Can Heather Hurlburt have a regular weekly slot? Please?

Co-sign on that. Frankly, both Hurlburt and Drezner are cream-of-the-crop: relentlessly well-versed on the topics they cover, the right mix of opinionated and open-minded, and flat-out skilled at conversation. This one was a real pleasure, and these two should be on as often as possible.

gosh, nothing discussed had much importance to me. Always shocking how the ruling class can go on about subjects that I dont think matter much. Regarding trade policy, the overwhelming problem the US has is the trade imbalance with China. There are 10s of millions unemployed in the US, people who could be making stuff. Yet these people stay idle and we all buy stuff made in China. Normally, the solution is to raise trade tarriffs on imports from China. Would that be a bad idea? Why does the currency exchange rate between the US and China not change to reflect the trade imbalance? Is it because the US is importing dollars from China and giving back treasure bills and ownership of our real estate and natural resources?

Quoting fredrik: Co-sign on that. Frankly, both Hurlburt and Drezner are cream-of-the-crop: relentlessly well-versed on the topics they cover, the right mix of opinionated and open-minded, and flat-out skilled at conversation. This one was a real pleasure, and these two should be on as often as possible.

I totally agree. Team Drezbert should be more prolific

Quoting claymisher: Can Heather Hurlburt have a regular weekly slot? Please?

With all that Heather and Dan have on their plate, I doubt that either could commit to a weekly appearance. I hope that Wil Wilkinson comes back from time to time but doing a weekly Free Will got to be too much for him. All the BHtv favorites have extended absences from diavlogging. Summer may have more available time for Heather and Dan - bit as Heather pointed out, the next couple of months of the international scene are traditionally slow.

Any reason to listen to Drezner or Hurlburt? They've
been so wrong so often, and they always sing the same old song from the free trade songbook. And don't bother Dan with facts - he's an Economist.

Quoting thprop: With all that Heather and Dan have on their plate, I doubt that either could commit to a weekly appearance. I hope that Wil Wilkinson comes back from time to time but doing a weekly Free Will got to be too much for him. All the BHtv favorites have extended absences from diavlogging.

Summer may have more available time for Heather and Dan - bit as Heather pointed out, the next couple of months of the international scene are traditionally slow.

Yeah, I understand that people that awesome are going to be busy, but HH is the head of the National Security Network and I would never have heard of it if it weren't for her appearances on bhtv. So maybe the publicity is worth 45 minutes every week. It doesn't hurt to beg.

Quoting pampl: I totally agree. Team Drezbert should be more prolific

I get the most out HH's besting neocons and permahawks, but Drezburt is even catchier than Pinkercorn. That's a winner.

Quoting claymisher: I get the most out HH's besting neocons and permahawks, but Drezburt is even catchier than Pinkercorn. That's a winner.

ahem.

I'm not in the habit of rescuing Václav Klaus's reputation, I'm really not a fan, but I must point out that Heather got the wrong Czech ex-PM. The one who was consorting with Berlusconi and the scantily clad women at the villa, the one with the massive erection, was Mirek Topolánek. Klaus has had his dalliances (after he was voted president a second time, he spent the night with a pretty blond woman who was not his wife) but he's much slicker and would never be caught in that situation. Topolánek is the one who called the US stimulus package the "road to hell" and the EU constitution "shit", tried to shove a photographer's head into a wall, and gave the Social Democrats the finger in parliament.

Quoting kezboard: Topolánek is the one who called the US stimulus package the "road to hell" and the EU constitution "shit", tried to shove a photographer's head into a wall, and gave the Social Democrats the finger in parliament.

Outstanding! Way to go, Topo!

You'd like him. He's a terrible politician, but not a bad singer.

Any chance any of the pious on here will reconsider their religiosity in the face of science?
Nah.

Quoting Sgt Schultz: ...science...

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

If the democrats have there way, this is what will happen: 1. Cap and trade. will move millions of jobs out of the US. Energy prices will go up thus americans will have less money. Billions will be transfered from us to the goverment. (it may be the biggest tax in our history) 2. these sacrficies will be for nothing. Cause China, India, Russia and the rest of the devoloping world won't do anything cause they're not so rich to delibratly make themselves poorer. The Us and a few european nations' cutbacks will be more than nullfied. 3. Meanwhile, the enviorment we could have saved, America's wilderness will be utterly squandered thanks to the Democrats immgration policy (the 65' act plus amnesty) which has put the US on the track to having 50% more people by 2050 (the year whites become a minority also), 450 million and half a billion by the end of the century. Thanks to Al Gore and his party, america's enviorment will be destroyed, suburban sprawl will be out of control, twice as many shopping mall lands, overcrowding, rationing of health care,etc. Overall America will soon be a nightmare thanks to the Dems'.

Quoting dkschwartz: If the democrats have there way, this is what will happen...

How does this relate to the diavlog? Is the argument that environmental concerns are an IR issue only, that as an IR issue, there can be no agreement that makes any difference, and thus we should give up? I don't recall them talking about immigration at all -- did I forget something?

Quoting Sgt Schultz: Any chance any of the pious on here will reconsider their religiosity in the face of science?
Nah.

Any chance any of the denialist wingnuts would read past the headline of the above? Or, heaven forbid, look into it a bit further? Nah.

For those too lazy to double-click:

The entire point of the study was that smaller increases might result in more global warming than predicted, particularly if there is a “feedback” process involved. In other words, it’s not a question of whether the planet is fucked, it’s a question of whether it may be fucked worse than we thought.

Inconceivable!

Quoting uncle ebeneezer: For those too lazy to double-click:

And for those too lazy to blockquote. Thanks, uncle eb. Also: do not miss D.N. Nation's comment and those following.

You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.

I liked this one, as well:

Dagoril said,

July 16, 2009 at 16:29

But the earth is only 6000 years old! Surely God can just wave his magic wand and make bad heat wave go away! If God didn’t want us to drive Hummers, he wouldn’t have put that Hummertree in the Garden!

The entire point of the study was that smaller increases might result in more global warming than predicted, particularly if there is a “feedback” process involved. In other words, it’s not a question of whether the planet is fucked, it’s a question of whether it may be fucked worse than we thought.

That is not honest. The abstract at least, does not tell us whether there are feedback forcings we have not accounted for, which would result in additional warming. Or if there are other processes independent of CO2 concentrations that were responsible for much of the warming, which would decouple somewhat CO2 atmospheric concentrations from climate change. The Abstract:

The Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (about 55 Myr ago) represents a possible analogue for the future and thus may provide insight into climate system sensitivity and feedbacks1, 2. The key feature of this event is the release of a large mass of 13C-depleted carbon into the carbon reservoirs at the Earth's surface, although the source remains an open issue3, 4. Concurrently, global surface temperatures rose by 5–9 °C within a few thousand years5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Here we use published palaeorecords of deep-sea carbonate dissolution10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and stable carbon isotope composition10, 15, 16, 17 along with

Quoting Starwatcher162536: That is not honest. The abstract at least, does not tell us whether there are feedback forcings we have not accounted for, which would result in additional warming. Or if there are other processes independent of CO2 concentrations that were responsible for much of the warming, which would decouple somewhat CO2 atmospheric concentrations from climate change.

The Abstract:

Does anyone here have access to a reprint they could email me? Such a pity arXiv doesn't have these kind of papers.

Sorry, I don't, but I will call your attention to the Reuters article and a relevant Wikipedia entry. Maybe that'll help a bit while waiting for someone more helpful/with access.