tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246037774279774631.post6806717937014545397..comments2010-10-15T10:41:56.692-04:00Comments on Rebel and a Runner: Some background on my position on climate changeFrank Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17058150602182753685noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246037774279774631.post-60414746926201515452010-01-14T07:43:33.047-05:002010-01-14T07:43:33.047-05:00What, you're sick of the seemingly mandatory a...What, you're sick of the seemingly mandatory application of "-gate" to everything? I can't imagine why the completely irrelevant use of a suffix derived from the name of a hotel in DC would be problematic for you...<br /><br />As for AGW the bigger issue for me at the time was that, when it first hit the scene, it was being pushed by the same crowd that only a decade or so earlier had been going on about "global cooling". Before that it was pesticides killing all the animals[1] and overpopulation[2] at roughly the same time[3]. I'm sure there was a looming global catastrophe before that, but even I'm not old enough to remember it.<br /><br />The issue now is one of credibility. Consider the recent <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100021984/this-will-be-the-warmest-winter-in-living-memory-defiant-met-office-staffer/" rel="nofollow">story</a> about the Met Office in Britain. Their methodology for calculating the "warmest winter in living memory" is suspect, to say the least.<br /><br />I could go on, as could you, but there are only so many hours in the day...<br /><br />NOTES:<br />[1] Check out the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson if you're not old enough to get that reference.<br />[2] Paul Ehrlich's book The Population Bomb, espousing the standard Malthusian scenario.<br />[3] Carson in 1968, Ehrlich in 1970.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16802792382719280088noreply@blogger.com