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Occam's razor demands Occam's razor demands that, if the temperature of the earth has shifted wildly throughout its entire history, then it will continue to do

Occam's razor demands Occam's razor demands that, if the temperature of the earth has shifted wildly throughout its entire history, then it will continue to do so, today and tomorrow. Occam's razor demands that the usual suspects are trying to seize control of the means of production and distribution. Again. Occam's razor demands that, the same people concerned with global warming should be placing most of their demands against coal-fired countries like China, and in favor of Nuclear power. This is not happening. When trillions of dollars are on the line, Occam's razor demands following it, and not the same "climate scientists" who were predicting doom from "global cooling" in the 1970s.

ajross 18y ago
I can't vote for China's leaders, but I'm all in favor of pressure where applicable. And I do support nuclear power as at least part of the solution. So do I pass your anti-communist filter (seize control of the means of production, indeed -- you sound like Joe McCarthy)? Do you believe I'm not just trying to take your stuff? And, yet, I believe strongly that this is a problem worth fixing. And frankly I don't know what you're talking about with that "global cooling doom" nonsense. I think maybe you're confused with nuclear winter, which was a notion from about the same time.
- mynameishere 18y ago
  And frankly I don't know what you're talking about with that "global cooling doom" nonsense Welcome to the internets, an exciting place for you to learn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling The data quickly contradicted the global cooling predictions, as will happen again--perhaps. Of course, such contradictions are never a problem for people with an overriding political purpose. Instead of one crisis, they are happy enough to take the opposite crisis. Whether they have to switch again anytime soon is to be seen. Global temperature trends are sometimes quick and sometimes long. http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2008/02/11/a-2000-year-global-temperature-record/ http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2008/02/11/a-200... http://www.worldclimatereport.com/wp-images/loehle_fig3.JPG http://www.worldclimatereport.com/wp-images/loehle_fig3.JPG 99.999 percent of temperature swings occurred before the industrial age. Occam's razor again suggests that we should not blow trillions (yes, trillions) of dollars on anti-production boondoggles.
  - Retric 18y ago
    This hypothesis never had significant scientific support from your link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
    - Prrometheus 18y ago
      >This hypothesis never had significant scientific support But sadly it still got a front page scare article in "Time"
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ajross 18y ago

I can't vote for China's leaders, but I'm all in favor of pressure where applicable. And I do support nuclear power as at least part of the solution. So do I pass your anti-communist filter (seize control of the means of production, indeed -- you sound like Joe McCarthy)? Do you believe I'm not just trying to take your stuff? And, yet, I believe strongly that this is a problem worth fixing. And frankly I don't know what you're talking about with that "global cooling doom" nonsense. I think maybe you're confused with nuclear winter, which was a notion from about the same time.

mynameishere 18y ago
And frankly I don't know what you're talking about with that "global cooling doom" nonsense Welcome to the internets, an exciting place for you to learn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling The data quickly contradicted the global cooling predictions, as will happen again--perhaps. Of course, such contradictions are never a problem for people with an overriding political purpose. Instead of one crisis, they are happy enough to take the opposite crisis. Whether they have to switch again anytime soon is to be seen. Global temperature trends are sometimes quick and sometimes long. http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2008/02/11/a-2000-year-global-temperature-record/ http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2008/02/11/a-200... http://www.worldclimatereport.com/wp-images/loehle_fig3.JPG http://www.worldclimatereport.com/wp-images/loehle_fig3.JPG 99.999 percent of temperature swings occurred before the industrial age. Occam's razor again suggests that we should not blow trillions (yes, trillions) of dollars on anti-production boondoggles.
- Retric 18y ago
  This hypothesis never had significant scientific support from your link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
  - Prrometheus 18y ago
    >This hypothesis never had significant scientific support But sadly it still got a front page scare article in "Time"

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