Pretty sure lots of the people that would have come back from the war to do that work, wound up getting an education, and becoming lawyers and bureaucrats.

You don't consider Lawyers the Ultimate Special Interest ?

What am I cheering for Exxon ?

If they were suing an Attorney general for being in the pocket of greenpeace sure I would cheer.

I'd also cheer if they were suing federal officials for promoting the insane gasahol program or cellolosic ethanol programs that have been nothing less than completely counterproductive.

I'd also cheer if they were suing over the sandbagging of the building of new refineries.

I was thinking more like the way we watch Youtube and Reality TV. To laugh at people so much less intelligent.

And get paid to call it science these days ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

At least Benford's writing is entertaining and lucid.

LOL the first time it was done it was the name of the place where it happened.

seriously the only way someone can miss this is by not looking or wanting to see it.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=http%3A%2...

Mod the above up,
I learned auto repair working on a Model A that had been donated to my highschool. You practically didn't need a manual to do the work.
I used to work on my Vette (1978) with nothing but a good set of wrenches.
Now it's forget about it.
At the rate things are going you won't be able to change the oil in a car without taking it to a dealer.

You have seen no serious speculation that global warming will destroy civilization ?

I have trouble giving credit to that statement.

Are we talking about climate or weather here ?
Or if warming is bad it's climate if it's good it's weather ?

The premise is that warming is bad for civilization and will destroy it. Well about the only instance I can think of warming maybe causing a problem for civilization is Anasazi and no one is really certain what happened there. Cooling has wrought hell for civilizations just look at middle east and Africa.

How's diamond semiconductors working out ?

And in the 50s we were going to be driving nuclear powered cars by now.

I'll see your impossible things and raise you "Things that will change the world" but have never been heard from after the initial hype.

The point is the warm periods were/are good things.