Re: Libertarian cartoons

On Apr 16, 9:03 am, Quadibloc <jsav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 13, 9:50 pm, James A. Donald <jam...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Global Warming was originally launched as a rationale
for nuclear power, but has been taken over by
worshippers of Gaia, to whom nuclear power is anathema.
Hansen's original motivation no doubt lay in religion
and academic politics.

As far as I'm concerned, whatever the motives of most of the people in
the environmentalist movement, I feel it has been given a leg up from
time to time from people whose motives are simple and obvious: to
hamper industrial activity within the main enemy, the United States,
and its allies, so that they will be less able to resist the armed
might of the Soviet Union.

But I do not feel that I can deduce from this that smog doesn't cause
lung disease,

Does it? At what incidence?

or that the ozone hole over Antarctica is a hoax.

What's the cost of that annually, in dollars, though?

I see
no intrinsic contradiction _whatever_ between there being real
environmental considerations that we have a genuine need to act upon,
and there being a bunch of loopy environmentalists out there who are
manipulated by sinister forces.

I suppose not, but given the enviromentalists are unrelaible, and
probably even if they weren't, we should probably turn to economists
for answers to questions about how best to mobilize scarce resources
to meet our needs.

It just makes it harder to tell the real environmental problems from
the imaginary ones. (Square them and see if the result stays on the
same line?)

In such a situation, the only sure guide is the hard science of the
issue;

Which is seemingly thin on the ground, if you've got Hyde here
claiming his models are unreliable and his lab experiments don't tell
him much about what happens in real life.

the political motivations of those involved are part of the
noise level, not the data.

Of course they're part of the data.
.

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