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Bill Sloman
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On Sunday, 17 November 2013 02:15:14 UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:
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> We have gobs of uranium and natural gas and oil and coal. We don't have a problem that needs fixing.
Anthropogenic global warming is a problem and one that is getting worse. John Larkin has been suckered by the denialist propaganda machine, and consequently doesn't believe thjat it needs fixing - so he's part of the problem too.
> Greenies and politicians live to screw up things that are working fine; they follow the money and the power and get in the way, for their own fun and profit.
As opposed to the fossil-carbon extraction lobby, who fund the denialist propaganda machine out of the goodness of their hearts. The fact that they'd make less money if they couldn't dig up as much fossil carbon and sell it ahs fuel has escaped John Larkin's attention.
> They should put their energy into things that need work, like war and poverty and disease.
Since anthropogenic global is already adding to war, poverty and disease, and will do so on a progressively larger scale as it gets worse, the greenies could - not unreasonably - argue that they are doing exactly that.
John Larkin has been know to argue that the greenies want to drive us back to the stone age, whereas if he were paying attention, he'd realise that they want us to switch our energy supplies to renewable sources.
If we did it overnight - which we couldn't - this would roughly double the cost of energy, which represents roughly 8% of the US GDP.
The price of oil quadrupled over the 2973 oil crisis - which didn't drive the world economy back into the stone age, though it did produce a brief recession.
Sadly, John lacks the critical capacity to recognise denialist propaganda for nonsense that it is, and recycles it here with unfortunate enthusiasm.
It can't be good for his image with his better educated customers.
And that won't be improved by his recent failure to choose the appropriate components to build a close tolerance LC tank circuit.
Hey John, designed any bad circuits recently?
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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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> We have gobs of uranium and natural gas and oil and coal. We don't have a problem that needs fixing.
Anthropogenic global warming is a problem and one that is getting worse. John Larkin has been suckered by the denialist propaganda machine, and consequently doesn't believe thjat it needs fixing - so he's part of the problem too.
> Greenies and politicians live to screw up things that are working fine; they follow the money and the power and get in the way, for their own fun and profit.
As opposed to the fossil-carbon extraction lobby, who fund the denialist propaganda machine out of the goodness of their hearts. The fact that they'd make less money if they couldn't dig up as much fossil carbon and sell it ahs fuel has escaped John Larkin's attention.
> They should put their energy into things that need work, like war and poverty and disease.
Since anthropogenic global is already adding to war, poverty and disease, and will do so on a progressively larger scale as it gets worse, the greenies could - not unreasonably - argue that they are doing exactly that.
John Larkin has been know to argue that the greenies want to drive us back to the stone age, whereas if he were paying attention, he'd realise that they want us to switch our energy supplies to renewable sources.
If we did it overnight - which we couldn't - this would roughly double the cost of energy, which represents roughly 8% of the US GDP.
The price of oil quadrupled over the 2973 oil crisis - which didn't drive the world economy back into the stone age, though it did produce a brief recession.
Sadly, John lacks the critical capacity to recognise denialist propaganda for nonsense that it is, and recycles it here with unfortunate enthusiasm.
It can't be good for his image with his better educated customers.
And that won't be improved by his recent failure to choose the appropriate components to build a close tolerance LC tank circuit.
Hey John, designed any bad circuits recently?
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Bill Sloman, Sydney