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(Some Guy)   Cornell University identifies the two major crises facing the world. 1: Global climate change. 2: No one really knows anything about how global climate works. Wait, what?   (news.cornell.edu) divider line
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Julieahni
2008-07-15 4:34:45 PM  
No. 3: There aren't enough people wearing hats.
 
Sir Roderick Glossop
2008-07-15 4:36:22 PM  
I love how academics' solutions are always reducible to "Give us more money".

/yet no one calls them on it...
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2008-07-15 4:42:14 PM  
Julieahni: No. 3: There aren't enough people wearing hats.

No. 4: The drugstore has too many shoelaces to choose from; I'm confused.
 
Szech
2008-07-15 4:42:28 PM  
It involves microwaves and non dairy creamer.
 
ninjakirby
2008-07-15 4:49:18 PM  
Sir Roderick Glossop: I love how academics' solutions are always reducible to "Give us more money".

/yet no one calls them on it...

I'll tell you what the solution is for a simple one time installment of $9.99.
 
petco34
2008-07-15 5:03:49 PM  
Sir Roderick Glossop: I love how academics' solutions are always reducible to "Give us more money".

/yet no one calls them on it...

Those darn good for nothing academics, never contributing to society. Hey, here's an idea, let's give all the money to normal America. The only thing you'd get would be 100 feet crosses Link (new window) and other useless things uneducated people want.
A majority of America doesn't know what's good for them, so give the money to people who can make decisions. You want proof that most Americans can't make good decisions? Look at our holier than heaven commander in chief?
 
Dancin_In_Anson
2008-07-15 5:13:33 PM  
Julieahni: No. 3: There aren't enough people wearing hats.

Farking beautiful reference.
 
BobtheFascist
2008-07-15 5:16:06 PM  
No Obvious tag?
 
Smidge204
2008-07-15 5:31:08 PM  
SquirrelsOfDoom: Julieahni: No. 3: There aren't enough people wearing hats.

No. 4: The drugstore has too many shoelaces to choose from; I'm confused.

I hear these are popular with people in your demographic:

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=Smidge=
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2008-07-15 5:54:49 PM  
Smidge204: SquirrelsOfDoom: Julieahni: No. 3: There aren't enough people wearing hats.

No. 4: The drugstore has too many shoelaces to choose from; I'm confused.

I hear these are popular with people in your demographic:

No. 5: Carnies scare me; they smell like cabbage. Very small hands.

/obscure?
 
Chuck Wagon
2008-07-15 5:58:58 PM  
Sir Roderick Glossop: I love how academics' solutions are always reducible to "Give us more money".

/yet no one calls them on it...

Are you trying to claim that line of thought is limited to academics? Seriously?
 
General Vayo
2008-07-15 6:02:39 PM  
petco34: Sir Roderick Glossop: I love how academics' solutions are always reducible to "Give us more money".

/yet no one calls them on it...

Those darn good for nothing academics, never contributing to society. Hey, here's an idea, let's give all the money to normal America. The only thing you'd get would be 100 feet crosses Link (new window) and other useless things uneducated people want.
A majority of America doesn't know what's good for them, so give the money to people who can make decisions. You want proof that most Americans can't make good decisions? Look at our holier than heaven commander in chief?

Elitist, much? Because, yanno, being told what to do is just so much fun I think I'll listen to your ironically holier-than-thou attitude and just hand over all my decisions to people who say they're better than me!

OR, you can go back to your ivory tower and make more photoshops of Bush eating babies or clubbing baby seals or whatever is the latest rage amongst those with more money than brains. And I KNOW you have money because only spoiled upper-middle-class white kids whine and snivel so much about how so very terrible it is that us masses aren't enlightened enough to worship your false idol of socialism.

Get a job and stop whining.
 
Phil Moskowitz
2008-07-15 6:27:07 PM  
It's too complex and it will kill us. IGNORE IT!
 
Sir Roderick Glossop
2008-07-15 6:35:39 PM  
petco34: Those darn good for nothing academics, never contributing to society. Hey, here's an idea, let's give all the money to normal America. The only thing you'd get would be 100 feet crosses and other useless things uneducated people want...

Dude, I am in academics- supported by peer-reviewed grants and everything- and see the self-serving self-righteous bullshiat every day. Get over yourself, you prick.


Chuck Wagon: Are you trying to claim that line of thought is limited to academics? Seriously?

No, the line of thought is hardly unique to academics, the free pass kind of...is.

ninjakirby: I'll tell you what the solution is for a simple one time installment of $9.99.

