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Skeptical Environmentalist Saga Continues
"The Ministry critique holds that the Committee's procedure was unfair. It does not address the scientific issues. Lomborg's book caused outrage among many environmentalists and scientists, while right-wing organizations such as the Cato Institute have defended Lomborg. Scientific American devoted eleven pages of its January 2002 issue to a critique of Lomborg. Lomborg was only allowed to publish a one-page rebuttal, to which Scientific American replied here. When Lomborg defended himself by posting the Scientific American critique on his web site and that of Greenspirit with his commentary [PDF file] interspersed, Scientific American threatened to sue and both sites took it down. It is, however, still available at the iGreens web site."
(Slashdot ran a review of Lomborg's book early last year.)
If he doesn't believe in warming, does that make him a cold danish?...
Just another day in Paradise
...now that I've heard that the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation has issued a critique of the Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty's condemnation of it, I definitely have mixed feelings about it.
I'd be a pretty sceptical environmentalist too ;)
We've been keeping track of global climate for more than 140 years!
s hgl.gif) Surely this is the sign of evironmental armageddon!
Surely this is enough to be able to accurately predict the warming and cooling cycles of the Earth!
You stupid people! Global temperature has risen almost 1 degree F in the past 140 years! (http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/nh
Karma means nothing to me, so suck it...
Sincerely,
Ann Coulter
And all this time I thought AC stood for Anonymous Coward...
Sure... but the big question is: can we cancel out Global Warming with a Nuclear Winter?
That first paragraph was confusing so lemme post my summary:
Bjorn Lomborg says evironmentalists are stupid.
Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty says Bjorn Lomborg is stupid.
Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation says Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty is stupid.
Cato Institute says Bjorn Lomborg is not stupid.
Scientific American says Bjorn Lomborg is stupid.
okay makes sense now.
What if you view God as the opposite of entropy?
There should be a word for the act of using pithy quotes to sound like you are wise. - Kickstart70
"...The New York Times reports that the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation has issued a critique of the Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty's condemnation of Bjorn Lomborg's book..."
So this would be a reply to a post about an article regarding a critique of a condemnation of a book. I feel so connected to the original situation, I just might have a stroke!
Tehe! Whenever I hear this kind of environmentalist rabble, I can now clearly associate them with dihydrogen monoxide issues. The biggest green house gas in a newly discovered substance known as dihydrogen monoxide. Yet it is invisible to most environmentalists radar. They don't know it exists. Most media have never heard of it let alone mention it. Even if you were to mention that two thirds of the planet is covered with dihydrogen monoxide (or H2O as its commonly referred to) its somehow fogs out the core issues. There is plenty of steam in dihydrogen monoxide theories make it THE number one factor for global warming and since dihydrogen monoxide covers two thirds of the planet, there is nothing that anyone can or should be doing about it. Dihydrogen monoxide carries gigawatts of heat energy around the planet. It is responsible for all the heat retention of the planet and maintaining conditions suitable for life. Without it Earth would be cold and dead just like the Moon. Environmentalists leap at their sceptics as heretics - but in their haste to preserve their funding, they can't address dreadfully simple issues like dihydrogen monoxide. I can only hope they grow up some day and admit their childish pseudo science was all a waste of money and not real science.