tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post3820708291940060044..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: TheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-27732666847405196292011-10-27T19:39:15.838-04:002011-10-27T19:39:15.838-04:00Cardinal Pell on Climate Change: selling Carbon Cr...Cardinal Pell on Climate Change: selling Carbon Credits is like selling Indulgences<br /><br />http://www.thegwpf.org/international-news/4214-cardinal-pell-carbon-credits-like-medieval-indulgences.html<br /><br />>> Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause. My request is for common sense and more, not less; what the medievals, following Aristotle, called prudence, one of the four cardinal virtues: the recta ratio agibilium or right reason in doing things. We might call this a cost-benefit analysis, where costs and benefits are defined financially and morally or humanly, and their level of probability is carefully estimated.<<<br /><br />Note the link, after the end of the article, to the PDF of the full lecture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-13843461159327768292011-10-26T21:28:24.195-04:002011-10-26T21:28:24.195-04:00"...as long as no globally consistent climate..."...as long as no globally consistent climate event prior to today’s global warming has been clearly documented...."<br /><br />Isn't that assuming absence of evidence is evidence of absence?Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17109095347818446088noreply@blogger.com