This post bumped to the top so it doesn’t get lost under the newer post: Solar Model Part IV below.
In The Rage of the Climate Central Planners, Jeffrey Tucker describes something we’ve all experienced. That moment where the social atmosphere turns suddenly poisonous. Climate Rage!
Namecalling is a tool to stop debate. It works to keep the wandering minds in the square. But the flipside is that sooner or later the smallest crack, the tiniest doubt, elicts a bizarre over-the-top response and the mismatch reveals the game. How many passionate skeptics are created in the moment a fence-sitter realizes that those who say they love the environment will risk friendships and burn relationships in order NOT to discuss it? For surely there is only one possible interpretation of Climate Rage.
“They really can’t allow a debate, because they will certainly and absolutely and rightly lose.”
“When that is certain, the only way forward is to rage.”
Jeffrey Tucker:
The conversation with a good friend — brilliant man but a head full of confidence in the planning state — was going well. We’ve agreed on so much… Then the other day that changed. For the first time ever, the topic of climate change and policy response came up….
I’m convinced that fear over climate change (the ultimate public goods “problem”) is the last and best hope for those lustful to rule the world by force. Some people just want to run the world…
I just hinted at it vaguely. It was enough. He began to shake. He turned white and began to pace. He called me a denialist. He was horrified to discover that his good friend turns out to be some kind of extremist weirdo who disparages science. He began to accuse me of believing in things I never said, of failing to read the science (though later admitting that he hadn’t read the science).
I stood there stunned that I could have so quickly and inadvertently changed the whole dynamic of our conversation and even friendship — all for having suggested that something seemed a bit out of whack with mainstream opinion on this topic.
This is not the first time this has happened. In fact, I should have come to expect it by now. Every time this subject comes up with anyone who favors government action on climate change, the result has been the same. We seem to be unable to have a rational conversation. It’s like an article of faith for them, and I’m suddenly the dangerous heretic who believes the world is flat.
Now, in light of this, I read Paul Krugman this morning. He writes in his column: “Read or watch any extended debate over climate policy and you’ll be struck by the venom, the sheer rage, of the denialists.”
The denialists? My whole experience has been the opposite. By denialists, I’m assuming he means people who doubt the merit of his grand central plan for the world economy. Among them, I’ve found a vast range of views, an open mindedness, and curiosity about the full range of opinion, and, quite often, an attitude that seems to me — if anything — to be far too quick to defer to all main conventions of this debate.
If you want tolerance and humility, and a willingness to defer to the evidence and gradual process of scientific discovery, you will find it among those who have no desire to manage the world from the top down.
What can we say about those who want to empower a global coterie of elites to make the decision about what technologies we can use and how much under the guise of controlling something so gigantically amorphous and difficult to measure, detect, and precisely manage as earth’s surface temperature?
This is a level of chutzpah that surpasses the wildest fantasies of any socialist planner.
Read The Rage of the Climate Central Planners. His site at Liberty.me.
Now, in light of this, I read Paul Krugman this morning. He writes in his column: “Read or watch any extended debate over climate policy and you’ll be struck by the venom, the sheer rage, of the denialists.”
Classic projectionism. Any and all debates I’ve ever watched or read about it was the warmists who went into the rage. Krugman knows it too and thus he goes into projection mode.
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Should have threaded… missed that you mentioned projection 🙂
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Another thing the warmists do is project their lack of knowledge about science onto other people, especially skeptics. How many times have you heard them say stuff like “You don’t believe in SCIENCE?” or “I’m not a scientist, so I take their word for it. And so should you”.
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That argument is destroyed is they are induced to read a scientific paper. But there’s little danger of that because too many are awestruck by “science”, which I understand is the reason why so many use “the science” as an argument, believing that others would not be so impertinent as to question something so awesome.
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Yeah I always laugh when the the “so you don’t believe in gravity” types rubbish happens… Newton measured it but never explained why masses attract, nor how. Near 400 years later we may/may not (Higgs Bosen) have a clue on mass.
A long way to go but some love to think it is all sorted.
If David Evans has found an accurate model it will be up to the boffins to sort out the how and why. (That is boffin meant respectfully not the assumed meaning used today)
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What they really mean is that we all should believe in their policy based science?
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Climate rage? Projection mode???
I don’t think that there are any scientists who will ever forget this JoNovian dummy spit..
http://joannenova.com.au/2010/06/pnas-witchdoctors-of-science/
[You help prove the point of this post by using ad homs, (‘projection mode’, ‘JoNovian dummy spit’) rather than point out anything factually incorrect in the Jo Nova post you have linked. Well done! – Mod]
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I think you will find that those who practice real science, and are not obliged to sing from the government hymn sheet, will have only contempt for those who claim to practice climate science.
There are one helluva lot of us and we are getting increasingly fed up with the drivel peddled by the Climate Establishment about imminent Thermageddon.
Anyhow. Let’s try this for starters. Name one instance of supposed global warming that is obviously not part of a natural climate cycle.
Dodgy computer models do not count. So what are you left with?
Answer: Not a lot.
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Ummmm, the heating of the oceans, the extinction of species, desertification, habitat decimation, melting of the Arctic Tundra, the release of sea shelf methane hydrates, expansion of the tropical zone with the subsequent influx of insects into previously unaffected areas, and the migration of insect bourne deseases, as a small selection.
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YAWN! Really lame Bilb, but please explain to William Connolley how the catastrophes you mention are fabricated by us skeptics. He needs your support
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Oceans are cooling.
There are more know species now than ever before.. Please name 5 that have become extinct in the last 10 years.
The deserts are actually SHINKING and REVEGETATION. thanks to CO2
Above 80N is below its normal temp, and looks like having probably its shortest time EVER above freezing.
etc etc
ie.. YOU GOT NUFFIN’ !!!
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I was surprised that you used the old HadSST2 data set instead of the new and improved HadSST3. That is very interesting because using HadSST3 shows almost no cooling in the ocean.
As to whether “improved” means more physically correct or more politically correct is yet another Climate Science Mystery.
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I know. 🙂
It was done on purpose, to see if one of the alarmistas would pick up on it and use the “improved” data.
We all know what “improved” means to Hadley or Giss ! 😉
It mean “put together” to show more warming.
The surface temp record has squashed the 1940’s peak more and more at each iteration.
The fact that even HadSST3 , with all its “corrections” still shows basically dead level, almost certainly confirms we are ALREADY in a cooling trend.
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tG, I did a bit of digging to find out how much of what you said was hyperbole versus fact, with depressing results.
The sordid history of the adjustments to the ICOADS raw series is summarized (presumably accurately) by a commentator on Tallbloke’s site. Numerous problems were identified with the Hadley Centre adjustments in a 2008 paper by Thomson and co-authors, a paper which Hadley couldn’t ignore for very long. According to McIntyre, the HadSST3 version is the first step on the path to undoing much of the unfounded assumptions of the HadSST2 adjustments. Indeed, HadSST3 reduces the temperature trend for 1950 to 2006 downwards 29% compared to HadSST2. The HadSST2 is much more of a hockey stick version of temperature than version 3. (Presumably you do not prefer hockeysticks.)
In terms of medium term climate modelling, while HadSST3 still may not be the whole truth, it is clearly preferable to HadSST2.
One graph on Judth Curry’s blog is also revealing. In the short term over the last 10 years, you appear to be correct that HadSST3 has the 2005-2010 period adjusted higher than HadSST2, which has the effect of removing the recent decline (assuming there was a decline). Your guess is as good as mine as to why there should be any adjustment after the 1980s that differs between version 2 and version 3, since the main kerfuffle about ICOADs data was about the effects of canvas buckets and engine intakes between 19th century and WW2, not about the modern fleet and modern practices. The switch between v2 and v3 would imply that modern engine room water intakes after 2005 were cooler than previously thought. Where does that belief come from??
It’s yet another Climate Science Mystery.
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Goddard must be wanting to destroy their credibility.
The got rid of Hansen, and then put Gavin Schmidt in charge… seriously ????
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Sorry for not noticing earlier another difference between the v2 and v3 data on WoodForTrees.
The HadSST3 runs up to present day, but the HadSST2 does not seem to have been updated since mid 2013, so the graph I showed above included more recent warm months which were not in HadSST2.
A WfT chart of HadSST2 and HadSST3 trends between 2001 and July 2013 is here.
The trend lines show (by my eye) about a 0.025 degree total difference between start and finish. Using the detrend function to remove this (HadSST3-HadSST2) adjustment, making it more similar to HadSST2, is actually more than enough to offset the recent warm months and produces a clearly cooling trend line even with the most recent data.
I’m now beyond making claims of truth about this data, I’m just working with what we’re given. 🙁
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Seems to me BilB that the following safety sheet for CO2 needs updating:
http://docs.airliquide.com.au/msdsau/AL062.pdf
They should add that this chemical can cause droughts, floods, heating, melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, species extinction etc, etc, etc… Clearly an egregious oversight by Air Liquide…
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Bilb – That should be insect borne not bourne. You have been watching too many Matt Damon films.
Interestingly, one of the worlds top chaps on vector borne diseases, Prof. Paul Reiter, does not share your view. Google him and be enlightened.
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Extraordinary, not one of your points has any merit or truth in it.
You need to stop reading Greenpeace BS. They are there with the specific remit to scare you, while taking your cash. In such circumstances, the truth is always the first casualty.
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Doesn’t that fit the definition of terrorist? Or maybe just fraudster? Last time I looked people or organisations who scare or rhtreaten people or fabricate a story for gain were criminals.
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Last time I looked people or organisations who scare or rhtreaten people or fabricate a story for gain were criminals.
I think the currently used term is “pillars of society.”
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“I think the currently used term is “pillars of society.”
or “climate scientists”
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BilB,
I have repeatedly asked you but never received a reply.
By what mechanism does downwelling LWIR heat the oceans when it cannot penetrate beyond the first couple of microns of the ocean surface, thereby at most only acting to alter the surface propensity to evaporation?
Temperate zone desertification is much more related to cooling rather than warming periods, as evidenced during the late Bronze Age 1000 BCE or so with the destruction of the Hittite and Assyrian empires due to severe prolonged drought conditions turned the larger part of the Levant and Anatolia to become desert-like, with loss of large tracts of arable lands in the “fertile crescent” leading to widespread crop failure- all during a period of global cooling between the Minoan and Roman warming periods. Similarly in the LIA period, this saw the prevalence of severe drought conditions which provoked the decline of the Incan civilisation.
Malaria is not remotely confined to tropical areas (except by virtue of geopolitics and the inequality of the global distribution of wealth, industrial know-how, medicine and pesticides), and in fact some of the worst outbreaks of malaria in history have occurred in Russia and China, while interestingly it spread in the dark ages (a cold period) to as far north as Sweden and the Baltic states, the Korean peninsula, and even the marshier areas of England- these are hardly “tropical”in any sense of the word ( http://skishore.wikispaces.com/file/view/Evo-Historical+Aspects+of+Malaria.pdf ). The prevalence of malaria in modern times is entirely reliant for its epidemiology upon poverty/poor living standards, and rural locales in the developing world.
Habitats are obviously much more likely to diminish in a glacial period (not much grows under a km of ice), while cold bleak landscapes like the far north of Scotland are far less hospitable habitats than tropical and subtropical landscapes which teem with life comparatively.
As to melting tundra, for much of the early part of the Holocene, (the “Climate Optimum’), the Arctic was largely ice free and yet thermageddon did not eventuate. I doubt whether moving peat bogs north would make significant difference to their overall prevalence, nor any putative contribution that might be speculated to have on the “greenhouse effect”.
There are more than enough real and present dangers in the world right now as we speak, rather than diverting our attention needlessly and recklessly to highly speculative, and quite possibly illusory, problems that are more than likely never to eventuate, and even in the unlikely event that they did are of possibly limited or negligible consequence for humanity on a comparative level.
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I had never heard this before? The Inca only ruled for around 100 years before the Spanish conquered them. But during that period built a large number of temples and cities throughout their empire. I could be wrong, but my impression has always been that they flourished during their brief time in the sun.
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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/08/the-medieval-warm-period-linked-to-the-success-of-machu-picchu-inca/
The Incas thrived from about 1200 through until the 1600’s due to the latter vestiges of the MWP which allowed their “vertical agriculture” higher into the Andes mountain terrain.
Three factors contributed to their decline- conquest of the Spanish in 1572, disease- smallpox and typhus especially- and the beginnings of the LIA, when La Nina predominance meant that the west coast of Sth. America became colder and much more drought ravaged- severely reducing the altitude in which they could farm, as well as their ability to till the land at lower altitudes effectively due to lack of rainfall. The Spanish conquest on its own would not have been sufficient to cause their civilisation to decline so dramatically, it needed the other 2, with arguably the climate of that time, and its devastating effect on their centrally planned agrarian economy being the prime cause that struck the “killer blow”.
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Ok, so to “mitigate insect bourn diseases” from the poor the solution is to prevent them from developing advanced societies that can afford insect management and high quality treatment and burning their food in our car engines so they die from hunger instead of malaria, geniuses these greens
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Yawn. All that and more, such as lots of sea level rise, happens in every interstadial. It’s happened at least 8 times over the last 800,000 years. You need to experience the weather/climate and life during the stadials to appreciate the current interstadial.
Homo Sapiens Sapiens made it through the last one but Homo Neandthalensis didn’t. Don’t panic. The cold will soon return.
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The oceans are NOT heating. This is a massive lie and is simply revealed by ARGO data:
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/ocean-heat-content-another-simple.html
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> The oceans are NOT heating
Yes they are. As that very post you reference shows you. They quibble about the exact amount, but the heating trend is perfectly plain, both 0-700 and 0-2000 m, in the figures that they show.
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No they are not.
Gee, I guess I am a Wiki expert now. I can proclaim anything and it must be so.
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You’re another one that drifted off the set of ‘Lord of the Rings’. Oscar winning stuff.
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BilB,
You are too sensitive. This is a dummy spit:
So is this:
So is this:
And lastly, unless you would like to see some or lots more:
So harden up, precious.
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You forgot the Indian Greenpeace guy that threatened sceptics, saying they know where we live etc… and Richard Glover that wrote we should be tied to posts to be drowned by the seas.
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Couple of supporting links:
Greenepeace fun
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/04/06/greenpeace-removes-blog-post-threatening-climate-change-skeptics/
Richard Glover
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/society-and-culture/boneheaded-beliefs-bound-to-end-in-death-by-drowning-20110602-1fh3g.html
I imagine David Suzuki has said some unsavoury things as well. Oh, let’s not forget 10:10.org.
We should have a web page listing all the examples of warmist tolerance to people of opposing views.
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Odd, really, how the “peace-loving” AGWistas seem to promote such hatred, wishing so much physical harm to those who do not agree with them, yet “deniers” merely wish folk would wake up and smell the roses – and stop governments stealing money from so many and planning to starve of the poor.
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Well, appell is not Indian, and I am not sure he is greenpeace. But he has threatened Skeptics. Stalked them as well. I think that is called obsessive compulsive.
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BilB,
Just in case you did not twig that Sean McHugh was inviting you to click on a link on ‘dummy spits’, here it is in full:
http://www.climatedepot.com/2009/06/03/execute-skeptics-shock-call-to-action-at-what-point-do-we-jail-or-execute-global-warming-deniers-shouldnt-we-start-punishing-them-now/
Hover your mouse pointer over the link, and go click.
Oh, and if Sheri (AKA Reality Check) is around I suggest she should also contemplate it.
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To be honest, I have often pondered what happens inside a warmists mind that causes them to just lose the plot and go white hot bonkers at you….
I’m now convinced somnething in the collectivist hive-mindset seems to program them with a “destroy or be destroyed” response.
I am now wondering whether we shoudl treat socialism/collectivism as a destructive cult?
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When they have no credibility left all they can do is shout you down. Even if it only harms their cause further they cannot be seen to tolerate any suggestion of dissent. That is what marks them out as cultists.
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OriginalSteve:
“I am now wondering whether we shoudl treat socialism/collectivism as a destructive cult?” should read
I am now wondering whether we shoudl treat communism/socialism/collectivism as a destructive cult?
Yes, yes, yes!!! Aren’t these the same idiots that were responsible for the 10’s of millions of deaths in the former Soviet Union, China, Eastern Europe, etc, etc, etc?
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Good grief! This is exactly the plot of the 1967 Sci-Fi film Five Million Years to Earth:
Those under the mind-control of an alien hive’s machine go on a rampage, seeking out and killing all who are not also totally controlled. The parallels with the CAGW activists are chilling — and both contagions started in England.
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The collective noun for climate alarmists?
The Borg.
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Climate Alarmist Collective, Clarve?
We are the Glarve, you will not be assimilated.
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Grow up billy.
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Agreed. JoNova’s whole modus operandi for her site is based on heckling, doubt-creating, defaming abuse and contrarianism.
The hypocrisy of this post is therefore loudly laughable.
But we are glad to see that she and Rocket Scientist Babe are now trying to construct some real science. admirable, but we’ll wait to see what this paint-dryingly painful emerging piece of science genius brings forth before resetting the credibility ledger from zero where it has been stuck fast for years.
The timing may just be unfortunate for them as they clearly believe they’ve constructed a model predicting cooling just as an El Niño is emerging and we’d hate to see them have to do a full WUWT in the pike position.
Forgive my scepticism.
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“The hypocrisy of this post is therefore loudly laughable”
You mean YOUR post.. I assume..
Your whole post is one long abuse, as they always are…
That is all you ever bring to the blog, you know nothing else.
But that is to be expected, because that’s what you are, an abuse to human intelligence, a putrid stench on the soul of humanity.
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The Griss delivers his usual Group Think rebuke. The equivalent of “You are!”
And then, laughably, delivers a stream of childish abuse. is it your aim to appear idiotic, Griss? I think you can retire well satisfied that you’ve achieved all there is.
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I had to laugh, “Groupthink”, it’s so funny I am having trouble breathing…
After I pick myself up from rolling around the floor.
Chester, you obviously can’t read, the last five days shows you that herding sceptics is like herding cats, everyone here is an independent thinker, (well except you and Bilb and a few other warmists) every individual has come here on a different path and has different proofs why CAGW is wrong.
There is only one groupthinking brainless herd in this debate, and it’s you, Bilb, Will and others singing from the Hymn book of big green, you know the same big green with 300 Million in income and to which a 5 Million dollar exchange trade loss is inconsequential.
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Chester:
‘The Griss delivers his usual Group Think rebuke’
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chester unbellyfeel groupthink chester bellyfeel consensus
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You poor insignificant little worm. !
One day you will find you have something to offer society..
Your removal from it.
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It is the goal of all Malthusians.
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Chester:
‘ JoNova’s whole modus operandi for her site is based on heckling, doubt-creating, defaming abuse and contrarianism.’
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On no, not green victimhood again!
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Thanks for taking us back to that one. Every word of it true! All the dummies are at the NAS!
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The hundreds up
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The one and only reason is because the topic has been politicized?
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Very early on in my career, when I was a lot less cynical than I am now, I had to assist with “debriefing” some prisoners of war, who had been indoctrinated – brain-washed – into accepting their captors views of the world.
The experience has made a lasting impression on me, because it see it mirrored in the likes of BilB, and other evangelists for consensus science, and anthropogenic climate change.
Whether it happens at school, or university, or in the local chapter of a political party, I don’t know. But it happens. One common symptom is that they have absolutely no sense of humour, and they think people who do, are idiots. Another, is that they think it is a given, that they are always right.
Once these people have been programmed, it is very hard to deprogram them without causing them to have a nervous breakdown, or worse.
I think the people who would mess around in other people’s head in this way, are worse than rapists.
This is one of the very few times I have mentioned this in public. And no, mentioning it does not help.
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“It’s easier to fool the people than convince them they have been fooled?
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R.W.
I went through Uni with with a friend, he then went into teaching (unions, left wing etc.)and is a AGW believer. I went into industry but had nothing to do with unions or the ‘left’ and am a skeptic.
In this case is wasn’t the Uni it was the a) pre uni environment and/or b) post Uni work place environment.
May be the early 1960’s was a different era.
Who knows where they become “brain washed”.
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No, I think it is useful to understand whats going on.
I know people who are in certain religious denominations that could also apply to just as easily as well.
Balance means you can see the others point of view, even if it happens to be wrong, and still acknowledge it without self-combusting.
Warmists dont seem to be able to tolerate a differing opinion at all, which means their minds are potentially very fragile, while would fit with your comment about them having a break down if they had to change their views.
I recall having a conversation with a warmists ( Socialist ) once int he office…I had to back away from the conversation very carefully to try and diffuse, it even though I was being overly polite and balanced. The warmist became incredibly heated and could concede an opposiong point of view , i’d have ebven used the description of him having a touch of nihlism.
I find the doomist mindset of warmism actually incredibly desctructive. Compare it against Christianity, which has hope at its core ( for contrast purposes ), and you can see the yawning gap…
I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest warmism is in fact border-line nihlism.
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Sorry….typo…..
” The warmist became incredibly heated and could concede an opposiong point of view”
shoudl read
” The warmist became incredibly heated and couldn’t concede an opposiong point of view
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He’s been watching that Roy Spencer again!
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Paul Krugman must be reading something off the men’s room wall. I’ve never seen any skeptic in a rage.
But Krugman isn’t much worth giving any attention and so I no longer read him. My local newspaper carries his column and the whole paper has become worthless for useful news. So, sorry Paul, you just don’t hack it. 🙁
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It is also one of the oldest propaganda tricks in the book. Once you have invented a label, that people can identify with, and say, “Yep, I am a … and proud of it”, you then switch labels, grab that label for your own use, and leave the previous “owners” disenfranchised and confused.
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Just when like Marxism in The USA changed their label from communism til being liberal? Now it’s progressive? The next label will be the progressive liberal tea party?
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The climate faithful are often afflicted with psychological projection. I have seen this many times … I guess it is that , or a disingenuous tendancy to get in first on an argument so that ‘deniers’ can’t use it themselves, ragardless of whether the accusation has any merit whatsoever.
