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absurd FotE advert on YouTube
https://youtu.be/R-cUWeuYBb0
tomo
Bill Gates is reducing his carbon footprint
https://youtu.be/wHEtjMbiefc
tomo
EVs are the future
https://twitter.com/iainpdooley/status/1786660679992119402
tomo
Robin Guenier
thanks for taking the time to elaborate.
'opponents just go quiet' - implies that they're thinking ... I can't help thinking that once the connections / assumptions that you are dismantling with facts and rational inference start to randomly reconnect that the ideological nature of Net Zero will assert itself as the adherents of the cult realise that you are an existential threat to their delusions.
I've had similar reactions (silence) from enthusiasts of renewables when provided with evidenced unadorned simple realities and how those realities would very likely play out / impact in their life experiences - and then, later, - they return, repeating the mantras ... the religious element is difficult to challenge!
It might be possible by dint of extraordinary self control to keep things on an even keel - good luck with that !
I hope that you can get your case in front of people who are near the levers of political power - I wonder at what gatekeeping is in place....
https://twitter.com/aDissentient/status/1783772497428586806
tomo
Robert
motorcycle engined small cars was a rabbit hole I went down a few years ago having seen Kawasaki engined Fiat 500s in hill climb videos.
Matt Brown's creation was showcased on Jay Leno show.
Matt's website is littered with rabbit holes!
tomo
Another cretin on the BBC payroll
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/02/bbc-presenter-says-calling-animals-english-names-jarring/
DaveS
Robert: I'm content with an approach that's (a) true and (b) works.
Robin Guenier
Robin Guenier,
I have no great beef with the "I am not a scientist" part. It's the "so I don't know" that I'd avoid. It implies that scientists *do* know (or at least *can* know). Judith Curry is a scientist who says that the "complexity monster" turns a lot of the certainties into maybes.
Sufficient, I think, to get straight to the point, not refer to scientists at all and start with a confident "I don't know".
Robert Swan
Robert: the advantages of the 'I'm not a scientist' approach are that it's true and that it works. See
this .
Robin Guenier
$11 billion high-speed rail bridge to nowhere that took 9 years to build