tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post7942195480473029447..comments2023-12-01T16:56:04.415+11:00Comments on Peak Energy: George Monbiot vs Stewart BrandBig Gavhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682404837426502876noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-41700953515788814122011-02-26T16:19:49.607+11:002011-02-26T16:19:49.607+11:00You might want to read Brand's "Afterword...You might want to read Brand's "Afterword" to his book "Ecopragmatism" which he has online here: http://web.me.com/stewartbrand/DISCIPLINE_footnotes/Afterword.html<br /><br />Brand has been saying his assessment of climate science depends a lot on the views of James Lovelock, and Lovelock, it seems, has jumped the shark. <br /><br />Lovelock has decided that climate change has stopped for some mysterious reason, and as a result of paying attention to him, Brand is saying in this "Afterword" that a second rate climate denier Garth Paltridge (his book The Climate Ca[er has a Foreword by climate denier extraordinaire Lord Monckton), is, a "sensible skeptic". <br /><br />I tried to engage Brand in a debate about how preposterous it is to think that climate change has stopped to no avail. I also pointed out that Paltridge believes that the scientists working with the IPCC are the worst thing that has happened to science in the last several hundred years because they are on a "religious crusade", "manipulating" the climate issue "into the ultimate example of the politically correct" acting as if "the science behind the issue" is "irrelevant", etc. Anyway, Brand didn't respond. <br /><br />I wrote up my views in a post http://theenergycollective.com/david-lewis/47133/stewart-brand-fearless-follower-lovelock-not-sciencedavid lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01057820755734099375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-18315018277187631922011-02-17T21:30:39.151+11:002011-02-17T21:30:39.151+11:00And we all know the importance of feetnote (or is ...And we all know the importance of feetnote (or is that footnotes) !<br /><br />I enjoy George, though I don't read him as often as I once did.<br /><br />Good to see you are still reading - its such a long time since those early days of peak oil blogging - how is life treating you ?Big Gavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00682404837426502876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-79143685388874146952011-02-17T14:48:43.318+11:002011-02-17T14:48:43.318+11:00Monbiot is that rare breed of mainstream journalis...Monbiot is that rare breed of mainstream journalist that actually places references (!) in his articles.@whuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18297101284358849575noreply@blogger.com