The thing is, serious debaters would never make the ridiculous allegations to start with, so by staying rational you will inevitably have to wear the barbs of the faithful warmistas and trust that the independent observer can tell who is making more sense. It is certainly difficult to maintain such poise when the warmist trolls come a knocking.
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It goes both ways. Many ‘sceptics’ (eg Andrew Bolt and James Delingpole) are primarily driven by a hatred of the Left rather than any objective understanding of the underlying science.
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That’s funny. Because Andrew Bolt is of “the Left”.
It’s also wrong because the objection isn’t against people, it’s against what is obviously wrong and; in the long term; destructive.
One does not have to understand mathematics to be able to see that
1 + 1 = 7is wrong. (except for some values of “1”.)
What is also telling is that the acolytes who appeal to false authority of the science, seldom display the appreciation of the science which they accuse the “deniers” of not understanding. As Bulldust says; it’s projection.
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Apparently Bolt doesn’t identify as right wing, but of the left is a bit of a stretch I’d think. Conservative seems a better descriptor.
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Anyone that causes the watermelon heads to explode is good value in my opinion. Worthy of a TV show to encourage the love to hate, which is the hallmark of a leftist.
The genesis of his show was a prearranged meeting at Alan Jones’ birthday bash a few years ago. Wonder who set that up?
Hehehehehe
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Way to go Scaper – and he does an encore on the same day – Ten would have been a much better investment if more airtime was devoted to balanced reporting.
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He was a part of Labor when young. Just grew up.
I would say that the theoretical difference between ‘progressive’ and ‘conservative’ is that the former believes that all the worlds ills could be solved tomorrow with the right government. The latter realises its not just a case of a little spit and stick it back on (old Slavic saying). In practice, the former are used to create big fish in a putrid and small pond.
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vic, those who claim to be “progressives” are in fact regressive extremists.
“Conservatives?” We used to have a lot that was worth conserving. “Conservationists” have been doing their damnedest to destroy much of it for 40 years now.
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Bolt’s articles is as biased towards the right wing as you could get. To claim that he is left wing or even conservative is nonsense.
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Lol bananabender HAHAHAHA In Canada we would mock you for that Handle ;>)
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Just for clarity it says he is from Queensland, banana capital of Australia. Everyone knows that bananas grow straight and then have to be bent into the right shape. There are hourdes of Queenslanders employed in huge facrories bending bananas, hence Queenslanders are known as Banana benders.
Just an interesting factoid for the foreigners among us.
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Seems you are of the rabid far-left, too whom EVERYTHING is to the right.
Bolt is a centralist. !
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1 x 1 = 7 is easy the imaginary part is sqrt(+6).
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You’re being cross for no reason at all. 😉
The imaginary part? Would that be i or j ?
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Therein lies the whole problem. Global warming is based on the imaginary part.
This may appear sarcastic but it’s not. I simply stated the truth. But the truth unfortunately does not set some people free.
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No ypu got it wrong, there is one three and one four ad 1 three and 1 four together you get 7 IE 1 + 1 = 7. One might also note that it may also equal 5 9, 8 or just about but not quite any other number, and oddly never two, because 1 one and 1 one is actually 2 ones, and that just 2 not 1 + 1.
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Oops, inadvertent double post, sorry mods
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bobl,
Aren’t you making it more complicated than it is? There’s no math needed to know that global warming, now called climate change was based on pure imagination. 😉
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I’d have said balanced and fair – qualities that also appear to be anathema to the hysterical left as well as to the foaming and frothing mouth brigades of the Carbon Zombie Army.
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That is the funniest thing I’ve read for a long time. thanks of the laugh.
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Actually it’s true, worked as an advisor for, I think it was Keating, real Labor man. Well ok, admittedly back in the days that Labor stood for the working bloke and not inner city latte sippers and failed ambulance chasing Lawyers.
Bolt is not a conservative, he is what I would term a realist, or pragmatist. He believes in what works, and not fairy tale ideology. Michael Smith is such a pragmatist too.
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But 101+111 = 212 or 0011 or 12
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10+10 = 01
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Bolt describes himself as a ‘conservative’ now. He certainly doesn’t hate the ‘left’. He was a Labor party staffer and worked for the Hawke Labor Government on two election campaigns. He has many friends on the ‘left’ side of politics.
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Did not know that Jaymez, thanks. I have always enjoyed his approach, generally cutting through to the crux of the debate. Perhaps it is more accurate to say the parties have moved left relative to Bolt. The Labor of Hawke and Keating is a completely different animal to that which exists today.
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This is why I wrote “of the left”. 😉
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Too clever for me by ‘alf Bernd.
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Not hatred. Understanding!
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Its only the far left that identify Bolt as right-wing.
Bolt seems to be a rational centralist, so would appear far-right wing to people the ABC and the Greens.
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Hate the left? Laugh at, ridicule them, pity them, but never hate, they cannot help being stupid.
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I wouldn’t go quite so far as to say hate the left. But by all means hate what they’re doing to the world, whether they can help it or not.
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And the warmists are driven by a $1,000,000,000 per day in handouts.
One question, I was born in 1944, how many years of global warming have there been?
Sorry, one more question, how warm is the earth supposed to be?
Oh what the hell, here is another one, why were the same profession preaching global cooling and an oncoming Ice Age in 1976?
And another, why do you keep changing the name, Global Warming / AGW / CAGW / CC?
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Answer to all of the above:
Targeted Consumer Marketing…
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> the same profession preaching global cooling and an oncoming Ice Age in 1976?
They weren’t. You’re confusing the meeja with the science. http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2013/03/01/1970s-cooling-again/ etc etc.
> CAGW
Like I keep telling you, that’s a strawman you lot invented, don’t try to blame anyone else for it.
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Whoops – your wrong there…
Here is a full list of publications from that time.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/content/173/3992/138.abstract
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http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/image27.png
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Yep. Jimminy Hansen from GISS has changed all that by throwing out all the original temp figures and inventing his own..
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/correlating-temperature-with-co2
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I wonder how much he pocketed, and from whom, for doing that?
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> your wrong there
I’m afraid you’ve made exactly the same mistake old44 has: failing to distinguish science from the meeja. Taking the link you provided:
* the main pic is Time.
* the next is from Owosso Argus-Press
* then Leonard Nimoy
* …and so it goes.
You do know the difference between the scientific literature and the popular press, don’t you?
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You’ve made the mistake: First example I randomly selected: the link for Lewiston Evening Journal 1972 quote from Professor Hubert Lamb Director Of Claimate Research Uni East Anglia
That’s not the MEEja talking that’s one of your Authoritai you must respect
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But its not a scientific paper. Its a newspaper. its a scientist speaking, but to the meeja. If you can’t find him saying the same in a scientific publication, you have to wonder: was perhaps peer review working well? That somewhat speculative comments that would work OK in a newspaper weren’t good enough to get into a scientific publication? (Note that if you’re going to answer that one with “aha! See – peer review was enfocring consensus even then!” that you’d be obliged to admit that it was the consensus, then). “The full impact of the new Ice Age will not be upon us for another 10,000 years…” is what he is saying. Lamb was a good observationalist; but worship of him (http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2012/10/10/adoration-of-the-lamb/) in inappropriate; he wasn’t any good at predictions (e.g. http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/sci_env_cooling.02).
Here’s Lamb from 1982: http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/lamb-1982.html
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Again, anything marked Stoat or CONnelly can be taken as deliberate lies and misinformation.
Nobody is going to bother reading them, so stop trying to make traffic.
And you last link is from 1982, what has that got to do with DIRECT QUOTES from 1972
Also look up Rasool. “The world could be as little as 50-60 years away from a disastrous new ice age.” (1971)
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Lest your complete lack of sense cause me to call you any number of names and disrupt the tenuous peace which is the topic of this thread, William, just why isn’t the Authority Lambs’ public and terrifying quote precisely proof of what you deny? Where is your statement (ca. 1972) lambasting (good pun) him for that? Where is your blog post chastising him and all for abusing his position as a expert Authority for making those fear inducing statements?
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Now, Mr. Connolley, you go too far and are shooting the messenger. I can’t stop you if that’s what you want to do. But frankly, I think it displays your character in a very bad light.
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William Connolley says
Let us develop the argument. If so-called experts mouth speculative comments that they would not be able to publish in a journal, then they should be brought to task upon this. Worse still, if they claim expertise where they have none, then this should be highlighted. Given that no climatologist has an established track record in understanding climate (shown by accurate predictions) – or at least acknowledges the many past failures and that they are most probably going to be wrong on current pronouncements – then their pronouncements should be regarded nearer to those of astrologers than to those of nuclear physicists when talking about their respective subjects.
Worse still if scaremongering pronouncements by those with no qualifications in climatology, but hold an extreme belief in climate alarmism, then the fact that they are given prominence in the media should be decried by anybody who truly understands the nature of science. For instance, will William Connolley denounce Lord Stern’s front page spread in The Guardian in February as inexpert scaremongering, or will he admit he is a partisan and dogmatist who suppresses and subverts the contrary evidence?
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/13/flooding-storms-uk-climate-change-lord-stern
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Interesting to note how Prof Lamb was astonishingly correct, even if his timing was slightly off; the world DID cool for a bit longer, then heated for a couple of decades, and has since levelled off, ready to… what? Plunge? Or soar? Sadly, I suspect it may well be the former. Should that happen, Mr Connolley, will it be yet more “proof” of your pet theory? Mind you, I also suspect that WHATEVER happens will be yet more proof; you and yours, Mr Connolley, have made the theory unfalsifiable, therefore it is a false theory.
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> denounce Lord Stern’s
I’ve written a number of things about Stern, most of them critical. See
* http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/11/22/nordhaus-on-stern/
* http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/12/19/yet-more-stern-sht/
I’d also recommend you to read James Annan’s http://julesandjames.blogspot.co.uk/2006/10/stern-review-of-stern.html
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The 70s were a long time ago. I was in university then studying, among other things, climatology. My earnest papers on the imminent ice age were based on peer reviewed publications, not magazines.
If a scientist is quoted in a newspaper, does it disqualify his opinion? I don’t understand your “Meeja” exclusion, but I am willing to apply it to current events if you can show me why it’s valid.
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Important fact, ice ages worse than warm ages for people and most animals and plants.
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But Stuart, according to Wikipedia, these articles did not exist. The reality that you thought existed has been flushed by the great WC.
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William Connelly -This line of argument may convince the young, but to anyone who was around and involved in environmental activism at the time, its just bullshit. If, as you say, the real scientists were even then expecting warming, they were being damn quiet about it. It was overwhelmingly accepted as “the consensus” that scientists were predicting a new ice age, and barely a voice was raised in contradiction – that all came much later.
Ever listen to the words of “London Calling”? “The ice age is coming….” – we all thought that then, with just as much conviction (and as much evidence) as current warmists.
All your weaselling can’t change history, Connelly, the past isn’t Wikipedia
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Stop wriggling, Billy Boy.
The received wisdom in the “climate community” insofar as there was such a thing in the 1970s, was that there was an ice age just around the corner.
Stop blaming the media for reporting what the scientists were telling them.
OR ALTERNATIVELY … start blaming the media for reporting what the scientists and their little eco-helpers are telling them now.
You can’t have it both ways.
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William Connolley said:
Before the global warming scare the difference was much clearer. So was the difference between science and politics.
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Seems to me that you are part of “the meeja” by your association with wiki, I mean it is not after all a scientific publication. Those seem to be the rules by which you work are they not? Your editing and revising there in an attempt to redefine science to suit you doesn’t seem very scientific. But then as soon as I realized who you were and said association with wiki and all that entails I stopped paying any attention to anything you had to say.
That you haven’t grasped that ignoring you is the most common response you illicit speaks volumes of your need for attention.
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Stoat (is as weasel does), even the most cursory research will highlight your wishful, is it ‘thinking’?
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If you’re trying to say that there was at least one person believing in cooling in the 1970’s then I say pffft: who cares. No-one is claiming otherwise; certainly not me. If you’d followed my link you’d have found the nice easy-to-understand graph https://www.flickr.com/photos/belette/8518783241/ where we certainly found more than one paper. But “there was at least one person” wasn’t the claim old44 made: it was that “why were the same profession preaching global cooling and an oncoming Ice Age in 1976”. And its clear that wasn’t true: on the whole, scientific papers (you haven’t ref’d even one, but never mind, I’ll let you off) were clearly more in support of warming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling has lots of nice facts and refs, if you’re able to overcome your resistance and actually read it.
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So you’d like me to not believe the Director Climate Change at E. Anglia?
Fair enough. Your work is done here.
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Again, the link to much-tainted Wikipedia. Nothing you link to on Wikipedia can EVER be taken as fact.
Its all about you.. isn’t it. !! EGO !!
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In Britain students are marked down if they use Wikipedia as a reference because it is full biased opinion. There is probably no area more biased than in the area of climatology and the single most prominent editor responsible for this lack of balance is William Connolley.
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A bit like how 0.3% became 97% ?
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Weasel, you presume. I’m not ‘trying to say’ anything. I am in fact, writing, and while I’m doing so I’m not inclined to refer anything related to ‘climate’ on the unashamedly and manifestly biased Wiki, where you have been clearly identified as a ‘Wikibully’.
All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity.
The tragedy, if one can call it that as the bathos is almost completely overwhelming, is that you would feel the need to engage in such prolonged and extensive subversion, particularly given the compelling evidence of your ‘settled science’.
So instead of Wiki, I suggest you wander along and have a read of ‘Global Warming or The “New Ice Age”? Fear of the “Big Freeze” ‘ over at Global Research.
The article is introduced as:
Within the text there is sufficient information to ferret sources, if you’re thus inclined. /rhet.
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> over at Global Research.
Its the usual mish-mash; I’ve seen it all before. Not a single scientific paper is referenced.
> This post does not weigh in one way or the other
And you believed them! How very “skeptical” of you. Its biases are obvious.
> created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles
No-one from outside wiki understands how it works. http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2010/01/04/a-childs-garden-of-wikipedia-p/
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Further to the comment above, to properly understand a controversial issue and see through the “mish mash” you need to compare and contrast different points of view, and do so on the basis of ground rules set in advance. We do so in the criminal justice system and in evaluating new drugs for instance.
Wikipedia is the exact opposite. It allows activists to decide what the truth is, then to accuse anyone who disagrees of “denialism”.
For instance compare this
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/14/willia-connolley-now-climate-topic-banned-at-wikipedia/
With this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Connolley
Explained by this
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/22/william-connolley-and-wikipedia-turborevisionism/
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Is your link to the Wikipedia one of the many entries that you altered to aid the cause?
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> Wikipedia is the exact opposite. It allows…
…anyone to edit it, provided they can back up what they say with reliable sources. When talking about science – like, say, GW – then reliable sources are ultimately scientific papers, or syntheses thereof. Or, sparingly, blog postings by recognised experts. Which is why the stuff related to climate and GW looks like it does – it reflects the mainstream position; this is what wiki intends to do, on any issue, whilst giving due weight to dissenting views.
The attitude of “skeptics” to this varies: sometimes you see yourself as brave individual voices decrying the “consensus” – but somehow unable to see that if you are decrying a “consensus”, you have no reason to complain that wiki is reporting the consensus. Sometimes you think there is no consensus – in which case, you need to invent a fairy story to explain why you can’t hack your views into wiki. The truth is that reliable sources don’t back up what you want to say; but that would be damaging to your world view, so instead you invent myths about the way wiki is run.
But, just like writing scientific papers, you also know nothing about editing wiki because you’re never brave enough to try.
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I see you have again defended Wikipedia William:
“No-one from outside wiki understands how it works.”
> “Wikipedia is the exact opposite. It allows……anyone to edit it, provided they can back up what they say with reliable sources. When talking about science – like, say, GW – then reliable sources are ultimately scientific papers, or syntheses thereof. Or, sparingly, blog postings by recognised experts. Which is why the stuff related to climate and GW looks like it does – it reflects the mainstream position; this is what wiki intends to do, on any issue, whilst giving due weight to dissenting views.”
Your colleagues at Wiki understood how it works and most found you breached many standards in your work there. They are all detailed here for all to see. The following is a brief overview:
William M. Connolley previously sanctioned and desysopped
8.1) In the Abd-William M. Connolley arbitration case (July-September 2009), William M. Connolley was found to have misused his admin tools while involved. As a result, he lost administrator permissions, and was admonished and prohibited from interacting with User:Abd. Prior to that, he was sanctioned in Requests for arbitration/Climate change dispute (2005, revert parole – which was later overturned by the Committee here) and Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Geogre-William M. Connolley (2008, restricted from administrative actions relating to Giano II). He was also the subject of RFC’s regarding his conduct: RfC 1 (2005) and RfC 2 (2008). The 2008 RFC was closed as improperly certified.
6 Supported this text 2 abstained
William M. Connolley has been uncivil and antagonistic
8.2) William M. Connolley has been uncivil and antagonistic to editors within the topic area, and toward administrators enforcing the community probation. (Selection of representative examples: [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17])
This uncivil and antagonistic behaviour has included refactoring of talk page comments by other users,(examples: [18], [19], [20]) to the point that he was formally prohibited from doing so. In the notice advising him that a consensus of 7 administrators had prohibited his refactoring of talk page posts, he inserted commentary within the post of the administrator leaving the notice on his talk page. [21]] For this action, he was blocked for 48 hours; had the block extended to 4 days with talk page editing disabled due to continuing insertions into the posts of other users on his talk page; had his block reset to the original conditions; then was blocked indefinitely with talk page editing disabled when he again inserted comments into the posts of others on his talk page.[22] After extensive discussion at Administrator noticeboard/Incidents, the interpretation of consensus was that the Climate Change general sanctions did not extend to the actions of editors on their own talk pages, and the block was lifted.
All 8 supported the above findings
William M. Connolley BLP violations
8.4) William M. Connolley has repeatedly violated the biography of living persons policy. Violations have included inserting personal information irrelevant to the subject’s notability, use of blogs as sources, inserting original research and opinion into articles, and removing reliably sourced positive comments about subjects. He has edited biographical articles of persons with whom he has off-wiki professional or personal disagreements. (Selection of representative examples: [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] BLPN discussion [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69])
5 supported, 3 Opposed finding
William M. Connolley’s edits to biographies of living persons
8.5) William M. Connolley has focused a substantial portion of his editing in the Climate change topic area on biographical articles about living persons who hold views opposed to his own with respect to the reality and significance of anthropogenic global warming, in a fashion suggesting that he does not always approach such articles with an appropriately neutral and disinterested point of view.
7 supported the above finding, 1 opposed on a technical wording concern.
I definitely don’t think you are the one to be recommending wikipedia, nor criticising the work of Moderators at this site!
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William Connolley
June 22, 2014 at 4:02 am
” . . .reliable sources are ultimately scientific papers, or syntheses thereof.”
Reliable for what purpose?
Even an unbiased synthesis could be found in time to be completely wrong.
What you were doing was pretending that there was some “settled science”, while knowing full well that that was completely false ; predenting that there was more certitude than doubt.
Deny that 🙂
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> I definitely don’t think you are the one to be recommending wikipedia
Why not? They dissed me, but I still think the project is worthwhile, if flawed.
> Reliable for what purpose?
Errrm, well, as I said: the wiki policy is that things to be included needs to be backed with reliable sources. Which means that the “purpose” is inclusion in wiki. Read the policy if you want: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RS
> Even an unbiased synthesis could be found in time to be completely wrong.
Indeed. The most oft-used example is what should wiki have reported, had it been around just as Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium was published? And the answer is, it should have reported the then-prevalent geocentric theory, with a minor sidenote that some unknown bloke and a few others had different ideas. Wiki isn’t there to present wildly new science (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOR); its there to present the mainstream view, whatever that might be.
> pretending that there was some “settled science”
“settled science” isn’t a useful phrase in this context; the GW article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming) does mention the concept, but not in the main text only in a footnote supporting the statement “Scientific understanding of the cause of global warming has been increasing. In its fourth assessment (AR4 2007) of the relevant scientific literature, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that scientists were more than 90% certain that most of global warming was being caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities.[7][8][9]”. Its footnote 9, and its sourced to http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12782
Your assertion lacks reliable sourcing.
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“scientists were more than 90% certain ”
But that was misleading at best. Ignoring the fact that these ‘scientist” have little scientific basis for believing that, the true statement would have been ” SOME scientists . . . ”
A truer statement would have been that there was not , and still is not, an accepted unified theory of climate which would have allowed the CO-AGW conjecture to have been falsified.
How did you justify proceeding as you did knowing that the null hypothesis could not be falsified?
You seem to be saying that you did it because Wiki rules said that you could. So it was just a bit of a try-on , to see if you could get away with it.
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typo above corrected:-
A truer statement would have been that there was not , and still is not, an accepted unified theory of climate which would have allowed the CO2 -AGW conjecture to have been falsified.
How did you justify proceeding as you did knowing that the null hypothesis could not be falsified?
You seem to be saying that you did it because Wiki rules said that you could. So it was just a bit of a try-on , to see if you could get away with it.
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> misleading at best
No. The statement that “the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that scientists were more than 90% certain that…” is (a) accurate and (b) clearly and reliably sourced.
By contrast, your statements have no sourcing at all, and you don’t seem to feel that as any lack or problem. This is a common mistake for noobs at wiki to make: you believe something so fervently, you can’t imagine any reasonable person disagreeing, so feel no need to provide sources. But that only works in walled gardens, not the wide world. (You might want to try the related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_truth, which I’ve never been entirely happy with).
> How did you justify proceeding as you did knowing that the null hypothesis could not be falsified?
I’m not sure what you mean by that. If by “proceeding as you did” you mean reporting the science as published, errm, well that pretty well answers your question. If by “null hypothesis” you mean the idea that natural variability can explain the temperature record of the last century or so, then that too has been carefully considered and rejected; just because you’re not aware of it doesn’t make it so. You want https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution_of_recent_climate_change for a summary of the science.
