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Comment Re:Hilarious (Score 2, Insightful) 366

It's kind of irrelevant what the Florida government or the Koch Brothers Family of Astroturfers think. The insurance industry accepted the reality of AGW quite some time ago, and people living in coastal areas are already viewed as higher risks by actuaries. Surely there must be someone in government of the state of Florida that tracks this and is capable of understanding why it's going on.

Comment Re:As an Engineer/Journeyman Machinist I can tell (Score 1) 188

And yet engineers keep falling into the trap of thinking a. they're scientists and B. they have expertise and experience that give them some special insight into fields they really have no significant knowledge of.

It might be something if a chemical engineer with expertise in organic chemistry were to critique abiogenesis theories, but to have a guy with a degree in mechanical engineering and CS appealing to his own authority is precisely what the Salem Hypothesis speaks to.

It is dangerous enough when a scientist speaks to a field of research he has no expertise in, and some even brilliant career have ended on a sad note because of just that, but to have creationist engineers declaring that they have some special ability to declare a field of study wrongfooted is simply absurd.

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