From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 3:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Story on climate crisis would need some comments
As for the Ph.D’s gained studying climate and all their expertise and experience, it means about as to public interest as the history of collecting porcelain Hummel figures…………..EXCEPT for their ability to make unambiguous, practical, truthful predictions. My religious background has left me with a permanent distaste for doom and gloom prophecy –and that includes negative climate speculations (emphasis on ‘speculation’). Their predictive track record is not good. A recent blog associated with Sci Am recommended ‘global lukewarmism’ –which might be the closest approach to the truth. When I was a young boy, the future was full of trips to other planets, starships, fusion energy, pills to stop aging, the end of fossil fuels and cures for paralysis/MS/ALS and cancer. None of those things happened. Instead we have clever phones to retrieve cute cat photos. I observe more stagnation in science than anything else – which makes me wary of expensive schemes that leave us freezing in darkness while burning novels. If LENR comes to market, open the champagne. However, so far, it has failed to breech the barrier of stagnation that oppresses us.
