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Main Entry: 1com·ment Pronunciation Guide
Pronunciation: käment sometimes -_mnt
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): -s
Etymology: Middle English, commentary, exposition, from Late Latin commentum commentary, from Latin, invention, contrivance, from neuter of commentus, past participle of comminisci to invent, contrive, devise, from com- + -minisci (from the root of ment-, mens mind) -- more at MIND
1 : an expository treatise : COMMENTARY
2 a : a note or observation intended to explain, illustrate, or criticize the meaning of a writing : ANNOTATION comments upon the passage were printed in the margin b : the whole body of such matter two pages of comment for every page of text >
3 a : an observation or remark expressing an opinion or attitude concerning what has been seen or heard or concerning the subject at hand she listens, and puts in from time to time some critical comment -- Rose Macaulay b : discussion, interpretation, or expression of opinion or attitude the paper also gave comment on the news in signed editorials -- Jacques Kayser : CRITICISM the brown tweeds, sir, ... would have occasioned unfavorable comment -- T.S.Watt
4 : a critical observation, interpretation, or expression of opinion conveyed by suggestion, implication, analogy, or other indirect means the painting is a comment on the subject's character the film is an ironic comment on the industrial age

blatham wrote:

There's no need to shoot someone who is already more holes than target.

Monbiot posted a long refutal text with is only a cut/paste of Realclimate (without saying that). But he gives no precise reference or no name to the would-be papers he cited, so newspaper readers can't verify what he says so he can say anything.

I follow the sun case, its science is solid and I know what Monbiot says is crap but since he gives no specifics, no-one can disagree.
The only time he gives an explicit reference is Gavin Schmidt on RealClimate. If you are of good faith, you'll have a look at the discussion therewhere Shaviv replied to Gavin (Schmidt) and Pierrehumbert. In a heavily "moderated" blog by AGWer, you'll see that Shaviv prevailed with his cosmic rays theorie. But I know you won't read it and prefer believe sci-fi writer hysterical Monbiot.

Tony Blair compared the fight against climate change to the battle against fascism and the cold war today, as the government pledged to cut carbon emissions by 60% by 2050 with the publication of the UK's first ever climate change bill.

b) has a cousin and intellectual comrade in the Alabama Nazi Youth Militia who believes that Indo-European is a false linguistic category created and promoted by Belgian jewry so as to provide a rationale for the occupation of the Holy Land while (and this is their REAL goal) covertly picking up monopoly control of all the bowling alleys in America or

Even Tony can get some things right.

Monbiot is no doubt a darling of the far leftwing wacko groups ... ...

Foxfyre wrote:

Monbiot is no doubt a darling of the far leftwing wacko groups ... ...

That might well be - you don't get a son of the Conservative Party's chairman and a decade-long Conservative Councellor, member of the Conservative Party, fellow at Green College Oxford etc etc very often as witness

Nobody I think would describe Monbiot as a conservative, however, at least as we describe 'conservative' here.

Foxfyre wrote:

Nobody I think would describe Monbiot as a conservative, however, at least as we describe 'conservative' here.

Well, might be. As said, his father is the chairman of the British Conservative Party and his mother a conservative councillor for more than 20 years and he ... :wink:

With a heritage like that, however, I wonder why he didn't finish his education?

Well, might be. As said, his father is the chairman of the British Conservative Party and his mother a conservative councillor for more than 20 years and he ... :wink:

... José Bové whose father is an eminent professor in biochemistry and a specialist in vegetal selection (my wife attended some of Bové Sr's classes!).

Again it is the psychological implications of this situation -- in which so many unquestioningly accept the prescription that mankind must abandon its modern technologies and all the progress they have brought, in order to avoid an apocalyptic doom forecast by a self-interested priesthood whose cant they don't profess to understand -- that so fascinates me.

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