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16. Jeeze...
Thu Apr 7, 2022, 09:11 AM
Apr 2022

My interest in writing that very long post was strictly the result of musing about how many radioactive atoms as the result of a tunnnel collapse at the Hanford might tunnel into the hysterical brain of an antinuke. It is true that a remark I found to be exceedingly typical of the set of people who elevate this sort of thing to inappropriate levels of importance inspired me, in concert with coming across a paper in my general scientific reading, in particular, Dr Kersting's paper. As a result I was inspired to learn more about transport properties, a subject, albeit not at all related to geology, that has implications in my professional career.

It was not about examining the nature or meaning of a witless response to sarcasm.

I don't generally care about what particular antinukes say or didn't say, and I don't really care about how they describe themselves, anymore than I care if Donald Trump describes himself as a "very stable genius."

The same approach applies to what I will say about the huge environmental tragedy of biofuels, about which I thought many years ago and which is certainly due for an update, given the need to describe the pernicious effects of so called "renewable energy" not only as a result of its obvious failure to address climate change, but also in connection with the direct destruction of important ecosystems important to planetary health.

I reserve the right to interpret what I hear using my own criteria and I am spectacularly disinterested in flailing criticism of that criteria.

To the extent that loudly proclaimed nonsense is useful it is largely a function of examining its depth as nonsense.

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