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Comment Re:Global Warming Philosophy (Score 1) 1747

Start recording temperatures in 1850, and in 1950 look at the trend. Do the same from 1950 onwards. Notice that CO2 increases IR absorption and is increasing in the atmosphere. Create a GCM and run it with and without the anthropogenic forcing. Notice which one fits the data. Download the program and the data from http://edgcm.columbia.edu/ and run it at home if you want to check. Oh, don't believe that data? Use this, or this new one. Want to check the GCM? run against paloclimate proxies, or write from first principles and do it on paper like Arrhenius did.

Comment Re:Yes, Here's Why (Score 1) 1747

Yes there is. The Skeptic clearly understands the evidence for the theory and has opposing evidence that is genuine. The Uniformed Judge makes false claims to support his point, or doesn't understand the empirical support for the theory. Suppose I am arguing that Einstein's Special Relativity is correct. I use atomic clocks to determine that Einstein's theory predicts time dilation correctly, or muon decay. The Skeptic at this point shuts up. His evidence isn't precise enough, so he now changes his mind. The Uniformed Judge then launches all kinds of irrelevant attacks.

Comment Re:And that's bad how? (Score 1) 1747

The laws were known to be invalid since the development of Maxwell's equations. Einstein was continuing the work of Fitzgerald and Lorenz in the area. All 4 of the papers in the Annus Mirabilis (1905) were very much in line what was expected. General Relativity (1915) was part of a research programme begun to connect Newtonian gravity to special relativity. There were many theories proposed, Einstein just had the luck and intuition to find the right one.

Comment Re:You are completely wrong... (Score 1) 493

Who decides what those national security interests are? Did the United States have a security interest in bombing Vietnam that was so important it transcended the rights of the people to express their opinion on it through the political system? What about murdering El Salvadorian peasants, bombing the harbors of Nicaragua, assassinating exiles on the streets of DC? Was that so important that the people of the United States should not have been allowed to decide if this was how their country would behave? Politics is the only alternative to violence. We should not lightly silence it.

Comment Re:Figures (Score 1) 493

But you can't avoid the attack. Do you seriously think that terrorists will use any communications medium that can be intercepted now that they know wiretaps exist? Do you seriously think they would need to have the fact that they themselves are being wiretapped known to avoid the wiretap? And if they are this dumb why do you think we should be afraid? The only people who can destroy the US Constitution are the Americans. And they are doing one good job of it.

Comment Re:It's official... (Score 1) 493

But will they defend the right to tinker against large corporations with interests in curtailing it? I think not. They are anti-gay rights, anti-abortion, and have a regressive view of liberty. They do not understand the Enlightenment philosophy from which the US Constitution springs. They are not interested in further realizing emancipatory possibilities. A vote for them will be a victory for the forces of evil that seek to make this country into something like Ireland.

Comment Re:So let me get this straight.. (Score 3, Interesting) 493

Three umpires were asked about their jobs. One said "There are balls and there are strikes, and I call them as they are." The second said "There are balls and there are strikes, and I call them as I see them." The third said "There are balls and there are strikes, but they ain't nothing 'till I call them". There are plenty of court cases decided on opinion, like the ending of discrimination in DC schools. This is a case we should all be happy with, but it wasn't decided on any word of the Constitution, just an argument that the Constitution should bind the federal government more then the states.

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