Comments on: Bill Nye, confused science guy

By: Jay Alt

Jay Alt — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:04:53 +0000

Perhaps Nye’s broader point of diminishing resources isn’t urgent.
Let the commodification of the earth continue . . .
Nye needs an honest agent to help with baseline issues, maybe RP is available.
Or Lindzen to clarify tangential differences between the Gulf Stream and MOC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McsZ1U20W0M
Okay I’ll hold the irony and say it – The story’s utility is lost on me. I think you can do better.
Btw, Happy father’s day.

By: Ric Merritt

Ric Merritt — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:08:31 +0000

There’s actually a serious issue buried in there as well: estimates of future population growth and of the 21st-century peak number hardly ever seem to take into account the near certainty that growth, and therefore the peak, will be more and more tightly constrained in the coming decades by various limits. Hint: it’s really hard to tell exactly which limits, where, when, and how, but it’s safe to predict that they will interact and feed back mutually. Not in a good way. And, an important class of limits is the inability of real humans to squeeze out some unavailable theoretical maximum out of the other well-known limited resources.

My bottom-line amateur guess: I’d bet against getting anywhere near 15B, or 12B. More like 9, or 8, then back down, more quickly than we’d prefer.

By: Brute

Brute — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:49:47 +0000

On Confusion:

James Johnson and Barack Obama’s Confusion on the Issues

By: David B. Benson

David B. Benson — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:46:07 +0000

Joe — Happy Father’s Day!