Can Heidi Be Taught How To Think Rationally?

7 Responses to Can Heidi Be Taught How To Think Rationally?

1. Anto says:

   August 13, 2013 at 1:03 pm

   At the end of the Eemian, a forgotten civilisation of v8000 horsepower-driving orangutans caused a sudden spike in temperatures on Earth.

   It goes without saying that they were the cause of the last major extinction on the planet, and that the incredibly rich diversity of life which now exists could only have arisen with a steady, constant mean temperature of 14.58693756oC.

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2. Justa Joe says:

   August 13, 2013 at 1:16 pm

   Nope, not as long as AGW is the hip trend. Of course, 30 years from now she’ll write about the AGW social phenomenon as if she didn’t have anything to do with it. They’ll also be saying that the AGW craze was “bi-partisan.” They’ll use John McCain as an example. Heck. everbody was just caught up in AGW mania.

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3. harrydhuffman (@harrydhuffman) says:

   August 13, 2013 at 2:06 pm

   Why should anyone believe any of that? (I think that means I agree with Anto above.)

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   • harrydhuffman (@harrydhuffman) says:

     August 13, 2013 at 2:25 pm

     By the way, the “Eemian” was–supposedly–114,000 to 130,000 years ago. A meaningless word to the geologically unbrainwashed, it derived from the river Eem in the Netherlands, where a geologist dug up enough evidence to make the word up and get away with it. Other geologists in other areas of the world dug up other evidence and made up other names for the same supposed period. (According to Wikipedia: “The Eemian is also known as the Sangamonian Stage in North America, the Ipswichian Stage in the UK, the Mikulin interglacial in the East European Plain, the Valdivia interglacial in Chile and the Riss-Würm interglacial in the Alps.”). None of the names have any sure connection to the actual reality of that supposed time period, as we are only talking about a geological model, subject to the same “garbage in, garbage out” limitations as are climate models. (In geology, the “garbage in” is the assumption of unbroken uniformitarianism.)

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4. phodges says:

   August 13, 2013 at 5:53 pm

   So the little warm spike at the end of the Eemian was much more catastrophic than our little warm spike at the end of the Holocene?

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5. Traitor In Chief says:

   August 13, 2013 at 6:00 pm

   So anyone with a time machine who travels back to the Eemian could build a few feet above sea level and have nothing to worry about in their lifetime.

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6. Kaboom says:

   August 14, 2013 at 6:10 pm

   So 1.7 feet in 100 years or 5 mm/year?

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