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Headlines&Politics&EcologyIf this is true, why hold elections?
Can you imagine any Republican getting away with this?
“Calls to excommunicate pro-Trump Jews are not simply wrong. They’re poison.”
Why polls probably aren't working
Not guilty, just in the wrong place at the wrong time. So much for the "right" of privacy.
“The U.S. government has pushed a lot of bad nutrition advice over the years. Maybe it should stop advising us on what to eat.”
Tags: midterm ∙ election ∙ James Cromwell ∙ cryptocurrencies ∙ Canada ∙ 1968 ∙ IPCC ∙ climate ∙ Jair Bolsonaro ∙ fascist ∙ Dad ∙ McDonald's ∙ self defense ∙ gun ∙ Halloween ∙ Hillary Clinton ∙ racist ∙ Donald Trump ∙ Jews ∙ polls ∙ privacy ∙ Google ∙ cholesterol ∙ food ∙ government
Tuesday - 09Oct2018 Filed in:
Headlines&Politics&LawHeadlines that don't merit their own entry
“This outdated statistic has many young people hesitant to tie the knot.”"Next time they should just murder the nominee."There is one thing good I can't deny about the Electoral College, it kept Al Gore and Hillary Clinton the Presidency.
Tags: marriage ∙ divorce ∙ NATO ∙ Russia ∙ troops ∙ China ∙ Interpol ∙ Meng Hongwei ∙ Canada ∙ trade ∙ mushroom ∙ bees ∙ ACLU ∙ Brett Kavanaugh ∙ global warming ∙ Democrats ∙ Silicon Valley ∙ tech giants ∙ Donald Trump ∙ subsidies ∙ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ∙ electoral college ∙ Al Gore ∙ Hillary Clinton ∙ IPCC ∙ Senate
Monday - 01May2017 Filed in:
Headlines&Ecology❝❝Well, not entirely. As Andrew Revkin wrote last year about his storied career as an environmental reporter at The Times, “I saw a widening gap between what scientists had been learning about global warming and what advocates were claiming as they pushed ever harder to pass climate legislation.” The science was generally scrupulous. The boosters who claimed its authority weren’t.
Anyone who has read the 2014 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change knows that, while the modest (0.85 degrees Celsius, or about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit) warming of the Northern Hemisphere since 1880 is indisputable, as is the human influence on that warming, much else that passes as accepted fact is really a matter of probabilities. That’s especially true of the sophisticated but fallible models and simulations by which scientists attempt to peer into the climate future. To say this isn’t to deny science. It’s to acknowledge it honestly.
By now I can almost hear the heads exploding. They shouldn’t, because there’s another lesson here — this one for anyone who wants to advance the cause of good climate policy. As Revkin wisely noted, hyperbole about climate “not only didn’t fit the science at the time but could even be counterproductive if the hope was to engage a distracted public.”
Let me put it another way. Claiming total certainty about the science traduces the spirit of science and creates openings for doubt whenever a climate claim proves wrong. Demanding abrupt and expensive changes in public policy raises fair questions about ideological intentions. Censoriously asserting one’s moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.❞❞
— Bret Stephens
Tags: Bret Stephens ∙ clipping ∙ climate change ∙ climate models ∙ Andrew Revkin ∙ IPCC ∙ science
