Comments on: Is this “The Age of Teh Stoopid?” (film trailer) https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/15/is-this-the-age-of-teh-stoopid/ Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/15/is-this-the-age-of-teh-stoopid/#comment-545092 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:53:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/15/is-this-the-age-of-teh-stoopid/#comment-545092 Ian! ATW is one of those thing that materialized while I was dividing my time between intense study and teaching and being in Zaire. But I just glanced at it and I love the fact that he starts out in Japanese and appears to have laser eye mouse capabilities.

I’ll have to put this in a post!

]]> By: Ian Tindale https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/15/is-this-the-age-of-teh-stoopid/#comment-545091 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:15:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/15/is-this-the-age-of-teh-stoopid/#comment-545091 What’s your opinion of James Burke’s “After The Warming”? That was quite an early influence on me.

]]> By: Duae Quartunciae https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/15/is-this-the-age-of-teh-stoopid/#comment-545090 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:18:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/15/is-this-the-age-of-teh-stoopid/#comment-545090 My heart sank as I looked into this. I’ve been active in trying to counter the scientific errors behind most of the popular criticism of conventional climate science, and the major premise of the film is fine.

The problem is that the film appears to use massively hyped and inflated notions of what physical damage is possible in the next 45 years. And this is going to make it an easy target and a poster child for scientifically absurd views on the side of those who recognize climate change as a real problem… which it is. The real problems are likely to be large economic costs, and significant personal suffering as we have to adapt to changing conditions.

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