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Comment Re:Very High Survival Rate (Score 1) 416

We can suppose anything..

We don't have to suppose the Captain steered the ship off-course causing the crash that killed some passengers, and then proceeded to order some dinner instead of calling for evacuation, and then when learning the ship really was in danger, bailing out and leaving the passengers to fend for themselves. Hell, the crew had been telling people to return to their cabins for sometime before the evacuation started.

Comment Re:I'd start by shooting the Captain.... (Score 1) 416

We're falling into the same 21st century trap that the media has created and oversold - quick to judge and quicker to forget.

The media has nothing to do with it. This guy is an incompetent fool who killed passengers by steering the ship into this disaster on purpose(and totally off course) and left lots of them to their own devices to save his own neck. He's can't be the fall guy if he actually committed the crime.

Comment Re:I'd start by shooting the Captain.... (Score 1) 416

The guy crashed an ocean liner, any excuse/reason is going to be pathetic. Remember the guy is just working a job like the rest of us and most likely for the same selfish reasons so cut him some slack. The captain was right, it's dark with the ship in a dangerous position and him being possibly compromised(drunk, etc) it could be sending him to his death and could be viewed as the guard captain attempting to murder him. Being part of the incident, potentially compromised, in his condition he would have been a little help anyway. I doubt willingly getting killed is part of the job description regardless of what public perception says. Telling him to go back was just plain irresponsible and stupid.

No, that is actually what they are supposed to do BY LAW. And the Captain murdered those people just as if he put a gun to their head and pulled the trigger by changing the course of the ship and coming too close to land like that. Unreal that you would defend a piece of sh!t like that . You're pathetic.

Comment Re:Isn't that anti-science? (Score 1) 1055

That doubt is going to lead to trillions of dollars in damages and millions of deaths, or more.

This is exactly part of the problem that I see among the more vocal proponents of AGW. Millions of deaths? Do you have any evidence for this purported scenario/outcome? To me it smacks of the "sky is falling we are all doomed please won't you think of the children?" BS that gets us nowhere.

Comment Re:Isn't that anti-science? (Score 1) 1055

I'm trying to understand why the article mentions that 3,126 earth scientists were surveyed when they only focus on the most frequently(and recently) published climate scientists(79 total). If the other earth scientists don't matter then why survey them at all? And the PDF itself says that the survey was sent to 10,257 earth scientists so the response to the survey was only about 30% of the total. I'm not sure how that can be considered a consensus when far less than half even bothered to take the survey. YMMV.

Comment Re:No, it doesn't. Politics works by consensus. (Score 1) 1055

The problem with the modelling is that it cannot actually tell us what will happen in the future. It's just a guess based on certain parameters at a given time. And basing government policies(that will affect how and where tax money gets spent) on said models is ridiculous. And it doesn't help to have some scientists running around telling everyone the sky is falling and we're all doomed unless we do X, Y and Z RIGHT NOW. I know that gets the most attention, but that does not help anyone. It certainly does lend credibility to their position.

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