McKibben Math : Five Is Greater Than 1,200

14 Responses to McKibben Math : Five Is Greater Than 1,200

1. Robertv says:

   September 16, 2013 at 9:13 pm

   http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com.es/2013/09/against-100-year-flood.html

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2. Jason Calley says:

   September 16, 2013 at 9:20 pm

   And why would Bill McKibben even think to include human deaths in his thought processes? Isn’t it enough that perhaps. maybe, conceivably, some poley bear in a zoo somewhere in Colorado was inconvenienced? Isn’t that possibility more important than mere human life?

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3. Will Nitschke says:

   September 16, 2013 at 9:20 pm

   It was very windy at my place last night and one of my pieces of garden furniture blew over. I classify this as a twice in a year event. However, it shifted and blew over in such a way that it knocked over a large pot plant. Considering the original distance from the garden furniture to the pot plant I’d probably classify this as a 1 in 100 year event. Possibly if I email Bill he could sexy it up and attribute it to extreme weather.

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   • Latitude says:

     September 16, 2013 at 9:58 pm

     you’ve got to consider the age of your house…how long that area has been developed, etc

     I say at least a 1/10,000

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4. righttimewrongplace says:

   September 16, 2013 at 9:25 pm

   The keep pushing their narrative.

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   • righttimewrongplace says:

     September 16, 2013 at 9:25 pm

     How about “They” ….

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5. DGP says:

   September 16, 2013 at 9:47 pm

   McKibben sure is a frequent twatter.

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6. Okie says:

   September 16, 2013 at 9:53 pm

   Everyone knows gun owners fired in the air and punctured the clouds, which caused the flooding.

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7. tom0mason says:

   September 16, 2013 at 10:21 pm

   The twittering twits tweeted and once twits tweet they move on to tweet again, and again, and again,…

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   • Jason Calley says:

     September 16, 2013 at 11:18 pm

     Nor all thy Piety nor Wit
     Shall lure it back to cancel half a twit,
     Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it

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     • tom0mason says:

       September 16, 2013 at 11:23 pm

       🙂

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8. gator69 says:

   September 16, 2013 at 10:25 pm

   I’m sure he would notice the difference if his funding were as greatly reduced.

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9. gofer says:

   September 16, 2013 at 11:23 pm

   So what’s the “POWERFUL” link? I bet it comes with “multiple lines of evidence” and is very “robust”.

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10. PhilJourdan says:

    September 17, 2013 at 12:15 am

    97% is a magic number. So apparently is 5.

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