Follow the (Climate Change) Money

[One Bad Pig]

This is the opinion of a conspiratorial web site that has chosen as it's banner heading the Feynman quote: "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts". It expresses a minority opinion using selective facts to reinforce a 'climate-change denier' agenda. You know, one of your lot.

I thought you were above argument by fallacy, Tassman. Was Feynman wrong?

[Starlight]

Was Feynman wrong?

I don't think that particular statement of his is defensible as a generalized account of science. I don't think it's a particularly helpful or interesting quote to take out of its original context, and insofar as the contextless version of it makes any sense, it's wrong.

[Tassman]

I thought you were above argument by fallacy, Tassman. Was Feynman wrong?

Professor Feynman was simply being modest. He had a great sense of humor and was an iconoclast by nature. He's hardly going to remain serious about his profession as a leading physicist and authority on quantum mechanics, if he really believed it was grounded in ignorance. Hence, for a conspiratorial website such as MM 's, to use this quote in its banner is dishonest quote-mining.

[Sparko]

No sparko. Oil will run out (peak oil) and when it does there will not be time to push the alternate energy technologies far enough and fast enough to avert disaster. This is independent of the climate and environmental issues that need us to change. This is one of those time when the capitolistic 3 month view of the bottom line would be very shortsighted and destructive. The subsidies are needed to get ahead of the curve.

Jim

How fast things change.


Oil prices dip below zero as producers forced to pay to dispose of excess

US crude fell to negative value for first time in history as stockpiles overwhelmed storage facilities, before rebounding to just over $1 on Tuesday
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...e_iOSApp_Other

[mossrose]

How fast things change.


Oil prices dip below zero as producers forced to pay to dispose of excess

US crude fell to negative value for first time in history as stockpiles overwhelmed storage facilities, before rebounding to just over $1 on Tuesday
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...e_iOSApp_Other

Stupid OPEC. Canada and the States desperately need to get out of it.