I'm also waiting for the flood of global warming denial posts from people who have managed to see what all those foolish climatologists have missed - it would mean SUVs are a bad thing so cannot possible be true.
We have a similarly inspired great thinker here in Britain by the name of David Bellamy. He was a sort cuddly beardy bloke who used be on tv a lot in the 70s and 80s hiding in bushes and getting excited about birds.
Up until last year he was a well respected environmentalist having set up half a dozen environmental organisations and been invited to the board of half a dozen others. But he has a weakness.
He likes birds.
A lot.
His logic when it comes to global warming seems to be.
Global warming = must use less fossil fuel
less fossil fuel = more renewable energy
more renewable energy = more wind farms
more wind farms = more birds killed by turbines
dead birds = bad thing
Therefore global warming does not exist. QED.
So figuring that his credentials as a ornithologist made him fully qualified to dismiss any arguments put forward to the contrary by people who'd merely studied climatology he wrote piece denying global warming for the Daily Mail that was based on a load of psuedo science he'd found on random web sites.
George Monbiot did quite a nice job of demolishing him here:-
As long as it's traveling in one direction for long enough speed isn't going to be a problem (vacuum = no resistance). What it's going to lack is acceleration.
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I'm also waiting for the flood of global warming denial posts from people who have managed to see what all those foolish climatologists have missed - it would mean SUVs are a bad thing so cannot possible be true.
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We have a similarly inspired great thinker here in Britain by the name of David Bellamy. He was a sort cuddly beardy bloke who used be on tv a lot in the 70s and 80s hiding in bushes and getting excited about birds.
Up until last year he was a well respected environmentalist having set up half a dozen environmental organisations and been invited to the board of half a dozen others. But he has a weakness.
He likes birds.
A lot.
His logic when it comes to global warming seems to be.
Global warming = must use less fossil fuel
less fossil fuel = more renewable energy
more renewable energy = more wind farms
more wind farms = more birds killed by turbines
dead birds = bad thing
Therefore global warming does not exist. QED.
So figuring that his credentials as a ornithologist made him fully qualified to dismiss any arguments put forward to the contrary by people who'd merely studied climatology he wrote piece denying global warming for the Daily Mail that was based on a load of psuedo science he'd found on random web sites.
George Monbiot did quite a nice job of demolishing him here
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/05/10/junk-s
If you manage to find a copy of the debate that Channel 4 news ran between George and David it's well worth seeing.
As long as it's traveling in one direction for long enough speed isn't going to be a problem (vacuum = no resistance). What it's going to lack is acceleration.