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Thank you for your comment pbelter, it gave me a lot to think about. I was a global warming skeptic too, until about then years back (a bit after reading Michael Chichton's novel, State Of Fear And you are saying that the book convinced you AGW is real? No, that novel didn't convince me, but it star...

You know, I was a global warming skeptic too, until about ten years back (a bit after reading Michael Chichton's novel, State Of Fear, in which climate change activism plays a big part), what I have never been is very interested in persuading anyone else, neither before nor after. What DOES interest...

If/when technology advances to the point that I live on Earth but work on Mars and spend weekends on Alpha Centauri II, which place am I overpopulating? OK, so your opinion is that we will probably be able to travel to other habitable planets within this century, and exploit their resources, ergo, ...

Thanks for the answer Diogenes. So, if I understand your correctly, you say that we are going to have an overpopulation problem in the world, just not in the US, is that right? Sorry pbelter, but I'm not sure I follow you. Are you suggesting to send the excess of population to another planet, or jus...

You piqued my curiosity. If I understand you correctly, you say that if the world has a problem it is that we are too few. OK. So the 7 and something billion humans that we are now is not enough. What about the 11-12 billion we are going to be, according to the projections I've seen, before the end ...

Overpopulation, drinking water shortages, food shortages, energy shortages, global warming, superbugs, terrorism, war, etc. All these problems, and more, are bound to cause some (worldwide?) suffering in the coming decades. That suffering can be ameliorated greatly if we behave intelligently, the ca...

So I have been away for few days enjoying New Year parties and when I come back there is a talk about conspiracy theories here coming form the AGW church? Guys, this is a science forum, if you like to indulge yourselves in the conspiracy theories stuff, I bet there are plenty of other places to do ...

I forgot, for anyone interested in learning a bit about the innumerable ways in which the human mind "misfires" when trying to reason, I highly recommend these two books. They are not fairly technical so you don't need any training in psychology to follow them and, as I said before, they can be an e...

Until just a few years back I thought that fusion was the only kind of energy that could realistically substitute fossil fuels. I'm glad to have been proved wrong. Renewable energy sources are getting there as we speak. Now, that could be bad for fusion. If it takes (as Maui stated, and I concur) mo...

You lost me in the rest of your argument about some conspiracy theories and claim humans are not behaving rationally. And that is exactly the problem, that most of us, most of the time, can't see that we are not thinking clearly. I read this book about 20 years ago, "Irrationality: The Enemy Within...

It looks it is not new, just a re-edition.

Pity.

This is equivalent to proposal that only professional politicians should be discussing politics, as only they can fully comprehend what is really going on in the country. False analogy. ... let me just quote Feymann again: “Science is the Belief in the Ignorance of Experts” Out of context. --------...

In every discussion about AGW, at some point someone throws the accusation of the other side following a religious creed. It is funny because in these cases -unless one of the positions is held by a professional climatologist- BOTH sides rely in the word of others so, in the sense this slur is throw...

Thus the S1/S2 clock time is identical to the previous B time, and shorter than the OB time. However you cannot calculate the elapsed time of OB clock from S1/S2 without a time shift correction, just the ame as in the B case. Sorry Tom, I don't follow you there. Do you mean that when they compare O...

Tom, you base your reasoning in that for twins to reunite one (or both) has to abandon his initial inertial FOR, and if only one of them does so that asymmetry justifies the age difference when they meet. But what if we make a different experiment (without twins), one in which no one abandon their i...