Posted on 08/21/2018 1:32:54 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
That must be why you can buy a modern beach house for 500 bucks. Oh wait...
A message appealing to the gullible. Ever hear of the term Shifting Sands?
The ocean levels can only be measured on a solid shoreline, like Maine, or New York City’s pier.
They disappeared under the waves over 25 years ago.
For some time now I’ve maintained that some “professions” just do not have a decent claim for respecting their “credentials” given that it is difficult, sometimes even impossible, to test the soundness of their decisions and proposals until long after they’ve been gone, at which point it’s often too late and the damage is done.
In finances, for example, it is relatively easy to doublecheck an accountant’s work as these ultimately rest on the numbers but extraordinarily difficult to check an economist’s. As for those who live off of the churn on so-called money products (ways to manipulate money that don’t actually produce goods and services) they’re even worse.
There being good reasons to respect credentials can be said of engineers, doctors, chemists and so many others whose efforts or professional judgments can be reasonably double checked by others just on an examination of the available facts and numbers ... geologist too are normally in this category.
But climate scientist are on shakier ground. The farther out on limbs they go making predictions based on anthropogenic ideology the shakier.
Then there are many others, like aforementioned economists or any number of humanities topics (especially the -insert here- Studies sociology phenomenon that has proliferated), just do not have good claim to credentials.
offering $0.05 on the dollar!!!
In 1968, Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, which argued that mankind was facing a demographic catastrophe with the rate of population growth quickly outstripping growth in the supply of food and resources. Simon was highly skeptical of such claims, so proposed a wager, telling Ehrlich to select any raw material he wanted and select "any date more than a year away," and Simon would bet that the commodity's price on that date would be lower than what it was at the time of the wager.
Ehrlich and his colleagues picked five metals that they thought would undergo big price increases: chromium, copper, nickel, tin, and tungsten. Then, on paper, they bought $200 worth of each, for a total bet of $1,000, using the prices on September 29, 1980, as an index. They designated September 29, 1990, 10 years hence, as the payoff date. If the inflation-adjusted prices of the various metals rose in the interim, Simon would pay Ehrlich the combined difference. If the prices fell, Ehrlich et al. would pay Simon.
Between 1980 and 1990, the world's population grew by more than 800 million, the largest increase in one decade in all of history. But by September 1990, the price of each of Ehrlich's selected metals had fallen. Chromium, which had sold for $3.90 a pound in 1980, was down to $3.70 in 1990. Tin, which was $8.72 a pound in 1980, was down to $3.88 a decade later.
As a result, in October 1990, Paul Ehrlich mailed Julian Simon a check for $576.07 to settle the wager in Simon's favor.
So, where will the beach be?...................
Aside from this idiot’s photo, do you find it odd that he heads an organization that studies coastal development that is located at Western Carolina University? Shouldn’t he and his crowd of academic loonies be at East Carolina University?
Love your post
The little secret, the weather will change again
Or not....
Not quite yet, but something akin to that will happen soon.
Revelation 6:12-14
Looks like an Huber genius...err, spupra-genius, Wil-e-Coyote level.
“Aside from this idiot’s photo, do you find it odd that he heads an organization that studies coastal development that is located at Western Carolina University? Shouldn’t he and his crowd of academic loonies be at East Carolina University?”
They are afraid ECU will be under water, given the risin’ tides and all...
Good album.
I just dropped off my car at my ophthamologist for some transmission work. Duke U? What was the idiot professor's reaction to the Lacrosse team smear? Was he part of it? Because if so, he should have had his tenure broken and be living on the street now. Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
They can move to Finland. Thanks to glacial rebound, the Finnish coastline is rising.
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