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By: LDA

LDA — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:15:59 +0000

Related: “Purdue University created this video on where the greenhouse gasses in the US are coming from, and where they go.”

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/09/the-vulcan-project/

Direct link: http://www.purdue.edu/eas/carbon/vulcan/index.php

By: Morgan J. Locke

Morgan J. Locke — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:32:32 +0000

I find it odd, too, Stuart. Though in reality, it probably isn’t all that strange… our brains allow us to simulate rationalism, but it’s a hack over a primarily pattern-recognizing system…

By: Stuart

Stuart — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:49:17 +0000

I’m curious why global warming denial and now denial that man is involved in global warming are litmus tests for the right wing. I don’t expect you to be able to explain it anymore than I can.

It is just fascinating to me that certain members of the science fiction community who pride them selves on their scientific rationality voice support for the reactionary view right in line with their political views with no apparent awareness of the non-rationality of their views.

This is a phenomena that has roots in the science fiction community that go back at least as far as John Campbell and Astounding Science Fiction. Campbell was capable of putting hard science and ideas from la la land in the same editorial. He always reminded me of the Heinlein competent character. You know he is because he keeps telling you he is. I find much the same myopia in the singularity true believers like Ray Kurzweil and others of the MIT school of AI.