Global cooling

[J64TWB]

We all have our Mozart's. Mine is Ronnie Earl. I'm surprised GT, who is so finely connected to the planet in playing vinyl and a civil gentleman as well, is so utterly unconnected to the planet in science and man's influence on it.

[coboardhead]

LHDR and Bluefish

It is odd how we all look at what someone "believes" and not how someone "behaves"'

If I had to guess, GT's carbon footprint is probably one of, if not THE, lowest on this forum. He drives a 50 MPG car, no kids, doesn't jump on a plane at the drop of a hat and a significant portion of his electricity likely comes from windmills (sorry GT I had to tweak you a bit).

Unlike most of the posters on this forum, he also does have a background in science.

I have issues with forums like this where a bunch of us civilians "debate" science and somehow believe it is the same as scientific debate. As someone who was involved in a rigorous scientific evaluation of nuclear waste isolation sites, I can assure you it is nothing like the conversations we find here.

[MalibuGuru]

[coboardhead]

I rest my case

[real-human]

[coboardhead]

[mac]

I'll speak in partial defense of GT. As a geologist, he was trained to look at time series with much larger steps. And to be sure, warming and ice ages are part of that record having nothing to do with anthropogenic impacts. (But lots to do with CO2 levels.). Unfortunately, he is really cranky about the cost of energy, and I don't pretend to know enough about British climate policy to know whether his crankiness is warranted. He is neither as snarky as mrgybe, nor as dishonest, so that should give him some credit.

A healthy skepticism is a good thing in a scientist. I thought global warminng was nonsense when I first read about it in the early 1980's. But now....and those Russian scientists who have still not got a peer-reviewed paper out...

For gorgeous classical music, it is hard to beat the Cello Sonatas. Mine is with Rostropovich and Rudolph Serkin, and wonderful--even if on CD. As beautiful and moving as the late Schubert sonatas.

I cannot understand people who are satisfied with an MP3 recording on an IPOD or computer.

And Ronnie Earl is great--but so is Otis Spann, Oscar Peterson, and Ella.

[cgoudie1]

It can't always be great, but I am a cheap date, so I can be happy just
sitting at the Double Mountain. ;*)

2 weeks,

-Craig

p.s. Snowbird still has 3 lifts open

[MalibuGuru]

The new fascism....

New York Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. is making a personal appeal to subscribers who canceled because the paper hired Bret Stephens, a conservative columnist who has questioned some of the science behind the theory of climate change and the dangers it poses.

In an email sent Friday afternoon and obtained by POLITICO, Sulzberger addresses subscribers who specifically mentioned the hiring of Stephens as a reason that they ended their subscriptions.

“Our customer care team shared with me that your reason for unsubscribing from The New York Times included our decision to hire Bret Stephens as an Opinion columnist. I wanted to provide a bit more context,” the email begins.

Stephens, who left The Wall Street Journal to join the Times, is also well known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative writer who has written strongly against President Donald Trump, often engaging in public battles during the campaign with the likes of Fox News anchor Sean Hannity. His first column for the Times last month argued that climate data create the misleading impression that we know what global warming’s impact will be, leading to reader complaints, some canceled subscriptions and a public editor column.

[real-human]