tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post7511409056075259127..comments2024-02-08T07:32:20.315-06:00Comments on Steve Bates - Yellow Doggerel Democratic Views: Global Climate Change: The Science CANNOT Be Treated As A Matter Of Religion... Or PoliticsSteve Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-9234477820220405362015-03-30T00:05:39.521-05:002015-03-30T00:05:39.521-05:00It was one of her earliest novels and was basicall...It was one of her earliest novels and was basically a philosophical treatise on the nature of reality and the foolishness of people who proclaim that their belief defines reality. Best place to find it is probably eBay, I see it's going for around $5 there now. I think I bought my copy in the mid 80's for $1 at a used book store (it's a 1st edition paperback, which seems to be going for around $6 on eBay now). Sad to say, pirating a badly scanned copy of the book may be your best bet, given that it's been out of print for decades and public libraries would have long ago discarded the yellowed, faded, and disintegrating paperback copies in their racks (it was never released as a hardcover). <br /><br />Cherryh's latest stuff seems pretty much going thru the motions to make a living, but the early stuff was pretty awesome. Novels were shorter back then, and editors more vicious at cutting them down to size, so they move a *lot* quicker than her latest bookshelf-collapsing thousand-page tomes.<br />BadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-20463659075972752902015-03-29T23:57:40.774-05:002015-03-29T23:57:40.774-05:00Exactly so, 'Tux. After reading your comment, ...Exactly so, 'Tux. After reading your comment, I made a couple of minor changes to the post and added a NASA temperature map for clarity. but you are precisely on point here: belief in any religious or political philosophy simply cannot change the reality pointed to by the scientific model; only a better scientific model can do that.<br /><br />I don't know Cherryh; I'll have to look into that novel.Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-60424907485499840632015-03-29T23:10:57.501-05:002015-03-29T23:10:57.501-05:00I'm sorry, but objective reality is not a matt...I'm sorry, but objective reality is not a matter of faith. The world is either warming, or it's not warming. Regardless of your faith, reality simply *is*.<br /><br />Which reminds me of an early brilliant novel by C.J.Cherryh, "Wave Without A Shore", but that's another story.BadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.com