Tuesday, December 24, 2002 :::
Steve, when you come over, you'll bring the Lomborg book, yes? Look up for me the benefit he associated with Kyoto and its corresponding carbon dioxide reductions. Running the numbers on my drive back Sunday, I came around again in favor of a carbon tax, but more of those numbers came from thin air than I'd prefer.
(On a not terribly related note, I had a physics professor once — Robert Geroch, whom the great John Wheeler has called his smartest student, thus smarter than Feynman or Kip Thorne — who was taken aback by a question as to why special relativity needed axioms to be derived mathematically. "You can't just get special relativity out of thin air," he said; "if you could, it would have been discovered ... well, shortly after the discovery of thin air." It was moments like these that made me excited to go to my 8:30 class; I don't think I ever missed his class, even though I was hungover once.)
::: posted by dWj at 1:16 PM