tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post8689158214929942304..comments2024-03-25T05:30:23.847+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: Deniers against nature at WUWT with Andy MaySouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-87611651239493443862016-09-17T13:27:13.460+10:002016-09-17T13:27:13.460+10:00The article you cite is hilarious. Word salad with...The article you cite is hilarious. Word salad with occasional lucid moments. Why do you expect it to come to any reasonable conclusion?numerobisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-29386382913142072782016-09-17T04:10:37.739+10:002016-09-17T04:10:37.739+10:00Go to the original source
One of the things I hav...<i>Go to the original source</i> <br />One of the things I have learned from reading secondary sources on historical cooking is that you should never trust a secondary source that does not include the primary, since you have no way of knowing what liberties the author may have taken in his “interpretation” of the recipe. David Friedman http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/To_Milk_an_Almond.pdf jrkrideauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04869979887929067657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-5694528871982262072016-09-17T04:06:44.752+10:002016-09-17T04:06:44.752+10:00They are fairly common in parts of Eastern Ontario...They are fairly common in parts of Eastern Ontario. One does not really pay them lot of attention unless they are actually taking a fish.<br /><br />Quite a change from 30 years ago.jrkrideauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04869979887929067657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-71762048389243675882016-09-17T01:12:44.461+10:002016-09-17T01:12:44.461+10:00I communicated with Kidd years ago (10 or so). Sin...I communicated with Kidd years ago (10 or so). Since then I've come across additional articles where she continues to support DDT in her rants against the EPA. She's been publishing a long time.<br /><br />We have to communicate with the idiots, at least from time to time. It's certainly better then letting them take over the conversation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-41292867557694221822016-09-16T20:56:25.293+10:002016-09-16T20:56:25.293+10:00So a couple of years ago - when PM Abbott pushed f...So a couple of years ago - when PM Abbott pushed for destruction of the Barrier Reef - I termed this phenomenon the Ideology of Plunder. It is actually an ideology and it is actually, explicitly, about destroying nature. Another example is Koch trying to buy up US nature reserves in order to destroy them.cRR Kampenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07571285063752477448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-85376642226290040642016-09-16T15:48:04.903+10:002016-09-16T15:48:04.903+10:00Why would you even want to communicate with Devvy ...Why would you even want to communicate with Devvy Kidd? She's also a birther and truther. Heck, she's an anti-vaxxer and climate pseudoskeptic, too. Crank magnetism's prime example.Marconoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-25863160763117127212016-09-16T01:35:48.307+10:002016-09-16T01:35:48.307+10:00Crichton died 8 years ago, so likely isn't fol...Crichton died 8 years ago, so likely isn't following many blogs.Magmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-68390295672998092702016-09-16T01:29:19.126+10:002016-09-16T01:29:19.126+10:00I forgot to mention that another author of online ...I forgot to mention that another author of online screeds that supports DDT is Devvy Kidd, who Michael Crichton may follow (unknown). She too claims that DDT is "harmless". I shared the reports, studies and analysis with her years ago and she flatly denied them all while having no credible response to the published data.<br /><br />Despite having a near-global ban, DDT is a truly horrible carcinogenic that should have never been used. And despite widely published information related to it's harmful effects, there are still ignorant people who will deny the facts. Crichton as a fiction writer, apparently prefers his fiction.<br /><br />Ignorance isn't bliss. In many cases, it's quite deadly - especially with their ignorance becomes widespread.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-655130553188451582016-09-16T01:17:23.101+10:002016-09-16T01:17:23.101+10:00Something that few seem to be aware of, the carryi...Something that few seem to be aware of, the carrying capacity of the planet - <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwjj5c37-43PAhVB1WMKHXz8D_cQFggfMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpeer.asee.org%2Fthermodynamic-considerations-in-determining-world-carrying-capacity.pdf&usg=AFQjCNG5cvCFx-5wwjCPBUZFwu2ygV-TxA&sig2=jMZ2BDncLmJbxwcGnwn0xA&bvm=bv.132479545,d.cGc" rel="nofollow">Thermodynamic Considerations in<br />Determining World Carrying Capacity</a><br /><br />Depending on what standard of living you're willing to accept, the carrying capacity was estimated at 770 million to 3.8 billion (the low number represents world population living like a U.S. citizen, the high number represents near zero energy consumption at all). We are very obviously in severe overshoot.<br /><br />This paper does include other critical factors like habitat, food production and so forth. There are many other papers and studies that portray dire numbers for global population. Only by massively over-exploiting the world's remaining resources have we "acheived" the horrible conditions we have today, but it cannot possibly last much longer. There are already several critical reports depicting global starvation looms just ahead. The coming die-off will be quite severe and ugly.