3 responses to “Partisan Divide on Threat Assessment?”

1. 

   Ron Beasley

   December 18, 2011 at 12:21 pm

   There is an EMP threat but it doesn’t come from China or Iran but from the sun or a distant supernova. This is just more fear mongering by those who want to protect the military industrial complex.
2. 

   Just nutha ig’rant cracker

   December 18, 2011 at 7:06 pm

   Without defending Newt’s position on EMP, I am inclined to think that there is a difference between a technological threat that we would have some limited control over (EMP) and an ecological threat for which all of the data so far seems to indicate little resolve (no, I don’t count handwringing) for the lifestyle changes required to hold in place, let alone reverse (global warming).

   I dislike the “I’m an agnostic” approach, but get real folks, no one is lining up to say “i’ll live in a smaller, colder house and drive almost not at all because this threat is really important to address.” And even if anyone was willing to say that, we would still have the problem that 85% of all energy is used by the industiral sector in developed nations.

   Give up your lifestyle and job to fight global warming. Any takers?
3. 

   Ernieyeball

   December 19, 2011 at 12:10 am

   @Just nutha ig’rant cracker: “…no one is lining up to say “i’ll live in a smaller, colder house and drive almost not at all because this threat is really important to address.”
   Maybe yes, maybe not so much.
   It sure is a good thing that the Scientific Method of Finding Things Out always allows for new information to be considered instead of the nonsensical idea of “settled science.”
   See “Thirty-three Year Temperature Update-Well Below Computer Model Predictions”

   http://reason.com/blog/2011/12/16/thirty-three-temperature-update-well-bel