So I Went To The Birch Aquarium... - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

Handymansd · 04-23-2011, 01:21 PM

Can someone pass the popcorn?

bubblehide · 04-23-2011, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Handymansd

Can someone pass the popcorn?

Oh come on now, haven't you ever believed in something strongly enough to defend it?

Croaker Dave · 04-23-2011, 02:36 PM

It was saddening to go to the Aquarium website and see the inflammatory labels "deniers" and "denialism" right up front.

I wonder how they are exempt from UCSD's Principles of Community that require a climate of dignity and mutual respect for each other.

I wonder how much of this attitude comes from Scripps pompous Prof. Emeritus Richard Somerville, who has a history of such intolerance and exaggeration. It has only served to discredit him, but he has not stopped. He seems to think that modern weather incidents such as hurricanes or the floods in Australia are proof of unprecedented runaway global warming, even though they have been diminishing in recent decades and have been preceded many times in the past by worse incidents.

Global warming “contrarians,” argued Somerville, are like people who argue HIV does not cause AIDS and that continental drift is mere fantasy. Responding to the reality that Galileo and Einstein were similarly viewed as contrarians in their time, he said, “An occasional Galileo does come along or an Einstein. Not often. Most people who think they’re a Galileo are just wrong.”

Fiskadoro · 04-24-2011, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by bubblehide

Oh come on now, haven't you ever believed in something strongly enough to defend it?

It's one thing to defend something it's another to make ridiculous statements.

Are there people that want to stop us from fishing? Sure there are.... but to suggest that all scientific research associated with Scripps is somehow anti fishing, politically based or "political science" rather then real science is utterly absurd.

Iceman · 04-24-2011, 12:31 PM

Would you look at this!

http://youtu.be/EF8GhC-T_Mo

Fiskadoro · 04-24-2011, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Iceman

Would you look at this!

http://youtu.be/EF8GhC-T_Mo

Pretty funny....

Actually I prefer looking at these:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=...CeVlkoWLlas9wA

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=...82u713SDJCRIkA

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=...z2D9K6b40Yjq6g

Damn Scripps Scientists!!!

I'd say tagging all those T-sharks, Tuna and Wahoo many of which they caught on rod and reel is about as far from "political science" or a leftest agenda as it gets. I mean in one study they caught tagged and released something like 9714 hook and line caught tuna, of which 8695 were bigeye.

That sounds more like epic fishing then anti fishing activities. I have an outboard one of the guys gave me after that trip, you talk about beat to shit. They literally fished their gear until they couldn't fish any more.

Jim

bubblehide · 04-25-2011, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim Day

Pretty funny....

Actually I prefer looking at these:http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=...CeVlkoWLlas9wA

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=...82u713SDJCRIkA

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=...z2D9K6b40Yjq6g

Damn Scripps Scientists!!!

I'd say tagging all those T-sharks, Tuna and Wahoo many of which they caught on rod and reel is about as far from "political science" or a leftest agenda as it gets. I mean in one study they caught tagged and released something like 9714 hook and line caught tuna, of which 8695 were bigeye.

That sounds more like epic fishing then anti fishing activities. I have an outboard one of the guys gave me after that trip, you talk about beat to shit. They literally fished their gear until they couldn't fish any more.

Jim

Damn Jim, now your giving away genuine sources!

Ed · 04-27-2011, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim Day

It's one thing to defend something it's another to make ridiculous statements.

Are there people that want to stop us from fishing? Sure there are.... but to suggest that all scientific research associated with Scripps is somehow anti fishing, politically based or "political science" rather then real science is utterly absurd.

X2

jorluivil · 04-24-2011, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Handymansd

Can someone pass the popcorn?

With or without butter?

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04-23-2011, 02:36 PM	#3
Croaker Dave Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: OC Posts: 171	It was saddening to go to the Aquarium website and see the inflammatory labels "deniers" and "denialism" right up front. I wonder how they are exempt from UCSD's Principles of Community that require a climate of dignity and mutual respect for each other. I wonder how much of this attitude comes from Scripps pompous Prof. Emeritus Richard Somerville, who has a history of such intolerance and exaggeration. It has only served to discredit him, but he has not stopped. He seems to think that modern weather incidents such as hurricanes or the floods in Australia are proof of unprecedented runaway global warming, even though they have been diminishing in recent decades and have been preceded many times in the past by worse incidents. Global warming “contrarians,” argued Somerville, are like people who argue HIV does not cause AIDS and that continental drift is mere fantasy. Responding to the reality that Galileo and Einstein were similarly viewed as contrarians in their time, he said, “An occasional Galileo does come along or an Einstein. Not often. Most people who think they’re a Galileo are just wrong.”