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Tuesday, December 19. 2006

Climate skeptic demands $ from Exxon-Mobil

Best piece I have seen on the Lord Monkton letter  (a perfect smack-down) and the whole politicization of geology and climatology in the interest of state and/or bureaucratic control over the world economy - at Classical Values.

Read his piece - it is funny. One thing I wonder about is not how much politicans hurt themselves when they get on quasi-religious bandwagons like this - we expect them to be foolish - but about how much scientists discredit themselves and the profession in this way.

I cannot remember a time in my life when loud scientists were right about any public policy or about any long-term prediction. Correct me if I am wrong (I know you will.). Just off the top of my head: the population "bomb," "Star Wars", the ABM Treaty, the Global Cooling Crisis, how to make peace with the USSR (surrender), Vietnam (surrender), the earth running out of oil (1970s), not to mention endless medical and health scares.  People will gradually just tune out the hysteria.

Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation, Our Essays at 15:28 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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If only. My sense is that the people's appetite for hysteria is boundless.
#1 Sissy Willis (Link) on 2006-12-19 19:00 (Reply)
Could be. But, if so, why?
#2 BD on 2006-12-20 06:59 (Reply)
There are endless facets to the war between enterprise and environment.

If you built an electric car and powered it with NiMH
batteries, Chevron would promptly sue you for patent violations. They bought patent rights for large format NiMH from Texaco who bought original rights from developers Ovonics.

You are forced to use small format D cells if you wish to use NiMH battery power.

Big Oil, Big Auto and government are dragging heels on the [EV] electric vehicle.

Understandable when you consider the employment disruption that follows. No motors, mufflers, manifolds, or millions of mechanical miscelleania. Not to mention oil, gas, filters, rubber hoses, anti-freeze, radiators, catalytic converters etc. see [EV] at:

TonyGuitar.Blogspot.com

I think this is an ideal time to deflate the steam in ME and South American oil wars, don*t you? = TG
#3 TG (Link) on 2006-12-28 11:21 (Reply)

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