we have to take the course you advocate. Your solution has a chance to work. She offers nothing.
Pretty much sums it up.
And while some people wait for conclusive, non-ambiguous, less partisan, accepted-by-all proof that the world isn't flat, the rest of us better get on working with the sphere.
OK, OK, it's an oblate sphere. But that's still a better model than a plane disc. Just as anthropogenic warming caused principally by CO2 emissions unbalanced by anything in nature is a better model than... well, than the near-complete lack of an alternative model produced by the sceptics.
I haven't seen a convincing alternate from our modern-day flat-earthers. Occasionally we get comments like 'well, it was warmer 50000 years ago, and there was more CO2 in the atmosphere during the Jurassic era'. Both true; and 50,000 years ago the Thames was a subtropical swamp valley, and in the Jurassic era England and most of the rest of the world was under 50m of water and laying down limestone.
AS for arguing that someone (engineers? politicians? whoever?) need to come up with a total fix, and because they can't right now there's no point in trying... well, in Babbage's day they couldn't built a computer capable of billions of calculations per second, either. But step by step, we got there.
However I have given up trying to hammer reality into the eyes of the wilfully blind. I'll just get on and wait for their own children to condemn them, or an uncaring world to disown them. |
