tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post7954232859860670957..comments2024-01-23T17:14:04.067-05:00Comments on Jaltcoh: If Mitt Romney doesn't "know" global warming is mostly caused by humans, is he "against science"?John Althouse Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11703450281424023177noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-81818298894148939702011-09-02T14:57:52.748-04:002011-09-02T14:57:52.748-04:00Romney should just say, "Sure, it's getti...Romney should just say, "Sure, it's getting warmer. We are, after all, still coming out of both the last glaciation and the Little Ice Age which dates back to the Middle Ages."KBKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-71642300682731892292011-09-02T13:04:35.063-04:002011-09-02T13:04:35.063-04:00John, you need more explicit ellipses in your quot...<i>John, you need more explicit ellipses in your quote.</i><br /><br />Where?John Althouse Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11703450281424023177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-82067313922749947552011-09-02T13:03:05.672-04:002011-09-02T13:03:05.672-04:00"more explicit ellipses"
You mean like ..."more explicit ellipses"<br /><br />You mean like the asterisks they use instead of dot-dot-dot in law school casebooks?Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-40518127246394334372011-09-02T13:01:26.134-04:002011-09-02T13:01:26.134-04:00@chickenlittle I'll see your Freud and raise y...@chickenlittle I'll see your Freud and raise you a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_capability" rel="nofollow">Keats</a>.Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-36510176796963088242011-09-01T19:10:07.877-04:002011-09-01T19:10:07.877-04:00John, you need more explicit ellipses in your quot...John, you need more explicit ellipses in your quote. It looks contiguous, but it's not. I almost pasted it in as is, at another blog, and I would have been embarrassed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-48290613104405117712011-09-01T14:51:23.959-04:002011-09-01T14:51:23.959-04:00Got to have. My. O-range juice!Got to have. My. O-range juice!jimspicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16316014985662331998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-359007599058594472011-08-31T19:46:25.400-04:002011-08-31T19:46:25.400-04:00Ooops! Feynman not "Feymann" (lol!)Ooops! Feynman not "Feymann" (lol!)chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-14894868244358511032011-08-31T16:09:43.117-04:002011-08-31T16:09:43.117-04:00Well before Richard Feymann wrote about uncertaint...Well before Richard Feymann wrote about uncertainty, Sigmund Freud wrote to a friend: <br /><br /><i>Mediocre spirits demand of science the kind of certainty which it cannot give, a sort of religious satisfaction. Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.</i>chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-59048277725031163862011-08-29T23:18:23.326-04:002011-08-29T23:18:23.326-04:00Romney doesn't say he is deferring to scientif...<i>Romney doesn't say he is deferring to scientific consensus--he just says he doesn't know.</i><br /><br />He didn't used the words "deferring to scientific consensus," but that seems to be the clear thrust of most of his comments on the issue. Krugman seized on his "I don't know" language as if it represented Romney turning his back on "science."John Althouse Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11703450281424023177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-6325576470541185622011-08-29T16:47:50.410-04:002011-08-29T16:47:50.410-04:00The Obama Administration's overreaction to the...The Obama Administration's overreaction to the BP spill (and the subsequent illegal and overlong shutdown of all gulf drilling), their antipathy towards fracking and clean coal, their continued push for 'green jobs' when that sector has failed to produce even modest results despite massive support with public monies, have been much more damaging economically, and in the long run more harmful to the environment, than anything Gov. Romney has said or done.<br /><br />Energy companies lead innovation, the more profit they make now, the more they're allowed to exploit resources locally, the better for the global environment as a whole both in terms of how the resources are gathered, and reducing the amount of resources consumed in moving these goods vast distances.<br /><br />If you believe that climate change is an existential threat on a global scale, then getting as much energy from every domestically available source ought to be your goal.XWLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13646729965929680256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4464222071440015933.post-82193843399730543462011-08-29T12:28:06.819-04:002011-08-29T12:28:06.819-04:00"Isn't this appropriate for a layperson w..."Isn't this appropriate for a layperson who's deferring to scientific consensus?"<br /><br />Romney doesn't say he is deferring to scientific consensus--he just says he doesn't know. It would be politically hazardous for him to say he is deferring to scientific consensus on this issue. This I think is Krugman's point. <br /><br />Of course, I'm leaving out the fact that many don't believe there is a scientific consensus on this issue. These are the people that Romney doesn't want to piss off.Kitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11726378477831287580noreply@blogger.com