What bothers me most about the global warming thing is that I see it as a perversion, a misuse of science. I grew up as a science geek. When the other kids were out playing baseball, I was playing with my chemistry set. Other kids subscribed to Ranger Rick or maybe Hot Rod. I subscribed to Science News.

The Nuge is obviously not a science geek. But if one merely recognizes that methane and CO2 are not pollutants in any normal sense of the word, there is no inconsistency between environmentalism and refusal to worship the Kyoto protocol. I know that there are many respectable scientists who look at the data that way, but when I go to original sources and actually look at satellite-measured global temperature trends, world sea-ice levels and trends, the measured sea level rise, and consider that the computer models predicting climate catastrophe have serious technical deficiencies, I think The Nuge is essentially right.

Oh, and you guys do know that NASA's Dr. Hansen, one of the most vociferous advocates of anthropogenic global warming, calls carbon credits/cap-and-trade a “subterfuge.” He says a straight, honest, carbon tax is the only way to go. And on the other side of the pond, James Lovelock, the grand old GAIA-inventor and environmentalist, calls cap-and-trade a “gigantic scam.” So I'm sure you'll all write your representatives and tell them that, right?

What bothers me most about the global warming thing is that I see it as a perversion, a misuse of science. I grew up as a science geek. When the other kids were out playing baseball, I was playing with my chemistry set. Other kids subscribed to Ranger Rick or maybe Hot Rod. I subscribed to Science News.

The Nuge is obviously not a science geek. But if one merely recognizes that methane and CO2 are not pollutants in any normal sense of the word, there is no inconsistency between environmentalism and refusal to worship the Kyoto protocol. I know that there are many respectable scientists who look at the data that way, but when I go to original sources and actually look at satellite-measured global temperature trends, world sea-ice levels and trends, the measured sea level rise, and consider that the computer models predicting climate catastrophe have serious technical deficiencies, I think The Nuge is essentially right.

Oh, and you guys do know that NASA's Dr. Hansen, one of the most vociferous advocates of anthropogenic global warming, calls carbon credits/cap-and-trade a “subterfuge.” He says a straight, honest, carbon tax is the only way to go. And on the other side of the pond, James Lovelock, the grand old GAIA-inventor and environmentalist, calls cap-and-trade a “gigantic scam.” So I'm sure you'll all write your representatives and tell them that, right?

What bothers me most about the global warming thing is that I see it as a perversion, a misuse of science. I grew up as a science geek. When the other kids were out playing baseball, I was playing with my chemistry set. Other kids subscribed to Ranger Rick or maybe Hot Rod. I subscribed to Science News.

The Nuge is obviously not a science geek. But if one merely recognizes that methane and CO2 are not pollutants in any normal sense of the word, there is no inconsistency between environmentalism and refusal to worship the Kyoto protocol. I know that there are many respectable scientists who look at the data that way, but when I go to original sources and actually look at satellite-measured global temperature trends, world sea-ice levels and trends, the measured sea level rise, and consider that the computer models predicting climate catastrophe have serious technical deficiencies, I think The Nuge is essentially right.

Oh, and you guys do know that NASA's Dr. Hansen, one of the most vociferous advocates of anthropogenic global warming, calls carbon credits/cap-and-trade a “subterfuge.” He says a straight, honest, carbon tax is the only way to go. And on the other side of the pond, James Lovelock, the grand old GAIA-inventor and environmentalist, calls cap-and-trade a “gigantic scam.” So I'm sure you'll all write your representatives and tell them that, right?

I expect that's part of the reason why he's so hardcore about his beliefs. You see it in religion, as well – it's the converts who buy into the dogma most completely, and who are most zealous about spreading the word. They're projecting their own guilt outwards.

That's what sets Ted apart from cynical monsters like Ann Coulter or Bill Kristol, who raise transparent intellectual dishonesty to an art-form. Those two have never felt a moment of guilt in their privileged lives, I would guess.

“In a July 15, 1990 interview, Nugent crowed about how he managed to dodge the draft. He claims that 30 days before his draft board physical, he disavowed personal hygiene. The last ten days he ingested nothing but junk food and Pepsi, and with a week to go until the physical, he stopped using the bathroom altogether. When the big day came, he had been living in excrement-caked and urine-stained pants.”

Or, to quote Tom Petty:

“Look, we got another one
Just like the other ones
Another badass
Another troublemaker
I'm scared; aint' you boys scared?
Oh! I wonder if he's gonna show us what bad is.
Boys, we got a man with a dog collar on
Guess we oughta throw old Spike a bone …”

Rob
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