Interesting Links for 14-5-2011

[andrewducker]

• Ashton Kutcher replaces Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men
  (tags: CharlieSheen tv)
• Video of David Gilmour playing live with Roger Waters on The Wall in London. Dammit - I'm not there until Wednesday!
  (tags: PinkFloyd RogerWaters TheWall video)
• How can you tell if a policy is working? Run a trial.
  (tags: politics science statistics)
• Iain M Banks on non-SF writers writing SF.
  (tags: literature scifi books writing)
• Would putting all the climate scientists in a room solve global warming?
  (tags: climate climatechange globalwarming)
• Activated graphene to enable high-capacity supercapacitors - would revolutionise the energy industry.
  (tags: electricity energy)
• Impatient punters trade PS3s for Xbox 360s
  (tags: sony microsoft)

Comments

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing it until May 30th and there is no way Waters and Gilmore will put up with each other for that long.

[star-tourmaline.livejournal.com]

Would putting all the climate scientists in a room solve global warming?

It depends how much energy they generate.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

It's tempting to say they'll produce a lot of hot air...

[crm.livejournal.com]

"Would putting all the climate scientists in a room solve global warming?"

please never echo post anything the register write on climate change. that article spun so hard it actually knocked my monitor off the desk.

though an honest question: are you a climate change skeptic or a climate change denier?

[andrewducker]

I'm certainly not a climate change denier. I mostly think that climate change is, if not real, then worth treating as if it is, for the risk factor alone.

If you want me to take accusations of spin seriously you'll have to back them up with something. That article seemed, from an initial reading anyway, to be merely presenting the various arguments back and forth from a series of presentations.

[crm.livejournal.com]

for evidence i submit the registers previous writings on climate change.

they never miss an opportunity to snark, and this article was filled with snark, thinly defined as humor.

[andrewducker]

I have no objection to snark. Snark just amuses me. I know that Andrew Orlowski has some crazy ideas.

I'm more interested in refutations (or discussions) of the objections put forward by the speakers in the article.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

“Is it true that Marxism-Leninism is scientific?”
“No, surely not. If it were, they would have tested it on animals first.”