What Would Gaia Think?
Quote of the day from commenter MikeHu, re Earth Treason:
The actual 4.6 billion-year old planet, survivor of multitudes of asteroid hits, Milankovitch cycle changes, magnetic pole reversals, solar and cosmic radiation, myriad volcanic caldera collapses, mantle plume eruptions, etc., etc. doesn’t give a rat’s ass about a few degrees Celsius or what idiots like Krugman think.
Krugman can’t be an idiot. They wouldn’t give him a Nobel Prize if he was, would they? No matter. I’m guessing Gaia not only doesn’t give a rat’s ass what Krugman thinks, she doesn’t even know what the Royal Swedish Academy and the Karolinska Institutet are, she didn’t see Al Gore’s movie and she didn’t vote for Obama. But I’m guessing, if she knew what they were, she’d think carbon offsets are dumb.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 1:46 pm on Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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July 1st, 2009 at 2:39 pm
You call it lame but the Human name
Doesn’t mean shit to a tree.
– Jefferson Airplane
July 1st, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Krugman can’t be an idiot. They wouldn’t give him a Nobel Prize if he was, would they?
In my personal experience, offkilter people (and by “offkilter”, I mean our current definition of insane) can seem perfectly balanced and normal when they want to., i.e., when they correctly read the wants and needs of the people they mean to snow. I suspect there are also vast swaths of people who are (1) innocent/naive, (2) for their own reasons want to be snowed, or (3) just as insane as the offkilter scam artist. I put the administrators of the Nobel Prizes (with the possible exception of the hard sciences) in this unfortunately wide, and growing, sector.
July 1st, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Krugman can’t be an idiot. They wouldn’t give him a Nobel Prize if he was, would they?
In my personal experience, offkilter people (and by “offkilter”, I mean our current definition of insane) can seem perfectly balanced and normal when they want to., i.e., when they correctly read the wants and needs of the people they mean to snow. I suspect there are also vast swaths of people who are (1) innocent/naive, (2) for their own reasons want to be snowed, or (3) just as insane as the offkilter scam artist. I put the administrators of the Nobel Prizes (with the possible exception of the hard sciences) in this unfortunately wide, and growing, sector.
July 1st, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Woops. I don’t know how that happened, sorry. Delete one, please. Or both, if you prefer.