Posts by Nuffnuff

Re: How much power?

Yeh nah

http://www.skepticalscience.com/volcanoes-and-global-warming.htm

Re: @Cipher - In the 1970s...

The Clash were evidently not on the cutting edge of climatology

http://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s-intermediate.htm

Re: Distortions

Isn't the mention of Gore an own goal by the Godwin principle? If not, it probably should be by now.

By the way, I hear he has a big house and travels a lot. And Hitler liked cats and was a fairly good painter.

Cultural context

A bit like proscriptions on munching our omnivorous porcine cousins, who gleefully wallow in potables rather than standing on the side and sipping daintily. Good one Abraham.

Not so much black

As old school eurometal but theres

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/A_Tribute_to_ABBA

Ocean-faring ships

"Find some other viable comparison, e.g. the invention of ocean-faring ships and sea lanes. At least this *can*, in known history, be fairly attributed to Europeans."

Polynesians had intercontinental trade routes at least a millennium before the Europeans started their colonisation era.

ozzy ozzy ozzy

oi oi oi

Credulousness

is another tool in the governmental box. In that case it was used quite deliberately. Ref interviews with the Bush govt's disaffected Iraqi source.

It's who you ask

Down with climatologists! We want our climatology done by non-climatologists thank you very much, as by their very name shall their agenda become apparent.

Ambulance

Interesting you make that comment - ambulances here have been user pays for some time now, meaning if you don't have insurance and require ambulanceable treatment or transportation, the onus is on you to fork out not insignificant amounts of dosh. Seems to work though. Check out the costs below:

http://www.health.vic.gov.au/ambulance/fees.htm

Knife missiles

Not sure they'll have a sense of humour though. Unless you like the three stooges with only one punchline. Cue cutting wit, barbed etc etc

@doody et al.

Progress is unfortunately not inevitable - in our instance, it is fuelled by vast quantities of energy which simply are not enough to sustain growth for the time frame you are talking about.

People have been trying to develop fusion for 50 years. Hydrogen is an energy storage medium, not a primary fuel. Oil appears to be on its last legs (who'll put money on Iran not getting a visit this year or next) and it's a bit late for fission, what with it not being economically viable and consuming absurd quantities of petrochemicals in commissioning.

Your solution to move growers to arable land doesn't take into account little details like borders, either. Without some serious military presence, it wouldn't be the growers to move, just the crops.

Not that we're necessarily all screwed, just those who have the misfortune to live in an area without enough political or military clout to avoid resource depletion.

On another topic, what's wrong with washing your clothes in cold water? I don't think I've ever done a hot wash in my life...

Pedantry and tourism

From the context, it would appear that the original poster has commenced a paragraph in the title bar, and continued underneath - this I would find perfectly acceptable, given the nature of the communicative medium.

The missing full stop, however, is most reprehensible. String em up, I say.