Steve Stites

Jim said: "While in a perfect world, there would be no software patents, now that the genie is out of the bottle, we need to at least get rid of bad patents."

That implies that there exists such a thing as a good patent. What is a good patent?

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Steve Stites

"If your last paragraph is correct--that humans do have the ability to cause global climate change, then you do seriously undercut your own argument that there is no global climate change and that there is no knowable linkage between human activity and such change. That does not seem very scientific to me."

I do not argue that there is no global climate change. I argue that this vast amount of scientific research you cite is junk science created to advance a political cause. My answer is a political answer to a political topic.

As to citing cases of junk science in the past I have rebutted:

An article in Slashdot that stated that the melting arctic ice pack would cause global flooding.

An article in Scientific American which stated that the author deduced from the fur harvest figures that a decline in the Wolverine Canadian snow pack coverage has caused a decline in the number of Wolverines in Canada.

That melting arctic ice has the potential to increase the size of the Labrador current to where the Labrador current would block the Gulf Stream. Published in several online news blogs.

I will take it as a given that you have read a large number of articles presenting scientific evidence of global warming if you will accept the fact that I have read the same articles and dismiss most of them as junk science. And yes there is actually some scientific evidence for global warming which is lost in the midst of all the nonsense printed by the climate change political movement.

The scientists who have done the decent work on global warming have taken the non-scientific approach of placing a value judgment on their findings. This launched the climate change political movement with an unquestioning judgment that global warming is evil. I make the political judgment that global warming is a good thing. Neither my judgment nor the climate change movement's judgment is scientific.

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Steve Stites