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FB : How did you justify proceeding as you did knowing that the null hypothesis could not be falsified?
WC; I’m not sure what you mean by that.
FB ; Aha . The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
I don’t believe you.
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All Wm. Connollery is trying to do here is stir up hits on his nearly dead wed page. He is obviously ignorant and deserves to be ignored. [snip]
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Great going. You reduced Wikipedia to a blog because you have to virtually shout over the top of everyone to be heard, by constantly inserting your comments into their posts. [snip]
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Bull S##t, Connolley, it was taught in NSW High Schools 1st Level Science in 1973… then came the hole in the ozone layer…
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A very young Stephen Schenider (with lots of hair) appeared in the final programme in the series, “The Coming Ice Age” narrated by the actor who played Dr Spock, no less, and broadcasted in the 1970’s.
They are on YouTube and you can find them under the series title. All of the major players of the day, were on show, and all of them are now an embarrassment to the global warming establishment of today.
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To make it easy, the reference is here And Stephen Schenider first appears at the 6.00 minute mark.
So William, it was not us who referenced, “a strawman you lot invented, don’t try to blame anyone else for it”. It was you, arguing from ignorance, again.
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” It was you, arguing from ignorance, again.”
That is what he does.
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Michael Mann.
By the way
Global warming of the Earth’s surface has decelerated (Viewpoint)
BY MATT ROGERS
June 20 at 11:47 am
The recently-released National Climate Assessment (NCA) from the U.S. government offers considerable cause for concern for climate calamity, but downplays the decelerating trend in global surface temperature in the 2000s, which I document here.
Many climate scientists are currently working to figure out what is causing the slowdown, because if it continues, it would call into question the legitimacy of many climate model projections (and inversely offer some good news for our planet).
An article in Nature earlier this year discusses some of the possible causes for what some have to referred to as the global warming “pause” or “hiatus”. Explanations include the quietest solar cycle in over a hundred years, increases in Asian pollution, more effective oceanic heat absorption, and even volcanic activity. Indeed, a peer-reviewed paper published in February estimates that about 15 percent of the pause can be attributed to increased volcanism. But some have questioned whether the pause or deceleration is even occurring at all.
Verifying the pause
You can see the pause (or deceleration in warming) yourself by simply grabbing the freely available data from NASA and NOAA. For the chart below, I took the annual global temperature difference from average (or anomaly) and calculated the change from the prior year. So the very first data point is the change from 2000 to 2001 and so on. One sign of data validation is that the trends are the same on both datasets. Both of these government sources show a slight downward slope since 2000:
(Matt Rogers)
(Matt Rogers)
You can see some of the spikes associated with El Niño events (when heat was released into the atmosphere from warmer than normal ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific) that occurred in 2004-05 and 2009-10. But the warm changes have generally been decreasing while cool changes have grown.
To be sure, both sets of data points show an overall rise in temperature of +0.01C during the 2000s. But, if current trends continue for just a few more years, then the mean change for the 2000s will shift to negative; in other words, the warming would really stop. The current +.01C increase in temperatures is insufficient to verify the climate change projections for major warming (even the low end +1-2C) by mid-to-late century. A peer reviewed study in Nature Climate Change published in 2013 drew the same conclusion: “Recent observed global warming is significantly less than that simulated by climate models,” it says.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/06/20/global-warming-of-the-earths-surface-has-decelerated-viewpoint/
And yet another one,
AGP
Anthropogenic Global Pausing.
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Here is the show stopper of a question for warmunists.
Should we go to war with China to prevent them from emitting so much CO2?
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MSimon,
Nah, just execute the deniers, that should fix the problem.
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Hey, I wish no harm on the alarmistas and their apologists… the REAL deniers of science and fact.
We need to support the NDIS so they can be cared for in later life.
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Yes, where do not only the warmists fall on this issue, but the humanitarian lefties fall on this question? Oh wait it is the same lot. The ones flying in planes to New York for UN meetings.
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Most warmists care nothing about CO2 emissions — if they did, they would be promoting nuclear power.
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The reason they have moved from using the term GW to Climate Change is that GW has not been occurring for sometime.
The fools masquerading as scientists have forgotten that the “settled” science postulates that without human caused GW there can be no human caused climate change. Simple? Should be.
The prime requisite then for an alarmist climate scientist and their cheer leaders is significant brain death.
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“term GW to Climate Change is that GW has not been occurring for sometime”
And now that the climate is not changing… they are searching for another meme.
disruption, extreme, hidey heat…
I wonder what they will settle on..
Or will they realise REALITY and change it to Global Cooling (caused by CO2, of course)
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I’m a proud AGW denier. I also think that Ron Paul is a dangerous lunatic, that James Delingpole is primarily driven by upward envy of privileged Tories like David Cameron and that Christopher Monckton is a pretentious (but rather amusing) old tosser.
Don’t even get me started on my pet hates of Agenda 21 conspiracies, Gold Bugs and Libertarians.
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BB,
May i suggest you keep your comments to climate denial, as US politics and Australian TV personalities is obviously not your strong suit
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Bananabender, instead of a list of insults, how about providing some reasons and explanation. It is just namecalling without an argument…
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Jo,
Might I add that the Bananabender has no bent …………………………………………..sheez, give me pause at that wonderful pun!
Oh boy, I’m hyperventilating…………………………………
Sorry, I’m back. I wanted to say that Christopher Monckton seems to have a good grasp of science and uses strong scientific arguments. I’ve not observed such from any bent banana
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Monkton is a mathematician of rare talent. All science depends on maths.
And so do computer models.
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Classic Group Think : this thread is littered with abuse from Jo’s supporters, in direct contravention of her site policy but the only one she picks out is this.
Pathetically hypocritical and cowardly. nova knows that if she clamps down on the abusers and conspiracy theorists in her camp, she’s got no following at all.
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Not true Chester, she has you following her, and you seem to be a pretty accomplished abuser and conspiracy theorist.
Where would she be, without you mate?
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Why do the conspiracy nuts always project? Chesty is merely one of the ladies to do so. But in this thread we are being regaled with projections from the Wiki forger and the “no trace gas” apple.
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That sort of mindless projection doesn’t work here, Chester — all of us have been over to the warmist sites and have seen how they work. (Not to mention that that is the main topic of this post, also.)
If I really thought you believed what you say, I would have to conclude that you have no ability to comprehend what you read. (Of course, assuming that you have read much of anything here may be rash.)
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[SNIP]
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Chester:
‘….Group Think….Extirminate…..Group Think….Extirminate….Group Think….Extirminate….Group Think….Extirminate….Group Think….Extirminate….
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[snip – nil content]
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Hey there Ches’ old buddy,
This post alone has nearly 700 comments – probably more than the combined yearly total for all the alarmists blogs put together.
And as for the rest of your complaint – seems the comments are all pretty much on topic.
You know what they say – if you can’t stand the heat find another planet…
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Banana where do you get your research? Delingpole would be considered privileged himself – nothing to envy! He was born and raised in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, the son of a factory owner. That’s an OWNER not a WORKER!
Consequently he had a very privileged education. He attended Malvern College, an independent school for boys, followed by Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied English Literature. Delingpole has claimed that while at Oxford he was “reasonably good friends” with David Cameron and Boris Johnson.
Check out Wiki which includes the citations.
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Thank deity he didn’t go to Cambridge – I can’t bear the thought of Delingpole as a latter day Kim Philby.
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BB,
Not sure any of your post makes sense to me at all.
It seems to contradict itself and I would regard Christopher Monckton as perhaps one the most extraordinary thinkers of our time.
Without Monckton the call that the ’emperor has no clothes’ may have been too late to slow the global warming madness to a pace that gives the majority of rational people time to think about the real agenda/s and take appropriate action.
Those pushing for one world government through wealth redistribution and the sovereignty of an authoritarian United Nations that selects upper management from a list of fawning and failed socialist politicians with documented histories of deceit (Rudd and Gillard for a start).
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I like Ron Paul. I enjoy reading James Delingpole. And Christopher Monckton? I like his attitude and way of expressing it. Nigel Farage? I’m a big fan. I’m very much an Anglophile.
Agenda 21 is not a conspiracy – it is for real. Gold Bugs – well at least it has some intrinsic value – you can use it in circuits. https://oshpark.com/ Libertarians? Well I’m a libertarian. But I believe in power politics. Nations are motorcycle gangs. Everyone should spend enough time with a MC gang to get the power dynamics etched in their bones.
So if possible I’d like to be added to the appropriate list or lists of yours.
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Here’s the thing about OMCG’s (Outlaw Motor Cycle Gangs) – they have a great peer support network and a solid rank structure – there is something in that for all of us I think.
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So does Skyrim.
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AGENDA21 IS NOT SOME CONSPIRACY !
Here is the united nations agenda21 own website !!
http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&nr=23&type=400&menu=35
What Is Agenda 21? After Watching This, You May Not Want to Know:-
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/11/19/what-is-agenda-21-after-watching-this-you-may-not-want-to-know/
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I got: ‘Internet Explorer has closed this webpage to help protect your computer’
A UN site might harm my computer? More like harm the globalist cause.
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Bananabender is acting as “L’Agent Provacateur”, at least I hope so.
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Exactly which side of the fence are you sitting on?
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I got into a discussion with a warmist on facebook the other day. He tried to shut me up by saying “Just stop. For the love of science stop.”
And he learned that I am an atheist so he said “Devout Atheist, are you? That seems to me to be as single-minded as blindly obeying a religion.”
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Just as long as they think your wrong it makes them feel
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Trying to reason with a warmist is futile…face to face can be dangerous.
Had an experience when a warmist took a swing at me with a beer bottle in his hand.
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… they drink beer?
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This one drank some kind of wanky designer beer.
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I remember a time when all you could buy in bottles was DA and Resch’s Pilsener… uuuuuggghhhhhhh…. Resch’s Pilsener… there’d be no sissy warmies if that was still the only stuff you could buy.
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I hope that wanky designer beer wasn’t releasing CO2 bubbles.
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Not as much CO2 in the red stuff that was streaming out of his mouth and nose less than a second after taking a swing at me.
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They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.
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Why not? They are trying to take everything else.
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We’ve now lost so much Arctic ice that we have to change our atlases!
Oh the horror!
http://io9.com/weve-now-lost-so-much-arctic-ice-that-we-have-to-change-1593339092
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Still plenty to go around, the Canadian government have put together a fund to build ice breakers for the next 30 years.
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If the dust keeps coming in at this rate it may be land soon.
http://www.spaceweather.com/DAISY_PICS/current_daisy.png?PHPSESSID=9lhki1sqma8ht1cbrmv52o3rn3
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National Geographic. Why am I not surprised at this?
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No atlas I own shows Arctic Ice, it just covers land masses! Even the one from National Geographic which I found here doesn’t show Arctic ice on their atlas! So it’s just another typical beat up!
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OMG, that is so funny.
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Looks like we might need a new atlas every month.
You should check out the images for ‘Arctic Ice Extent’ in google search. Not as bad as the NG graph but it does look like a deliberate attempt to hype up any ice loss.
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The only time I ever flew anywhere near the Arctic (from LHR to Calgary) I was struck by the seemingly neverending snow and ice en route. This was in late September so presumably at the time of lowest amounts for the year? So what’s up with that?
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Ice extent is at least 15% of solid ice floating in the water, so it is going to vary a lot more than the solid ice.
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I have had similar experiences with both my younger son and a Professor who I regard as a very good friend indeed. Both are scientists and both unquestioningly accept that human generated CO2 is the sole factor driving climate change. I think if you look at warmist blogs such as Skeptical Science and Open Mind it is plain that anyone who posts there with an opinion different from those held by the bloggists are vilified, scorned, ridiculed and treated with contempt. This is contrast to blogs such as this one and WUWT which are more balanced than SkS and Open Mind and where the views of those across the spectrum of climate change are published and treated with respect. I have no idea why the warmists are so belligerent and so prone to denigrating those who are a little less sure “the science is settled”. .. Are they terrified that sooner rather than later the whole edifice of large grants and conferences in pleasant places overseas and travel and international prestige and publications in international journals and all the other perks that are essentially due to government funding, will crumble and they will be left with nothing? I can’t think of any other reasons. Can you?
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Bullies, physical or intellectual, don’t like to be hit back. It is fundamentally about power and control. They must have only one way that things go: they win and everyone else loses – they play and others pay. Ultimately, they know they can’t make it on their own and have nothing of value to offer to others. So everything they have, even their ideas and values, must be taken from others. They are second hand creatures to the core. To exist, they must feed on others.
All we need to do to stop them is to stop feeding them.
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Lionell, would it fit within your view to add lust for money, lust for power, and lust for fame? If they are involved in “saving the planet”, it is easy to bully others because their work is for everyone and superior to any other work. It is an old, old story.
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It is not the lust for something that is the problem, it is how one satisfies that lust.
Do you create values that make money worth something and trade with others who create values or do you just take values by force or fraud?
Is the power you have the ability to create value and persuade others of the right path or to destroy the makers of values and lead others to their doom?
Is the fame you achieve because you have accomplished something that others value highly or is it that you are famous simply because you are famous for being famous?
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In science, isn’t this a description of leach (host – parasite)???
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You noticed. Good for you.
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For all her failings, Ayn Rand had a good deal to say on this issue. People who cannot come up with significant discoveries on their own, but want the prestige that it should bring, attach themselves to and big note themselves over other peoples work to steal glory. Of course they react strongly to their source of power and prestige being eroded or challenged.
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I meant to add that Ayn Rand voiced the same solution – stop feeding them. The trouble is that this usually results in a lose lose scenario – the parasite loses but so also does the genuine contributor and untimately the world at large.
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If everything I am and have is being consumed without so much as a “by your leave” why should I care about the world at large? I care about those with whom I trade value for value. All the others can go suck rocks for all I care. I am not theirs to feed upon nor are they feed for me. I am not guilty for their inability to care for themselves. I am free to chose my path and they theirs.
Since I and others like me can provide for ourselves, why does not feeding the parasites mean that we must stop feeding ourselves? It doesn’t. We simply must stop feeling guilty for our abilities and productivity. We must never demand or give the unearned in either material or spirit.
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So true but in todays world we need to share and care and give to those less fortunate than us (sarc). I say hogwash…in ages past there was no social welfare as we know it today and the less fortunate were looked after via other means. I don’t mind giving a helping hand to someone that is down, and this should be my decision, not big government taking from me and giving it to you.
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My theory is to overwhelm them with contributions. Keep adding value.
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Yes, there are different ways to “skin a cat”.
Just make sure your contributed value is such that they must stay in touch with reality and use their minds to use it. You would then be trading the value of your rationality for theirs. This too is part of the stopping feeding them. The point is that they MUST contribute something beyond eating, breathing, and excreting.
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Ian, in my experience the only posts from Skeptics which they publish on warmist sites are those they feel safe denigrating. If you write well argued take downs of their posts or other’s comments, or you write something they can’t deny, they just don’t publish it. I have even had the experience where I have made a statement and then listed the justification for that statement with citations. They have then simply printed my statement sans my supporting material so that they could write their ‘standard [flawed] debunk’ comment making it seem like they have ‘shot down’ a skeptic.
That doesn’t just happen on climate sites, it pretty much applies to any left wing site. ‘The Conversation’ for instance wont print comments which refute the content of their guest writer. I recently had a funny experience at the Conservation Council of WA blog site where their president’s statement was the lead comment getting lots of positive support. Something about “There is absolutely no scientific evidence that killing endangered sharks makes our beaches safer for swimming.” The argument was against baited drum lines which were used for the first time in Western Australia last summer.
I posted half a dozen references showing the scientific evidence that beaches where baited drum lines have been used in Queensland and South Africa have indeed dramatically reduced the number of shark attacks. I also pointed out that the three categories of sharks which are authorised to be destroyed if over 3m long are not listed as ‘endangered’! That is the Bull, Tiger and Great White sharks. The latter is listed as ‘vulnerable’ only.
My comment stayed up for about 10 minutes before it was deleted. 🙂 So mainly I just resist the urge to even write comments at such sites because they are rarely published. Which of course proves the point made by Jo with this post.
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Ian,
There are many who support climate alarmism who are not dependent on it for a living. The reason for the intolerance I would suggest is far more basic, and a very human one. None of us like our basic beliefs to be challenged. Climatology is promoted as “belief in the science” and belief in the necessity of “saving the world for future generations, with the politics indivisible from that “science”. This is backed up by evidence from a surprising source.
Stephan Lewandowsky’s infamous “NASA faked the Moon Landings” survey might be the worst climate-related paper (among extremely strong competition), but it does achieve something very pertinent to the current topic. It was conducted on alarmist blogs, and asked questions both on belief in “climate science” and belief in “free markets”.
I graphed the frequency of the “free market” scores (from minimum score of 5 to maximum 20) and support for climate science (dark green for strong support to red for strong rejection). It clearly shows that believers in climate science also have strong socialist-environmentalist political views.
http://manicbeancounter.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/042114_1802_extremesoci6.jpg?w=600
Contrast this with a follow-up survey of the US population.
http://manicbeancounter.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/042114_1802_extremesoci6.jpg?w=600
This shows a normal distribution of both political opinions and “climate science”, with the vast majority of opinion in both areas occupying the middle ground. The slight skew to the left and on climate can be easily accounted for by the bias in the questions.
The question is then of causation. Does belief in climate catastrophism lead to belief in the need for left-authoritarian solutions, or is climate catastrophism a new way of justifying dogmatic political beliefs that the vast majority view with distaste? From the evidence of many believers, including Lewandowsky, it is political belief that is the driver.
Full analysis is here.
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> None of us like our basic beliefs to be challenged
This is true. But what’s astonishing is your (and others here) lack of introspection. Somehow, you think your comment only applies ot people you disagree with.
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Pot to Kettle once again.
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Again with the slime.. !! Can’t help yourself, can you. !!
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I have analysed a couple of opinion surveys by Lewandowsky, Oberauer and Gignac. The results clearly show that those who frequent alarmist blogs mostly have a strong belief in climate alarmism. 69% of responses on the climate questions had an average score of 4. They also have strong anti-“free market” views. The average score of these 795 strong believers was 1.54, with 1 total rejection.
I think that it is a far stronger conclusion than that of the title.
“NASA faked the moon landing|Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science“
Only 10 responses out of 1145 supported the moon hoax. Of these just 3 rejected climate “science”. Given that these 3 responses also averaged strong belief in the other 12 conspiracies there is reason to believe that they are scam responses.
As I believe my view is not based on a lack of introspection but on the evidence, I offer three alternative and related hypotheses for your false accusation.
First, that you are certain of the truth of your views, so anybody who disagrees with is a liar or mentally deranged. This is behind Lew’s false conspiracist ideation hypothesis, and a generation ago, behind the STASI and the KGB consigning “dissidents” to mental institutions. This might be the case, as you call people who disagree with you dogmatic opinions “denialists“. You view non-believers as lesser beings.
Second, my lack of introspection is an implied threat. By standing up for truth and science against the false prophets of climatology I could attacked with lies, or at least lose friends as the article implies.
Third, as a member of the Green Party I have directly attacked your core beliefs. You are one of those people with left-authoritarian views who also believe in the alarmist cult. I realize I may upset your feelings, but I put the wider good before that. The wider political and moral problem is like that of the medical profession. It is not just sufficient to identify the cause of an ailment, but to offer a treatment that will at least have a reasonable expectation of the patient being in a better state than after treatment than without. This duty of care I find totally lacking in the UK. Britain has less than 2% of global climate emissions, and any emissions reductions are being achieved at huge net harm to the poor and future generations, even if the CAGW hypothesis were true.
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And therein lay the fabric of the global warming propagand machine:
“It is far easier for the dishionest to fight the truth than for the honest to fight a lie.”
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What is astonishing is that a twit such as yourself could wield so much influence,albeit a short-lived one in the wiki pages.As you have little of substance to put up here- not even a hint that ther are matters that deserve consideration I will regard you as an invidious pest.
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Glen,
Much of the “science” of alarmism is short lived as well. You don’t here much more of global warming increasing malaria, or causing mass extinctions. Nor of increasing hurricances, or collapsing ice sheets. As William Connolley has found, Wikipedia is great for editing out the uncomfortable facts.
For instance compare this
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/14/willia-connolley-now-climate-topic-banned-at-wikipedia/
With this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Connolley
Explained by this
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/22/william-connolley-and-wikipedia-turborevisionism/
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I have to wonder why he read Krugman. Krugman has not gotten anything right since Enron. And I am sure all those Enronees are so happy with his “take the money and run” advice.
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I’ll say it again as I’ve said it many times before. Do not blame so much the leaders of the AGW scam, although they should still be held accountable for the scam they have perpetrated and continue to do so. Blame more so the people who continue to refuse to use their brains to figure out the truth, and instead label skeptics as Liberal fools just because some in the LNP have the gall to doubt the AGW story, and instead prefer to follow the ALP line that AGW is fact and the debate is settled. Of course any true scientists knows that the debate is far from steeled, and any person with even an ounce of brain matter and uses it also knows the AGW is a scam. If people were not so gullible, the AGW leaders would have nothing to say and no one would listen. So, I have my doubts that we will see the end of the scam, and it may even grow to the point that the AGW scam artists will end up winning the war. I hope not but worse things have happened in the past due to the stupidity and gullibility of the people.
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Peter, you have some excellent points. But I am seeing more people in the USA who are growing skeptical of AGW. There are those like me who have looked at the evidence and found it unconvincing. And there are many more who haven’t looked at the evidence, but can recognize BS when they hear it.
What we need to do is get out and mix with people who believe in AGW and also those who are uncertain. When you hear someone mention AGW, ask them “Why hasn’t there been any warming for the last 16 years?”. Show them the evidence.
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Living in a semi-rural area I notice that all the ex-farmers over 70 are quite dismissive of AGW. They mightn’t have great knowledge of statistics or radiation physics but years of watching the weather and they all describe AGW in agricultural terms (think by-product of raising cattle).
