[Paleopsych] NYTBR: (Posner) 'Catastrophe': Apocalypse When?

[Geraldine Reinhardt]

Let's keep an eye on Mars as it warms up.  Shortly we 
earthlings will need to make a move and Mars might be 
one good place to homestead.

Gerry Reinhart-Waller
Independent Scholar
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~waluk

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Hovland" <shovland at mindspring.com>
To: "'The new improved paleopsych list'" 
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Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 8:36 PM
Subject: RE: [Paleopsych] NYTBR: (Posner) 
'Catastrophe': Apocalypse When?


>I think the idea that global warming is primarily
> caused by man is suspect, but I have heard
> that there is global warming on Mars as well,
> suggesting that the entire solar system is
> heating up.
>
> Steve Hovland
> www.stevehovland.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lynn D. Johnson, Ph.D. 
> [SMTP:ljohnson at solution-consulting.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 6:17 PM
> To: The new improved paleopsych list
> Subject: Re: [Paleopsych] NYTBR: (Posner) 
> 'Catastrophe': Apocalypse When?
>
> RE: Catastrophes, have you read State of Fear by 
> Crichton? I know, it
> has all the typical  weaknesses of a Crichton novel, 
> but he effectively
> discounts global warming as a pseudo-fact being 
> pushed by politics and
> not science. So Posner's argument about warming seems 
> to be based on
> this pseudo-science. Crichton demolishes the Kyoto 
> treaty using actual
> peer-reviewed citations in his novel.
>
> The whole idea of putting lots of effort into 
> avoiding an event that
> will not happen is delicious coming from an 
> attorney/judge, since
> lawyers are twisting science (silicone breast 
> implants cause no
> problems; Cerebral palsy is not caused by OBs not 
> doing caesarians) and
> creating imaginary risks (Vioxx is a perfectly good 
> drug when taken with
> some precautions).
>
> More to the point, can we actually estimate 
> probabilities? Five day
> weather predictions are a joke -- the local weather 
> people have been
> predicting huge snowstorms that never materialized --  
> and so  how can we
> predict whether a particle accelerator can produce a 
> mini-black hole?
> Computer modeling is generally how we get such 
> predictions, and such
> modeling has been 'way off, at least the ones I have 
> seen.
>
> Lynn
>
>
>
> Premise Checker wrote:
>
>> 'Catastrophe': Apocalypse When?
>> New York Times Book Review, 5.1.2
>> By PETER SINGER
>>
>> CATASTROPHE
>> Risk and Response.
>> By Richard A. Posner.
>> 322 pp. Oxford University Press. $28.
>>
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