PARKING BLOG By John Van Horn If you go to the online edition of May 2012 Parking Today, you will find all the “hot links” below, and even more current comments by PT Editor JVH. A Pretty Simple Guy Posted May 15, 2012, by JVH I’ve always tried to just take things as they come and give
them the sniff test. If it smells a tad “dodgy,” as the Brits would say, it probably is. And usually when people talk in absolutes, they probably don’t know what they are talking about. • The world ends tomorrow.
• All Muslims are evil. • All non-Muslims are evil. • All war is bad.
• All politicians lie (well, maybe this one is OK).
• All garages lose at least 20% of their revenue.
• All dogs bite.
• All (Republicans, Democrats) are bad people.
• The science is settled. • All fat people are unhealthy. You get the
skepticism, at least to me.
So when a blogger holds a position and says, “That’s the way it is,” I immediately look for a way to push back.
Casey Jones, posting over at the IPI’s
Parking Matters/The Blog, and I have been going back and forth over sustainability and the efficacy of climate change and the like. Casey takes the position that this is “settled science,” and I take a skeptical approach. I listed some links, and he came back with other links and like that. Fair enough. However, I did want to add one more link, which I found very compelling. The blog
www.notrickszone.com, run by a U.S. citizen living in northern Germany, takes a contrarian position on climate change, and it’s pretty well thought out.
This May 9 entry is a translated
interview, given a Swiss magazine by a German physicist and meteorologist, who is fairly blunt in his position. Take a moment to read it. Granted, there are arguments on all sides, but to say that the science is settled is a flag to a skeptic like moi.
Here is a quote, translated by the
NoTricksZone blogger, from the German scientist on climate change: There’s nothing we can do to stop it.
Scientifically, it is sheer absurdity to think we can get a nice climate by turning a CO2 adjustment knob. Many confuse environmental protection with climate protection. It’s impossible to protect the climate, but we can protect the environment and our drinking water. On the debate concerning
Parking Today
www.parkingtoday.com 33 idea. Absolutes bring
alternative energies, which is sensible, it is often driven by the irrational climate debate. One has nothing to do with the other. So, be good stewards of our environment, protect our drinking water and our air, invest where it will make a real difference, and we will have the best possible world in which to live. Investing trillions and destroying entire economies based on panic seems to me to be a fool’s errand. JVH
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64