If you've just started reading my blog, and gone back through the last few months, you will have found a preponderance of posts related to global warming, or the lack thereof. This is not typical. I will post on the subject again, I'm sure, but the subject is not one of my consuming interests--it was just damn interesting for awhile.
My one scientific passion is foundational E&M. Unfortunately, my time to do any fun experiments has been short for several years now. I'm hoping to change this soon, by means of making my space into an actual lab with a door on it that I can lock. I'll be calling it my "Daddy shack" and it will serve as both a man cave, and as a retro-lab, evocative of those "radio shacks" inventors a century ago would build, wherein they sought to tame electricity.
Stay tuned.
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Dear Jeff: I received the latest Analog and just finished reading your article in the September 2010 (it is June 2010 - but whatever). I only read it because I liked the title. I have not read your articles before - I will look back now and start. I was impressed to say the least that you are a realist. You are not fake, you have a mind, you know common sense when you don't see it... I thought Analog was very liberal and assume they still are - after reading about the Barack Obama High School short story...please...already naming future high schools to this man...giving him a peace prize within days of his arrival to the White house? I digress, sorry. But I grew up in the 70's with those old projectors in the school room speaking of global cooling, the coming ice age and the fact that California was going to be sliding into the ocean within years - I live here now on terra forma - not in the ocean. I am a great conservationist - I love animals, I want to preserve them, I love the environment and want to preserve it. But what these Global Warmists are doing is anything but preservation. If you want to preserve anything - you save the creatures, you save the environment - you don't make up statistics that make so little sense. I argued with a young woman outside of a Trader Joes who represented Green Peace - the first charity I gave my dimes to as a kid. Back then they were trail blazers - fighting whaling ships - brave individuals, leaders in the chase against wrong. Now, they tout global warming... From the proud and strong brave fighting for the helpless to the liberal climategate agenda. I used to be one of them - I understand the disease clearly. It took me years to come clean and sober. I don't need to know your political views - I am just thankful that Analog ALLOWED your point of view. And for that I am thankful to you both.
ReplyDeleteI am a new reader of this blog, though I go back quite a ways with Analog — to about the time Clifford Simak's Way Station was serialized as "Here Gather the Stars" and maybe a bit before.
ReplyDeleteTo cut to the chase, I believe there is a solid scientific case for AGW and feel it is something we should be concerned about.
Is it going to bring imminent disaster? No. We can issue an "as you were" and most of the world will do just fine for some decades.
But IMO the trend is clear. If it continues, the next generation, or the one after that, is going to have difficulty coping with climate conditions. I think our generation can, without pulling in our belts very tight, greatly alleviate that difficulty. And I think we should do so.
On my Web pages I expound on this at length. You can read my argument starting at:
http://www.chris-winter.com/Digressions/AGW/AGW_Belief.html
I understand that global warming is not your primary interest, but if you have the time I would appreciate hearing your thoughts.
Thanks anonymous. Stan puts up with my views quite well--he has never been anything but fair with me, and when he wants an alternate view, he can count on me. I am a realist. I call myself a conservative independent, but that leads to trouble with people who associate "conservative" with the neo-cons they see on TV, or simply with Republicans, which is even worse. We're about the same age and I recall those days. I also like clean air, and trees, and wildlife, etc. And that's just it--chasing a phony disaster not remotely likely to happen instead of working on genuine here-and-now problems is not helping the cause of conservation.
ReplyDeleteAnd Mr. Winter, thank you for weighing in. I'll keep you in mind next time I want to wade into the global warming fray. I do not object to climate studies, nor to Warmists who are honest about what they have actually proved as opposed to what they think is happening. The same goes for the "deniers" actually. I'm not in fear of a coming ice age, either. The one thing I'm most in favor of is setting up climate monitoring system, Earth and spaced-based, that is properly designed and maintained, and the data from which is properly and rigorously analyzed.