tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post3076057872078404157..comments2023-09-28T08:13:11.489-07:00Comments on Only In It For The Gold: Top Ten ListMichael Tobishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-23324559903818123192008-04-21T06:16:00.000-07:002008-04-21T06:16:00.000-07:00Interesting. How does she get to be chair then? Pr...Interesting. <BR/><BR/>How does she get to be chair then? Presumably most of the geologists at UW don't think she has any greatly debilitating flaws.<BR/><BR/>(I suppose telling some undergrads about the CO2 problem twenty years ago might have seemed a bit implausible, but guess what...)<BR/><BR/>Seems we may have overlapped at UW. I showed up nearly twenty years ago, myself. There was plenty of concern next door at the meteorology department already.Michael Tobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-78646803638022191182008-04-21T05:34:00.000-07:002008-04-21T05:34:00.000-07:00Michael, I happen to have known Jean Bahr for near...Michael, I happen to have known Jean Bahr for nearly 20 years, and I am not alone in regarding her as a nut case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-50917834543041278262008-04-20T08:22:00.000-07:002008-04-20T08:22:00.000-07:00Aha, Dr Barr is the chair of the geology departmen...Aha, Dr Barr is the chair of the geology department at U W Madison. <BR/><BR/>Surely a fringe case, no doubt.Michael Tobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-74346520638190887922008-04-20T08:19:00.000-07:002008-04-20T08:19:00.000-07:00Would you care to be specific? I think Kolbert fai...Would you care to be specific? <BR/><BR/>I think Kolbert fairly represents the mood in the various scientific communities that she talks to. What is nuts about that?<BR/><BR/>(I don't know who Jean Bahr is.)Michael Tobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-64195842253010689792008-04-20T06:40:00.000-07:002008-04-20T06:40:00.000-07:00I beg to differ, but Elizabeth Kolbert is one of t...I beg to differ, but Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the better examples of a <B>complete nut case</B> that I've ever read. She makes even the nutty Jean Bahr seem almost reasonable!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com