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Peter Brown wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 9:46 am
One last post this morning.
I stood with two Aussie Falcon 7X pilots yesterday on a tarmac in so FlA. I told them I was sorry to hear of the fires in Oz. They told me that when they arrived here in the US, they were amazed to see how hyperbolic our newspapers and media are, that the fires were arson-caused and nowhere near the size our media portrays.
A researcher called John Galtung once remarked that if a newspaper came out once every 50 years (as opposed to every second in our digital world), it would not report celebrity gossip, fake news, and political scandals; it
would report momentous positive global changes such as the increase in lief expectancy.
Good things unfold over time, but bad things happen quickly. My belief is that many folks here, in their mania to take out Trump, focus only on every second's worth of bad news and amplify it to be earth-shattering. Sorry to be the bearer of good news, but life has only gotten better for humanity, and that will always be the case.
Someone said climate change caused those fires to spontaneously combust?
Climate change (previously known as "global warming") seemingly has caused
some person's brains to combust.
My opinion here PB that has been ridiculed and mocked by the dedicated members of the 72nd chicken little brigade has not and will never change. Our planet earth will do what it wants, when it wants, where it wants and how it wants. The chicken little brigade is unable to differentiate from what humans can control and what humans have no control over. When the chicken little brigade faithful can control things such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes and all the other cataclysmic disasters our earth throws at us.. then I will be all ears. Until that time I will do what I have always done. When I take a long walk I will have the garbage bag in hand that I always have at the ready. My suggestion to the paranoid CLB members is to put on a fresh depends, grab a glass of warm milk with a glob of butter in it and don't worry about stuff you have no control over.
Oh I don’t listen Cradle. The global warming crew isn’t really about ‘saving’ anything. They’re about denying doers the opportunities they themselves will never seize. I’m more amused than anything.
Thanks for your reply PB. I don't live in a multi million dollar exclusive neighborhood like so many of my FLP environmental extremists that like to lecture me here as to how ignorant I am. This morning when my wife and I left to go to Wegmans some folks had thrown their garbage bags and fast food containers out onto the road. For the umpteenth time we policed up the trash and put it in our garbage tote. I may be a denier but I am more concerned about actually keeping my community clean. I wonder how many of these folks here who live in their multi million dollar homes have this problem of having to pick up trash thrown on the roads where they live.
Most people have the same good values you have and don’t buy into what the global warming crowd is truly selling, which really is denying doers the opportunities to do. Global warming as a concept might have validity but likely not for the reasons the global warming crowd trots out. And like everything else in life, the earth will neutralize problems as they occur so there is zero to to fret about.
The global warming crowd has zero nuance and are thoroughly dishonest about their true intentions. They love them some Greta though....sheesh.
The bloviation brothers giving each other moral support. Tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber.
When was the last time you had to pick up trash some one threw in front of your multi million dollar estate? You are sadly so jealous that you will never be enough of a scientist to lick Roy Spencers left nut. What is the color of your mansion 72? I am guessing a very envious shade of green. Don't feel bad 72, being a low level, substandard grade scientist ain't half bad. Maybe even the folks at PBS will give you some much needed publicity...
BTW, did you read Roy Spencers blog today? You know, like the one you will never have.
I don’t know JHU72, but I gather from your post he’s both a scientist and a leftist.
Outside of chasing government grants, I’d find it amusingly incongruous for anyone whose life work (a scientist for example) revolved around data and facts to be a leftist. Most of humanity’s greatest injustices have been dealt by collectivists’ hands. The empirical data demonstrably showing the political system that inevitably must turn to smashing the citizens freedom is leftism. A truly great scientist, James Watson, was a fact-driven man who had zero tolerance for leftism. He’d mock any scientist who embraced leftist policies.
Someone needs to teach PB how to use google.
It would save him a lot of embarrassment and spare us of some of is ignorance.
“us”.
Definitely not a backscratchers convention here.
It would save ALL of the readers of your posts some of your
ignorance if just used google before responding instead of saying something directly
ignorant that would have been instantaneously and obviously correctable had you done so, eg your response re Roy Spencer.
You are not stupid, just willfully choosing to be ignorant.
I don't know whether your mention of Watson was a purposeful troll to see who would bite, but let's hear what it is that you so admire about Watson relative to the many brilliant scientists in the field of genetics. (He did his very important work during the 1950's) Is it, perhaps, his racism or his sexism that bubbled out in his later life? BTW, none of which was "fact-driven". He wasn't the only geneticist of his day to hold such bigoted views, just one of the most prominent to still be spouting them.
Is that what makes him not a "leftist"?
Comments on race[edit]
At a conference in 2000, Watson suggested a link between skin color and sex drive, hypothesizing that dark-skinned people have stronger libidos.[66][92] His lecture argued that extracts of melanin – which gives skin its color – had been found to boost subjects' sex drive. "That's why you have Latin lovers," he said, according to people who attended the lecture. "You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English Patient."[93] He has also said that stereotypes associated with racial and ethnic groups have a genetic basis: Jews being intelligent, Chinese being intelligent but not creative because of selection for conformity.[94]
Watson has repeatedly asserted that differences in average measured IQ between blacks and whites are due to genetics.[95][96][97] In early October 2007, he was interviewed by Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). He discussed his view that Africans are less intelligent than Westerners.[98][99][100] Watson said his intention was to promote science, not racism, but some UK venues canceled his appearances,[101] and he canceled the rest of his tour.[102][103][104][105] An editorial in Nature said that his remarks were "beyond the pale," but wished that the tour had not been canceled so that Watson would have had to face his critics in person, encouraging scientific discussion on the matter.[106] Because of the controversy, the Board of Trustees at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory suspended Watson's administrative responsibilities.[107] Watson issued an apology,[108] then retired at the age of 79 from CSHL from what the lab called "nearly 40 years of distinguished service".[60][109] Watson attributed his retirement to his age, and circumstances that he could never have anticipated or desired.[110][111][112]
In 2008, Watson was appointed chancellor emeritus of CSHL.[113][114] In a BBC documentary that year, Watson said he did not see himself as a racist.[115] As of 2009, he continued to advise and guide project work at the laboratory.[116]
In January 2019, following the broadcast of a television documentary made the previous year in which he repeated his views about race and genetics, CSHL revoked honorary titles that it had awarded to Watson, and cut all remaining ties with him.[117][118][119] Watson did not respond to the developments, having been ill since a car accident in October 2018.[120]
Personal life[edit]
Watson is an atheist.[14][121] In 2003, he was one of 22 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto.[122]