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First they ignore you,
Then they laugh at you,
Then they fight you,
Then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi.
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A combination of quite reasonable political and enviromental beliefs seem to have conflagulated into a facist dogma which apparently reasonable people see as an excuse to alienate and attack non-believers.
If one has socialist leanings and believes free market forces are the devils instruments.
If one feels that human population or consumerism is the greatest threat to the planet.
If one actually does NOT trust science and democracy to be able to deal with these threats.
If one wants to protect the rain forest or thinks oil is evil.
Then Global Warming and alarmism allows you to put all these eggs in your basket of political correctness and santimony –
and smite the unbelievers down – and feel good about yourself.
Unfortunately every single assumption is in fact WRONG.
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Great video on world economics and global warming by Matt Ridley
http://www.ideacityonline.com/video/new-perspective-climate-change-matt-ridley/
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Steve McIntyre, the single most dedicated opponent of climate alarmism on the planet, the guy who owned Mann’s Hockey Stick by showing Mann’s math produces hockey sticks from random numbers, is a SOCIALIST.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100055793/steve-mcintyre-total-bloody-hero/
Climate isn’t a left / right thing.
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No it is not a Left/Right thing but the warmists want to make it Left/Right to remove focus from the actual science.
In the USA it was BUSH (in office January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993) who signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992 and it was BUSH who intervened to help Maurice Strong stay in charge of the Rio conference. (Strong gave political contributions to both parties in the USA.)
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When Blaming Bush, you should use the correct spelling – Boosh.
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While we might consider that we live in a capitalist society – and certainly The Greens claim we do, any society where there is a compulsory transfer of wealth from the more wealthy to the less wealthy is a socialist society. It’s just a matter of to what degree.
In the US about 15% of GDP is spent on welfare. In Australia it is closer to 20%. Technically Australia’s level is higher because there is employer rather than public provision of sick leave, maternity leave and some other benefits which are Government provided in other OECD countries. Denmark is the most ‘socialist’ OECD country with 30% of GDP spent on welfare.
Australia has the highest proportion of public transfers flowing to the quintile of the population with the lowest private incomes. It also has the lowest rate of direct taxation on this quintile of the 19 countries that provide these data. This reflects the highly targeted nature of the Australian tax‑transfer (socialist welfare)system.
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I think we worry too much about this. As a father of a daughter that had a mind of her own, I realized that when my daughter was just 2 years old, I would never win an argument with her. She’s certainly not an irrational person, its just that defenses go up when she gets pushed. When we did argue, I never expected or got the last word but I always made my point. Eventually, things sink in.
The climate debate will likely evolve the same way. The people behind the consensus position KNOW they are right but they also know that things aren’t going as planned so they rationalize or they cut off debate so they don’t have to confront the inconsistencies. They get the last word this way. But a discussion usually has a handful of principles arguing and a much large group of people lurking and judging. They understand rational arguments and they understand people who bully and name call. The lurkers are making judgements even if they are not participating and when a politician comes along and says they are going to save the planet by restricting the availability of cheap fossil fueled energy, they start doing the math in their head of how much this might hit their pocket book. Then they’ll remember the discussion and asses the arguments between the antagonists to determine if the costs are worth the alleged benefits. If I’m not mistaken, Australia just did that.
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The PR merchants behind this massive propaganda exercise know that fear is a potent motivator. Rising tides, heat, destructive weather events-and even the word ‘catastrophic’ engenders fear and alarm. Adding an urgency to action heightens that fear.
Behind anger always lies fear, even if the angry person appears to be strong and in control, fear will always be the reason behind their anger.
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If you are going to play the irrational fear card, you need to understand that you only get one shot, on any topic, and it could easily be in your own foot.
The wider the range of topics that the warmists try to create fear over, the more holes they get in their feet. The good thing is that the more they limp along, the worse their aim becomes.
Now, do I get the Nova prize for “Mangled Metaphors”?
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Back when I was still a climate alarmist myself, I used to respond with the same rage. I know exactly what the author refers to here. I could not understand why climate denialists enraged me so, until I took the time to reflect on it. I came to the realization that I believed in man-made climate catastrophe like it was a faith, almost a religion. I often used the term ‘believe’.
When someone disparages another person’s faith, it will enrage almost anyone.
That’s when I began to question the underlying science of climate, and that’s when I began down the lonely road to climate skepticism. Thank God for that.
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OMG! I have wandered into Climate Alarmist Anonymous, group meeting! How do I get out …?
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Pot/kettle
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I have a sister of whom I will probably never talk to again due to this warmist climate of fear that seems to afflict some and not others, after a long time apart due to a family separation we had no malice towards one another until the subject of climate change arose and discovered part of her government work was in the Department of Climate Change.
She is a true believer but knows me well enough not to bother trying to argue or pick a fight, but I’ll never forget that first realization we both had of being on opposite sides of this insane situation, it was almost a Lecter and Graham moment such was the tension.
All I can humbly add is that one person will have different strengths, weaknesses and morals compared to another, if people discovered and accepted this of themselves sooner a lot of unnecessary crap could be bypassed.
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The Department of Climate Change must be shut down immediately !
What an offensive waste of scarce taxpayer funds !!!!
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When I first started looking into the whole AGW affair a few years ago, I was struck by the vehemence of the responses to any suggestion that the CO2 idea could be wrong. These days the nasty comments and arrogance don’t bother me, but at the time it came as quite a surprise.
Recently, I wrote to my Member of Parliament over here in the UK, and also my (at that time) Member of the European Parliament. Neither commented on the figures I’d given them showing the lack of warming despite a near 25% increase in CO2 since 1959, instead both simply reaffirmed their belief in ‘reducing carbon emissions’ and the need to erect as many wind turbines as possible.
This refusal to look at or comment on actual figures is something which seems to me to be commonplace. Readers I’ve met of the UK ‘Guardian’ and ‘Independent’ newspapers are very staunch supporters of the AGW idea.
What interests me is that it’s acceptable to go for a second opinion about a medical condition (i.e. question your doctor’s diagnosis), yet we must trust ‘the science’ and the scientists.
‘Go figure’ is I believe the American expression to use!
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Quote: “This refusal to look at or comment on actual figures is something which seems to me to be commonplace.”
Yes, this is one of the characteristics of a destructive cult. Sometimes called a ‘mind-control’ cult.
“Is reading any literature critical of the group discouraged? Many cults will warn members not to read anything critical of the group, especially if written by ex-members (who are called names by the cult such as “apostate”, “hardened”, or “of the devil” etc.). This is a well known information control technique to stop the member from discovering the clear and documented errors of the cult. Member’s abilities to think for themselves are effectively disarmed in this way. Instead, they will think more and more as the rest of the group thinks.”
link here
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> Namecalling is a tool to stop debate. It works to keep the wandering minds in the square.
> often afflicted with psychological projection
Mmm, well, lets see, shall we?
> You moronic troll
> Why would anyone in their right mind ever take your advice ? The road to abject failure in life.
> Really, should we be worried about a rapid depressurization of the corpse?
> You know what a WC smells like ! More than a “whiff”, more like a “stench”
And so on. If you want to lecture others, you ought to clean out your own stables. You have mods, no?
[We do try to moderate all offensive name-calling, it is not helpful in any debate. But unlike many sites, comments don’t sit in moderation awaiting approval, and the volunteer moderators may not pick it up straight away. Personally, if it has got past me and it is of the milder type like the examples you have given above, I would tend to simply add a cautionary note like “keep it clean” or “play nice”. If there has been tit-for-tat, I might let it go. More serious name-calling and offensive comments are snipped. Some obvious words will automatically cause a comment to be suspended for moderation. The system isn’t perfect, but I haven’t come across a fairer site. Of course we don’t approach ‘moderation’ in the way you did at Wikipedia! – Mod]
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WC I believe those comments were made out of frustration with your failure to complete the scientific debate discussed at the time, which BTW was allowed to occur by the mods and Joanne in the expectation that you could continue to provide evidence of any claims at the time, resorting to a link to a site where others agree with you is not explaining yourself, even I know that.
Also consider if a CAGW skeptic would even get a start on a warmist blog let alone a chance to show and explain evidence to back their claims, I agree insults don’t help debate but if the debate just deteriorates to contradictions then nerves will be frayed and frustration will be vented in it’s many forms.
Think of it like this, these insults you complain of would be far worse and given almost instantly to a skeptic before any science was even suggested on say Desmog or Crikey, compared to them the people here are bloody saints.
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William, given that you call us deniers, admit it’s a political label, and not a scientific one, you are your own recursive pot-kettle-black. You allow people to use it like a carpet in comments on your blog. Touche?
FWIW though, I agree Moronic troll etc is namecalling, and would prefer if commenters here did less. I promise moderation here will be comprehensive and 100% perfect when we get our first paid subscriber. Perhaps you’d like to?
Despite your propensity to allow namecalling on your site, I’ve snipped and withheld quite a lot of the worst unsubstantiated comments aimed at you, and asked commenters to give reasons for insults rather than just doing “drive by namecalling”.
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> you call us deniers
You’ve angled for me to do that, but I’ve resisted. See our previous conversation. So no, I haven’t.
> recursive pot-kettle-black
You’re the one writing blog posts decrying “Namecalling is a tool to stop debate”. If you want to be non-hypocritical, you need to moderate those who do it on your site. You know exactly who they are; they’re the same ones every time.
> your propensity to allow namecalling on your site
There’s nothing on my site even vaguely as bad as the worst stuff here.
> would prefer if commenters here did less
Yeah, but are you actually going to call them out? Those comments are still there. If preferences were horses then beggars would ride.
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If I may be so bold, I recommend we should at least consider the differences between “good-guy” name-calling and “bad-guy” name-calling. Not that name-calling can ever be justified, of course.
Name-calling has always been an agit-prop specialty of the hive, as we all know, used to promote its various and incessant plots, intrigues, and cull-crazy dystopias, albeit with limited effectiveness due to a lack of imagination and panache in hive-practice. That last, attributable to the top-down, collectivist, brutally enforced conformity the hive ham-handedly imposes on its apparatchik-grade, Gaia-fodder good-comrades–a conformity that regards the slightest show of intellectual originality as a grave insult and threat to the hive’s “narrative”-compliant, brainwashed-dork “normative-ideal” of lefty, useful-tool comportment. In other words, the hive’s name-calling is invariably just the sort of trite, party-line, conditioned-reflex gas-baggery you’d expect from a hive-bot dullard on auto-pilot.
In contrast, name-calling by freedom-lovers promotes honest, transparent, disinterested, democratic, principled governance of our nations by laws, not men; with justice dispensed even-handedly without fear or favor; and with a public servant ethic that grants employment and advancement exclusively to the meritorious, not well-connected hive-parasites, and that regards the general welfare of our nations as the proper end-product of government service. And since freedom-lovers are free from the hive’s P.C.-policed cant-templates, their name-calling is, consequentially, open to flourishes of color, wit, novelty, and individuality of the sort that entertains and engages the listener, even as it kicks hive-butt!
Again, I’d never advocate or condone name-calling, by anyone, most especially by me, myself, moi, and I, but the differences in good-guys’ and bad-guys’ name-calling are noted.
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w.c.:
‘There’s nothing on my site even vaguely as bad as the worst stuff here’
–
Evidence that the very worst ad-hommers are stoat-friendly.
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When you have a load of sycophantic wannabe followers sucking-up to each other on same site, of course the language between them is moderate.
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“William Connolley”,
Here is the latest from your god al gore……..
Gore blames Syria on global warming:-
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/gore_blames_syria_on_global_warming/
Any individual who follows this global warming religion is mentally retarded !!!
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WC,
You wrote:
“There’s nothing on my site even vaguely as bad as the worst stuff here.”
Do you have a list of the worst stuff here for us to lament?
Could your claimed comparative purity be because the Mods here are less stringent than I guess just you alone on your low traffic site?
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“There’s nothing on my site even vaguely as bad as the worst stuff here.”
Actually there isn’t much on your site that interests very many people at all. This is evidenced by your site’s low volume of traffick.
You come here because you can get your message read as it isn’t happening at your site. At least Jo allows you to post here.
Others, aren’t so kind, are they? In fact, you’re comments were left in moderation by another regular commenter at this site who also has his own site. How did it feel to be treated as you have treated others?
Tolkien’s character Grima Wormtongue can’t hold a candle to you.
“…anyone to edit it, provided they can back up what they say with reliable sources.”
You didn’t “edit.” You altered and censored in a propaganda campaign that would have made the Soviets blush!
Have you no shame?
You are someone that has demonstrated an unethical and unflinching belief that the end justifies the means.
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William,
I feel bound to point out that you have some notoriety on the web, gained in part by forcing your personal views on others, contrary to what they honestly and professionally believed to be true. Not only that, you did it in a way that brooked no discussion or argument. In short you acted in a boorish, arrogant and insulting way, and in so doing, brought all of Wikipedia into disrepute, changing it from being seen as a useful source of information, to one of dubious quality.
People were offended by that. People remember. And people no longer trust you, or what you say. Some people go so far as to think that you pollute whatever forum you happen to visit.
So when you come here, being arrogant, boorish, insulting, and failing to respect others, they remember, and treat you accordingly.
The Web does not forget. You have a stigma that you will carry for the rest of your life. The only hope you have, is to show some humility, but nobody is placing bets that you will succeed.
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You have many paid subscribers, because “we like it just the way it is”!
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Yeah William be nice to people.Why denigrate for having a dissimilar view.Any doubts?
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Learn to read William, that was directed at Mattb.
You do not come here for rational debate, but as a TROLL. Expect to be treated as one.
That’s the difference.
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> that was directed at
I made no assertion that it was directed at me. I was pointing out that our hostess permits, and does not redact, comments here that manifestly violate the principles she asserts she believes in.
> as a TROLL. Expect to be treated as one
And that, too, is a comment of the type “Namecalling is a tool to stop debate”. But our hostess gives some of her commentators a free pass for rudeness, it appears.
[I didn’t assume your examples were directed at you William. We understand your point, do not claim our moderating is perfect, but given the volume of comments if your examples are the worst you can come up with, even if admittedly undesirable, we aren’t doing too bad. You and all readers are welcome to hit the ‘report this’ tag if you are keen to highlight site rule contraventions. You aren’t aware of the number of comments which have been moderated so your comment “our hostess gives some of her commentators a free pass for rudeness” has no basis – though I note you wisely added “it appears” at the end. – Mod]
[I would also add that since 20 Jan 2014 there are well over 200 comments posted by you so you have certainly been given a fair go. There wouldn’t be a ‘warmist’ site which would deal so fairly with a ‘skeptic’. So pointing out some minor inadequacies in moderation seems fairly petty. – Mod]
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> I didn’t assume your examples were directed at you William
My comment was addressed to B, who clearly had made that mistake.
> the worst you can come up wit
Oh, there’s far more. But I think the point is made now.
> There wouldn’t be a ‘warmist’ site which would deal so fairly with a ‘skeptic’
Sez you, with a total absence of evidence.
> minor inadequacies in moderation
Nemo iudex in causa sua.
(Do you have a counterpoint to make against the post itself?) CTS
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Name even one?
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The silence is deafening …
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White noise… tinnitus..
That is what he does.
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Well, this does potentially pose an interesting test. If everyone here can post freely on WC’s site, we’d improve his traffic and, in essence, generate another skeptic position website. If everyone were not allowed to post at WC’s site as freely as WC does here, he’d have his proof.
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Come on if you think you’re hard enough. I warn you though that I spam some stuff;
[nope not a chance] ED
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Seems like someone saw your true nature.. (which you carry front and centre wherever you go)
Get over it.
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w.c.:
‘. I warn you though that I spam some stuff;….[snip] you for example.’
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How very unskeptical of you!
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Malwarebytes claims it is a malware site. I trust Malwarebytes.
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Tu quoque?
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William Connolley, June 21 @ 5:35am;
> There wouldn’t be a ‘warmist’ site which would deal so fairly with a ‘skeptic’
Sez you, with a total absence of evidence.
William, I posted 2 comments on your blog a couple of weeks ago (first time). Both comments were in moderation for nearly a day……..both comments have vanished, disappeared, goooooone! No one ever saw them. Apart from you.
Hypocrite.
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No-one called “BruceC” has posted comments on my blog (http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/), ever. Tell me which post you mean and I’ll double check.
> Apart from you
Nope, I’ve definitely never seen them. If your comments get stuck in moderation (these didn’t) then its best to mail me: wmconnolley (at) gmail.com.
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I sincerely apologise William, it wasn’t you. However, it was your room-mate over at ScienceBlogs Greg Laden.
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Because you pencil whipped them into oblivion!
What a slimy hypocrite.
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Your father is a window dresser and your mother smells of elderberries!
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But WC you are a troll. You’ve come on here to disrupt, to make unfounded and unsupported allegations, and to promote your own blog and narrow world views. If you’ve got scientific evidence to refute anyone’s arguments on here, or if you’ve actaully got anything to add to the general debate, then please post it. Otherwise I’d merely say to everyone, “Don’t feed the troll!”
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“> Why would anyone in their right mind ever take your advice ? The road to abject failure in life.”
Hey, you were the one trying to lord it over others with your egotistical arrogance.
And please, stop the “butter wouldn’t melt in my mouth”, façade….
…….You know you are constantly trying to get up people’s noses, that’s your whole reason for being here.
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Connolley wants to be a Mod?
His proven method would eliminate all skeptical comments.
Really funny to see the fauxrage William. Ha ha I sense your pain I weep for you…….
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You select this as an example:
Why?
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Well William, while “Billy did it first” is unlikely to be an adequate defense when a mother sees her son punch his younger sibling ……
I foolishly followed a link to your recent post about David’s work here. Pot/kettle is an insufficient comparison. William, after reading your post and the comment thread, I would almost describe it as a wrought iron factory.
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Yes, clean up your act. I am tired of your petty insults.
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With due respect William, people are only responding to your belligerence. If you conducted yourself like Nick Stokes you may earn some respect.
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How can you earn something when you do not have a clue of how social graces work. When you look down on others and think that you are infallible, then you see the problem…it’s everybody else by WC standards.
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Yes, William,
Moderation is to be admired, censorship to be abhored.
You could learn a lot from this site if your goal wasn’t merely to attract attention to your own.
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Many warmist commentators simply cannot imagine that they may be wrong on the science. Therefore they think it must be a communication problem. Moreover in spite of the fact that the MSM and late- night entertainers in the US are almost all propagandists for the alarmist viewpoint the true believers even blame the media for sowing uncertainty if they very occasionally allow any sort of opposing view to be heard.
However even the Guardian’s Monbiot is wrestling with problem – he thinks a different psychological approach will help his cause.
Here is my comment on his recent piece headed
“Saving the world should be based on promise, not fear
For 30 years I banged on about threats. But research shows we must to be true to ourselves – and to the wonder in nature”
Does this portend a gentler, kinder tone to the discussion.?
My comment:
“George For years you have been motivated by the IPCCs predictions of climate catastrophe and the feeling of self righteousness created by feeling that you are trying to save nature from the evil oil companies etc.
You have difficulty in even imagining that you might be wrong in your basic assumption that the IPCC science is correct so that obviously the problem must be in how you are communicating your message to the benighted or that they are only motivated by economic self interest as against your virtuous concern for the general good.
You should at least entertain the possibility that those who disagree with you have as much concern for the environment as you do but simply have come to the conclusion that the IPCC science is flawed to the point of fraudulence and provides no basis for future policy. Do your self a favour and read carefully through the post at
http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com/2013/10/commonsense-climate-science-and.html
and then several of the other posts at
http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com
Doesn’t the fact that there has now been no net warming for 16 years at least give you some slight concern re your basic beliefs ? Enough to go back to the basic data for another look?”
I do commend George for at least not moderating out my comment- is this a sign of the possibility of rational discussion at the Guardian? Probably not- his Nutticelli friend almost always deletes any comments which I or others post referring to the actual data.
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To be fair to George he was the only one among his philosophical and political peers to be deeply disturbed by the implications of the Climategate emails at the time.
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We had a similar problem with the previous Labor Governments (Rudd/Gillard/Rudd), they fretted and worried that their message on almost any topic was not getting through, that they were slipping in the polls and people were obviously not getting the message. The conclusion they kept drawing was that the message had not been properly sold or that the public were not sophisticated enough (meaning stupid) to understand the value in the message.
At no time did they ever consider that people did not like the message or policy, it was always the sales pitch or the people who were at fault.
Sometimes it takes a while but eventually when the hype is seen through by Joe Average then these movements just have to fail.
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Dr. Page, I am intrigued by your comment and thinking about it prompted me to devise a rival, half-baked theory of my very own, for what it’s worth.
In that regard, let me offer an “Einstein” knock-off thought experiment with you in the leading role (presumptuous, I know):
-Suppose you were in a conversation with some do-gooder, anti-smoking hive-zealot and, while in the course of agreeing with your interlocutor on the health hazards of second-hand smoke, you were to pull out an evil-smelling stogie, fire that booger up, and begin to blow smoke rings into your fellow conversationalist’s face?
-Can we not reasonably think that the good-comrade tobacco-phobe, on the receiving end of your smoke rings, would then erupt in “Second-Hand Smoke Rage”, demanding you extinguish your Havana-wannabe while denouncing you as a hypocrite and fool for smoking while spouting anti-smoking sentiments? I think we can, because when it comes to smoking your standard-issue hive-flake truly believes in the health risks of smoking and so practices the anti-smoking message he preaches and sets the anti-smoking example.
Contrast the above thought-experiment, then, with a similar one, again starring yourself. But, this time, the thought-experiment involves so-called carbon-“pollution” as opposed to smoking:
-In the thought-scape of this second experiment, you have magically become Al Gore or the heir to a certain throne or a certain money-bags big-shot who outranks a certain leader of a certain free world (I’ll pause for a moment so you can get into character) and you are addressing the same guy, above, who was so dead-set, in word and deed, against smoking. And you both are at some boondoggle eco-confab, to which the event’s attendees have all traveled in CO2-spewing jet airplanes, even though the gab-fest could have been easily held as a carbon-free video-conference. And so there’s the two of you, now, marinating in soul-mate good-vibes as your pheromone exchange finds common ground in the evils of demon-carbon and the absolute necessity of reducing humanity’s carbon foot-print, here and now, for the sake of the kids and the polar bears and all that good stuff.
