GoldMine wrote:

From his bio " understanding the relations of science and politics"

No, in my humble opinion, science and politics have no place together, and
should not be used in the same paragraph, much less the same sentance. But
then I did not get a degree from Colorado, mabey they teach this there.

Science, pure science, (if it still exists), is about following a logical
precept, verifying it with experimental data, and basing further decisions
on the results of said experiments. Not bending the experiments to fit the
precept. In politics, it is all about backing up the idea, regardless of
right or wrong (data wise). As one of my relatives said just before he
resigned his political office said "the party does ask too much, sometimes."

Personally, I despise politics, but realize the need for it. I just never
want to *do* it. It would remind me of those lovely creatures in Le Styx in
Paris. (One of the best brothels in the city of light)

As for a geek, what's wrong with that?

Anyway, that's my 2 cents worth.

I don't get the policy thing either. His old man was a physicist, kind
of hard physics, anyways. It's the subtle debunking that goes on there
that bothers me, when it's obvious we need some hard science and hard
physics solutions to problems that are easily into the self evident
phase. The don't rock the boat mentality just doesn't cut it with me.

He just seems like a ladder climber.

"Thomas Lee Elifritz" wrote in message
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Wanna good laugh?

http://cires.colorado.edu/people/pielke/

Check out the shirt. Yet another Bush apologist.

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