Comments Phila has made

Nothing is grounded

Hayes' comment about "the post-modern abyss, in which nothing is grounded in the divine or universal," is - in addition to being oversimplistic at best - a bit to close too calling dissenters and skeptics "dirty hippies" for my taste.On Richard Rorty, RIP posted 2 years, 5 months ago 5 Responses

Respect?

The idea that you respect Gregg Easterbrook - who is one of this country's shoddiest and most dishonest mainstreamers of anti-environmentalist disinformation - is staggering.

If you were more familiar with his MO, I doubt you'd be surprised by anything he fails (intentionally or otherwise) to realize.On A sensible way to view them posted 2 years, 8 months ago 6 Responses

Logic for Dummies

Rule #1 -- if nuclear power really makes no economic sense, you don't have to blog on it.

Yes. Because any idea that makes no economic sense will simply vanish into thin air. It won't be subsidized by taxpayer dollars, or promoted by people who stand to make a profit from it at the expense of society and the environment.

No one needs to blog about intelligent design, either. After all, it makes no sense!

As for finding uranium, don't be so pessimistic! You never know what you'll find beneath melting glaciers.On No nukes is good nukes posted 3 years, 5 months ago 62 Responses

It's worse than that...

Easterbrook's quotes from the 1990s are uterly fraudelent. The NAS urged immediate action in its 1991 report; in context, "no evidence" referred to "imminent rapid change" (i.e., runaway global warming). The rest of the report specifically says that waiting for more research before taking action is a bad idea.

There are other problems, too...I detailed 'em here.On Easterbrook accepts global warming posted 3 years, 6 months ago 8 Responses