Comments SKenzie has made

  • A Modest Proposal

    Canis's post made me think of Jonathan Swift's impressively efficient population control scheme, which has the added benefit of increasing the food supply...

    If you haven't read it, it's here:

    http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.htmlOn Revisiting Malthus posted 1 year, 4 months ago 21 Responses

  • Where are the trolls?

    There must be a rational explanation for this...

    Where are Manacker, Black Wallaby, or Jabaillo when we need them?  I usually wish they would just shut up and go away, but I think it might be interesting to hear their take on this. On DeSmogBlog uncovers Heartland lies posted 1 year, 6 months ago 9 Responses

  • Irony

    While the "hasty triple reply" is certainly comical, I think the funniest thing is how some commenters are knocking themselves out to convince everyone that there has been a plateau in global warming - as if this is crucially important.  All they're really doing is proving the point of the original article: that global warming deniers would latch on to the news of an expected slow down in the rate of warming, ignore its cause, inflate its significance, and use it to try and sow confusion.

    Of course, the frequent declarations of rationality are good for a laugh too.On Global temps may drop this year but, alas, world still warming posted 1 year, 7 months ago 132 Responses

  • Good night JonBoy

    "There is little reason to deny that burning fossil fuels put this excess there. There is no other reasonable explanation."
     Try 6 billion people breathing out Co2 !

    JonBoy you shouldn't stop looking for another reasonable explanation just yet, and maybe you should rethink using the breathing line - it destroys the credibility of all your other super duper AGW killer ideas.

    Where do you think the carbon atoms you're exhaling come from?  Unless the rest of your bodily functions are as messed up as your thought processes, it comes from your food.  And your food gets it directly, or indirectly from plants, which get it by removing CO2 from the atmosphere.  Biologically speaking humans are pretty much carbon neutral.

    Six billion people farting out CH4 might have an impact on the climate, but their exhalations of CO2 almost certainly do not.  On Climate skeptic tries to throw cold water on global warming, gets all wet posted 1 year, 9 months ago 23 Responses

  • Not even half decent!

    Ed Number your posts are embarrassing enough without  also screwing up your tag line.

    I think you mean to say "dissent".

    You're on your own with your math and chem problems.On A new climate science paper calls for dramatic action posted 1 year, 9 months ago 26 Responses

  • Waiting for Doug Flutie...

    IMHO those who don't think planting trees can save the planet are dropping the ball and missing the point.  We mustn't wait for a "Hail Mary" pass to save the game.  

    The planet will be saved by the aggregate of many actions large and small that directly and indirectly reduce emissions.  At this very early stage in the process of planet saving the indirect impacts are arguably the most important.

    The real value in the Kyoto Protocol is not in the emissions directly reduced by its provisions; Kyoto is important because it raises awareness of AGW and builds momentum for significant emissions reductions in the future. Similarly, Exxon has done far greater harm to the planet via their investment in obfuscation than through their direct GHG emissions.

    Obviously the direct climate impact of planting a few hundred trees will be negligible, but the impact of an august institution such as the NFL acknowledging that climate change is happening could be huge. For many people tuning in to the big game this could be the first time they've heard a "credible" voice recognizing the problem.  And perhaps it will get them concerned...

    The NFL is voluntarily mitigating a portion of its environmental impacts and establishing an important precedent that major US events/organisations can and should consider their climate impact.  This should be commended. Of course they could do more, but couldn't we all? Doing good (even if slightly misguided) is always better than doing bad or doing nothing.  

    The NFL is just coming off the bench in the climate change game and they should be cheered, not booed.
    On Football's biggest day will be carbon neutral posted 2 years, 10 months ago 19 Responses