{"id":422,"date":"2005-12-18T23:26:43","date_gmt":"2005-12-18T17:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/12\/18\/recursive-caricaturing\/"},"modified":"2005-12-18T23:26:43","modified_gmt":"2005-12-18T17:56:43","slug":"recursive-caricaturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200512\/recursive-caricaturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Recursive caricaturing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think I do need to post more on The Longest Comment In The Indian Blogosphere.<\/a><\/p>\n

Some 2000 words down the comment, he says that Don Boudreaux “dismisses the phenomena of global warming” and then Chetan launches into a tirade on how Global Warming is in fact occurring. Except, of course, that Don wasn’t saying that global warming was not<\/i> occurring. He was saying that even if it was occurring, we should not get the government involved in solving the problem, because the government will invariably make things worse.
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\nNow I don’t have as much of a horror of government action as Don Boudreaux (no really, I don’t!), but I do find it funny that in a tirade about caricaturing people, he’s ended up misrepresenting his opponent’s words to come up with the easiest argument to knock down. There’s a word for that, but it eludes me right now. I think it starts with “S”.<\/p>\n

Whether<\/i> global warming is occurring is a scientific question. Whether<\/i> it is caused by human action or it is just a cyclical change of climate, is a scientific question. What <\/i> to do about it, if at all<\/i> we are to do something about it are economic questions. To my knowledge, Bjorn Lomborg acknowledges that warming is occurring. No one has seriously questioned his point that the Kyoto protocol will only delay it by 6 years – a number, which when you consider that it is a 100 years from now, is actually insignificantly small. He has also proposed an alternative, which involves making the rich countries paying the poor for the harm that they are going to cause. For this, the only scientific answer he has received is that he is a rightwing nut. So, the point is that caricatures are being drawn on both sides of the debate here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think I do need to post more on The Longest Comment In The Indian Blogosphere. Some 2000 words down the comment, he says that Don Boudreaux “dismisses the phenomena of global warming” and then Chetan launches into a tirade on how Global Warming is in fact occurring. Except, of course, that Don wasn’t saying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}