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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-20-06 07:42 PM Original message |
Bush's Chat With Novelist Alarms Environmentalist |
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Poppyseedman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-20-06 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
1. I read "State of Fear" and Crichton does make a convincing |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-20-06 09:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Crichton is a lightweight. |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 09:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. That's the problem. It's "convincing," but completely wrong. |
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Poppyseedman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 06:36 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. One question |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 06:41 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Nope. |
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Poppyseedman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 06:58 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Take the time to read it as he does present information |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-22-06 11:09 AM Response to Reply #10 |
26. The thing is, he is behind the curve on this issue. |
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Viking12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:00 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I've read the book. It's a steaming pile of cherry picked shit. |
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Poppyseedman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:11 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. and your credentials are? |
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Viking12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:14 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. PhD. |
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Poppyseedman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. In what? |
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Viking12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:29 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. My doctoral dissertation was on climate change science in the policy arena |
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Poppyseedman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:43 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. You are a doctored policy wonk? |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:45 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. It's fiction |
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Viking12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:51 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Yep. |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-26-06 03:00 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. So by being an expert in this area, he's automatically SUSPECT? |
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Poppyseedman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:25 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. If I have to explain to you that an argument or position |
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Viking12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:33 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Do you know what "merit" means? |
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Poppyseedman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:53 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. If it makes you happy |
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Viking12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:58 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Ignorance is bliss, I guess. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-22-06 10:57 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. You could also do with knowing what "refutes" means |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:37 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. And Chrichton has a PhD in climate science????? |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 07:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. LOL Read the IPCC reports and recent issues of Nature and Science |
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oneighty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-20-06 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. Crichton |
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Mend (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-20-06 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
3. I don't believe dipshit reads books without pictures and I don't |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-20-06 09:06 PM Response to Original message |
5. crosslink to LBN -- Bush meets with Potboiler Crichton |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-21-06 02:17 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Thanks, didn't see it. |
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