Bruddah IZ
DA
What is the goal of the Climate Symposium? What and who is the "political economist"?
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Bruddah IZ
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Maybe the official records help politicians to decide the rate at which they will subsidize the fossil fuel industry.
The point is, this guy, "Goddard", seriously contends that the government is not honest.
I dont know what kind of denial that comes under, but it just sounds insane to me.
Why would any government agency be dishonest?
Bruddah IZ
DA
Becau$e of the incentive$.
This is why we need more socialism.
We need to eradicate all incentive.
Bruddah IZ
DA
But then you just incentivize the oligarchs and chrony capitalism.
EvilGoalie 21
GOLD
Back to this. The goal of the climate symposium in our scenario is how to identify and validate forcing variables in large data sets. Our climate researcher is basically a statistician who works in this area.
A treatment of the concerns of political economists be found here:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Political_Economy
Our San Francisco friend has classical libertarian views and is specifically interested in the relationship between government and infrastructure. For example, they have written extensively on the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 and its negative effect on American democracy.
Both have read Walden. Neither were much impressed, albeit for different reasons.
Bruddah IZ
DA
And their rate of Alarm? Are they Leonardo Di Caprio alarmed?
Wez
DA
Lolz!
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/boro...ngered-by-new-strain-of-fact-resistant-humans
MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) – Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a sobering new study reports.
The research, conducted by the University of Minnesota, identifies a virulent strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge, leaving scientists at a loss as to how to combat them.
“These humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process information,” Davis Logsdon, one of the scientists who contributed to the study, said. “And yet, somehow, they have developed defenses that, for all intents and purposes, have rendered those faculties totally inactive.”
More worryingly, Logsdon said, “As facts have multiplied, their defenses against those facts have only grown more powerful.”
While scientists have no clear understanding of the mechanisms that prevent the fact-resistant humans from absorbing data, they theorize that the strain may have developed the ability to intercept and discard information en route from the auditory nerve to the brain. “The normal functions of human consciousness have been completely nullified,” Logsdon said.
While reaffirming the gloomy assessments of the study, Logsdon held out hope that the threat of fact-resistant humans could be mitigated in the future. “Our research is very preliminary, but it’s possible that they will become more receptive to facts once they are in an environment without food, water, or oxygen,” he said.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/boro...ngered-by-new-strain-of-fact-resistant-humans
MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) – Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a sobering new study reports.
The research, conducted by the University of Minnesota, identifies a virulent strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge, leaving scientists at a loss as to how to combat them.
“These humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process information,” Davis Logsdon, one of the scientists who contributed to the study, said. “And yet, somehow, they have developed defenses that, for all intents and purposes, have rendered those faculties totally inactive.”
More worryingly, Logsdon said, “As facts have multiplied, their defenses against those facts have only grown more powerful.”
While scientists have no clear understanding of the mechanisms that prevent the fact-resistant humans from absorbing data, they theorize that the strain may have developed the ability to intercept and discard information en route from the auditory nerve to the brain. “The normal functions of human consciousness have been completely nullified,” Logsdon said.
While reaffirming the gloomy assessments of the study, Logsdon held out hope that the threat of fact-resistant humans could be mitigated in the future. “Our research is very preliminary, but it’s possible that they will become more receptive to facts once they are in an environment without food, water, or oxygen,” he said.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Wez
DA
Please tell me you realize that was a parody article...
Bruddah IZ
DA
Bruddah IZ
DA
Bruddah IZ
DA
It's not the climate stupid
Violence is always at the end of the socialist enterprise, as the poor people of Venezuela are discovering. Our friends on the Left assured us for many years that Boss Hugo and his epigones in the regime of Nicolás Maduro were democratic socialists, not the mean Stalinist type, and the praises of that so-called democratic-socialist regime were sung by everyone from Democratic congressmen such as Chaka Fattah of Philadelphia to progressive celebrities such as Sean Penn.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...to+Thursday+2016-08-03&utm_term=NR5PM+Actives
espoola
SILVER
You're funny, ass-feet.
espoola
SILVER
I get it!
Because its really hot, and it burns the lips together!
You are too funny, aff-leet!
Nobody as funny as you, thats for sure!
EvilGoalie 21
GOLD
No idea. That's your input into the narrative if you choose to flush it out. We can call on the original hypocrisy question whenever you want.