Archive for the ‘Viewpoint’ Category
Lord May: Environmentalism and Religious Authoritarianism
Posted at 12:49 pm | Filed Under Religion, Viewpoint, climate science, environmentalism
Strangely enough the climate alarmist blogosphere hasn’t mentioned the latest statements of Lord May, former President of the Royal Society and self-appointed scold of Exxon Mobil.
It seems that the noble Lord has taken it upon himself to reveal his real motivations for his concern for the environment and they have nothing to do with the [...]
Scientific Alliance: Popper versus Kuhn on Climate Science
Posted at 10:03 pm | Filed Under Science, Skepticism, Viewpoint, climate science
This just came in from the Scientific Alliance, and I thought it was so good it should be reproduced for posterity:
Time for a new paradigm on climate change?
There are two alternative ways to look at how science progresses. In one corner is the concept of the falsifiable hypothesis, credited to Karl Popper. Popper argued that [...]
2012: Why are we so afraid of the future?
Posted at 2:07 pm | Filed Under Michael Crichton, Skepticism, Viewpoint, environmentalism
It’s a truism that films about the future are more about people’s current attitudes and fears projected into the future than real predictions.
And the next, greatest disaster movie 2012 by Roland Emmerich is no exception. It’s really the message of extreme environmentalism that we humans are sinning against nature and Mother Earth and one day [...]
“Just unspoilt landscapes and the opportunity to consider the threat of climate change”
Posted at 7:44 pm | Filed Under Al Gore, Viewpoint, environmentalism
From The Australian:
LIBERTY, ecology, gastronomy! If only all revolutions were this pleasant.
A Michelin-starred chef, an international adventurer and a veritable UN of diners – French, Swiss, Russian, South African, Singaporean, Australian, plus a Korean celebrity and his film crew – gathered for lunch on a remote sandbank on the Great Barrier Reef.
Surely this was not [...]
Twenty years ago the cry across Europe was “Freedom”
Posted at 11:22 pm | Filed Under Politics, Viewpoint
This is about as forthright and personal as I am ever likely to get on the Internet, but here goes…
This from the BBC:
Dissidents in Eastern Europe had a bitter joke about the communist approach to compromise. “What do you do when you’ve made someone 99% communist,” it went. Answer: “Beat the other 1% out.”
It was [...]
The endless dilemma of every new blogger
Posted at 10:43 pm | Filed Under Viewpoint
Fusion Power, Climate Change and Pascal’s Wager
Posted at 9:42 pm | Filed Under BBC, Religion, Skepticism, Uncategorized, Viewpoint, WeatherAction, Webcomics, climate science, environmentalism
This post may seem a little schizophrenic, but bear with me.
The BBC website, also known as the media arm of Environmental Panic Inc., produced a fascinating article on the struggle to fund the next experimental setup to produce fusion power.
An international plan to build a nuclear fusion reactor is being threatened by rising costs, delays [...]
What’s missing from this picture?
Posted at 8:39 am | Filed Under Viewpoint
What’s missing from the picture? Our memories are being reprogrammed.
I completely agree with Roger Ebert on this one
The Best of Aussie: Corey Warburton
Posted at 6:16 am | Filed Under Viewpoint
Just read this for a positive story about a young man doing an act of unselfish heroism:
A “WILD-LOOKING” teenage “prankster” leapt 20 metres from a bridge into a cold river to save the life of a woman, 70, just moments after finding what was believed to be her suicide note.
Corey Warburton, not to be confused [...]
Wikipedia on trial #2: Benjamin Franklin
Posted at 5:31 am | Filed Under Viewpoint
Object lesson #2 in our occasional series on Wikipedia’s inability to write biographies is about American philosopher, writer and Revolutionary politician, Benjamin Franklin.
From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, I reproduce the first few and last few paragraphs:
Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790), natural philosopher, writer, and revolutionary politician in America, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, [...]