An Environmentalist Finally Embraces Science January 5, 2013
Posted by geoff in News.trackback
… and discovers that everything he’d been working for (well, at least relating to genetically modified stuff and “organic” foods) was a lie:
For the record, here and upfront, I apologise for having spent several years ripping up GM crops. I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonising an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment.As an environmentalist, and someone who believes that everyone in this world has a right to a healthy and nutritious diet of their choosing, I could not have chosen a more counter-productive path. I now regret it completely.
That’s the introduction, and from there it gets even better, especially when he starts chewing out Greenpeace. So if you can get past your anger that it took this self-righteous tool 15 years of harassing scientists and bio companies to see the light, it’s well worth a read.
H/T: Instapundit
Awesome post, Geoff.
Interestingly he clings to anthropormorphic global warming because of the scientific evidence and peer review.
But yeah, he seems to have embraced his wrong-headedness on GM
He doesn’t just cling, he blatantly flaunts his adherence to AGW dogma in a transparent attempt to maintain his scientific cred with his liberal pals while he assumes the nobility of taking a ‘brave’ stance, admitting the obvious about GM against the ignorant hysteria of environmental wackos.
Didn’t work with me. He’s a fucking poser. Mr. Lynas, reading peer reviewed articles (written by like-minded grant pimps and facile speculators) in “prestigious” journals does not make you an actual scientist, or even qualify you as an informed commenter. Scientists are people who do real scientificky work, in the lab or the physical world. Like maybe, oh let me think, *scratches chin* maybe collecting data, conducting experiments testing an hypothesis, understanding statistical analysis — stuff like that.
As opposed to conjuring up fantastical computer models out of thin air, with virtually no documentation of the code, and then ignoring the DATA that proves the models wrong (e.g., the missing water vapor feedback loop, no temperature increase in the last 12 years despite the ongoing (and beneficial) CO2 buildup). And let’s just turn a blind eye to the hurricane and polar bear and arctic ice cap and sea level and Kilimanjaro snow cover and Himalayan glacier frauds that have been soundly disproved . . .
Mr. Lynas, I’m more of a scientist than you. I have observed an unmistakable correlation between eating beans and farting. The sequencing of these events shows cause and effect beyond a doubt, qualifying Michael’s “Beans Cause Farts” hypothesis as a scientific theory. I love beans, so my research has been extensive over many years.
Most importantly, my scientific findings are replicable by my bean-loving peers, and I am willing to share the raw data, not data that has been “normalized” to support my hypothesis. Just invite me over for a dinner including beans, preferably maple/hickory flavored, and you’ll get some raw data, I promise. There should be no open flames in the vicinity. I have not written a computer model about this; it’s actual science.
*Michael does deep breathing exercises*
Don’t even fucking get me started. Well, you already did, but don’t rile me up any more.
I have not written a computer model about this; it’s actual science.
*Resolves to do a CFD* run on farts for Michael*
*Computational Fluid Dynamics
Geoff, my farts never involve fluid.
Well, almost never.
In fluid analysis, a fluid is defined as anything that deforms continuously under shear stress, so both gases and liquids qualify.
what he said + Bernoulli equations used for gases and liquids and even solid frozen masses under enourmous pressures.
*remembers SCIENCE*
Never trust a Bernoulli equation.
Trust but verify! Bernoulli does make a great pizza.