I received this in the mail from a reader and thought it good enough to share. The author is the as-yet-under-construction Peter Miesler of Durango CO, who describes himself as follows: From my earliest years I’ve loved science and have been drinking it up (at a layman’s level), ever since. I graduated Burlingame High School…
A really awe-inspiring TED talk by David Deutsch is also really discouraging and disappointing. Of course at first I didn’t see where he was going. Unfortunately he was leading up to some fundamentally cracked ideas about climate change. It’s really sad, as the talk is inspiring and invigorating until it gets to the hopelessly wrong…
The mantle of lovable old coot of liberal persuasion who thinks global warming is hooey has been passed to a new old generation. I tried to avoid saying anything nasty about Reid Bryson while he was around. Reid was, no doubt about it, a very nice man. He was also the founder of the department…
In a more or less typical “economists who agree with my preconceptions are reasonable, economists who don’t, aren’t, and climate science doesn’t really exist” essay, someone calling himself the Skeptical Optimist manages this wonderful blurt: GW news is too frequently contaminated by confirmation bias, belief preservation, and rehearsed political dogma. I stop reading as soon…
Freeman Dyson starts an article with the words “My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated. Here I am opposing the holy brotherhood of climate model experts and the crowd of deluded citizens who believe the numbers predicted by the computer models”. Yet his article is hardly about climate…