tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828122657384873884.post8433668065746385165..comments2009-12-01T16:58:26.783-05:00Denis Rancourthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16743375141824505606claude.cde@gmail.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828122657384873884.post-29714863724787363292007-11-03T11:09:00.000-04:002007-11-03T11:09:00.000-04:00THEIRS BE THE TEARS (AFTER VENTURA)<BR/><BR/>Burning a bit of Eden drive<BR/>Away your shame and sorrow--<BR/>Happy you are to be alive,<BR/>In spite of what you borrow.<BR/><BR/>The debt will have to be repaid<BR/>By those that follow after,<BR/>Yet--so the laugh is you got laid--<BR/>Theirs be the tears not laughter.<BR/><BR/>.imsmallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828122657384873884.post-31960202762113373632007-10-30T14:04:00.000-04:002007-10-30T14:04:00.000-04:00Congrats, Dr. Rancourt. Facts before ideology. Even if Inhofe's politics leave something to be desired, that doesn't negate the force of Rancourt's objections to AGW. In fact the little Gorean types of liberals have no ground to stand upon when playing the political bias-game. Inhofe is hardly more right-wing than Gore, Occi. boy, and the Israeli hawks who have issued orders to Al Jr. for years. <BR/><BR/>Leahy is mistaken about the data as well: the alleged temp. swings do not overcome the margin of error of "official" temp. data over the last 100 years or so! That both rightists and leftists have pointed this out in fact indicates a lack of bias. <BR/><BR/>We don't care for Inhofe anymore than we do the Crichton-quoting rightists (or some petrol-ho such as McIntyre), but that doesn't mean they are mistaken in their GW contrarianism. You might not have cared for Werner Von Braun, one-time nazi, but he could solve integral problems as well as communists could.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828122657384873884.post-76413939896318603632007-10-29T12:59:00.000-04:002007-10-29T12:59:00.000-04:00Rancourts ideas on climate change are stunningly inaccurate, insulting and arrogant. You don't think 1000s of scientists around the world weren't careful enough in their measurements? Publish your proofs of this in scientific journal.<BR/><BR/>And the statement that warming is good for all concerned is beyond belief: Ask the Inuit people how much they're enjoying the fact that their way of life is melting away with the ice. Nice social equity that is. And oh yeah who got hit hardest by the thinning ozone layer...?(hint not the folks in middle class Ottawa)<BR/><BR/>By they way, don't you think there is a direct connection between "power-driven financiers and profit-driven corporations and their cartels" and climate change ?<BR/><BR/>Most people would cringe at being cited by Senator James Inhofe... As Wayne says he's a prowar fascist, heavily funded by America's oil and military lobby...and he's happy to use any 'scientist' to push the oil and coal industry's agenda and keep those million dollar donations coming.<BR/><BR/>Wow truly stunning hypocrisy at work hereStephen Leahyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13384320336564949714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828122657384873884.post-85140540430671360162007-10-29T01:49:00.000-04:002007-10-29T01:49:00.000-04:00Well, you're out of the sandbox now. Careful what you wish for, I guess.<BR/><BR/>By the by, wayne makes an interesting point. In the interest of full disclosure -- can we get some assurance DGR has never received, nor will accepts, funding of any type from what could reasonably be conceived of as 'oil' and/or 'gas' interests?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828122657384873884.post-16893673361042122512007-10-28T10:33:00.000-04:002007-10-28T10:33:00.000-04:00What does Senator Inhofe know about science, anyway? The man has a degree in economics and has never worked in scientific research. More importantly, Inhofe has received more funding from the oil and gas industry than any other U.S. senator. He's pulled in $3.4 million in the last 5 years. I think his objectivity on climate science is extremely suspect.Waynenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828122657384873884.post-59504176197323522392007-10-28T10:18:00.000-04:002007-10-28T10:18:00.000-04:00I certainly agree with Jane that activists need to focus on the inequal distribution of power and wealth, the main source of the world's problems. Getting back to Denis' blog, however, I would be very careful, to say the least, about citing Senator James Inhofe about anything. The man is a pro-war fascist. Check out http://www.counterpunch.org/jackson05122004.html for his complete dismissal of any criticism of torture in American prisons in Iraq, for example.Waynenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4828122657384873884.post-15636012326668584972007-10-28T06:54:00.000-04:002007-10-28T06:54:00.000-04:00I am very encouraged to see that Prof. Denis Rancourt's message is getting out there that we need to attend to our tyrannical"social" system because we are all going down for the count under its lunacy.This is obviously important for environmentalists but it is equally important for activists and every member of public at large. Focus on the most critical problem of inequitable distribution of power and wealth is also where I would like to see us start the trip back to sanity.janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04121232975070326721noreply@blogger.com