Comments on: NYT: A River Still Runs Through It — of Denial http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/16/nyt-a-river-still-runs-through-it-of-denial/ Walter Russell Mead's Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Con Michael http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/16/nyt-a-river-still-runs-through-it-of-denial/#comment-2679 Con Michael Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:53:31 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2801#comment-2679 The rigors of scientific discipline demand,inter alia,that a theory imply the kind of evidence that would prove it wrong.Predictions based on the theory are checked against the facts.If something occurs that should not have,and vice versa,the theory is discarded.The principal AGW alarmists themselves lament that they cannot explain the lack of warming.Ergo the AGW theory has been discredited.Einstein said that it would not take 100 scientists to prove him wrong.One fact alone would suffice.The defeat of the Emissions Trading Scheme in the Australian Parliament clearly demonstrates that the public has had enough of the lies,cheating,filibuster,spin and obfuscation. The rigors of scientific discipline demand,inter alia,that a theory imply the kind of evidence that would prove it wrong.Predictions based on the theory are checked against the facts.If something occurs that should not have,and vice versa,the theory is discarded.The principal AGW alarmists themselves lament that they cannot explain the lack of warming.Ergo the AGW theory has been discredited.Einstein said that it would not take 100 scientists to prove him wrong.One fact alone would suffice.The defeat of the Emissions Trading Scheme in the Australian Parliament clearly demonstrates that the public has had enough of the lies,cheating,filibuster,spin and obfuscation.

]]> By: Orson http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/16/nyt-a-river-still-runs-through-it-of-denial/#comment-2143 Orson Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:33:47 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2801#comment-2143 I gave up on reading the NYT in 1999 - when Clinton's impeachment was all about the nasty Republican's moralistic aversion to sex, and yet the Bill of Impeachment never mentioned 'sex'. As the old Soviet era joke went (and WRM remembers better than I), there is no Pravda in Isvestia (sp?), no Isvestia in Pavda. I gave up on reading the NYT in 1999 – when Clinton’s impeachment was all about the nasty Republican’s moralistic aversion to sex, and yet the Bill of Impeachment never mentioned ‘sex’.

As the old Soviet era joke went (and WRM remembers better than I), there is no Pravda in Isvestia (sp?), no Isvestia in Pavda.

]]> By: Ben Blankenship http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/16/nyt-a-river-still-runs-through-it-of-denial/#comment-2128 Ben Blankenship Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:13:18 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2801#comment-2128 Suprised by no mention of the global warming mess in the NYT? None can be found for the past couple of days in the always relevant Huffington Post. Tallk about boycotts! Suprised by no mention of the global warming mess in the NYT? None can be found for the past couple of days in the always relevant
Huffington Post. Tallk about boycotts!

]]> By: John Blake http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/16/nyt-a-river-still-runs-through-it-of-denial/#comment-2117 John Blake Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:20:42 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2801#comment-2117 Not since the early 1980s have U.S. print or TV mass media dealt honestly with substantive issues of the day. "Bias" is far too mild a term. Censorship, propaganda, skewed ideological agendas invariably promoting a crypto-fascist Corporate Statism are their stock-in-trade. No-one of decency or common sense, neither a conceited elitist nor a peculating special-interest rentier, has any business crediting these bumwads with any objective rationality whatever. Not since the early 1980s have U.S. print or TV mass media dealt honestly with substantive issues of the day. “Bias” is far too mild a term. Censorship, propaganda, skewed ideological agendas invariably promoting a crypto-fascist Corporate Statism are their stock-in-trade. No-one of decency or common sense, neither a conceited elitist nor a peculating special-interest rentier, has any business crediting these bumwads with any objective rationality whatever.

]]> By: Jack http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/16/nyt-a-river-still-runs-through-it-of-denial/#comment-2114 Jack Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:49:17 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2801#comment-2114 Clearly, reading the NYT leaves you less informed. Propaganda always does. Clearly, reading the NYT leaves you less informed.

Propaganda always does.

]]> By: kcom http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/16/nyt-a-river-still-runs-through-it-of-denial/#comment-2112 kcom Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:42:55 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2801#comment-2112 Jimpithecus, I hopped on over to your link and checked it out but are you sure you're not jumping to the conclusion that the NY Times hasn't broken some startling new development in the story of a 70 million year old frog. Personally I find the whole topic ribbeting. Jimpithecus, I hopped on over to your link and checked it out but are you sure you’re not jumping to the conclusion that the NY Times hasn’t broken some startling new development in the story of a 70 million year old frog. Personally I find the whole topic ribbeting.

]]> By: TheGeezer http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/16/nyt-a-river-still-runs-through-it-of-denial/#comment-2111 TheGeezer Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:38:26 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2801#comment-2111 The descent into irrelevance continues... The descent into irrelevance continues…

]]> By: Jimpithecus http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/16/nyt-a-river-still-runs-through-it-of-denial/#comment-2110 Jimpithecus Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:25:02 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2801#comment-2110 That's pretty funny, since the frog story originally ran in February of 2008 and was covered by the BBC. It can be found <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7251666.stm" rel="nofollow">here</a> That’s pretty funny, since the frog story originally ran in February of 2008 and was covered by the BBC. It can be found here

]]> By: 5th Level Fighter http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/16/nyt-a-river-still-runs-through-it-of-denial/#comment-2109 5th Level Fighter Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:01:53 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2801#comment-2109 "The cascading difficulties of both the IPCC and the East Anglia CRU?" Not to mention NASA's involvement in the manipulation of data. Though, they were actually rewarded for their part in the fraud with a budget increase of hundreds of millions of dollars, specifically to study "global warming." “The cascading difficulties of both the IPCC and the East Anglia CRU?”

Not to mention NASA’s involvement in the manipulation of data. Though, they were actually rewarded for their part in the fraud with a budget increase of hundreds of millions of dollars, specifically to study “global warming.”

]]> By: CosmicConservative http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/02/16/nyt-a-river-still-runs-through-it-of-denial/#comment-2107 CosmicConservative Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:49:31 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2801#comment-2107 Hmmm. Walter, did they by chance have a story on how the sea levels were higher by a meter 60,000 years ago or so when CO2 levels were much lower than today? Hmmm. Walter, did they by chance have a story on how the sea levels were higher by a meter 60,000 years ago or so when CO2 levels were much lower than today?

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