tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086764876629036045.post5018387143193126920..comments2023-10-06T06:29:02.689-04:00Comments on A Bright Cape: The Earth ShookSkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723733406348223879noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086764876629036045.post-75990573084520634242010-06-24T14:23:00.141-04:002010-06-24T14:23:00.141-04:00Shouldn't you go stand in an interior doorway?...Shouldn't you go stand in an interior doorway?Ziggynyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07518980519046202646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086764876629036045.post-37316931748482691922010-06-24T09:55:32.421-04:002010-06-24T09:55:32.421-04:00I did precisely the same thing. Earth shakes, won...I did precisely the same thing. Earth shakes, wonder how likely it is I'm going to die and what I should do to avoid it, look out window, go back to what I was doing.<br /><br />Of course the stupidest thing you can do in an earthquake is go look out the window. In a large concrete building by far the most likely damage is the windows shattering. This happened in many buildings in Ottawa.Sthennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429676469805661834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086764876629036045.post-80177531928066898912010-06-23T23:53:58.195-04:002010-06-23T23:53:58.195-04:00Just heard a quotation on a podcast that fits in n...Just heard a quotation on a podcast that fits in nicely with your reading on AGW. It's from the author of the book that I mentioned above (I actually heard about the book from the podcast)<br /><br />"The reality is that science does produce a lot of very robust knowledge but it's not absolute and we need to accept that so that we don't fall prey to this idea that we can undermine it just by raising some little question about the details on the edges."<br /><br />~Naomi Oreskes (Author of Merchants of Doubt, speaking on the podcast 'Point of Inquiry' - the podcast of the centre for inquiry ("a thinktank advancing reason, science, and secular values in public affairs and at the grass roots").Matt Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06532354277848905275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086764876629036045.post-65599338178615438892010-06-23T21:17:15.672-04:002010-06-23T21:17:15.672-04:00I just bought
"Merchants of Doubt: How a Han...I just bought<br /><br />"Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming"<br /><br />I'll send it to you when I finish. Shouldn't be too long as summer has arrived and work is almost done.Matt Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06532354277848905275noreply@blogger.com