potholer54's Response to "The Global Warming Hoax Lord Monckton & Stefan Molyneux" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiZlBspV2-M …
It's an easy fix: invite in some mainstream climate researchers, say, James Hansen.
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I always liked Judith Curry (
@curryja) for this, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4AAN0H8MRg … -
The problem for Stefan is too many contrarians with a one-sided story. I like Curry, but she's towards the contrarian camp too. Better for
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Stefan to invite some mainstreamers to offset his imbalance.
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ah sure, I was just recommending Curry to you if you didn't know about her because of the way she approaches the topic
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Never followed Stefan other than watching some videos and knowing that its not to my taste, not enough intellectual humility
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In general, anti-regulation views are hard to square with fuzzy-boundary type negative externalities: AGW, air, ocean pollution, overfishing
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so it's understandable that such advocates attack the reality of the problems. The problems cannot be solved without some kind of regulation
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Exactly, thats what I was doing some years ago, make reality fit with my Randian ideology
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Any thoughts on why a super smart guy like Dyson continues to argue against mainstream GW--joy of being a contrarian?
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Dyson ain't that smart anymore. Common pattern for old superstars to move on to cranky ideas: Nobel disease. http://skepdic.com/nobeldisease.html …
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Dyson has a long history of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt … But note that author Oreskes is somewhat dodgy. http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-not-to-debate-nuclear-energy-and-climate-change …
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