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  Meteorology...

  ...is not Climatology :POn Inhofe's resident media agitator leaving to start a new climate-skeptic website posted 8 months ago 9 Responses

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  Religion

  One could argue that Religion has proved itself to be equally unfit for authority.  In fact, the Church has given us nearly two thousand years worth of awesomely bad policy and management to back up that argument.

  But you're right, science can only be part of a policy building tool.  What we really need (imo) is for people to be taught the scientific way of thinking, as way for considering problems especially.  For analyzing problems and coming up with solutions science is great.

  What science isn't good at is morals and ethics (as Hume discovered when he applied empirical analysis to philosophy [sorry, I just got done reading about Hume and it's stuck in my head lol]).  So to a certain extent we need something like religion to go hand in hand with science to apply some ethics and morals to it.On A look at the non-experts speaking at Heartland Institute's denialist sideshow posted 8 months ago 23 Responses

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  Oh Em Gee

  The World Bank finally put some money into a good cause!  Quick someone pinch me!

  Lol, of course that's assuming they don't have awful conditions attached to the loan and that Brazil doesn't blow the money on something that's more green-washing than green.On World Bank approves $1.3 billion for Brazilian eco-projects posted 8 months ago 1 Response

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  gee thanks >.>

  ...for reminding me how old I am! lol  I'm almost 30! Crap!

  As for my generation and the vote, part of the problem is that we're totally turned off by the adversarial politics that go on in Washington.  I tend to vote democratic, but sometimes I just really do not like the way the dems operate.  I certainly don't see myself how repubs tend to characterize dems (you know, people who just want to blow all their money by giving it away to "the poor" or a socialist who thinks no one should be rich).  Since I turned 18 I've voted in every election I could, including the small local ones.

  You may classify Obama as being a boomer, but the way a lot of us see him is as more part of the younger generations.  He's not some old, privileged guy who was giving his place in life by his family, as was our last president and the repub candidate.  Why did so many of us vote for him?  Partly cause he is younger, partly cause he's tech savy and forward looking, and partly cause he's a lot like us.  He put himself through college using hard work and paying with loans, he only recently paid off the last of his loans, he's had to work his way up based on his own merits, rather than be handed the golden key because he was the son of the aristocracy.

  Assuming more of the younger generations keep voting (genX and (uhg) the millenials) politicians will finally have to pay attention to what it is we want from our country, where we want the country to go.  Which includes a fair amount of what this article was saying, though I don't consider the generational bias to be accurate.

  Also, I hate that stoopid name, Millenials!  Couldn't they come up with something better?!On The aging of the Boomers means it's time for new priorities posted 8 months ago 11 Responses

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  Thoreau

  The story goes that Thoreau refused to pay his taxes in protest of the war with Mexico.  His friends (Emerson, et al) paid them for him, but when Emerson visited him in jail they had the above exchange, only it was Emerson asking Thoreau why he was behind bars.

  Emerson talked big, but never stuck to his stated philosophy.  Thoreau was one those extremely rare people who did what he said.

  Those getting arrested today have my respect and admiration.On Why I'm joining 2,000 people for a global warming mass arrest on Monday posted 8 months, 1 week ago 3 Responses