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To: koan who wrote (7660)	4/26/2009 12:14:30 PM
From: Little Joe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Koan: Just a few thoughts on your post. <most of us know less than we think we know> Of course this doesn't apply to you. Because we know you are the authority on who the knowledgeble scientists are and who the smartest economists are, etc. <Our largest dangers are risks we cannot see and we are not preparing for, or trying to understand e.g our present depression and massive worldwide bank failures and maybe global warming-lol> You forget that many people on SI saw the real threats of the depression and bank failures - it was not a risk we could not see, it was a risk that was forseeable if you were looking through the right lens. As for global warming I put my money on no threat <We have entered the era of science and technology where only a few people (presumbably, Al Gore, and his friends) the many things we invent these days like credit default swaps (CDS's)... We need to enlist our academicians and scientists and bring them into our government as our first line of defense against an increasingly complex world.> In case you weren't looking these geniuses you admire so much were the ones who created these time bombs. Now you think we should bring them into the government. You fail to see the danger of mixing science and politics. You will get political science where scientific truth will be ben to the will of politicians and because no one can understand it what choice is there but to accept it. Lastly, what happens if the GWA's are wrong and we destroy our economy for something that doesn't exist? I know you haven't considered that because you are so blinded by your political philospphy you cannot see the weakness in your own arguments. lj

To: koan who wrote (7660)	4/26/2009 12:14:33 PM
From: Little Joe	Respond to of 86356

Koan: Just a few thoughts on your post. <most of us know less than we think we know> Of course this doesn't apply to you. Because we know you are the authority on who the knowledgeble scientists are and who the smartest economists are, etc. <Our largest dangers are risks we cannot see and we are not preparing for, or trying to understand e.g our present depression and massive worldwide bank failures and maybe global warming-lol> You forget that many people on SI saw the real threats of the depression and bank failures - it was not a risk we could not see, it was a risk that was forseeable if you were looking through the right lens. As for global warming I put my money on no threat <We have entered the era of science and technology where only a few people (presumbably, Al Gore, and his friends) the many things we invent these days like credit default swaps (CDS's)... We need to enlist our academicians and scientists and bring them into our government as our first line of defense against an increasingly complex world.> In case you weren't looking these geniuses you admire so much were the ones who created these time bombs. Now you think we should bring them into the government. You fail to see the danger of mixing science and politics. You will get political science where scientific truth will be ben to the will of politicians and because no one can understand it what choice is there but to accept it. Lastly, what happens if the GWA's are wrong and we destroy our economy for something that doesn't exist? I know you haven't considered that because you are so blinded by your political philospphy you cannot see the weakness in your own arguments. lj

To: koan who wrote (7660)	4/26/2009 1:12:28 PM
From: Bearcatbob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

"What happens BCB, if you are wrong about global warming? That is the question we should all be asking." If I am wrong nothing different is going to happen. If you are right the game is already over - I doubt it (or is all this stuff about tipping point just more scare crap?). What will happen if we do what the nut case left wants is not uncertain. You would take us to a train wreck. Let me offer a simple idea - build all the solar and wind we can and let it displace traditional. Do not trash the traditional when the alternate is not available. Bob