tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post2302186657055603415..comments2024-03-29T00:28:38.155+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Scepticism (again)Nigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-23809576098010461212009-10-26T12:16:02.665+00:002009-10-26T12:16:02.665+00:00Deniers!Deniers!Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-65259159550812472442009-10-26T10:49:23.628+00:002009-10-26T10:49:23.628+00:00Great question worm!Great question worm!Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-63340607125451809592009-10-26T09:45:46.259+00:002009-10-26T09:45:46.259+00:00I wonder if there's a quantifiable difference ...I wonder if there's a quantifiable difference in the level of belief in climate change between protestant and catholic countries?wormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802335627720182532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-69702798956754756002009-10-25T23:47:12.483+00:002009-10-25T23:47:12.483+00:00I passed a group of 15-20 climate change folks in ...I passed a group of 15-20 climate change folks in the centre of town yesterday. Posters, a bullhorn, collecting tins, outside the principal shopping mall. A recruitment drive, perhaps. They struck me as evangelists in the line of Billy Graham or Moral Rearmament and before them the Temperance Movement and before them someting else all the way back to the Neolithic.<br /><br />I'm more uneasy about this evangelical come Utopian streak in human nature than I am about climate change. A charismatic leader, a dose of paranoia, perhaps a thought crime or two (you're the sort who'd like a log fire and a few trips on an aeroplane - we can tell just by looking at you), some tribunals ... . Oh my. Big trouble long before we get to fry, if ever we do.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-15032581293213957812009-10-25T18:28:34.297+00:002009-10-25T18:28:34.297+00:00I read Nigel Lawson's concise, readable and sc...I read Nigel Lawson's concise, readable and sceptical A Cool Look at Global Warming on hols this summer. I found it very convincing.<br /><br />He questions the idea of scientific consensus but the most powerful part is where, for the sake of argument, he accepts the global warming scientific case but (in my view) fatally undermines the logic of the warmists' solutions (building on Bjorn Lomberg's arguments).<br /><br />As I retain some open-mindedness, I've been trying to find strong counter-arguments but I've struggled. Most of what I've read has been ad hominem stuff about NIge (the other one). Has anyone come across anything good?Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-82938961236770060442009-10-25T17:15:20.111+00:002009-10-25T17:15:20.111+00:00just had a listen to the clive james thing on your...just had a listen to the clive james thing on your recommendation - most excellent!wormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802335627720182532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-57467092774857291272009-10-25T16:02:29.063+00:002009-10-25T16:02:29.063+00:00"skepticism", "whiskey": is ma..."skepticism", "whiskey": is malty a septic?deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-84831944038995697722009-10-25T13:58:33.357+00:002009-10-25T13:58:33.357+00:00The impending disasterists appear to have adopted ...The impending disasterists appear to have adopted that old fascist chestnut, the bigger the lie, the more people will believe it. We need more of the King is in the alltogeterists as a counterbalance.<br />Like a good whiskey, the older Clive becomes the more satisfying he gets, listening to his programme on Radio Four as he talked about his interviews with Pavarotti and Polanski was one the treats of the week.<br />As for skepticism, as a lifelong advocate of healthy dollops of the stuff, I'm with you Nige, a most usefull tool, allowing our sanity to be retained when many others appear to be losing theirs.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.com