Comments on: Refuting Global Warming Deniers at Thanksgiving

By: billsimmon

billsimmon — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:28:23 +0000

Juni, that’s the most post-specific spam I’ve ever seen. I’m so impressed, I’ll even leave it up.

By: juni

juni — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:19:56 +0000

Well the thanksgiving is over. I celebrated it with my family. We are not too much political kind. Instead we played fun games, discussed stories of past had lunch and dinner together. It was only after last thanksgiving that our whole family was together. Despite my extremely hectic schedule I managed to go online and buy some nice, decorative, scented candles for my whole family. Veria has large variety and seasonal discount. I guess the offer will be valid for the entire festival season and I’ll buy some more for Christmas and New Year. http://shop.veria.com/category/20239183581/1/Candles.htm Here is the link you can also check it out.

By: G C

G C — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:29:29 +0000

It won’t let me leave a comment with a link, but “How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic” is still your key resource here…

By: G C

G C — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:14:47 +0000

Man, too bad I can’t edit that after the fact. Typopalooza.

By: G C

G C — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:13:44 +0000

Matt Taibi’s recent piece on Sarah Palin — how she uses her endless interpersonal conflicts to general political capital that is totally independent of anything so mundane as “ideas” or “positions” — really opened my eyes on how this Climategate nonsense is doing it works. Climategate shifts the field of debate from statistics and facts, which only a small minority are qualified to discuss, to the field of interpersonal relations and “bad behavior,” on which we can all have an opinion. It’s being pushed as a “huge scandal” precisely because it remakes climate change into a moral question about how sometimes smart people turn out to be arrogant jerks.

That this moral question is totally irrelevant to the facts isn’t a bug, it’s the whole point.