Comments on: Ambitious Pronouncement http://www.davidjmiller.org/2008/ambitious-pronouncement/ Recording Bits and Pieces of Heaven in Theory and Practice Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:18:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David http://www.davidjmiller.org/2008/ambitious-pronouncement/comment-page-1/#comment-11130 David Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:14:10 +0000 http://www.davidjmiller.org/?p=955#comment-11130 Right or wrong, these predictions serve the primary purpose of most prognosticators - which is to be in the public eye with the image of authority on their topic of choice. Right or wrong, these predictions serve the primary purpose of most prognosticators – which is to be in the public eye with the image of authority on their topic of choice.

]]> By: Carl http://www.davidjmiller.org/2008/ambitious-pronouncement/comment-page-1/#comment-11129 Carl Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:06:14 +0000 http://www.davidjmiller.org/?p=955#comment-11129 Very good comment Reach. It must be fun for these non-prophet organizations to make far-fetched comments for a minute of publicity knowing that the public will forget what they said. This means that in just a few years, they can turn around and say a completely opposite absurdity for another minute of publicity. Very good comment Reach. It must be fun for these non-prophet organizations to make far-fetched comments for a minute of publicity knowing that the public will forget what they said. This means that in just a few years, they can turn around and say a completely opposite absurdity for another minute of publicity.

]]> By: David http://www.davidjmiller.org/2008/ambitious-pronouncement/comment-page-1/#comment-11128 David Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:53:01 +0000 http://www.davidjmiller.org/?p=955#comment-11128 I figure there are two possible reasons for that connection (pushing global warmism and pushing massive government intervention). One, they view individual liberty as a root cause of the man made global warming they are trying to fix - thus they see collective (government) action as the solution. Two, they are proponents of central planning (massive government) and see the global warming issue as a convenient means of driving their agenda in the public conversation. I figure there are two possible reasons for that connection (pushing global warmism and pushing massive government intervention). One, they view individual liberty as a root cause of the man made global warming they are trying to fix – thus they see collective (government) action as the solution. Two, they are proponents of central planning (massive government) and see the global warming issue as a convenient means of driving their agenda in the public conversation.

]]> By: Reach Upward http://www.davidjmiller.org/2008/ambitious-pronouncement/comment-page-1/#comment-11127 Reach Upward Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:17:07 +0000 http://www.davidjmiller.org/?p=955#comment-11127 More than one observer has noted that prophets of doom tend to work in decades when making catastrophic prognostications. Going out 10 or 20 years creates a thesis that can in no way be currently verified. Plus, most of these pronouncements are largely forgotten by the time the stated period has passed, so the doomsayers are never held accountable. NASA's James Hansen is a reliable prophet of doom that for over three decades has routinely prophesied cataclysmic devastation if we did not immediately undertake some massive centralized scheme to severely limit human liberty. A few weeks ago he testified before a congressional committee that we're almost past the point of no return on fixing global warming. Not one legislator bothered to challenge him on his equally superfluous congressional testimony about the next global ice age back in the 70s. Why is it that the people that push global warmism so hard are the same people that favor massive new centralized government programs to fix it? More than one observer has noted that prophets of doom tend to work in decades when making catastrophic prognostications.

Going out 10 or 20 years creates a thesis that can in no way be currently verified. Plus, most of these pronouncements are largely forgotten by the time the stated period has passed, so the doomsayers are never held accountable.

NASA’s James Hansen is a reliable prophet of doom that for over three decades has routinely prophesied cataclysmic devastation if we did not immediately undertake some massive centralized scheme to severely limit human liberty. A few weeks ago he testified before a congressional committee that we’re almost past the point of no return on fixing global warming. Not one legislator bothered to challenge him on his equally superfluous congressional testimony about the next global ice age back in the 70s.

Why is it that the people that push global warmism so hard are the same people that favor massive new centralized government programs to fix it?

]]> By: David http://www.davidjmiller.org/2008/ambitious-pronouncement/comment-page-1/#comment-11126 David Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:11:15 +0000 http://www.davidjmiller.org/?p=955#comment-11126 Maybe "10 years" is just a nice round number to use in prophecy. Maybe “10 years” is just a nice round number to use in prophecy.

]]> By: Cameron http://www.davidjmiller.org/2008/ambitious-pronouncement/comment-page-1/#comment-11124 Cameron Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:01:03 +0000 http://www.davidjmiller.org/?p=955#comment-11124 I think it was a couple of years ago that Al Gore said we only had ten more years until it was too late. I think it was a couple of years ago that Al Gore said we only had ten more years until it was too late.

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