Op-Ed Columnist - Who’s Sleeping Now? - Tom Friedman - NYTimes.com
1. If global warming is the Most Important Issue of All Time, why is it barely mentioned in the above article?
2. If China is allegedly going so incredibly green without putting a price on carbon, why is it so very vital that we put a price on carbon in the US? If we do so in the US, why won't businesses just move to places where there is no price on carbon?
December 2009: Second Snowiest on Record in the Northern Hemisphere « Watts Up With That?
We are either going to put in place a price on carbon and the right regulatory incentives to ensure that America is China’s main competitor/partner in the E.T. revolution, or we are going to gradually cede this industry to Beijing and the good jobs and energy security that would go with it.Questions for Tom:
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Yes, climate change is a concern for Beijing, but more immediately China’s leaders know that their country is in the midst of the biggest migration of people from the countryside to urban centers in the history of mankind.
1. If global warming is the Most Important Issue of All Time, why is it barely mentioned in the above article?
2. If China is allegedly going so incredibly green without putting a price on carbon, why is it so very vital that we put a price on carbon in the US? If we do so in the US, why won't businesses just move to places where there is no price on carbon?
December 2009: Second Snowiest on Record in the Northern Hemisphere « Watts Up With That?
According to the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab, last month had the second greatest December Northern Hemisphere snow cover since records were started in 1966. Snow extent was measured at 45.86 million sq. km, topped only by 1985 at 45.99 million sq. km. North America set a record December extent at 15.98 million sq. km, and the US also set a December record at 4.16 million sq. km.Yes, pseudoscience writer Chris Mooney IS dishonest. | OpenMarket.org
Another work of his was the 2007 book “Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics and the Battle Over Global Warming.”Roger L. Simon » ClimateGate continues: “Follow the money, not the temperature”
Yes, it was another argument that clearly global warming was leading to an increased number of hurricanes and intensity of hurricanes, a thesis I had criticized two years earlier when the whole thing erupted in the wake of Rita and Katrina. Pseudoscientists and pseudoscientist writers had built a whole thesis around a grand total of two data points, rather like looking at two stars in the sky and seeing the outline of Marilyn Monroe.
...it may interest Coren to know (assuming he’s picking this up on Google Alerts) that I am an ex-civil rights worker, am pro-gay marriage, believe Aids is a serious matter to which we should donate tons of money and…. think anyone who still believes anthropogenic global warming is anything near settled science is a BLOOMIN’ IDIOT (caps because Coren is addicted to them in his own column – a sign the author is a tad insecure about his message).
Even regarding Coren’s tedious differentiation between climate and weather (yes, yes, we’ve heard this), it seems the restaurant critic missed one of the key emails in the ClimateGate scandal from Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research: “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”
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Tom Friedman is representative of that special kind of stupid that reigns at the NY Times. Most of those who are ignorant or stupid aren't that way on purpose. At the Times, they work hard to remain ignorant AND stupid. It's deliberate.
Just as upper class women in China once bound their feet in order to be incapable of work, people at the Times intentionally prefer to remain ignorant and stupid rather than encounter any facts which conflict with their preferred superstitions.
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