-You, then, liking the cut of this Gaia-freak’s jib, offer the lucky stiff a chance to “join the team” and enjoy unfettered use of your high-carbon mansions and castles; your numerous, bullet-proof limousines; your private-jet fleet; and a jet-set life style filled with wondrous, carbon-piggie troughs, perks, and gravy-trains. So does this invitation provoke “Climate Rage” in our anti-carbon crusader? Does it prompt a denunciation of you as a brazen hypocrite and a carbon-addict despoiler of our precious planet’s fragile, delicate atmosphere? Not likely. Rather, your proto-flunky’s response is most likely to be such, that it leaves your scary-dude body guards struggling to fend off his repeated, frantic attempts to kiss your rump in obsequious gratitude for your invite. Right?
-So why the difference in the responses to tobacco and carbon? Well, here’s how my well-stropped razor, left to me in Mr. Occam’s will, slices and dices the matter. The “greens”, in their hearts of hearts know this whole climate-change, scare-mongering business is a crock and their in-your-face, two-faced carbon-“sins” do no real harm. And that’s also why our “betters”, who preach the carbon-tax true-faith, don’t employ the one “communication strategy” that would truly realize the success of their enviro-scams–LEADERSHIP FROM THE FRONT AND BY PERSONAL EXAMPLE!!!PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH!!!!
Voila! That’s my little theory! And you were just great, Dr. Page, in your roles–thanks and congratulations! And, oh by the way, our Philosopher Kings’ and Queens’ swinish trough-manners suck!
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
Pointman
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Earthlings are more than half way there!
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Just to confuse everyone I’ve posted the new post under this one. I was afraid the New Part IV would push this little thread way down.
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And thus proving how correct you are on the deterioration of scientific debate in this field Jo.
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Jo? Am I the only paying attention here? Isn’t it Part VI below? Just sayin’.
You’re all probably too distracted by the wee-Willy-rhymes-with-banker to notice.
🙂
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No FijiDave; I noticed straightway but assumed it would be corrected ‘ere long.
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“In 1987, the Cold War was starting to warm up, but so was the Earth. The Berlin Wall was starting to come down, but nascent political and ideological threats were emerging. Traditional academic disciplines were searching for new language, tools, and answers to interdisciplinary problems. The concept of sustainability was just being introduced, but there was a growing appreciation that problems of the environment, economy, and society were intricately linked.
This idea drove us to create the Pacific Institute. We believed that global problems and effective solutions in the 21st century would require innovative ways of thinking, seeing, and doing. “
Ask yourself what “nascent political and ideological threats were emerging” and why indeed “Traditional academic disciplines were searching for new language, tools, and answers to interdisciplinary problems.” Just what were these “ new languages, tools and answers” and I’ll suggest most strongly to you they were all the beginnings of post-normal science and its challenge to “traditional academic disciplines.” I’ll leave you to ponder why and just who that speaker is.
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Post normal is the same as post Rational,
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I too have found that a sure way to upset some is to propose doubt about the issue.Normal people suddenly go red and start frothing at the mouth;others take on a catatonic stare.It’s a no-go area for some people.If some folk can barely contain their rage it bodes no good for further discussion even if the topic is changed.Very strange and never before encountered.
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When this happened to me, the person in question got mad. He said his mind is made up and that no data or anything else could change his mind. Our relationship is in tact, but probaly only because this person is part of the family and was my guest. I didn’t push it further.
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Read Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow to understand what’s going on in the minds of enraged warmists. System I kicks in fast and furiously so they don’t get eaten by the tiger lurking in the bush. There is no time for rational evaluation when you’re scared. And don’t ignore the impact of framing. When you’ve been indoctrinated with the CAGW meme for so long, it’s very difficult to see anything else as possible.
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ouberva:
Perhaps you would be kind enough to tell us all what “post-normal science” is supposed to mean. Most of us skeptics regard tbeing hose who support CAGW as hooked on what can only be described as abnormal science. Being as I am an engineer/scientist/mathmatician my feeing is that science — when properly ursued – does not need anthing “post-normal” and abnormal science should be avoided like the plague that it is.
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I would just like to see a significant correlation, say about r squared = o.9+, for global temperature and levels of atmospheric CO2; without this any scientist would have to be a denier, and any carbon tax a lot of hot air.
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Why 0.9? CO2 isn’t the only influence on temperature. It isn’t even the only manmade influence.
There will never be a linear or 1-1 correlation between atmospheric CO2 levels and temperature, especially in the beginning of climate change, like now, where the CO2 signal is still relatively small. This is a problem that’s going to last for millennia, whereas we mere humans focus on months and years.
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Please show any CO2 signal, except the cooling one in the stratosphere!
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There are several indications of CO2’s influence, like a cooler stratosphere, more warming at night than in the daytime, measurements that show less outgoing IR at the top of the atmosphere at the wavelengths where CO2 absorbs, and more.
If you don’t know these, you clearly aren’t interested in knowing them, because they have been written about extensively for decades.
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more warming at night than in the daytime
Do you think that other greenhouse gas in the form of water vapor might have something to do with that?
measurements that show less outgoing IR at the top of the atmosphere at the wavelengths where CO2 absorbs
So CO2 absorbs but doesn’t emit? Or emits selectively? Could you explain how that is done? I see a money making opportunity here.
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Of course all GHGs create the enhanced greenhouse effect. But water vapor is a feedback, not a forcing — it’s only increasing because the lower atmosphere is getting warmer.
CO2 absorbs, and it emits. But some of the emission is down, instead of up.
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Prove that David Appell
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David Appell,
So the predominant water vapour GHG effect is you say a feedback and not a forcing. Putting aside the semantics, would you care to confirm whether H2O feedback is positive or negative?
The great prophet Kevin Trenberth claims (within his IPCC collegiate) that the greatest HEAT loss from the surface is via evapotranspiration. Do you dispute that?
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The proof is the Clausius-Claperyon equation.
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So the predominant water vapour GHG effect is you say a feedback and not a forcing.
Atmospheric water vapor, of course, is a climate forcing. But the amount of water vapor only changes when the temperature changes — the air can only hold so much water vapor, per the Clausius-Claperyon equation. Unlike CO2, we could never pump more water vapor into the atmosphere, because it would rain out.
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David Appell (here after DA standing for DumbAss) why didn’t you apologize for stating at this post: http://joannenova.com.au/2014/06/climate-rage-we-absolutely-cannot-have-a-rational-conversation/#comment-1491421
Now here you are saying:
Majorly confused aren’t you?
Say you’re sorry! Realize that you are among people that have been around this subject for awhile and won’t be fooled by lightweight comments.
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❝ whereas we mere humans focus on months and years. ❞
Who is this “we‘ you speak of, Kemo sabe?
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I’ll settle for a significant non-linear regression as well which includes other parameters, but could one please explain what these other drivers are, and perhaps we can design a tax for these as well. I would have thought that solar output was pretty important in heating the earth, but we do have an internal heat source as well which reminds us from time to time as Krakatoa did.
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At the surface, the flux of internal heat from the Earth is small — its average over the entire surface area is only about 80 milliwatts per square meter.
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Well David if you believe in science – you do believe don’t you – the response is logarithmic. Which is to say the worst has already been done. Unless the Chinese keep going at it at the current rate.
Say don’t you think a war with them is advisable – assuming they don’t intend to stop their industrialization plans.
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Our emissions are increasing exponentially, so the forcing is increasing linearly. And the warming allows more water vapor in the air, which also absorbs. So by no means has the worst already happened.
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Funny David Appell, prove that “the worst is still to come”. Meanwhile, explain to William Connolley why your hint of catastrophic effects are a skeptical invention.
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Where did I hint at “catastrophic” effects?
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Just say what you think the “worst” is .
You have made it clear that you can provide no scientific basis for it, but we knew that.
Just say what the ‘worst” is , and then we can all have a little giggle. Poor David.!
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“Worst” isn’t a scientific term — it depends on individual and societal values.
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Challenge(Mark D.): prove that “the worst is still to come”.
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Response(David Appell):”Where did I hint at “catastrophic” effects?”
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Communicating the ‘climate change message’ continues to be a problem.
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Where did I use the word “catastrophic?”
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David Appell:
‘Where did I use the word “catastrophic?”’
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26.1.4.1.1
David Appell
‘Where did I hint at “catastrophic” effects?’
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Senior moment?
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Except that water vapour is declining !
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No, water vapor is increasing:
“Increase in Atmospheric Moisture Tied to Human Activities”
https://www-pls.llnl.gov/?url=science_and_technology-earth_sciences-moisture
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The data of CO2 from Hawaii looks pretty linear to me, certainly not exponential, photosynthesis may have something to do with it.
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All exponential curves look linear if you focus in on a small portion of the graph — it’s the second term in the Taylor expansion.
It’s easy to verify that an exponential fit is the better one over a linear fit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve#mediaviewer/File:Mauna_Loa_Carbon_Dioxide_Apr2013.svg
Any function that increases by some constant percentage every year is exponential. Like a savings account.
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Another own goal by the clown that claims CO2 is not a trace gas.
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Emissions are increasing linearly, and since the effect of co2 decreases logarithmically and we have reached the essentially flat part of that graph then it is hardly surprising temperatures are not going anywhere. Even if co2 had a significant effect before, clearly it is no longer a player and so the cooling we can expect in the coming years from the low current solar cycle and the next (expected to be) much lower solar cycle is likely to be the dominant factor. Add in the PDO went negative about 6 years ago and AMO going negative in about 6 years, also the reduced UV and reduced magnetic fields of both the Sun and the Earth.
In the face of this if Davvid Appell is so confident of warming in the coming years tghen perhps he should invest in that and place a long term bet at his local bookies.
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CO2 emissions are increasing at about 2-3%/yr. That’s exponential.
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Currently at approx. 0.04% of atmosphere.
Increments decline in warming value logarithmically.
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“CO2 emissions are increasing at about 2-3%/yr. That’s exponential.”
GOOD, the more the better.
800+ is a good aiming point..
Unfortunately it is unlikely to ever get there 🙁
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… and the plants are just loving it!
Don’t worry, the satellites show the concentrations of CO2 are NOT over the human industrial and built up areas but over places such as the Amazon rain forest and even over the southern Indian ocean. Hmmm. Must be being emitted from the ocean. Well, there goes the myth of ocean acidification. If the oceans are emitting, they can’t be absorbing.
Have you ever been to the natural history museums?
Looked at those huge dinosaur skeletons?
Thought about how or why they evolved to grow so large?
Answer: CO2 at 2000 – 4000 ppm!
Biggest land animal now is the mere smear pygmy of the elephant.
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No, that is linear. So you do not know that CO2 is a trace gas, and now admit you have no clue what exponential is (hint: think EXPONENT).
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Our emissions are increasing roughly linearly, or actually according to a very shallow quadratic, not exponentially at all. One must also take into account that biological uptake is proportional to emission but lagged by a year or so. Please David don’t make stuff up.
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CO2 is NOT increasing exponentially. You have a disconnect between your models and reality.
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With mankind’s emissions of CO2 forming about 4% of the total emissions of CO2 per year, then increases of our emissions of 2-3% per year are going to have an effect we can’t even measure.
3% of 4% = 0.0012%. Like it’s … microscopic. Wow. What enormous-run-round-in-circles-flapping-arms-squawking-like-a-chicken-in-a-panic amounts. Sheesh.
That’s one thing I do find irritating: a complete lack of the concept of orders of magnitude.
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If you want tolerance and humility, and a willingness to defer to the evidence and gradual process of scientific discovery, you will find it among those who have no desire to manage the world from the top down.
You’re projecting. Some people who accept AGW science want to manage the world “from the top down,” just as some stamp collectors do. But most want to simply solve this serious problem in the most judicious and efficient way possible, because they too value freedom and are wary of government power.
If the proposed solutions don’t jive with your ideology, then propose solutions that do, instead of denying the problem exists. By declining to be part of the solution, you will get stuck with the solutions of those who have a different ideology, and they may not be solutions you agree with politically.
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Dave, I just love your analogy to stamp collecting. What next, will you compare AGW alarmists with with people who breed parakeets?
You warmists will first have to establish that a problem exists. You haven’t done a very good job of it so far.
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Many national academies of science disagree with you. What do you know that they do not?
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I know that I don’t know; they don’t. 🙂
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They know what the science shows. That’s the whole point of doing science — to know things. It’s been extraordinarily successful at that.
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David Appell:
“That’s the whole point of doing science — to know things. It’s been extraordinarily successful at that.’
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Does this mean that the GCMs are not science?
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(…..it’s consensus/evasion/obfuscation time again…….)
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Does this mean that the GCMs are not science?
They’re science, just like any calculation is science — solutions to the PDEs that describe the underlying physics.
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David Appell:
‘They’re science, just like any calculation is science…’
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Wrong. An incorrect calculation may not contribute to science unless it is acknowledged as such.
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Yep that’s the only useful thing about wrong science ; the fact that it can be falsified. And that the falsification is acknowledged.
Now , where were we . . .? 🙂
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What is the falsification?
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David Appell:
‘What is the falsification?”
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Where do you think it should be applied, in respect of farmerbraun’s generalised statement?
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“What is the falsification?”
predictions that are wildly at odds with reality..
ie most GCM’s
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They’re science, just like any calculation is science — solutions to the PDEs that describe the underlying physics.
Only if all the coefficients are know to sufficient accuracy.
Things like – what is the sign of the cloud parameter – and why are clouds parametrized and not modeled?
Such faith in something where there are known holes. Many known (and probably some unknown) holes.
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There isn’t sufficient computing power to model clouds directly — too many length scales involved. So they’re parametrized.
Can you do better? Show how, and you’ll be world famous this time next year.
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‘Can you do better? Show how, and you’ll be world famous this time next year.’
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100 yrs for climate models!
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Parametrized = We guessed.
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Which only reveals that you do not know the meaning of “science”.
Let me give you a hint: They are heavily manipulated, guesswork statistics (not science).
Now, be a good boy and please take the time to Google “Feynman” who will very quickly teach you the meaning of “science”.
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Mark D.
June 23, 2014 at 1:23 am
That was exactly my point. I was hoping he knew the company line (which happens to be true) on that question. And it is not just computing power. We don’t know what all the details are to a sufficient degree of accuracy. And sometimes we are ignorant of our ignorance.
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Yes MSimon, if climate scientists were to start every proclamation with: “At our present level of ignorance…..”
we’d all be better off.
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They know what the science shows.
Science doesn’t show anything.
Evidence Shows.
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What do I know that they do not? Probably nothing. The difference is that I am willing to recognize the facts, and the warmists have a strong incentive to keep up their charade. Many of them such as Lonnie Thompson at Ohio State and Michael Mann at Penn State have brought in millions in research funding. If they came clean and admitted there is little or no evidence that burning fossil fuels is affecting the climate, that gravy train would dry up very quickly. And some of these gentlemen might even find themselves under criminal prosecution for fraud. With the notable exception of Judith Curry, I expect very few of the warmists will ever admit their theories are flawed.
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Curry has quite a number of flawed theories, the most obvious being her silly stadium wave. But I can’t recall her ever admitting that any of her theories are flawed. Could you provide a reference?
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http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/05/21/chatting-with-a-climate-heretic-climatologist-dr-judith-curry-reverses-belief-in-agw-climategate-triggered-a-massive-re-examination-of-my-support-of-the-ipcc-and-made-me-look-at-the-science/
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Where do you get off saying someone has a flawed theory !!
The only place you find any contrary yabber about the stadium wave is rabid alarmista places like tamino, SkS, andthereisnophysics.. etc etc
That is a pretty good indication that she could be on the right path.
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And you whine to Jo about the ad hominem attacks of others?
Your hypocrisy knows no bounds!
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Errm, that’s not an ad-hom. Its a criticism of her work. Admittedly, not a very informative criticism. http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2013/10/17/wyatt-and-curry-part-ii-not-waving-but-drowning/ if you want more details (yes yes I know: you don’t). To quote: “Where’s the meat? If you look through the paper to find the core substance, you won’t. There are layers of mush and piles of words but precious little hard matter. Figure 12 is about the closest they come to a mechanism, but its just a pile of words arranged in a picture; there’s no maths here.”
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STILL trying to get someone , ANYONE to visit your site [snip]
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[SNIP]
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What you STILL don’t seem to comprehend is that the absolute stupidity of your time corrupting Wikipedia, has left you as a empty space in any debate about anything.
That is the life you have made for yourself.
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is not a technical or scientific term. It was an ad hominem. You are very disingenuous.
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It is a childish insult of her work, not a criticism. Better learn what you are talking about. You demonstrated your ignorance with your butchering of Wiki.
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But there isn’t “little or no evidence that burning fossil fuels is affecting the climate” — there is a lot of evidence. That is, after all, why so many scientists and their academies accept AGW — the evidence leads them to that conclusion.
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Arguments from authority will get you nowhere here. Many members of these so-called academies do not agree with the statement the paid invested top-brass put out.
One large society recently had to recant its position due to member pressure..
I suspect many others will start to follow, once the global temperature starts dropping over the next several years.
The DIVERGENCE between the models that the whole scam is built around, and reality will become untenable.
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Isn’t it curious that the temperature is always *about* to start dropping? How long have we heard that now?
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Since the start of the century.
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How long have we heard that the temperature is rising at “unprecedented” rates? Really David you aren’t very good at this are you? Your post is useless filler.
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Go easy on him Mark.
He has to learn somewhere, and at least he has an audience here that will point out his more glaring errors.
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Isn’t it curious that the temperature is always *about* to fry us? (never mind no warming, for how long?)
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If warming stopped at the turn of the century, why is ice still melting and the ocean still rising?
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Are you really that thick? Clearly you are no Bananabender.
I encourage you to think about it.
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I’ll ask again: if warming stopped at the turn of the century, why is ice still melting and the ocean still rising?
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And I will ask you again to think about it. If you cannot find an answer, please let me know and I will be more than happy to show you the insignificance of your ignorance.
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Yes but we have got rid of a lot of that yucky particulate carbon-at least in the west so prove to me that this recently proscribed odourless trace gas is going to make this planet fry.
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You don’t get it eh?
There are a lot of other things , both known and possible unknowns, that could be causing what you claim is a deviation from “normal’ climate.
Unless and until ALL of those possible other causes have been firmly ruled out, we are left with mere conjecture that CO2 from fossil fuel-burning is the cause.
Of course , to be even bothered , in the first place you need to have shown that there was or is a deviation from “normal” climate. But for the sake of argument only , let us say that you shown that (quite how you would do it is another topic).
Surely you must acknowledge this ; this is how we gain scientific knowledge.
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What other things could be causing the warming, that haven’t been eliminated.
CO2’s warming is basic physics. The Earth gives off infared radiation, and CO2 absorbs some of it. Then it emits IR in a random direction, and some of that goes downward or sideways.
That’s your global warming. All based on very basic science. It would be surprising if CO2 DIDN’T cause warming.
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“What other things could be causing the warming, that haven’t been eliminated.?”
Hey you’re getting it ; the scientific method.
The answer to your question is ; we don’t know. There is no unified theory of climate which explains how it all works.
That is why it is currently impossible to show what fraction of any putative warming can be attributed to any single factor ; because we don’t know all the factors , so we cannot carry out the process of elimination.
Stick around David . You are making great progress.
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Baloney. Science knows what the natural factors are, and there is no evidence of some big natural factor that hasn’t been detected. Mysticism won’t serve here.
Science also knows the CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and that more of it will cause warming.
These are all known from, of course, the scientic method.
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Please enlighten us with the experimental science which shows this, David.
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If you don’t know the experimental evidence by now, which has been written about widely, you clearly haven’t been interested in trying to find out.
That’s why “Where’s the evidence” games about basic science are meaningless.
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“Science knows what the natural factors are, ” (that control climate)
OK , leaving aside the fact that science is a method , not a person, where is this model of climate which is known to accurately describe everything that we observe?
It’s puzzling that I have never seen it.
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Yes, science does know.. and those without blinkers can see what’s coming.
If the real scientists prove to be correct, and we are heading into a significantly cooler period.
Will you put up your hand and apologise for the decimation of power supply systems world wide.
As millions of people die from the cold, will you be stand up to counted as one of the ones to blame?
Or will you run and hide?
‘Warm’ would mean PROSPERITY.
‘COLD’ would mean DESPERATION.
We so-called sceptics have not caused any harm, except to maybe slow down the rampant implementation of ineffective, inefficient, unreliable non-alternative energy supplies, and if the climate pseudo-scientists are right, and the CO2 does force the temperature up a fraction of a degree, I would certainly be more pleased at that, than the alternative.
The alarmista, on the other harm have caused immense harm, and waste of funds that SHOULD have been spent elsewhere on helping under developed countries.
A despicable tragedy. !
I would actually prefer the climate to warm slightly, especially as China, India etc are not going to curtail their burning of fossil fuels, so the CO2 supply for world agriculture is guaranteed.
The only effect of carbon taxes etc in developed countries will be to destroy their own economies. If that is the aim, then so be it.
I’m in Sydney, so its not going to get too cold, and Australia is linked to China, India as a raw materials supplier. Australia will survive.
If you are in the UK or Europe, north part of USA, or other northern areas of the world….. good luck to you. 🙂
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Energy poverty, old age, freezing winters, unstable irregular power (lucky you are on coal power, hey, David).
This is a recipe for major increases in death rates in UK, northern Europe, northern USA…
Is this REALLY what they want ???
Is this the ultimate aim ???
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Nonsense. We would just like you to backup what you say.
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David Appell,
It is not clear to me but I guess you were replying to James McCown when you asserted:
“Many national academies of science disagree with you. What do you know that they do not?”
