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august 2011 don t let it go don t let it go skip to content home about amy contact monthly archives august 2011 older posts august 30 2011 6 28 pm robert spencer interview hour long podcast interview with robert spencer i am pleased to share as a podcast my interview with robert spencer director of jihad watch and author of many books including two new york times bestsellers the truth about muhammad and the politically incorrect guide to islam and the crusades we have been reading mr spencer s qur an commentary as a supplement to our reading of the koran for our koran reading group mr spencer answers a range of questions in the interview from general observations about the poetic nature of the koran to discussion and interpretation of specific passages of it including those that call for the use of violence against non muslims and require women to produce four witnesses in order to prove that they were raped you can listen to and download the interview here robert spencer interview 18 comments filed under don t let it go unheard august 29 2011 4 14 pm global warming alarmists jump the shark if an idea s proponents grasping at ever more implausible straws is an indication of how badly that idea is faring in the court of public opinion it seems that global warming alarmism is not doing so well set aside the predictable feeble speculations about the existence or severity of hurricane irene being due to global warming i have seen in about one week s time three more examples of how desperate the global warming alarmists are becoming first we re told that according to a paper recently published by the climate institute in australia loss of social cohesion in the wake of severe weather events related to climate change could be linked to increased rates of anxiety depression post traumatic stress and substance abuse so even though there is skepticism about whether global warming or as it is euphemistically called climate change is a real phenomenon and on top of that skepticism about whether global warming causes weather events of increasing severity the authors of this paper try to further their environmentalist agenda by means of an additional layer of speculation the hypothesis that increasing rates of mental illness in australia are due to the increasing frequency of severe weather events second al gore argues that those who are now skeptical about global warming are the moral equivalent of those who in earlier generations were racists i think it s the same where the moral component is concerned he said gore seems to be forgetting that it is the racists and the global warming alarmists not the global warming skeptics who must bear the onus of proof both the racists and the global warming alarmists are arguing for the existence of something in the case of the racists a connection between skin color and a characteristic that would justify discrimination in the case of the global warming alarmists both the existence of the phenomenon itself and its connection to human activity because gore seeks to avoid addressing the merits of the skeptics position altogether and instead assumes his audience will join him in smearing them by associating them with racists this is a classic example of what ayn rand called the argument from intimidation finally there s this story in which we are told that a nasa linked scientist co wrote an academic paper speculating that were we to come into contact with an alien species the obviously superior aliens might feel compelled to wipe us out due to our obviously suicidal and dangerous overconsumption of fossil fuels yes it was just an academic paper and being linked to nasa in some capacity does not mean that one cannot speak his mind nor does it mean that nasa endorses the views expressed in the paper still i find it disturbing that someone who has worked with nasa spends time and energy considering the arbitrary the existence of any sentient alien species is arbitrary as there is no evidence that i know of in support of it further speculation about what such an alien species might think or do about us and our consumption of fossil fuels is something i will call arbitrary squared scary this last story is even more interesting because what these scientists have done in effect is use an arbitrary fantasy about aliens in order to resurrect the old discredited malthusian idea that the growth of civilization will be our downfall according to the guardian u k the argument in the paper was that overconsumption of fossil fuels and the concomitant change in atmospheric composition would alert alien life forms that our civilization is in a rapid growth phase this rapid growth they say could be perceived by the aliens as a threat the solution is of course to curb the rate of growth of our civilization well unless you re paul krugman same conclusion reached by thomas malthus but with an even less plausible in fact totally arbitrary argument for it malthus s original predictions haven t come true the fact that you are reading this blog post refutes them but what these scientists have done is make the same argument in the context of an arbitrary story with the result that no one can refute it true we can t refute it but we can refuse to consider it and we can judge those who expect us to do so i wonder what they ll come up with next 13 comments filed under uncategorized august 28 2011 8 55 pm don t let it go unheard 27 hour 2 hour 2 steve jobs s retirement obamanomics vs reaganomics federal raid on gibson guitars bloomberg s decision to have no clergy present at 9 11 commemoration don t let it go unheard 27 hour 2 sorry but the itunes feed requires i put this file in a separate post so that it will upload for subscribers leave a comment filed under don t let it go unheard older posts email subscription enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address sign me up join 497 other subscribers donate to support my 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