tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1195252627266209667.post8956687171008758754..comments2023-11-03T04:13:08.503-04:00Comments on Feeding Blackmail: Yes! President Obama's Ocean Policy & Much News on Global WarmingMarcie Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07390718964968296619noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1195252627266209667.post-80040450188437486922021-07-15T13:21:34.192-04:002021-07-15T13:21:34.192-04:00Mr Pedro is absolutely incredible. He’s been so re...Mr Pedro is absolutely incredible. He’s been so responsive, so patient & honest, and just wonderful at his job as a loan officer. I will buy every future house with him if I ever move to DC. He’s just the absolute best.” <br />I will recommend anyone here looking for a loan to contact a loan officer Pedro on Email... pedroloanss@gmail.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1195252627266209667.post-21458296473633958282009-09-21T02:05:54.975-04:002009-09-21T02:05:54.975-04:00I like your blog and message. In particular the ti...I like your blog and message. In particular the time you spend making practical and concrete suggestions on sustainable food and life choices.<br /><br />With all respect, on one point you do yourself and readers a disfavor. By using the phrase “global warming denial” you make a cheap shot; this is an emotive sensational and rhetorical term, worthy of glib pundits, not the responsible blogger you otherwise appear to be. <br /><br />The link you attach misrepresents the arguments to the point of dumbed simplicity - choosing reduced presentations of points not as argued by scientists, but as presented by other pundits. It really doesn’t touch more nuanced arguments real actual scientists, not tin hat wearing paranoids, but tenured and well respected scientists, who criticize the theory of anthropogenic global warming, are making. <br /><br />This is dangerous, the issue’s important. In throwing around emotive terms that are design to demean and ridicule people who disagree with you on this point you open yourself up to similar ridicule if you happen to be wrong.<br /><br />The state of the environment and issues of sustainability are serious matters, and the general public has great difficulty deciding who to actually listen to. <br /><br />A responsible blogger should be keeping the discourse level in an area rife with propaganda, grandiose claims, and exaggerations. You could have made a point without slipping in rhetorical weasel phrase and repeating rhetorical talking points.<br /><br />I think you're sincere and too good a blogger to be irresponsible or sloppy here.<br /><br />Have you honestly reviewed the literature claiming that anthropogenic climate change is a flawed theory? Not using a "debunking global warming deniers" website to catch up with arguments filtered by one whose explicit agenda is punching holes in “warming deniers” arguments. Honestly reading up on the scientists who have problems with the theory.<br /><br />If not then you are simply not being intellectually honest, with all respect. <br /><br />IF you are in this for humanity and environment (flesh and blood humans and their needs, you and I, family, lovers, friends get left out when we deal with abstract ideas) then I urge you to honestly engage both sides of the issue and leave your biases at the door.<br /><br />Three years ago I firmly thought those denying climate change were tin foil hat wearing loons. I saw myself as a fair person and these people as paranoid ideologies. After a friend, a scientist on campus, challenged my assumptions it struck me that I was not fairly examining the other side. The literature seemed biased – Fox News talking point material – but as I read deeper I came to rapidly realize that there is no scientific consensus on the issue. Many scientists voices have been systematically ignored, even in the UNIPC. The issue was more contentious than publically presented. <br /><br />The sneaking resemblance of the rhetoric condemning voices questioning the matter to the rhetoric rightly condemning Holocaust Denial struck me. Unlike the Holocaust, a historically recorded event of huge horror and magnitude, denied by politicized revisionists, there were responsible. Sober, sane, and professional scientists challenging the theory of anthropogenic Global Warming. Nobel prize winners, climatologists, physicists, and more. <br /><br />I have not made up my mind on the issue, and I suspect that the actual truth lies somewhere in between the rhetorical extremes of both sides, but I do know this for certain.<br /><br />There is no scientific consensus, and far more scientists disagree with anthropogenic Global Warming than the media leads us to imagine.<br /><br />What upsets me is your tone seems self assured almost to the point of snarkdom, but there is every reason to suspect that you have not spent the time actually really delving into the issue. is it too much to ask that you simply spend some time giving a fair, and honest, examination of the other side’s points? The issue is far too important to just take matters on authority without really looking in.<br /><br />It would reflect well on you as a thoughtful blogger. The choice is yours.Kamal S.http://kali-yuga.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1195252627266209667.post-60760141721944553332009-07-21T11:36:03.147-04:002009-07-21T11:36:03.147-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Matthew Tripphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05211881935174715199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1195252627266209667.post-47108425389079774202009-06-17T10:21:55.209-04:002009-06-17T10:21:55.209-04:00Marcie, Check out Ray_Calabrese on Twitter. He als...Marcie, Check out Ray_Calabrese on Twitter. He also speaks to the EARTH cause! Let's keep our world GREEN. Thanks for your efforts.<br /><br />BarbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com