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[bigscary]

bOingbOing has Charles Platt guestblogging this week. After a WalMart-fellating post earlier this week, he's decided to use the platform of bb to promote Climate Change Denialism.

That's not funny, just annoying.

What's funny is the near-perfect Cory/Xeni chain-combo (starting with this post) linking excellent Climate Change sources, empirical evidence, analysis, and more.

When I talk about Mr. Doctorow, it's often to disagree on IP issues, but I have to thank him for responding to the pests in his own yard.

Comments

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

I believe in evolution much like I believe in the permanent obnoxiousness of smug Democrats.

Sometimes temperatures are rising, sometimes they're not; there's a lot of evidence discrediting the most "powerful" arguments for AGW/ACC. Start scrolling through climateaudit.org.

But in the meantime, first find some evidence that the sort of government regulation you want to propose will do anything to significantly help ACC. Then you can whine about Republicans not making policy based on science. Or should I start calling lefties "market deniers"?

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Turns out we can't actually do much about it, the damage is done. But maybe we can avoid becoming venus.

And there's no need to get personal. But seriously. What are your thoughts on evolution?

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Market fundamentalists don't necessarily understand their object of worship/fetishization better than those with a more nuanced approach. Almost everyone who's thought about it realizes that markets are a good way to establish relative demand and set prices, yet some seem to deny the similarly-obvious fact that extra-market forces are needed to internalize market externalities to let markets do their job -- and that some ends are worth being achieved, even if markets alone will not naturally create them under any circumstances.

As to anthropogenic climate change, do you have any links to published, peer-reviewed work demonstrating that global warming isn't happening, or am I just supposed to rely on some educated-sounding d00d-on-the-internet? Do you disagree that worldwide changes in atmospheric gases are occurring and may have unpredictable results, and that the path of caution would be to reduce those changes until the possible danger is better understood?