tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840508226007630755.post961083341639468141..comments2023-04-16T23:43:11.235+08:00Comments on Mirror Signal Move: Ambient PanicMike Faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840508226007630755.post-36051842406404901112011-10-17T10:31:21.765+08:002011-10-17T10:31:21.765+08:00Bruno wrote, without asking me first what my lette...Bruno wrote, without asking me first what my letter was all about and all he had to do was send over a quick email. "It is lamentable that more and more science fiction makes it into the letters section of the Taipei Times. ........we now have an environmental scare story in Dan Bloom’s recent letter. [His letter is] not based on science, but on fiction.<br /><br />[Dan's letter did not make] any reference to a scientific publication or a book based on scientific publications, e.g. the book ”The World in 2050” by Laurence Smith. [Dan replies: Bruno IN FACT, DR SMITH IS MY FRIEND AND HE KNOWS ALL ABOUT MY POLAR CITIES THEMES AND HE UNDERSTANDS EXACTLY WHAT I AM DOING AS A MEDIA WAKE UP CALL TO TAKE ACTION TODAY....AND MY LETTER WAS WRITTEN AFTER READING LARRY'S VERY GOOD INTERVIEW THAT APPEARED THE DAY BEFORE IN THE TAIPEI TIMES IN FACT. HE EVER DISCUSSED POLAR CITIES DURING THE Q and A PERIOD IF YOU WERE THERE....].......As Professor Smith himself stated in his excellent talk yesterday, global warming is a scientific fact (the evidence also well summarized in these letters) while Dan Bloom’s assertion NOT AN ASSERTION, WHERE DID I EVER ASSERT THAT? AND NOT A PREDICTION EITHER, THIS IS A PR WAKE UP CALL BRUNO TO TAKE ACTION NOW......YOU COMPLETELY MISSED THE POINT....].....that we will all live in ‘desolate polar cities’ by the year 2080 evoked but a slight chuckle from Professor Smith. LARRY CHUCKED BECAUSE HE KNOWS ME AND HE KNOWS WHAT I AM REALLY DOING WITH THE POLAR CITIES IDEAS AND HE KNOWS I AM NOT PREDICTING ANYTHING BUT TRYING TO TAKE PEOPLE UP WHO STIL NEED WAKING UP, and of course NOT YOU, BRUNO AND NOT LARRY.....HE COMPLETELY UNDERSTANDS WHAT MY POLAR CITIES WORK IS ALL ABOUT AND HE SUPPORTS ME, BELIEVE IT OR NOT. I WAS THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD TO BLOG ABOUT HIS EXCELLENT BOOK AND WE EMAIL OFTEN..........Dan Bloom does not cite any reputable scientific source for his [assertions], BRUNO, I WAS NOT ASSERTING ANYTHING I WAS DOING SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT WHICH YOU SEEMED TO HAVE MISSED COMPLETELY.......and is therefore in the business of story-telling, not of developing credible future scenarios based on facts and serious scientific modelling. BRUNO, YOU SHOULD HAVE ASKED ME FIRST BEFORE SHOOTING ME HERE. YOU MIS-READ THAT LETTER 101 percent....SIGHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840508226007630755.post-16369133386121052942011-10-17T10:30:15.711+08:002011-10-17T10:30:15.711+08:00Yes, i read Matt's good letter and i was glad ...Yes, i read Matt's good letter and i was glad to see it. he makes very sensible points. and yes, i am now going to try to clean up the mess i made..... BUt even worse, now our dear fiend, er, strike that, friend, Bruno Walther AGREES with your earlier asssesment that my letter was totally one for the books and i should be arrtesed and put in climate science jail for life, in Germany i assume,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840508226007630755.post-40694041066960290012011-10-07T03:17:35.295+08:002011-10-07T03:17:35.295+08:00Yo, Dan - are you reading this yet?
I hope you&#...Yo, Dan - are you reading <a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2011/10/07/2003515101/1" rel="nofollow">this</a> yet? <br /><br />I hope you're going to clean up the mess you made.Mike Faganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840508226007630755.post-7295528037370084742011-09-25T22:36:04.746+08:002011-09-25T22:36:04.746+08:00"If you read it again slowly and carefully, y...<i>"If you read it again slowly and carefully, you will see that I was joking, I was exaggerating on purpose to make a point. I thought you would get it."</i><br /><br />The thing is, I <b>expect</b> that sort of 100-year prediction from some of the people at the TT. <br /><br />Take the criticisms as directed at the TT eds then, as I doubt they'd have read it as satire either.Mike Faganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2840508226007630755.post-49327191338469162942011-09-25T21:29:26.422+08:002011-09-25T21:29:26.422+08:00Michael,
Glad you liked my lettet today. Re: &quo...Michael,<br /><br />Glad you liked my lettet today. Re: "That's Dan Bloom in a letter published in the Taipei Times today." SEE MY CAPS BELOW FOR COMMENTS.<br /><br />If you read it again slowly and carefully, you will see that I was joking, I was exaggerating on purpose to make a point. I thought you would get it. I am sure if you do read it again, you will see my humor there. I was not being serious. Read it again first.<br /><br />And smile, yes, i do love radiohead, and i agree with Private Frazier on Dads Army in BBC Tv show long ago, that "we are doomed, doomed..."<br /><br />Humor, Michael, humor. There's nothing to worry about. The future will be fine. The scaremongers are out there, but I am not one of them. You mis-read the letter. Look again.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />Dan <br /><br />With fairly precise 100-year predictions like that conditioned by the expression "I feel that... for sure", he has clearly spent too much time listening to Radiohead records ("We're not scaremongering, this is really happening!"); even the IPCC themselves estimate sea level rises of only a foot or two - with over a century for people to adapt.<br /><br />YES WE WILL ADAPT FOR SURE, PLENTY OF TIME. I AGREE.<br /><br />The constant repetition of this kind of argument in newspapers and TV shows - essentially, that the bad effects of global warming are not only certain but that they will also be catastrophic and far outweigh any possible benefits - is surely intended to induce an ambient sense of panic. BUT NOT ON MY PART. I AM A HUMORIST FIRST AND FOREMOST, NEITHER LEFTWING NOR DOOMSDAY SCANERMONGER.<br /><br />Ambient panic is necessary to build up local popular support for the participation of local, national governments in a systemic attempt to manage the global economy so as to mitigate this "certain" and "catastrophic" externality.<br />WHAT? I AM NOT ON ANY COMMITTEE LIKE. I AM A FICTION WRITER and AM WRITING A FICTION BOOK NOVEL ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, SCI FI THREILLER, PURE ESCAPE NOVEL, THATs ALL.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com