Cycling Lawer blog

Clever Pun

really good read (stolen from lfgss)

Really good comparison between convictions of cyclists and cars in the wrong.

http://thecyclingsilk.blogspot.com/2009/11/cycling-against-car-culture.html

Also the golf stat is gold

bails87

It's been posted several times already, here and in the road bit, but still a good link.

Clever Pun

bails87 wrote:

It's been posted several times already, here and in the road bit, but still a good link.

really? I'd not seen it and don't really head to the road section much

bails87

Clever Pun wrote:

bails87 wrote:

It's been posted several times already, here and in the road bit, but still a good link.

really? I'd not seen it and don't really head to the road section much

Nor me. But I'm sure it was posted on here, it wouldn't have been on the mtb side where I normally am. No matter, tis a good read.

Oddjob62

IIRC it was Cori who posted it a while back.

Clever Pun

Shall I just edit it to a what tyres/lights should I get thread then? :P

Kieran_Burns

The problem I have with the whole blog is that its credibility plummets the moment I read:

Motor vehicles are furthermore a major source of carbon emissions, whose contribution to global warming is now surely doubted only by those with a strong vested interest and the mildly deranged.

lost_in_thought

Kieran_Burns wrote:

The problem I have with the whole blog is that its credibility plummets the moment I read:

Motor vehicles are furthermore a major source of carbon emissions, whose contribution to global warming is now surely doubted only by those with a strong vested interest and the mildly deranged.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I chose to ignore it as the rest of the article is excellent.

bigmat

Switch "global warming" to "pollution" and its a fair comment. Its all bad.

OldSkoolKona

Some of his more recent posts are interesting as well:
http://thecyclingsilk.blogspot.com/2010 ... lture.html

http://thecyclingsilk.blogspot.com/2010 ... -2010.html

jimmypippa

Kieran_Burns wrote:

The problem I have with the whole blog is that its credibility plummets the moment I read:

Motor vehicles are furthermore a major source of carbon emissions, whose contribution to global warming is now surely doubted only by those with a strong vested interest and the mildly deranged.

I've tried not to bite but:

There is plenty of "untainted" evidence that global warming is real, mechanisms for it to be linked to increased CO2-levels, and times that fit with increased human emissions of CO2...

For example it is currently a very good period in alpine archaeology because ice cover is retreating, exposing artifacts from about 5000-years ago.

Whatever else is happening, the best explanation is that alpine ice cover is at its lowest for 5000-years.

(I can provide references if required)

Underscore

jimmypippa wrote:

There is plenty of "untainted" evidence that global warming is real, mechanisms for it to be linked to increased CO2-levels, and times that fit with increased human emissions of CO2...

Indeed, but to quote the open letter from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster:

...global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.

I'm not saying that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is false but, as a scientist (well, engineer - but it's close enough since we're talking about pop-science), I view it as one theory amongst a few.

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