Yes, please.
 
snake_beater
2008-07-15 7:17:14 PM  
I didn't know Chris Cornell had a school named after him...

/got nothing
 
BigBooper
2008-07-15 9:39:40 PM  
Szech: It involves microwaves and non dairy creamer.

But, why the powdered creamer, Brain?

/Narf
//God I hate myself
 
Good Behavior Day
2008-07-15 9:55:19 PM  
I will do my part to fight global warming by keeping my beer as cold as possible.
 
Leishu
2008-07-15 10:32:26 PM  
SquirrelsOfDoom: Smidge204: SquirrelsOfDoom: Julieahni: No. 3: There aren't enough people wearing hats.

No. 4: The drugstore has too many shoelaces to choose from; I'm confused.

I hear these are popular with people in your demographic:

No. 5: Carnies scare me; they smell like cabbage. Very small hands.

/obscure?

... no.

An Austin Powers quote. Seriously? You think that is obscure? You should be ashamed of yourself.
 
Andric [OhFark]
2008-07-16 12:03:11 AM  
General Vayo:
Elitist, much? Because, yanno, being told what to do is just so much fun I think I'll listen to your ironically holier-than-thou attitude and just hand over all my decisions to people who say they're better than me!

OR, you can go back to your ivory tower and make more photoshops of Bush eating babies or clubbing baby seals or whatever is the latest rage amongst those with more money than brains. And I KNOW you have money because only spoiled upper-middle-class white kids whine and snivel so much about how so very terrible it is that us masses aren't enlightened enough to worship your false idol of socialism.

Get a job and stop whining.

img205.imageshack.usView Full Size


/the true idol
 
Szech
2008-07-16 2:15:57 AM  
BigBooper: //God I hate myself


It's the geek tab. Don't fight it. Invite it.
 
onyxia
2008-07-16 5:59:29 AM  
petco34: Sir Roderick Glossop: I love how academics' solutions are always reducible to "Give us more money".

/yet no one calls them on it...

Those darn good for nothing academics, never contributing to society. Hey, here's an idea, let's give all the money to normal America. The only thing you'd get would be 100 feet crosses Link (new window) and other useless things uneducated people want.
A majority of America doesn't know what's good for them, so give the money to people who can make decisions. You want proof that most Americans can't make good decisions? Look at our holier than heaven commander in chief?

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves, and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the Übermensch: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.
 
chimp_ninja
2008-07-16 7:57:54 AM  
General Vayo: OR, you can go back to your ivory tower and make more photoshops of Bush eating babies or clubbing baby seals or whatever is the latest rage amongst those with more money than brains.

So, your assessment of the situation is that the climatology research community has more money than brains. Because going through doctoral programs, one or more post-docs, all for a position in university or government R&D is an easy meal ticket to huge salaries. Gotcha.

I'm sorry that the facts don't support your political ideology. Be a grown-up about it.
 
chimp_ninja
2008-07-16 8:04:58 AM  
So, I actually read the article. I know. Kooky.

TFH: "Cornell University identifies the two major crises facing the world. 1: Global climate change. 2: No one really knows anything about how global climate works. Wait, what?"

TFA: "On a 5-point scale, Cornell faculty members rated the most important issues of the day (their average rating is first number in the parentheses) and issues that are the most solvable (average rating for solvability is the second number in the parentheses)."

The Cornell study rated climate change as difficult to solve, not poorly understood.

Why is this? "According to the study, almost 300 Cornell faculty members identified the three most important world problems as climate change, corporations having too much influence in governing and a lack of long-term perspective in political, environmental and social actions."

Corporate lobbying of Washington isn't an easily solved problem either, but that doesn't mean that the problem itself poorly understood.
 
chimp_ninja
2008-07-16 8:09:26 AM  
Sir Roderick Glossop: I love how academics' solutions are always reducible to "Give us more money".

/yet no one calls them on it...

Yeah. Academic scientists be rollin' in their phat rides, flashin' the bling. You hatin'.

Because that's the problem with this country. We're just handing over all the money to long-term research and not spending it on important stuff.

(You know that scientists don't get to keep grant money, right? That it's primarily used to pay the, um, not extravagant salaries of graduate and postdoctoral employees? And that at most universities it subsidizes the departments that don't generate revenue via overhead?)
 
Tuxedocat
2008-07-16 8:59:57 AM  
Julieahni: No. 3: There aren't enough people wearing hats.

What was that again about hats?
 
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