Re: [Paddlewise] Winter in a time of Climate Change

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:16:41AM -0800, Mike Euritt wrote:
> A prius
for one great example, is a harder hit on the enviornment
> and your wallet
than the hated Hummer.

This is, of course, pure garbage -- the result of a
spurious "study"
by a *marketing* company and not the conclusion of an actual
scientific
endeavor.  Actual scientific studies done by actual scientists at
MIT,
Argonne and CMU trash this largely-fabricated nonsense.
******************

I was prepared to let this one die. After a previous
poster mentioned that the Prius/Humvee was a myth, I went online looking for
proof either way.
I clearly do not know the truth of the Humvee/Prius matter,
but the company who wrote the article in question responds to the debunk:
http://cnwmr.com/nss-folder/automotiveenergy/Response2%20Slate%20March%202008
.pdf

to get it going, an excerpt:

1. We never asked anyone to duplicate the
study. It stands on its own. We are more
than happy to provide data points to
assist another research organization perform its
own study. No such requests
have been received by us.
**************************************
 
So no one
who has debunked his article has done the research he has done to write the
article, at least they've not asked for his data points. So, how can the
debunks be valid since they don't know what he used to come to his
conclusions.
 
I consistently find the use of the word "discredited" is left
speak for covering the ears and screaming loudly "I don't want to hear what
you are saying."
 
I've been suckered in the past with "science supported"
doom and gloom, most recently Y2K, but remember clearly predictions of dead
oceans in the 80's accompanied by catastrophic ocean rising, repeated in the
90's, global cooling of the 60's, Hole in the Ozone. Believe if you like, but
the record of the doomsday prophets being correct is 0. I look at the weather
map and see lots of cold everywhere, much of it erlier than normal and colder
than normal. Which is, of course, absolute proof of GW...
 
DailyKos as
science? Give me a break, Wouldn't expect to find science on Redstate either.
 
now back to kayaking
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