Did you Mr Appell know that there have been strong grumblings in the ranks of such academies that members were misrepresented of their opinions by their boards?
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Who’s grumbing? And what does that prove — someone is always grumbling somewhere.
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Possibly that some people want to abandon the scientific method. While others prefer to keep it.
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Too subtle I think farmerbraun.
Bob_FJ is hinting at the fact that many of the science and geological societies who have put out statements of faith in Global Warming, did not do so with the consent of agreement of the society members. The members disagree with these statements, and I know of at least one geological society who has rescinded their CAGW faith statement.
A statement of society is simply a statement of the management. It doesn’t really say much about the science, but it does say a lot about the management.
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Well for a start I know that a system with a loop gain of 0.95 and time lags cannot be stable!
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bobl
June 22, 2014 at 4:21 pm
Um. I was under the impression that you needed a system gain of >1 for instability. I do admit that without sufficient damping (what is the Bode plot?) the system will tend to ring in response to disturbances.
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Would those be the ones that agree with you that CO2 is not a trace gas? LOL Yea, real high brow there.
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“But most want to simply solve this serious problem”
The only thing with a serious problem are the models predicting a serious problem.
Without the models.. there is no problem to be solved. It does not exist in reality.
The most efficient way of solving the problem would be to dump all the predictions of the climate models… before reality invalidates them even further.
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You don’t need a climate model to know CO2’s effect — studies of past occurrences of climate change show it, with the climate sensitivity as models get.
And if you have a way to calculate the world’s future climate without a model, I (and many others) would love to see it.
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David Appell:
‘You don’t need a climate model to know CO2′s effect’
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However, they can be very useful in overstating it!
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That’s an unscientific statement that is not supported by the facts.
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David Appell:
‘That’s an unscientific statement that is not supported by the facts’
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Perhaps, but it will remain uncontested until you can show HOW it is unscientific and what these ‘facts’ are.
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Blindingly true.
Climate models do not help your case or cause, save perhaps the funding one.
Wonderful. Finally a warmist devotee who admits to the existence of The Roman and Mayan Warm Periods and of course, your favourite that many of you tried to write out of the record, The Medieval Warm Period. In point of fact, the Earth’s historical temperature record bears no convenient relationship to CO2, at least lagging it by up to a 1000 of years.
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I admitted nothing about those periods. The PAGES 2k paper in Nature found no evidence of a global MWP. Nor did Marcott et al, not any other reconstructions.
And even if the MWP *was* global, it would make our current situation worse, not better. Because in addition to greenhouse warming we’d have to worry about an apparently larger chance of warming from natural causes.
CO2’s heat trapping effect is, of course, immediate.
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“CO2′s heat trapping effect is, of course, immediate.”
RUBBISH !!
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Marcott,Mann etc have been shown to be not very elaborate statistical FABRICATIONS..
WORTHLESS !!!
Just like Wigley said they had to get rid of the 1940’s peak, someone thought they needed to get rid of the RWP and MWP, because of the reams of evidence that they were both warmer than now.
The fact that there was no possible CO2 causality and the climate models could not be fudged to reproduce them, made the MWP and RWP very inconvenient for the alarmistas.. so they hired some hacks to get rid of them.
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More proof needed David! Prove that water vapor won’t “untrap” the heat, IMMEDIATELY! You are starting to annoy
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David Appell,
I see that above you astonishingly support the discredited Marcott et al paper!
Might I suggest that you research the literature on this?
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Bob..
he only looks at rabid alarmist sites… how can he search the literature ?
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David Appell:
‘ Because in addition to greenhouse warming we’d have to worry about an apparently larger chance of warming from natural causes.’
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Stop Press: Warming from natural causes can be subject to quantitative chance.
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David Appell:
‘The PAGES 2k paper in Nature found no evidence of a global MWP. Nor did Marcott et al, not any other reconstructions.’
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What are the names of the reviewers?
Without knowing their identities, we cannot know whether the papers were ‘peer reviewed’ or ‘pal reviewed’ or both.
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The hockey stick has been confirmed many times, including by different mathematical methods.
It’s not really a surprising result, either, given the superexponential increase in CO2, CH4, N2O etc since the middle ages. (The log of a superexponential is exponential.)
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David Appell:
‘The hockey stick has been confirmed many times, including by different mathematical methods.’
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It only needs to be debunked once! (Steve McIntyre)
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That is the nice thing about garbage – you put it in, and you get it out – works the same way every time. I love consistency.
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David Appell, June 21 @ 12:42pm;
CO2′s heat trapping effect is, of course, immediate.
Bollocks WC.
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh154/crocko05/GISP2plusCO2_zpsadd1043d.jpg
There is little (if any) past temperature changes in relation to the past atmospheric CO2 content. Now before you go off saying, “GISP2 is regional, not global”, neither was the Hockey Stick ‘global’.
David Appell, June 22 @ 1:25pm;
It’s not really a surprising result, either, given the super exponential increase in CO2, CH4, N2O etc since the middle ages. (The log of a super exponential is exponential.)
Then please explain to us why Global temperatures have not increased at all this century (14+ years).
David Appell, June 22 @ 1:25pm;
7 years is a very small interval that is in no way representative of climate.
But the warming period between ~1975-1998 (23 years) is certainly long enough to represent man-made climate change via CO2 (according to the experts [sic])…..totally disregarding the ~1910-1945 (35 years) warming period.
Is 133 years long enough? https://suyts.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/image69.png
P.S. Funny how my spell-checker has Appell flagged as an error. Also David, it is super exponential, not superexponential.
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David Appell: On page 120 of Professor M. Carter’s book ‘Climate – the Counter Consensus’ (pub 2010) fig 23 compares an IPCC computer projection with the 2001-2008 cooling trend superimposed. The IPCC graph is from IPCC AR4 report figure 10.26 on p803 of chapter 10 of the working group 1. This graph also appears in the IPCC’s ‘Climate Change 2007 – The Physical Science Basis’.
Lest you question them, I’ve checked Professor Carter’s stated sources. The disparity between the computer fantasy and the real world is striking, to say the least.
Where in the temperature record – say for example the Central England Temperature Record (CET) – do you see any evidence whatsoever that a dangerous warming is occurring? There are no temperatures in the CET which exceed 11 degrees C since the record began in 1659, and there’s nothing here to justify the EU spending a suggested 186 billion Euros until 2020 on ‘combating climate change’. Fiddling about with claimed fraction of a degree changes isn’t a cause for panic.
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7 years is a very small interval that is in no way representative of climate.
It’s looking at noise, not climate.
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.” This graph also appears in the IPCC’s ‘Climate Change 2007 – The Physical Science Basis’.”
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David Appell: Re. your comment that ‘7 years is a very small interval that is in no way representative of climate’ – I was referring to temperatures, not the climate.
Since 1959, CO2 has increased from just over 313 ppm to 391 in 2012. That’s an increase of just over 25%.
Here in the UK, 1959 (when the Mauna Loa readings began) was a hot summer, and the Central England Temperature record (CET) gives the average for that year as 10.48 degrees Centigrade. This is not an unusual temperature in the record – values over ten degrees are seen in the as far back as 1686, the 1700s,the 1800s, and the 1900s, with a cluster of 10 degree readings in the 1990s and early 2000s, which helped to fuel the fears we’ve all heard so much about.
However, in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 values were below 10 degrees. This ties in with the oft commented lack of warming over the last 17 years as seen in data from for example GISS in a graph on their website entitled ‘Monthly Mean Global Surface Temperature’,which shows average temperatures (anomalies) relative to the period 1951 to 1980. A series of oscillating temperature spikes, all falling within a range of 1 degree are all that is seen.
In summary: CO2 has increased by 25% since 1959. The CET average temperature in 1959 was 10.48 degrees C, and at the end of last year it was 9.56 degrees C.
Where is the dangerous warming we’ve heard so much about?
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No you are making noise.. meaningless white noise
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So how do the climate models account for the tens of thousands of submarine vents in the Pacific Ocean, alone? They produce CO2, as well as other gasses. So why is the ocean not becoming acidic from that CO2?
Let’s face it. Climate change is a solution trying to find a problem, and one that can hopefully be sheeted back to the activities of mankind.
You, and a number of other “establishment supporters”, have quite suddenly discovered this blog because we are investigating at top-down approach to Atmospheric Physics, rather than the bottom up approach, centred around carbon dioxide, much beloved by Climate Scientists.
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Man produces about 100-200 times more CO2 than do volcanoes (and that includes undersea volcanoes).
See the article in EOS by T. Gerlach, about 2-3 years ago, on exactly this subject.
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How csn you say that David when we dont know all the volcanoes and vents that exist? oh yes, that’s right, they
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I call bullshit to that statement.
It is accepted by Oceanographic Volcanologists that they can only definitively identify “the major” volcanos, within the range of sonar mapping, and they can only analyse the output at shallower depths than that.
Anything below that point is unknown, but it is reasonably assumed that the intensity of thermal vents will increase, both in number and output, the lower one goes, especially in the Western Pacific.
Now, if you don’t know how many vents might exist, and you don’t know what the mean output of each vent might be, then how can you possibly claim that the total volcanic output is only 0.01 to 0.02 of that put out by man?
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But totally supported by reality. You are not getting this. A model which cannot model reality is almost useless. It just tells you that you are wrong.
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Sorry . Should have included the Appell statement.
David Appell:
‘You don’t need a climate model to know CO2′s effect’
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Bullocky :- “However, they can be very useful in overstating it!”
Appell: “That’s an unscientific statement that is not supported by the facts.”
FB “But totally supported by reality. You are not getting this. A model which cannot model reality is almost useless. It just tells you that you are wrong.
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Models do give reality. They have since Manabe’s early models predicted the right surface temperature and the annual amount of rainfall.
They aren’t perfect — their results have uncertainties. But they don’t need to predict every short-term 0.1 C up or down in order to be useful — not at the rate we’re emitting.
Besides, there look to be problems with the temperature data. (See Cowtan & Way)
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David Appell:
‘Models do give reality”
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Here’s your reality.
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http://notrickszone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/73-climate-models_reality.gif
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Beautiful picture bullocky. But I think this one is a dead horse.
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David A.,
I was wondering if you could tell me what the correct amount of CO2 in the atmosphere should be?
Would it be worth a war to get the Chinese, Indians, etc. to stop them from emitting more CO2? After all those people are attacking us by putting a dangerous gas in the air. Which is to say “how serious are you”?
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There is no “correct” amount.
The US emits far more per capita than the Chinese (2.5 times) or the Indians (11 times).
And the US has put about 28% of the extra CO2 into today’s atmosphere. China only about 10%. India just a few percent.
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And the biosphere says A BIG THANK YOU to the USA, China and India, Germany, for all that luvly CO2 plant food. 🙂
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David Appell:
‘There is no “correct” amount.’
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If there is an ‘incorrect amount’, you should indicate what it is, with proof. Otherwise it’s ‘much ado about nothing’!
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Bullocky and MSimon, you’ll never get them to answer that question. It reminds me of my favorite trap for tax and spend leftists. simply draw a horizontal line with 0% tax on one end and 100% tax on the other. Slide your finger slowly increasing from zero and ask them to tell you to stop when they think the percentage of tax is high enough. Try it some time. Makes their head explode. They hate to argue on exact terms. Beyond that it is a great lesson for bystanders.
I doubt David Appell has ever contemplated such a figure.
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David Appell
June 22, 2014 at 1:31 pm
There is no “correct” amount.
The US emits far more per capita than the Chinese (2.5 times) or the Indians (11 times).
If there is no correct amount how can you say the that CO2 emissions are excessive?
I was unaware that climate responded to per capita CO2. The current theory says it is the absolute amount that matters. And in absolute terms Chinese emissions are well above those of the US.
Is it worth a war to fix that?
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That’s a description of all your statements.
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Certainly the current crop of models have been pretty woeful at it.
In any other branch of science or engineering, they would have been dumped years ago. !!
Also there is zero proof that CO2 causes warming in an open atmosphere.
If you know of a paper that does that, please link to it.
Papers based on climate models, need not apply.
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Harries, J. E., H. E. Brindley, P. J. Sagoo, and R. J. Bantges, 2001: Increases in greenhouse forcing inferred from the outgoing longwave radiation spectra of the Earth in 1970 and 1997.
Nature, 410, 355-357.
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“Inferred” David Is that the best you have? An inference?
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Science is full of inferences.
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As, indeed, is politics.
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And when it comes to Climate Science they are two sides of the same coin.
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“Comparison of spectrally resolved outgoing longwave data between 1970 and present,” J.A. Griggs et al, Proc SPIE 164, 5543 (2004).
“Spectral signatures of climate change in the Earth’s infrared spectrum between 1970 and 2006,” Chen et al, (2007)
“Observed changes in top-of-the-atmosphere radiation and upper-ocean heating consistent within uncertainty,” N.G. Loeb, et al, Nature Geosciences 1/22/12
These papers, and more on this subject, are listed here:
http://agwobserver.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/papers-on-changes-in-olr-due-to-ghgs/
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Chen, Griggs.. did you read this ??
based on a model assumptions and massive data manipulation.
and notice the last word in the third link… Uncertainty !..
ie … ????????????????
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I have noticed a fairly dominant trend with people like David who love to provide us with links to papers they have either never read or did not understand as they try to use them to “prove” whatever argument they are trying to make. Part of that problem may be that the sites they frequent provide them with this material and a ginned up explanation of how to use it to put us in our place which those who then attempt to use said material never bother to verify.
At least you guys are being nicer to him than what he’s used to.
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People like you always cry “data manipulation” when you can’t counter the facts.
Conspiracy theories are always safe, aren’t they — they can’t be disproven. It’s the excuse of last resort.
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Have a reading disorder David? You must since I haven’t mentioned data or manipulation anywhere here. But carry on, every comment you post further establishes what is being said about you as fact. You really are your own worst enemy.
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David Appell:
‘Conspiracy theories are always safe, aren’t they — they can’t be disproven. It’s the excuse of last resort.’
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Accusation = Expiation (a la David Appell)
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(Be careful not to link to Lewandowsky and Cook’s ‘Recursive Fury’ paper)
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Ah, we have him doing the circular references trick – empirical science free zone folks 🙂
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“studies of past occurrences of climate change show it,”
really? Link please.
The ice cores show that CO2 lags temperature, and even when the CO2 concentration is very high, it is not able to maintain that temperature.
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I’m guessing you have some proof that CO2 cause the Holocene Optimum, the Minoan warm , The RWP, the MWP etc etc,
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No, the ice cores show that CO2 and temperature are in a feedback loop, and the loop goes both ways, and has.
Without CO2, the temperature change from a glacial to interglacial period would only be about half as great.
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Higher concentrations of CO2 DO NOT maintain the temperature.
It cannot be a forcing for temperature.
What don’t you understand about feedback ?
Or are you saying that high levels of CO2 causes the temperature to drop ?
What the ice core show is that TEMPERATURE DRIVES CO2 !!
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Hint, bozo.. feedback .. if one gets big.. it causes the other to get big.
CO2 got big.. and temperature dropped….. NOT feedback !!!
(using very basic language so you can understand)
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David Appell @ 27.3.1.3.2
WOT?
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He seems to think that Climate Science has found a feedback loop that goes both ways, but somehow does remains semi-stable – a bit like the New York Subway, would be my guess.
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No they do not. That is just a leap of faith on your part. The ice cores show no feed back loop.
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GISS scientists (and others) have written lots of papers on inferring climate sentivity from paleoclimate. See Hansen’s list of publications at GISS’s site.
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Hansen, J.E., and M. Sato, 2012: Paleoclimate implications for human-made climate change. In Climate Change: Inferences from Paleoclimate and Regional Aspects. A. Berger, F. Mesinger, and D. Šijački, Eds. Springer, 21-48, doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-0973-1_2.
Rohling, E.J. et al, 2012: Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity. Nature, 491, 683-691, doi:10.1038/nature11574.
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And yet the best the IPCC can do for ECS is a wide range of values, with no central estimate possible in the current state of knowledge.
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Yep, they have written a lot of papers. That is what they are paid to do, by their political masters. And they are paid very well, because they are very good at it – writing papers, that is – conducting empirical and reproducible science, not so much.
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The conspiracy slur reply. Well done RW.
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What Gee, you don’t think Hansen is a political activist involved in the political world?
That would be denial.
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no
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No conspiracy Gee Aye. I am simply pointing out that they are just pragmatically doing their job within the mandated policy guidelines, as any public servant is required to do.
Or do you suggest that we have a public service that simply ignores political policy directives, to go off and do its own thing, as it feels like it?
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Gee, apparently denial it is.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/a-brief-summary-of-james-e-hansens-nasa-ethics-file/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/science/james-e-hansen-retiring-from-nasa-to-fight-global-warming.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/18/dr-james-hansens-growing-financial-scandal-now-over-a-million-dollars-of-outside-income/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/science/earth/extreme-heat-is-covering-more-of-the-earth-a-study-says.html
http://joannenova.com.au/2010/01/hanson-barracking-for-lawless-destruction-and-the-end-of-civilization/
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All of which is a way to avoid addressing the research. There is no evidence for RW’s slur in anything written above.
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Gee, Speak with sufficient words so that you accurately frame your conclusion. What “slur” did RW make?
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Gee Aye:
‘The conspiracy slur reply. Well done RW’
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Consensus = Conspiracy !
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Now THAT’S an interesting development!
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Appell said You don’t need a climate model to know CO2′s effect — studies of past occurrences of climate change show it, with the climate sensitivity as models get.
Nonsense. Earth underwent a glaciation at the end of the Ordovicin period which lasted through the subsequent Silurian perriod, during which time co2 never fell below 4000 ppm.
The IPCC style climate models are clearly wrong.
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1) That ice age occurred when the Sun was 4% weaker.
2) There are not good numbers on CO2 from back then. Proxy data are about 10 M yrs apart, and the curve is filled in with a carbon model. Huge uncertainties in CO2 levels.
Nothing about the O-S ice age disproves the heat-trapping ability of CO2.
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Ok, so 4% weaker sun gives about 2 degree of cooling, but according to the IPCC’s last known central estimate of 3.3 degrees per doubling 4000 PPM aught to give 3.3 x 3.5 doublings or 11.1 degrees increase over today. Therefore that ice age was 9.1 degrees above todays temperature was it David?
I am really amazed by warmists complete inability to use simple math to check their statements.
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They are like to old Soviet KGB.
They used to go around in threes – One could read, and one could write, and the other one was there to watch the intellectuals.
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Ah hah! So the `strength of the sun’ has more to do with it than CO2? Limestone formations show CO2 was pretty high in the Ordovician. Limestone formations from the Silurian period show it was high. Limestone formation corresponds with lots of little lifeforms in the sea, so the seas were warm.
Temperature plummeted in a short sharp drop at the Ordovician/Silurian boundary before rising again with CO2 staying around 3000ppm.
That clearly shows CO2 was not then responsible for temperature. If it wasn’t then, it isn’t now.
It must be something else. That short sharp cold period corresponds pretty well with a short sharp ice age. There were two strong extinctions then, about a Mega-year apart. The rest of the Silurian was very warm.
It was about then (Ordovician-Silurian boundary about 425-421 MYa) the Solar System exited the Perseus spiral arm and began to head for the Norma arm. The ice age then wasn’t particularly large or long but appeared intense.
Cosmic rays run in intense streams along the leading edges of spiral arms. Our solar system is orbiting the galactic centre somewhat faster than the arms, so we keep on catching up to them. At present we are passing into the Orion spur, through Gould’s Bottle which is an area of higher levels of GCR flux, starting about 2.6 MYa ago. That was when the current Quaternary Ice Age started. Funny that.
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… and limestone is made from CO2 dissolved in the sea water …
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Please direct us to the experimental science which demonstrates this “heat-trapping”, David.
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Also, the continents were in much different places then, which means the Earth had a different albedo.
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Say what? Were some of the continents on a different planet?
Or perhaps it is you who is on a different planet? I seriously recommend a change in supplier.
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The oceanic surface area (OSA) and land surface area (LSA) have maintained a pretty constant ratio over the last 500 million years. You can see the continental arrangement here. All which seems to be missing is Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sarawak and the Kamchatka Peninsula. But then, they don’t even make up 1% of the LSA and they were formed from volcanic action.
The planet surface area is over 70% ocean and less than 30% land. The only thing affecting albedo to any greater extent is ice coverage. And there was very little of that back then.
So I would be interested to find out how different rearrangements of the continents affect albedo …
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Your references please.
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E.J. Rohling, et al, “Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity”, Nature, vol. 491, pp. 683-691, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11574
J.C. Hargreaves, J.D. Annan, M. Yoshimori, and A. Abe-Ouchi, “Can the Last Glacial Maximum constrain climate sensitivity?”, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 39, pp. n/a-n/a, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012GL053872
P. Köhler, R. Bintanja, H. Fischer, F. Joos, R. Knutti, G. Lohmann, and V. Masson-Delmotte, “What caused Earth’s temperature variations during the last 800,000 years? Data-based evidence on radiative forcing and constraints on climate sensitivity”, Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 29, pp. 129-145, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.09.026
J.D. Annan, and J.C. Hargreaves, “A new global reconstruction of temperature changes at the Last Glacial Maximum”, Climate of the Past Discussions, vol. 8, pp. 5029-5051, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cpd-8-5029-2012
A. Schmittner, N.M. Urban, J.D. Shakun, N.M. Mahowald, P.U. Clark, P.J. Bartlein, A.C. Mix, and A. Rosell-Mele, “Climate Sensitivity Estimated from Temperature Reconstructions of the Last Glacial Maximum”, Science, vol. 334, pp. 1385-1388, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1203513
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Ok, so now give us your understanding of each of these papers (go boy!).
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*crickets*
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Yep, working off a script, by the looks of it.
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Rereke Whakaaro
June 23, 2014 at 9:00 am
Yep, working off a script, by the looks of it.
There are bots that do that fairly well these days.
