[lbo-talk] A. Cockburn's latest lunacy

[Carl Remick]

>From: Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com>
>
>Which brings me back to Mr. Cockburn.
>
>He uses the phrase "computer modelers" as if he's
>writing about a group of people attending a Nintendo
>Wii party.  Of course, the fact that these "computer
>modelers" are, in fact, scientists - indeed, most of
>the scientists in the climate science field - is a
>minor point for Ace.

Yes, I love the way Cockburn contrasts himself -- a hands-on, front-line, 
action guy who is the veritable Indiana Jones of climatologists -- with the 
lazy-ass, armchair weather-watchers who are so dependent on effete tools 
like computers, viz.:

"I had hoped to deal with criticisms at the end of the series. I have 
changed my plans, since committed greenhousers like George Monbiot charge 
that I have ignored their rebukes. In actual fact I was offline, in Russia, 
flying thither over the Arctic and thus able to make a direct review of the 
ice cap.  So wait a couple of weeks for my next column before you critics 
let fly again."

Wow!  Ace reporter Ace, on the scene, "flying thither over the Arctic and 
thus able to make a direct review of the ice cap."  I can't wait for 
Cockburn's return, er, hither so I can learn what arctic secrets his eagle 
eye aloft has espied that remain hidden to the benighted computer modelers.

Carl

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