“Why don’t you go back there and illuminate things for everyone?”
There’s too much noise at CA, noise like you see in this thread from people who can’t be bothered to read the literature, and Steve M’s lawyerly approach is tiresome.
I’ll admit I’m noisy too, but guys like Richard are so blatantly dishonest and ignorant, it’s hard not to get riled up. Hey, I get riled up at the idiot 911troofers and the anti-vax nuts and HIV denialists.
The upshot of it all is that no one in power is listening to guys like Richard anymore. Even the oil companies have given up the ghost (we’ll see if they hold to it). We can listen to guys like them–industry toadies with no scientific training and no publications–or we can listen to bodies like the NAS and the Royal Society. We listen to those groups on EVERY OTHER SCIENTIFIC ISSUE. And the next president will listen to them too, regardless of the noise and denial coming from the Richard S Courtney’s of the world.