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He probably uses that software that Al Gore released… designed for kiddies to go and TROLL skeptic sites.
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That paper is highly speculative.
In their conclusions:
they sum up quite well. File thirteen material.
Did you actually read this paper?
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The models do a pretty good job of projecting the long-term future. But they’re not perfect, and never will be. But you don’t need models to know our CO2 emissions will cause a lot of climate change, you just need to study the history of climate and climate on other planets.
The greenhouse effect of CO2 is rock solid science.
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“The models do a pretty good job of projecting the long-term future”
RUBBISH !!!!!
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“The greenhouse effect of CO2 is rock solid science.”
MORE RUBBISH !!
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Not a very thoughtful reply. Even people like Spencer, Christy, Lindzen, Curry, Singer, etc know there is a greenhouse effect.
It’s silly to deny it, because the evidence of it is easily measured:
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/schmidt_05/
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Yes we know CO2 absorbs and re-emits.
There is no proof that this causes any warming that is not immediately compensated for by atmospheric convection etc.
The FACT that CO2 has continues to rise steeply while temperatures have stagnated and started to drop , destroys any coincidence between CO2 and temperature.
How are you going to reconcile this as the temperatures continue to drop.
The slightly raise CO2 levels (to just above plant subsistence level) do not have any effect on the temperature, and unfortunately will not help maintain the slightly warmer temperatures we are currently enjoying.
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All you have to do is measure the Earth’s outgoing longwave radiation at the top of the atmosphere, and see the big gouges CO2 takes out of the Planck curve.
Harries et al, Nature (2001) showed the gouges are increasing, at least for clear-sky conditions.
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I am sure that minds as great as Lindzen et al could accept that what they believe to be true could actually be false. There is also the theory that CO2 does NOT act as a serious “greenhouse gas”, and even that the entire “greenhouse effect” theory is a load of baloney. But – hey! – to accept that is to lose an awful lot of subsidies; truth be damned, let’s stick with the more profitable ideas, shall we?
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The Shattered Greenhouse: How Simple Physics Demolishes the “Greenhouse Effect”.
http://greenhouse.geologist-1011.net/
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I liked the article where Dr Roy Spencer demonstrated (with very cheap equipment) that back-radiation is real and can be measured. Just buy an infra-red pyrometer and point it at the night sky same time every evening (solar-time not daylight saving time).
However, when Dr Spencer tried this, he noted that clouds were the largest influencing factor. Most of the back-radiation comes from the underside of clouds, and next to nothing comes from a clear night sky. Doesn’t quite fit the “greenhouse effect” narrative does it?
Other people have come to the same conclusion with more expensive equipment, if that makes a difference.
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The clear night sky obviously radiates — otherwise the surface temperature would quickly and sharply drop at night.
Earth’s surface actually gets about twice as much energy from the radiation of the atmosphere as it does from the sun.
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“otherwise the surface temperature would quickly and sharply drop at night.’
Which is EXACTLY what it does do on a clear night.
Thanks for the confirmation, [snip] !!! !
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Clearly you have never been in a desert where daytime temperatures are 30C+ and at night drop below freezing.
What happened to the CO2??
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David Appell:
“Earth’s surface actually gets about twice as much energy from the radiation of the atmosphere as it does from the sun.”
Not according to NASA it doesn’t.
“The amount of heat radiated from the atmosphere to the surface (sometimes called “back radiation”) is equivalent to 100 percent of the incoming solar energy.”
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/EnergyBalance/page6.php
Mind you, they don’t explain how they arrived at that figure. Where energy that didn’t even get to the surface is magically “created” to be emitted by the surface.
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I’d rather ask a geologist about the rock solid science.
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Got no proof AND by your own admission, Got a crappy model. Then you want me to draw conclusions from other planets. David, are those planets covered with 70% water?
Not rock solid David Appell. Your lack of reasoning is rather Appelling.
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The Venus/Earth equi-pressure temperatures absolutely PROVE that there is NO WARMING FROM CO2 !!
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and Mars. You forgot Mars!
With an atmosphere 95% CO2, it should be a really balmy place!
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Bad Pun Mark!
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Wait! you haven’t yet heard: Appellation, Appaullettes, Appell-in-My_Eye, or Appell to Authority. Frankly, it’s just an Appellication of flawed logic.
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I’d be very interested to study the history of climate on Venus, does anyone know where to download the surface station data? How far back does it go?
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What is ‘”scientific doubt”. Is this a special variety ?
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Yes, in most cases it is peer reviewed, and published in the literature.
When it comes to Climate Science however, it is observed to exist in a quantum state that is determinant on the containing forum and the argumentative force applied.
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There simply is no scientific doubt about the greenhouse effect. Sorry.
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If you BELIEVE that.. then go ahead.
But you are WRONG.. again.
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What it is, is actually the atmospheric pressure gradient ..
But you can call it the greenhouse effect if you want. 🙂
There ain’t nuffin up there to stop convection, like in a greenhouse, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to put satellites up into orbit.
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I hear Mars is 95.9% CO2. Nice and warm there too I bet.
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Paul told me that Venus and Mars are Alright Tonight.
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Only a fool is always positive. Science always leaves room for doubt because it is not a fools game.
So yes, there is SOME doubt. However minimal. Another own goal by the king of them.
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United Nations – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2001
Third Assessment Report
page 774
Section 14.2.2.2 Balancing the need for finer scales and the need for ensembles
Quote:
“In climate research and modelling, we should recognise that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”
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You didn’t quote the rest of that paragraph:
“The most we can expect to achieve is the prediction of the probability distribution of the system’s future possible states by the generation of ensembles of model solutions. This reduces climate change to the discernment of significant differences in the statistics of such ensembles.”
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Uh. the generation of ensembles of model solutions.
There is no chance of a correct solution so average the solutions and say the average is the most likely. That only helps if the errors are independent. Without that averaging just averages the bias from incorrect numbers and parameters.
This reduces climate change to the discernment of significant differences in the statistics of such ensembles
Assuming the parameters in the model are good enough. So is the sign of the cloud parameter positive or negative? And then what is the correct number for that parameter derived from observation? (provide links).
And what should the atmospheric concentration of CO2 be?
Should we go to war with countries who emit “too much” CO2?
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“This reduces climate change to the discernment…”
Well that got that part right.
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And BTW David A.,
The most we can expect to achieve is the prediction of the probability distribution of the system’s future possible states by the generation of ensembles of model solutions
There is a little problem there. The probability distribution of a chaotic system is very dependent on initial starting points. And the accuracy of the starting points is not good. Nor are the knows well distributed.
And of course if the model is incorrect in its major assumptions it is worse.
What we really need to figure out is how to avoid the next ice age.
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Oh dear…
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Very impressive bombast.
It might even work, if you were trying to impress a bunch of ten year old kids.
But it doesn’t work so well with scientists who are used to doing empirical science (you do know what that is, of course?), and a bunch of Applied Scientists and Engineers, who are usually pretty good at distinguishing between what works, in nature, and what is just fanciful flights of imagination.
David Appell, to put it politely, you appear to be existing in a science-free zone.
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In fact it is known that temperatures have risen on the other planets as measured by NASA, it is difficult therefore to avoid the conclusion that the Sun does indeed play a role and that the role of co2 has been overstated.
http://wakeup-world.com/2011/05/13/solar-system-climate-change/
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There isn’t much science at that link, nor would such warming prove anything except that other planets have their own climate that changes by many of the same mechanisms ours does: orbital factors, especially.
We have good measurements of solar irradiance going back decades. They show no increase averaged over a solar cycle since about 1950. (See the LASP labs data pages.)
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“We have good measurements of solar irradiance going back decades”
Well reasonable. and the integral matches the temperature pretty darn well..
no need for hallucinogenic FABRICATIONS like the CO2 warming.
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http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hZs-bryXH5c/Uo_Qzo1q3OI/AAAAAAAAAKM/VS6yWWq1wj4/s1600/Slide1.JPG
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Actually that is ridiculous. Since they do a lousy job projecting the present and the past, opining they do anything about the future is wishful thinking that goes against the established evidence.
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Any government action at all is inherently top down.
I actually believe in the competence and motivated self-interest of my fellow man, and see no need for a group of elites with their coercive powers dictating our decisions to us.
Seeing as we’re at 17 years now with no discernible warming, I’m quite comfortable leaving it all to the market.
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So then the solution that fits your value system is what?
PS: You’re very wrong about the 17 years,
but this isn’t the place to get into it.
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David Appell:
‘PS: You’re very wrong about the 17 years,
but this isn’t the place to get into it.’
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Your opinion is respected but not final.
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OK. 17 years and eight months. Better now?
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It’s absolutely false there has been no warming for 17 years or whatever. Repeating it endlessly makes it look like you have no factual answers.
If there’s been no warming, why is sea level still rising and why is ice still melting?
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It is absolutely TRUE that there has been no warming for 17 or so years.
This is TRUE no matter how much try to deny it.
It is also absolutely TRUE that since 2001 there has been a cooling trend in the RSS satellite record as well in the hadsst database
Ice is only melting in summer, like always, and in fact the above 80N Arctic temp will probably have its shortest season above freezing for a long time. Antarctic sea ice is expanding.
Sea level has been rising since the LIA, and is now decelerating.
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Arctic sea ice is melting 10 times faster than the Antarctic is gaining sea ice.
The Earth is now losing over a trillion tonnes of ice a year:
http://davidappell.blogspot.com/2014/05/how-fast-is-planet-losing-ice.html
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http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/iphone/images/iphone.anomaly.global.png
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http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/iphone/images/iphone.anomaly.global.png
This is a plot of area. Ice is measured by its volume.
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cryosat-shows-arctic-sea-ice-volume-up-50-from-last-year/
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That’s a typical misleading statement from the likes of Watts. That number refers to the September minimum.
The long-term trend of Arctic sea ice volume is clear:
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/schweiger/ice_volume/BPIOMASIceVolumeAnomalyCurrentV2.1.png
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David Appell:
‘That’s a typical misleading statement from the likes of Watts. That number refers to the September minimum.
The long-term trend of Arctic sea ice volume is clear:’
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Where does Anthony Watts dispute the long term trend of Arctic sea ice volume?
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It’s clear that David Appell is misleading!
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Totally false — there has been a huge amount of warming in the last 17 years.
RSS is only one dataset. UAH shows a very different result for the last decade and a half. It’s not clear which of them is right, if either.
You are ignoring UAH because it doens’t give the result you want. And neither of them measures surface temperatures.
Sea level rise is not decelerating; just the opposite. And it doens’t rise without a reason. So what’s causing it to rise??
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” there has been a huge amount of warming in the last 17 years. ”
RUBBISH
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We won’t mention homogenisation ahem divers adjustments.I can send you raw temperature data here in Australia going back 150years.Unfortunately our BoM deigns to use post 1910 measurements(adjusted for reasons known only to themselves as they won’t release how they go about it) Could be they have good excuses, but as they are so evasive on the matter, I doubt their intentions.
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Cherry picking datasets to support your argument … very naughty.
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Coastal subsidence.
A question for you David, since you are a legend in your own lunchtime, What volume of sea ice would have to melt, in order to raise the mean surface level of all the oceans and seas in the world, by one centimeter?
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RSS and UAH do not give very different results. If you compute an OLS trend for each from 1998 to the present, they both essentially give a flat line. Their slopes are statistically indifferent from zero.
https://bobtisdale.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/09-comparison-1998-start.png
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David Appell:
‘Sea level rise is not decelerating; just the opposite”
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This is a claim: you should SHOW that is so. Otherwise it’s merely your opinion.
You must realise that science is independent of your opinion.
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If there has been no “pause” in warming then why are there so many proponents of the CAGW theory trying to explain a pause in warming that you say is “totally false?” Are you saying that Trenberth and the rest of his merry band of climate Cassandras are wrong? Are you committing heresy by challenging the consensus? Does this means that the science isn’t “settled?”
AAAHHHH!!!
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UAH uses data from the same satellite that RSS uses, as I understand it. RSS data is the raw data and UAH is an adjusted version of the data by Roy Spencer and his team who work at a University. No doubt Roy Spencer experiences the same pressures to perform a balancing act within a University that many scientists have run into and so it is hardly surprising that a slight upwards trend has been mysteriously engineered into the UAH data set.
Even so, the upwards trend, such as it is, remains statistically inconsequential with no warming over the last 12 years and some cooling in recent years.
What gives the pause unique validity is the fact that all the climate alarmists loudly proclaimed that natural variability could not overwhelm the effects of co2, but much to their chagrin it has done so. And so they have had to change their tune and now admit that natural variability was greater than they thought. In other words they are effectively admitting that their models are wrong.
Nonetheless they retain their religious blinkers (blinders) and cling pathetically to the notion that the next El Nino will save them, atmospheric moisture content will reverse its long term trend and global temperatures will climb at a rate that has never been seen before. As the recent trend is down it seems unlikely that moisture content will increase in the forseeable future and since their models are predicated on climbing moisture content the models will continue to diverge from reality.
Their response will be to bleat ever more loudly in the ears of the worthless Greenpeace, MSM and politicians that they must act urgently to save the World from a harmless trace gas.
The biggest influences on the climate are clouds and oceans both of which are not sufficiently well understood to be effectively included in climate models, the underlying driving force is also poorly understood and so solar influences are largely excluded from climate models even though evidence increasingly suggests that the Sun plays a role via TSI, UV, and magnetic field.
My money is on the steadily reducing magnetic fields of the both the Sun and the Earth to produce ever steepening cooling, though I secretly hold out hope for a warming spike just in time for my summer holidays, well, perhaps next year.
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The daily global sea ice anomaly has been on the high side for the last two years, all things considered though, over the past 40 years it hasn’t changed by much. I guess we can argue about what is significant exactly, but let’s just say that the trend change over 40 years is less than one tenth as large as the annual change that happens every year, so you have to ask yourself why is anyone worried about ice melting?
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg
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David (and cat),
The pause is not repeated endlessly, but rather seems to be commented frequently as the time frame increases.
This could go on for a while.
How long should you give this thing in order to make some admission that CO2 is not a factor.
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David Appell
June 21, 2014 at 11:37 am
If there’s been no warming, why is sea level still rising and why is ice still melting?
Lags.
BTW the rate of sea level rise is currently declining. Ice melts when it gets above 0 C. (depending some on included impurities). Even in ices ages ice melts when it gets above 0 C.
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Lie for the cause. Your problem is you believe your own lies.
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This is really big. Undoubtedly David Appell, you have no clue as to how big this question is. What basis in law provides you the right to interfere with my “value system”?
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Property rights. Your fossil fuel pollution is damaging the property of others, including their health.
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You don’t make “fossil fuel pollution”? Please explain in great detail*. Otherwise I’ll stuff that stupid argument right down your……….
*by great detail I mean I want you to disclose the type of clothing you wear, the material they are made from, What space you sleep in, the food you eat, the glasses you use to correct your myopia – EVERYTHING C’mon you can do it
You are wrong about the claim of property rights and health as well but that for later
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“Your fossil fuel pollution is damaging the property of others”
RUBBISH !!
CO2 is only helping the environment, and technology is gradually reducing all other real pollutants.
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Mobile phone mistake again…down ward thumb intended
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Ok David, so just how exactly is the computer you are using powered? Are you pedaling madly away like the old School Of The Air?
You are telling us the you DO NOT USE fossil fuels WHATSOEVER.
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We notice David that you are unable to answer.
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“Your fossil fuel pollution is damaging the property of others, including their health.”
What does your’s do?
Don’t bother to answer, because you have yet to show that CO2=pollution. When you have done that , you can move on to the Tort of Nuisance.
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David Appell
June 21, 2014 at 2:05 pm · Reply
Property rights. Your fossil fuel pollution is damaging the property of others, including their health.
Are these property rights worth a war with China and India?
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Quit using a computer, stop using fossil fuels and adopt a hunter gatherer lifestyle or else consider yourself to be exposed as a hypocrite.
In the US the air is getting cleaner, the water is getting cleaner and people are living longer thanks to fossil fuels. People in Africa live a short brutish life because the misanthropic greens do all in their power to impede the use of fossil fuels by them. People there live to 45 and many die of respiratory diseases cause by burning dung to cook.
How many people should be sacrificed to fight a non-existent threat in order to maintain the status quo for a bunch of rent seeking taxpayer funded gravy train riding parasites?
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Excuse me, my emission of plant food is doing what? You poor deluded child.
You do realise that Australia sinks 20 times what it emits and that the increase in plant productivity alone has in the last 15 years completely cancelled out our emissions? Put another way we are at Nett zero emission relative to 2000 because our emissions have not risen but our sinks are up by 6 %.
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David Appell
June 21, 2014 at 2:05 pm
Property rights. Your fossil fuel pollution is damaging the property of others, including their health.
What you have provided here is a causus belli. Is that what you intended?
China should go to war with us for making too much CO2 per capita and we should go to war with China because their absolute emissions are above ours and rising rapidly.
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What he has is a case of erroneous tense. As in he claims that it will cause damages (none have been documented so far). So he wants you to pay him “today” for his hamburger tomorrow.
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“Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy,” Nicholas Z. Muller, Robert Mendelsohn, and William Nordhaus, American Economic Review, 101(5): 1649–75 (2011).
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.101.5.1649
The National Academy of Sciences estimates that fossil fuel use causes damages of at least $120 B/yr (2007 dollars) to health and the environment:
“Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use”
National Research Council, 2010
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/12794.html
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And of course they balance that with an estimate of health and environment costs of not using fossil fuels. Not.
Tell me David, have you ever seen that city in China where they manufacture the rare earth magnets for wind turbines?
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I’m quite comfortable leaving it all to the market.
But the market doesn’t price in negative externalities. That’s the whole point, and why Stern called climate change the greatest failure of the free market in history.
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David Appell:
‘ That’s the whole point, and why Stern called climate change the greatest failure of the free market in history.”
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Perhaps this is because the free market tracks reality, unlike the GCMs.
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I’d be interested in seeing your measurement methodology or model for pricing negative externalities…. and its justifications.
Nothing happens at the macro scale ….. macro is just the sum of all the micros. The fact that some theorists can’t measure individual actions reliably doesn’t mean it’s not happening, or that individuals don’t take these perceived costs into consideration.
I see people taking costs outside themselves into consideration constantly, from backyard composting, to tossing their trash in a bin rather than on the ground to (if you really want to get technical)simple table manners and other etiquette. If you are convinced their choice of vehicles is that important, make your pitch …. their response IS then part of their cost/benefit analysis whether they do what you want or not.
And if any damage to third parties is actually reliably measurable/calculable, that’s what tort action is for.
Anyway ….
http://mises.org/daily/1360
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Name one pollution problem that was solved through voluntarily actions. Just one.
In the US, it took laws, fines, and a lot of marketing to curtail littering. It took a lot more to get lead out of gasoline, reduce SO2 and NO2 pollution, protect the ozone layer, and clean up the air and water. None of these happened voluntarily, they happened because governments passed laws to protect common interests.
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Just one? Okay then.
The problem of horse manure in the streets was solved by the automobile.
Bonus.
Problems with invasive weed species in many farming areas were solved by farmers taking concerted action without government coercion and at their own expense.
Bonus II.
A few weeks ago in this little town I’m presently in, signs appeared. “Clean up the patch” or something like that …. a week long drive that resulted in businesses paying their employees to go out and collect roadside litter.
Economists can explain …. it’s all about the value people place on one condition versus another …. even when the original purpose of the automobile was not about ridding New York of flies and stench.
Remember, just because the elite push government to take particular actions does not necessarily mean that the citizenry actually values the result enough to justify the cost. Meaning that in the peoples opinion goods have been misallocated.
Also remember that when people do value a condition enough, the coercive power of government is unnecessary.
It appears you believe these decisions should all be left to the valuation mechanisms of the elites …. our betters.
But then lets look at all this again.
You’re talking about pollution.
Most of us here are talking about a trace gas on which our lives depend.
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Nice try, but the automobile wasn’t intentionally invented to clean up horse manure; that was a (positive) side effect. Meanwhile, it created a lot of negative side effects as well.
In the US, the people spoke through their election of Obama. He’s doing what he said he’d do — reducing fossil fuel pollution.
Labeling CO2 a “trace gas” means nothing. It’s concentration is small, but its effect is big. The dose makes the poison.
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David,
And yet the pause continues.
You’d think that alarmist would be overjoyed at this, but no it is further proof that sceptics are wrong and the end of the world is more inevitably bye.
Why?
The belief that co2 is evil is strengthened by the need to be right.
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What a load that is. You really are deluded. I can tell you firsthand as I was in a course dealing with the media at the time of the last election and we spent a great deal of time observing what was taking place.
In the US the people who voted for Obama did so more because of his skin color than for any other reason. He’s trying to reduce fossil fuel use, his concern has nothing to do with pollution it has to do with hampering out economy and appeasing the activist organizations that support him financially.
Do be advised that some of us here are from the US and will not be very appreciative of your trying to distort the real reasons that nitwit is in office and screwing up the country.
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I expect then David that you do not drive a car, right? I bet you do…. in fact I bet you are deeply, very deeply dependent upon fossil fuels.
Hey, why don’t you go and live somewhere like Africa and see for yourself what you propose.
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“and the end of the world is more inevitably bye.”
That would be” nigh” , I’m guessing. The “bye” would be the instant before . (if you saw it coming) 🙂
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It was gonna be Nye as in the… well you know and then there was the auto thing and that’s how it all ended.
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People need energy. But there’s no reason it has to come from fossil fuels.
The advanced countries are now easily rich enough to pay for clean energy.
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Study finds wind power increases costs of electricity production and CO2 emissions
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I know what clean energy costs — I buy 100% green offsets from my power company. It costs me an average of $1.85/month.
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LMAO!!!
You poor, sad, FOSSIL FUEL DEPENDENT fool.
Please answer my questions.
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I did answer your question — my electricity is green. (I also buy about twice as much as I use that goes towards the construction of clean energy plants.)
Yes, I have a car. There aren’t any other good option in our society.