<br /><br />Don't expect complete morons to ever accept science or facts as a guide for their bias and opinions which are based upon multiple false assumptions and conjecture. Their hatred of science and knowledge is legendary. Quite simply, they prefer stupid and superstition to guide their opinions. This is why I oft use the term stupidstitions. They're simply not interested in anything that would persuade them to use intelligence.<br /><br />Nature and the natural world is something to be eliminated in their minds, with humans taking preeminence over everything else. This disconnect from reality and what really supports the web of life that we require for our very existence and survival is astounding. It is based in a lack of knowledge, education and indifference with heavy doses of religious stupidstitions liberally applied (daily it seems).<br /><br />We would have done well to outlaw this sort of idiocy long ago and to punish institutionalized ignorance as a crime against humanity. Start with the churches.<br /><br />Don't hold out any hope for the species to finally eradicate itself from ignorance because it won't. The situation is already beyond critical now and we will all experience the impacts of our stupendous crash soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-91251317821888773272016-09-15T23:32:55.694+10:002016-09-15T23:32:55.694+10:00Sou, I kinda figured you were an SF fan :)
My co...Sou, I kinda figured you were an SF fan :) <br /><br />My comments were more to help draw the contrast between valuing the genre and mistaking reality for one's own fantasies. Both are important, but they're not same. It's possible (indeed, I think it is vital) to value both. <br /><br />Inability to recognize the difference, however, is one of the roots of denialism. <br />D.C.Pettersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05078422582348328238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-50242628050001271842016-09-15T23:23:44.534+10:002016-09-15T23:23:44.534+10:00Here out east, they've become a thing that you...Here out east, they've become a thing that you see once in a while when you're out hiking, rather than a mythical beast.numerobisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-54956984673409687462016-09-15T21:17:19.512+10:002016-09-15T21:17:19.512+10:00An encouraging sign in the comments at WUWT is tha...An encouraging sign in the comments at WUWT is that many of the short-sighted moral imbeciles posting there lament that people aren't listening to them and that the environmental movement is too powerful to stop.<br /><br />Better late than never.Magmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-26828127820377577902016-09-15T20:31:07.587+10:002016-09-15T20:31:07.587+10:00Thank you for the link to Dr Ana Rodriguez : I had...Thank you for the link to Dr Ana Rodriguez : I had no idea there are now 6000 breeding pairs of Bald Eagle. A cheering ray of good news in the general gloom.Cugelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-65884000469666119712016-09-15T20:28:24.386+10:002016-09-15T20:28:24.386+10:00There are too many corpses floating in the Mediter...There are too many corpses floating in the Mediterranean for denial of a population crisis to be forgivable.Millicentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-6317881099343317322016-09-15T15:00:59.337+10:002016-09-15T15:00:59.337+10:00DC, I'm a big fan of science fiction. I starte...DC, I'm a big fan of science fiction. I started with the staples - Isaac Asimov etc. Then I discovered Ursula Le Guin, who at the time was starting to make a name for herself - and many more terrific writers. <br /><br />I think the point is that deniers don't have the ability to distinguish fact from fiction when it comes to climate change. And their mental models / world views push them toward fiction despite the obvious facts.Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-34293439416273095182016-09-15T08:47:09.978+10:002016-09-15T08:47:09.978+10:00Let's not be too harsh on science fiction. As ...Let's not be too harsh on science fiction. As a fantasy and science fiction writer myself, I love the stuff. <br /><br />In addition to the functions of all literature (escape from the daily grind, avenues to expand one's outlook, ways for the language to row, and so on), it also can provide important social commentary and cautionary tales and moral fables of the importance of Aesop's tales. <br /><br />SF is also is a source of ideas for innovators: look at all the tech on Star Trek (communicators/cell phones is but the the most obvious example) that have become commonplace.<br /><br />Having said that, confusing any novel for reality is a serious mistake. Even historical novels and biographies are, at best, approximations of reality.<br /><br />SF has explored worlds without ecologies, planets that have been converted to world-sized cities. These aren't meant to be taken as recommendations, and few are depicted as utopias. Most are written with no concern for, or understanding of, what it would take to maintain a functional environment. Even a breathable atmosphere requires a panoply of living things--or incredible (read: literally unbelievable) technology.<br /><br />Anyone advocating a contempt for nature is advocating species suicide.<br />D.C.Pettersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05078422582348328238noreply@blogger.com