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Carlos says:

May 30, 2011 at 3:34 pm

“Welcome to the 21st century. Next stop, the Dark Ages.”

Heck, all anyone anywhere has to do to get back to the dark ages is to follow Islam’s lead…

You know they’re just right up-to-the-minute. At least they would be if that minute was somewhere around the beginning of the last millennium.
Zippy says:

May 30, 2011 at 8:46 pm

That’s insanity! As Glenn Beck said “The world is on fire:”. Insanity abounds and apparently there is no end to it.
A Mindful Webworker says:

May 30, 2011 at 11:12 pm

In the article to which the article to which you linked linked (uhh… yeah) is the “pertinent” charge:

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/05/italian-scientists-to-stand-trial.html?ref=hp

During the meeting on 31 March 2009 … one of the seven to be tried said there were no grounds for thinking that a major quake was imminent, even though the area around the town had been experiencing a series of smaller tremors in the previous months.

A scientist can speak of “no grounds” for thinking there’s a quake, and be scientifically accurate, but the common idiot needs to hear it very clearly in simple lay terms: “Hey, rubes! Science has no clue one way or another! NO CLUE, GOT THAT? MIGHT! MIGHT NOT! DON’T KNOW! CAN’T TELL!” Then the social scientists :) can say, “PREPARE FOR THE WORST YOU IDIOTS! QUAKES HAPPEN, ESPECIALLY HERE!”

It would be more reasonable to try the news reporters, not the scientists. The way some science news is reported is practically a crime!

Hereabouts, the Big One would mean Madrid, which could trash the country from Wisconsin to Texas.
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=46853
Remarkably, some respectful preparation has been going on. On the other hand, maybe Madrid won’t really go off in the next 50 years or so at all. It might be thousands of years.
http://www.northwestern.edu/observer/issues/2007/01/25/quake.html

Should preparations cease, then? Sure, why not? We hardly even build to withstand tornadoes which we have every year, like clockwork. (And aren’t there a lot of people who would like to hang the weatherman when their picnic gets rained out!)
Carlos says:

May 31, 2011 at 12:19 am

What it really sounds like is the idiot Italian government officials got their scientific training at East Anglia University, probably from those professors who weren’t too busy checking to see what scientists were jumping off the AGW bandwagon at the time and planning how to discredit them if they did.
captaingrumpy says:

May 31, 2011 at 6:51 pm

I think we should prosecute Al Gore for not foreseeing the earth cooling rather than warming like he said.
Old Goat says:

June 1, 2011 at 12:31 am

Can we prosecute Obama and his regime for their false predictions of what the stimulus would do? Seems like they are guilty of manslaughter of the economy.
Carlos says:

June 2, 2011 at 12:13 am

And probably for an increase in alcohol-related highway deaths, suicides, all manner of bad things because people have lost the “hope” that was promised and never delivered, O.G.

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