Letters to the Editor
Renegade Iconoclast
Published Letters: 660 Editor's Choice: 11
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Salty... did you even read your own links?
[Read the article: The year in the environment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For example, here are some excerpts from your first "debunking."
I think, simply through talking to scientists and reading what they write, that many scientists would tend to subscribe to what have been variously described as "no regrets" or "win-win" or "insurance" policies. So that, for example, if you drive a car that gets better fuel economy--more miles to the gallon or more kilometers to the liter--then you have done a little bit toward decreasing the emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
But even if climate turns out to be not the issue we think it is, even if climate turns out to be more robust than we presently think against human effects, then you've done a number of other pleasant things for yourself. You've saved some money, you've improved the air quality in the town where you live, you maybe have reduced the dependence of your country on foreign oil supplies, so you might have improved national security and the balance-of-payments problems. There are a lot of reasons for driving a car that gets better fuel economy. And so I think measures like energy efficiency and energy conservation are widely advocated. Switching to renewable energy where practicable is something that, seems to me, has many other things going for it besides its benefits to the climate system.
But one does come across this paradox: that people who are already convinced that the science has been done don't think more research is needed. And people who think that scientists are out not to give objective studies of how nature works but to push a preconceived idea that a climate catastrophe is looming oppose further research. And, so, for many scientists, to whom the need for further research is not simply self-serving but also obvious, because we see so clearly where the holes are in our present knowledge and where the uncertainties are in our model predictions, for us to find natural friends in the political spectrum who will share our sense that research is not only urgently required but actually rather cheap compared with the climate consequences of not doing it makes the political process bewildering and sometimes frustrating.
And:
Pessimistically, everyone agrees that if you keep adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, you eventually change the climate in a serious way. If a skeptic says that he or she's not worried about doubling, ask them about tripling or quadrupling, and ask them about all the other gases besides carbon dioxide, some of which are increasing faster than CO2.
There comes a point where you can't escape the idea that you're having serious climatic consequences. And so the issue becomes one of guessing whether we get wise before that day, or whether technology bails us out, or whether we have to wait for some perhaps quite unanticipated climate surprise that wakes us all up. I very much hope that the optimistic scenario is the one that develops.
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Repent, Saltypuppy, before your carcass is forfeit.
[Read the article: Mike Huckabee's leap of faith]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One thing though. When I read these liberal blogs I am taken by how anti-God they all are. I mean, mocking God may play well in cocktail parties on the upper east side but in the end, you will meet Him and be called to account for your entire life.
Actually, it is YOU who will be called on by Odin to answer for your idolatry. For you have not sacrificed any of your slaves or male oxen to him as is meet. On the field of Ragnarök shall you surely face your swift and certain annihilation, as will all enemies of the One Eyed.
We ARE a Christian nation, founded under the watchful eye of the Christian God and the author of Christian morality and all denials to the contrary do not change this. Abortion in murder. Homosexuality is a perverse disorder. Etc. These truths will be driven home to all of you on the day you face your Creator. Your snide attitude and air of superiority won't serve you very well.
It is the great spear of Odin that shall be driven home, my unfortunate cousin. Straight through the breastplates of the mightiest of your so-called "Christian" warriors. And there shall be blood, and weeping, and weeping of blood through various artificial holes that He shall himself puncture.
Oh yes, you will know fear!
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Worry not
[Read the article: Mike Huckabee's leap of faith]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love the phony intellectualism. FYI, I am a Professor with 2 graduate degrees, one of them in Theology. Most of you who opine on theology are embarrassingly wrong.
Well, that was convincing. I expect apologies all around now. How often do we beat our wives, oh Sage One?
you all need a little love and tolerance in your lives. Perhaps if you had a God in your lives?
Dude, I've got like, at least six. My cousin is dating Thor (she says he's lightning in bed). I had lunch with Odin yesterday. Ra is my old college buddy, but he won't meet for drinks whenever Nut is around (and likewise for her). Vesta keeps nagging me to take her out, but the braying of her donkey drives me insane. I broke up with Diana when she wouldn't put out, but we're still good friends.
What have you got in your life, like, one?
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hahaha, ya, we're the bigots
[Read the article: Mike Huckabee's leap of faith]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As for quoting Mosaic Law (that's the old testament kiddies) Jesus advises that the OT is there to keep people in line until His coming. Let's stop quoting Mosaic Law to Christian bash. IT is not logical...or kind.
For Jesus hath said, "If a man lies with another man while eating a ham and lobster sandwich, the lying with the man part is surely unholy and they shall be put to death. But the sandwich is totally cool."