tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post7293895038699220028..comments2024-03-02T02:26:00.928-05:00Comments on bleakonomy: Up with dissent!tetracontadigonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04604381739383227553noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-82421841465525759232008-12-29T08:21:00.000-05:002008-12-29T08:21:00.000-05:00Charo --First of all, I love your work. Stay perk...Charo --<BR/><BR/>First of all, I love your work. Stay perky!<BR/><BR/>Next, one gets fired from one's own blog when one gets a whole bunch of fellow posters, and has someone else doing the editing and such, and they all agree that your input is no longer required.<BR/><BR/>And I agree that dissent for its own sake can be a canard. Sometimes reality is distinctly biased toward one particular viewpoint. However, it's my understanding of the science (admittedly, influenced by my father) that there is at least <I> some </I> evidence to support the hypothesis that global temperature change is a phenomenon independent of human activity. Scientific consensus can sometimes be wrong, and so it's important to continue to weigh evidence even if it doesn't support the prevailing viewpoint.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11213051268392108382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-48305865041586813982008-12-28T09:24:00.000-05:002008-12-28T09:24:00.000-05:00hi, how can he be canned from his own blog? If it ...hi, how can he be canned from his own blog? If it were his, couldn't he have simply canned all of the other posters?<BR/><BR/>Carbon neutral is a loaded term, sustainable and renewable energy, one in which we are not funneling money to middle eastern shieks, or find the need to strip mine West Va., regardless of the impact of global warming, is laudable enough on its own.<BR/><BR/>And I find the notion that a less carbon based economy as being somehow stone age to be pretty laughable. Labelling something a profound change doesn't make it so. There is so much waste than just a little bit of common sense can save tons of money. Do we really need central air? Do we really need to cool rooms we are never even in? Do we even need so many rooms? People bitch, oh but my house will be cluttered. Well, then stop buying so much junk that you need extra rooms to store them in. I live off the carbon grid, all of my electricity is supplied by windmills at La Ventosa, the rest by the sun.<BR/><BR/>You say debate is good, but not everything needs to be debated, at some point simple sense has to win out. Don't live on junk food, don't drink a quart of whiskey night, don't sleep around, don't smoke, etc. Are we going to debate these points just because debate is healthy?<BR/><BR/>CharoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com