Jackie Danicki

I’m enjoying this wifi I’m riding while it lasts, catching up on tons of feeds. This post, on how if anthropogenic global warming is real, it is now inevitable, is very much worth reading, as are the comments. I especially enjoyed this one:

You are of course all aware that the average car uses more carbon being built than it ever will over it’s driving life? You are of course all aware of the strict recycling laws in Germany? So buy a Mercedes if you want to be green. Fuck the Pious, get a 6 cylinder Merc that will last a good number of years.

Too much e-ink has already been spilled over these pages to even mention the absurdity of a “scientific consensus” but I would like to point out that the IPCC being a UN organ had to be “representative”. So they had folk from all over the world to achieve that even if they weren’t scientists of any stripe. It wasn’t exactly a bloody Solvay Conference was it? Jesus Horatio Christ on a carbon-neutral Segway that’s not how science gets done. Some of the toughest questions in C20th physics were wrangled to a kinda solution in Niels Bohr’s conservatory. Richard Feynman worked out the details of superfluids partly in a topless bar in LA (in between sketching the waitresses) and the least said about Tycho Brahe, soonest mended. That’s science. Enter the U-fucking-N and it all goes to pot.

…I wasn’t going to mention Sir Isaac Newton but what the hell. Why not mention the greatest human being who ever drew breath (a standard 1st year physics question is to estimate how many molecules of air you breath that Newton had breathed - the answer is surprising). He achieved what he did by sitting alone and thinking very hard. Yeah, I know he had his correspondents and he “Stood on the shoulders of giants” and all that but his recipe was solitary contemplation (he also invented the cat-flap) until nothing else filled his mind. If he’d been constrained by a committee we’d still be thinking the windmill was a pretty neat idea… Oh, hell, the Greens still do!

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