46.293-04:002011-09-28T09:30:46.293-04:00Aside from wisecracks, does anyone know what is th...Aside from wisecracks, does anyone know what is the matter with Happer? <br /><br />Pete DunkelbergAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-46974689103841677482011-09-28T06:22:07.572-04:002011-09-28T06:22:07.572-04:00390 ppm implies the end of permanent Arctic Ice. I...390 ppm implies the end of permanent Arctic Ice. It cannot exist at present global temperature as yearly volume decrease shows. Consequences for permafrost on the continents around, and ice sheets like the Greenland Inlandsis. For me 390 is about 40% too much.cRR Kampenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07571285063752477448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-56651995706306284902011-09-28T03:43:34.847-04:002011-09-28T03:43:34.847-04:00A gish gallop of almost Moncktonian proportions. I...A gish gallop of almost Moncktonian proportions. I just love how Mr Happer takes care to paint itself first as "eco-friendly" and then is booing EPA. But, Mr Happer, don't your friends want to shut down entirely EPA, including the pollutant regulations you claim to be concerned about ? <br />This is, in fact, what irks me the most. That people are short-sighted, well. That people are hypocrital to the point they claim they are ecofriendly while they are not, there should be a special place in Hell for them. <br /><br />BratislaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-33533290169878007152011-09-28T00:41:11.444-04:002011-09-28T00:41:11.444-04:00The last panel of this one:
http://freefall.purr...The last panel of this one: <br />http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2100/fc02092.pngHank Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07521410755553979665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-10605123971601896682011-09-28T00:09:45.422-04:002011-09-28T00:09:45.422-04:00350 ppm is too high for the long term. Something ...350 ppm is too high for the long term. Something more like 300 ppm.David B. Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02917182411282836875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-78372404900665688282011-09-27T19:20:25.915-04:002011-09-27T19:20:25.915-04:00Happer's "point" #27: "Will sh...Happer's "point" #27: "Will shifting to renewables enrich a few with political ties at the expense of the majority?"<br /><br />THAT would certainly be a totally NOVEL and eminently reportable finding for submission to some peer reviewed political science journal !!!<br /><br />John PumaJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12479974040070719985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-16681823671675772982011-09-27T18:41:07.014-04:002011-09-27T18:41:07.014-04:00> Is poop a pollutant or a vital agricultural m...> Is poop a pollutant or a vital agricultural material?<br /><br />http://cires.colorado.edu/news/press/2011/poop.htmlHank Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07521410755553979665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-6205948670703414622011-09-27T17:24:09.775-04:002011-09-27T17:24:09.775-04:00I would pay the: "wasn't CO2 too low"...I would pay the: "wasn't CO2 too low". I do not want to go back to the natural background CO2, or even pre industrial. My WAG optimal figure is about 310ppm. I suspect long term 350ppm is a little high.<br /><br />If you read Dr Hansen's analysis 350 is not guaranteed to be safe, but the maximum that might be safe. Stay above 350 and we are guaranteed to get changes we do not like.<br /><br />Rabid Doomsaying Little Mouse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-18426379925759603092011-09-27T13:16:17.940-04:002011-09-27T13:16:17.940-04:00I suppose the first instance of political spin wou...I suppose the first instance of political spin would be Cain asking if he were his brother's keeper, but I think the general debasement of public, political intellectuals reached its current, hypoxic levels with the muscled recantations of John J. DiIulio and Richard Clarke during the Bush years. Scientists have always written polemical stuff alongside their science, but I don't remember that it was as transparently bilge as it is these days.Jeffrey Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902noreply@blogger.com