Climate change won’t be solved by living in tents. Individual actions can’t solve it — in fact, they could well make it worse, by reducing demand for fossil fuels, which would drop the price so that others use more.
It will be solved by replacing carbon-based energy with carbon-free energy, at the institutional level.
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“It will be solved by replacing carbon-based energy with carbon-free energy, at the institutional level.”
OK you lost me there. Why will doing as you suggest stop the climate from changing?
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yep ! pretty close to 100% straight from a coal fired power plant 🙂
You are helping to green the planet. Good boy !
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Unless of course you live in an area with lots of hydro (dams and stuff, y’know) or nuclear.
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Just so people know, Appell is in Oregon. They use a lot of Hydro, because they can, but basically everything is either COAL, GAS OR NUCLEAR
at least 50% is coal or gas, very little wind or solar..
You have been diddled, bozo, no wonder your ‘green’ tariff is so low.. 🙂 !!!
But keep paying that “feel-good” extra. 🙂
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“at an institutional level”
Ahhh ! providing for your later life, I see.
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David Appell:
‘I know what clean energy costs — I buy 100% green offsets from my power company. It costs me an average of $1.85/month.’
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Has taxpayer funding ever been used to subsidise the development and/or production of ‘green power’?
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‘ (I also buy about twice as much as I use that goes towards the construction of clean energy plants.)’
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A voluntary tax to subsidise green power.
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I buy 100% green offsets from my power company.
“I by indulgences from the Green Religion Vendors.” Blessed by the Earth Mother you are.
BTW you understand that at the effects level you are paying to keep Africans poor so you can remain rich. Don’t you?
Fortunately the Chinese are smarter than that. Should we go to war with them if we can’t talk them into stopping? Is it worth a war to save the planet or not?
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So you are telling us David that if the whole world buys “100% green offsets” we will “save the planet”. Think man, it’s a crock…. don’t tell me, it makes you feel all gooey and green.
Nonsense. You can buy yourself a mule, camel or whatever “natural” form of transport you care to…. or you can walk. Simply, you are a hypocrite.
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@The Griss
Actually there are some. But his claim for “green” is that he buys carbon offsets. His power is actually 60% from dirty old coal. And the jets he flies around in? They are not solar. Nor is his 87 Buick.
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Just one? Okay then.
The problem of horse manure in the streets was solved by the automobile.
Bonus.
Problems with invasive weed species in many farming areas were solved by farmers taking concerted action without government coercion and at their own expense.
Bonus II.
A few weeks ago in this little town I’m presently in, signs appeared. “Clean up the patch” or something like that …. a week long drive that resulted in businesses paying their employees to go out and collect roadside litter.
Economists can explain …. it’s all about the value people place on one condition versus another …. even when the original purpose of the automobile was not about ridding New York of flies and stench.
Remember, just because the elite push government to take particular actions does not necessarily mean that the citizenry actually values the result enough to justify the cost. Meaning that in the peoples opinion goods have been misallocated.
Also remember that when people do value a condition enough, the coercive power of government is unnecessary.
It appears you believe these decisions should all be left to the valuation mechanisms of the elites …. our betters.
But then lets look at all this again.
You’re talking about pollution.
Most of us here are talking about a trace gas on which our lives depend.
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While I’m working on that, name one tax that was ever paid voluntarily. Name one bureaucrat that voluntarily resigned because there were too many bureaucrats. Name one politician that resigned voluntarily because they realized they were corrupt.
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Your questions are irrelevant to the subject being discussed.
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Evasion David Appell? Doesn’t look good on your resume. Which subject have you slotted this into? You were off topic (rage) yourself and you don’t get to control the subject.
Evasion is a sign of something David, what is it?
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Show how CO2 is a pollutant.
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while it wouldn’t be a tax if it was voluntary, there are supposedly idiots who will pay for Carbon offsets in the naive and mistaken belief that planting a tree will somehow cancel out the negative effects of their profligate use of airliners.
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DA asks at 24.7.2.2.1
Sure, I’ll name the very first one in the history of mankind.
In days of yore, when man lived around campfires, they figured out – voluntarily – that shitting where they sat around created a pollution problem. They – voluntarily – walked some distance and shat elsewhere.
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Yes, and in modern times this problem is solved by governments building sewer systems.
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David Appell:
‘Yes, and in modern times this problem is solved by governments building sewer systems.’
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Using ‘fossil fuels’. (Among other things)
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CO2 is not a pollutant in my opinion. It increases crop yields, makes the planet very green. Has many more benefits such as better living standards resulting in lower infant mortality, etc.
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You have been given one already. Go back and read it , and then make your point if you have one.
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You mean voluntary actions?
I applaud the government in the US for passing laws that resulted in a cleaner environment.
Unfortunately, the EPA has outlived its usefulness and they are causing more harm than good these days. The EPA is a corrupt agency that needs to be dissolved.
Countries that tried to “go green” (e.g. Spain) have ruined their economies. Even Obama doesn’t boast about their economy as an example for the US to follow anymore.
The US exceeded its non-binding Kyoto requirements to reduce CO2 simply by allowing the market to work. Natural gas is cheaper than coal and it is abundant.
Isn’t it better to allow the “invisible hand” of the market to work and achieve a better and cleaner environment than it is to have the heavy hand of government regulation which strangles economic growth and harms the environment?
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The market has no “invisible hand” when negative externalities aren’t priced in. There is no cost to emit carbon pollution. It’s hard to beat that price.
The US didn’t turn from coal because of its CO2 emissions; it turned to natural gas because it was cheaper. CO2 considerations had nothing to do with it.
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Tort laws is how unpriced externalies are priced in. Class action suits if the losses are small individually but large collectively.
You seem to lack faith in our system. I’m absolutely with you there. But government as the answer? Government is coercion. And bribery. Men with guns.
Wouldn’t it be better if what you desire was done voluntarily or with the minimum of coercion? Look at how we as a nation have become recycling insane. For the sake of social cachet business is focusing on ways of making money from what once was a cost item (disposing of scrap).
You are positing a system of maximum coercion. But what happens when your enemies get a hold of it and use the system against you? The best general defense is to make government smaller.
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We notice David that you are unable to answer.
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But most want to simply solve this serious problem in the most judicious and efficient way possible. Now that is a projection! No evedence!
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“David Appell”,
Use a dictionary and look up the meaning of “tolerance and humility”.
You might actually learn something as clearly at the moment you don’t have a clue !
PS by the way THERE IS NO PROBLEM TO SOLVE EXCEPT THE ONE INSIDE YOUR EMPTY HEAD !
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Climate change activists know they are losing the argument so when the subject arises they just go quiet because they no longer have the confidence to argue their case.
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It’s a lot of fun though; putting on one’s best organic/sustainable farmer hat and venturing onto the rabid greenie blogs. At first they just” lurv ” you ; and then suddenly they feel totally betrayed.
One only has to say this , and every friggin’ alarm in the district goes off 🙂
http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-fact-and-fantasy/?p=276670#post276670
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That made me smile! I had a very ‘interesting’ time on the ‘Earth Garden Path’ forum when I dared to question the great CAGW religion. I had always been under the impression that a forum was for grown up discussion reflecting different viewpoints. Well, I discovered otherwise when I was attacked by a really rabid character and also by other people I had thought were reasonable types. You live and learn. I’ve been ‘green’ for years longer than most of them but temper it with commonsense I hope. When is commonsense so called when it seems to be rather uncommon?
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Doesn’t common sense help to keep and see things in proportion.
Sense comes from experience, and lots of idealists without real world experience struggle to grasp the significance of facts they are confronted with daily. Well some of them might struggle while many of them just haven’t a clue.
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Some people don’t like the truth. They build their life security on a big lie which involves a lot of energy to perpetuate it. When truth exposes the lie these people lash out in anger. It’s a Jekyl and Hyde character transformation with ugly physiognomy and ugly words.
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My experience is that most people who I know that are warmists haven’t even bothered to read the science, don’t understand the science and are accepting of CAWG as a matter of faith.
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Because that is what it is … a new socially acceptable religion, in an age of agnosticism.
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The name calling must stop. Although I do enjoy it despite having been called a number of names over the years (I blog – I’m a very small fish).
So how about we stop next week? And do it recursively.
My theory about comments? No worse than USENET when it was a force in the universe. But it does get old after a while. I guess I prefer the current relative civility. Mostly.
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The same thing happened with me and my son-in-law, with whom I have always had a good relationship and who I think is a very fine young man. We were standing working on a Christmas Eve barbecue, when I happened to mention how terrible it was that Greenpeace were worrying young children about climate change with their ridiculous YouTube film on how Santa could not get his sleigh going because all the snow had melted (the bastards!). He tensed up and said “well someone has to tell them about pollution”. I looked at him and said “what pollution? CO2 is not a pollutant”. He virtually screamed at me, his father-in-law, “I DON’T WANT TO DISCUSS IT!” Naturally I dropped the subject as their was no chance of having a rational discussion on it. And that’s the problem. A rational discussion with someone with quasi-religious beliefs is just not possible.
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I feel for you, Peter. My younger sister and I came to verbal blows over AGW not too long ago. We have not spoken in weeks now. She considers nothing short of a Gaia rapist for my temerity to question the motives of the eco-freaks and argue that CO2 is far less powerful a GHG than has been portrayed. I fear we will never speak again.
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I happen to think we need to challenge them on it. I’d rather b yelled at for 5 mins than have them have a lifetime of decpetion.
The other problem is that this is how any murderous movements start – rabid ideology breeds violence.
It needs to be challenged – because by rolling over we give them the power to control our thoughts and opinions.
Unless its checked, based on what I know of historty, it wont end well. we are at a cross roads.
What we do now – matters.
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Take heart. You will. Worse things than that have separated me from a sister or 2 over the years. But blood is thicker than CO2, so you will speak again.
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“PeterPetrum”,
I would have nothing more to do with the poor deluded fool.
You have to wonder when individuals are so mentally challenged how they even remember when and how to breathe!!
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He’s in advertising, Angry. Does that explain it?!
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“He’s in advertising,”
Dodgy Bros.. used cars !!
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CO2 is a pollutant — a substance that, in excess quantity, is undesirable due to its potential for harm.
In the US, the Supreme Court has ruled that CO2 is a pollutant, and that the law requires the EPA to take action to curtail it.
(They have been very wrong before,examples abound such as Plessy vs.Ferguson in 1896 and the Dredd Scott ruling in 1857) CTS
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Then the US supreme court is an ass !!
CO2 is the primary building block of all life on Earth, and is still at dangerously low atmospheric levels.
Plant life functions much better at above 700=800 ppm, which would make absolutely zero difference to atmospheric temperature.
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Lifted this from Bolt.
The EPA is an ass!
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Assuredly, I won’t “sass” the Supreme Court and EPA with crass, asinine aspersions or assail these unsurpassed eco-assets with embarrassing character assassinations, but will ask: as the Supreme Court’s classification of CO2 also encompasses “vegan flatulence”, may we assume, as well, it tasks the EPA to assiduously harass and hassle David Appell’s own ****?
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Oops! I’ve belatedly found, in a blog post by David Appell, that while he tried vegetarianism once, he is now a regular-guy carnivore, who is, nevertheless, still possibly subject to regulation by the EPA. So please read “methane gas”, in the above comment, where “vegan flatulance” appears.
My apologies, David, for the misunderstanding.
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Another smack down.
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The Supreme Court, of course, just listened to and acted on the science.
There is no CO2 deficit on Earth. More CO2 alters the climate. More CO2 harms the nutritional value of crops like wheat and rice, it creates droughts and other changes to the hydrological cycle that plants depend on, and plant growth is limited by nitrogen availability anyway. More CO2 creates more weeds, which compete with crops.
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David we are all well aware of the mistruths, half-truths and outright nonsense that you have just quoted.
It’s just your opinion ; you are entitled to express it.
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I notice you didn’t counter my points with any science….
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You’re right. The points you made were not arrived at by a scientific process. How could I then counter them with corrections to your science? You had none.
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You’re being ridiculous — all of those are the findings of science.
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“all of those are the findings of science.”
RUBBISH !!
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“I notice you didn’t counter my points with any science’
There was no science to counter.
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David, true science is empirical, and based on physical evidence. Models are not empirical, they are anthropogenic artifacts and constructions. I know, because I worked for a number of years as a modeller.
A lot of people on this site have been modellers, and we generally agree that they are great tools for finding out what it is that you can’t explain, but almost useless at simulating anything to do with the real world. Garbage in always equals garbage out, and using a supercomputer just produces garbage faster.
The problem with the current set of models is that the Garbage going in, is CO2. Not because that is the right, or even a rational, input, but because that is the first thing somebody thought of eons ago. All of the models are bottom-up, and based on theoretical relationships.
David Evans is building and presenting a top-down construct of the way the climate actually appears to work, and there seems little room for CO2 in that model. Should it prove to be more robust than the existing models, then the CO2 based theory will have to go by the wayside.
And that, my friend, is why you have suddenly turned up here, and tried to … do what exactly?
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“I notice you didn’t counter my points with any science.”
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur – What is asserted without reason may be denied without reason.
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David Appell:
‘You’re being ridiculous — all of those are the findings of science.’
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Repeating your opinion ad infinitum (nauseum?) does not elevate it to any exalted position. If you want to advance your claims above personal opinion status, then you have to SHOW that “all of those are the findings of science”.
Should you accomplish this, it will become clear to readers here, that the US Supreme Court has not acted on unsubstantiated advice.
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David,
Who decided the optimum CO2 concentration for the atmosphere and the perfect climate for the planet occurred about 100 years ago?
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Your points are unscientific.
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What a load of unmitigated rubbish you are coming out with today. !! Its called brain-washed ignorance.
Darn you are going to have egg on your face as the temperature starts to drop further 🙂
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“There is no CO2 deficit on Earth. More CO2 alters the climate. More CO2 harms the nutritional value of crops like wheat and rice”
1. Yes there is. Plants grow best around 800-1000 ppm.. There is therefore a deficit.
2. No it doesn’t. CO2 has basically zero effect on the climate.
3. Only if you starve them of other nutrients like nitrogen. Farmers already know to rotate with leguminous crops, the researchers obviously didn’t.
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You’re talking about plants in a GREENHOUSE, not the real world. It’s not at all comparable.
Even at 559 ppm, and even considering CO2 fertilization, the nutritional value of wheat is reduced. Here’s a link to that study:
http://davidappell.blogspot.com/2014/04/wheats-nutritive-value-decreases-under.html
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David, you should perhaps read some criticisms of that article. Exactly the same thing occurs on cloudy days -plants fail to convert the nitrate that has been taken up from the soil into complete protein. It can happen at any time that growth conditions in the soil and atmosphere are conducive to accelerated growth but sunlight is weak.
There is nothing new in this link. Pastoral farmers are very familiar with nitrate poisoning , and the conditions under which it occurs.
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It is the elevated carbon dioxide that inhibits the conversion of nitrate into protein in these crops, not clouds or a weaker sun or something else.
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Prove it.
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You have never done any study of horticulture, have you.!
You know NOTHING !!!
It also applies in the open atmosphere, the world is becoming GREENER.. more plants, more FOOD !!!!
Nearly $3.2B worth in boosted yields at this stage. !!!!
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“It is the elevated carbon dioxide that inhibits the conversion of nitrate into protein in these crops”
BULLS**T !!
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David,
The nutritional value of a low protein crop high carbohydrate crop (rice)is decreased by a fraction of a percent in protein while the entire crop yield increases exponentially.
Big whoop.
It’s why we have incisors and why sheep and cattle graze.
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David,
You drivel with a fear campaign, you claim facts and evidence and direct readers to davidappells blog spot, you use this site to promote your own…
If you are that fearful of every waking breath then do what you know you should:
1 Make paper from papyrus.
2 Make paint from ochre.
3 Make ‘end of the world is nye’ placards.
4 Make a real difference – walk the walk.
In short, David, you, like most alarmists, are a thorough Bull S### Artist.
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David Appell:
‘It is the elevated carbon dioxide that inhibits the conversion of nitrate into protein in these crops, not clouds or a weaker sun or something else.’
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Again, this is supposition. You haven’t proposed a mechanism by which ‘It is the elevated carbon dioxide that inhibits the conversion of nitrate into protein in these crops’ As farmerbraun suggests; you have to ‘prove it’.
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Your opinion is not science, but not surprisingly, it supports the AGW cause.
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Orders of magnitude again. A tiny reduction in a protein across at least an order of magnitude increase in the harvest and it’s something to panic about.
Here’s a bit of common-sense Mr. Appell: eat an extra mouthful of bread so you get at least the same nourishment from the CO2 `impaired’ wheat it is made from.’
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David you have personified the point of this thread almost perfectly, reading down to here and actually taking the time to consider your points I am still yet to be convinced by your scientific claims on CO2.
As a layman on this subject all I can predict is when the general public see CO2 going up and temperature going down there will be a consensus on calling out this CAGW scare for what it is, a scare.
This will be the only relevant (and correct) consensus on the CAGW debate and I hope that believers like yourself are prepared for this, it would be tragic to live the rest of your days wringing your hands and obsessing over the coming apocalypse that will never happen.
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Except the temperature is not going down.
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Yes it is.
And about to accelerate.
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@ David Appell, most trends are down over the last 18 years odd, though pick your start point carefully and you can get an upwards trend. But no trend is currently significant and so the continued increase of co2 over the last 18 years has produced no statistically significant change in temperatures. But most trends (such as they are) point down. With a low current solar cycle 24 and an expected even lower next solar cycle 25, you are more likely to see the current downwards trend steepen.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2001/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2001/trend
I find it interesting that the temperatures seem to achieve deeper lows more readily than higher highs. This suggests to me that the potential for dropping quite quickly into a colder regime is there once conditions favouring cooling intensify over the coming 20+ years of reducing solar cycles and Solar / Earth magnetic fields.
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David Appell:
‘Except the temperature is not going down’
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‘Not going down’ is not the same as ‘going up’.
CO2 is going up.
Could it be that there is little relationship between the two?
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David,
See this is the thing you rely on – you can fight the truth, but they can’t fight a lie.
Alarmists propaganda actively fights the truth with misdirection, misinformation, fear campaigns, censorship, threat, intimidation and hate speach.
But you live a lie – have a look at your scary face icon – behind that you’re just another fat, white, middle aged guy living at home with his cat.
Get out once in a while, take a walk, say hi to the neighbours, steel those nerves of yours, take a great big deep breath, and just see what the real world is like.
Now, after all that, if you are still concerned that CO2 is destroying the planet – just don’t exhale.
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I didn’t realize that the “US supreme court” was a scientific organization……
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What is “excess quantity David Appalling? I declare that your unsupported claims and comments have a high potential for harm.
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CO2 is a pollutant — a substance that, in excess quantity, is undesirable due to its potential for harm.
H2O has similar properties in this regard. 🙂 (shouldn’t give the money grabbers too many ideas should we!)
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Yes, and in some circumstances water is a pollutant — it causes undesirable effects — floods, heavy rains, storm surges, etc.
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I see – a pollutant is anything which is in a place where you don’t want it to be. So is there anything on this planet which can never be a pollutant? Or can absolutely anything be a pollutant?
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“pol·lut·ant noun \pə-ˈlü-tənt\: a substance that makes land, water, air, etc., dirty and not safe or suitable to use : something that causes pollution.”
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pollutant
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So, NOT CO2.. Thanks. 🙂
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CO2 at any level that it will ever likely to be in the atmosphere is PURELY BENFICIAL !
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The definition you quoted states that it is what is added that causes pollution, not that which it pollutes (i.e. water). Your quote therefore contradicts what you are stating.
Think before pressing the post comment button.
Or, better yet, just think!
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So water causes water to be dirty and co2 causes air to be dirty… hmmmmmmm
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Just think, David, every time you open your mouth…..
Out comes a massive amount of pollution…..
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David,
STOP what you are doing immediately… or you’ll go blind.
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Wonder if David realises he is sitting in a room or office that has anywhere between 600-1000ppm of this so-called pollutant. Quick David, you better go outside…….oops, no good there either as there is ~400ppm of this so-called pollutant out there.
Looks to me you’re up the creek without a paddle and nowhere to hide from this substance that, in excess quantity, is undesirable due to its potential for harm. You’re doomed David…….doomed I tell ya!
Ohhhh, the pain…….
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David, by your definition then all substances, all matter in fact, are pollutants. This is a ridiculous and unsupportable position. REAL pollutants are inherently harmful to the environment and cause no harm if removed from the environment. Labeling CO2 as a pollutant is a bastardisation of language in an effort to assert control. Control the language and you control the argument.
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Floods don’t harm the environment?
CO2, in excess quantities, certainly harms the environment. That’s why the US Supreme Court ruled it a “pollutant.”
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Good thing that CO2 is nowhere near nor ever likely to be in EXCESS !
It is currently deeply in deficit for the real needs of plant life.
In the distance past it has been 3000ppm+ and the world THRIVED. !!!
Unfortunately it has been in parlous short supply for 100’s of thousands of years, but thanks to mankind, a small amount of that trapped carbon is now being returned to the atmosphere where it belongs.
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What an incredibly stupid question. David, you are truly a lightweight.
*Mods, This is not an Ad-Hom because it is well supported by evidence.
[Noted – Just keep the discussion polite -Fly]
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Circular argument alert
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David Appell:
‘CO2, in excess quantities, certainly harms the environment. That’s why the US Supreme Court ruled it a “pollutant.”
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No mention of ‘climate change’ then?
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Appell said “CO2, in excess quantities, certainly harms the environment. That’s why the US Supreme Court ruled it a “pollutant.”
Just because 3 politically appointed judges adhered to their political masters wishes on the subject does not mean they had the faintest idea of what they were ruling on. Were they even aware that without a goodly amount of co2 there would be no plants or life on this planet ?
CO2 is an asphyxiant gas and not classified as toxic or harmful in accordance with Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals standards of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe by using the OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals. In concentrations up to 1% (10,000 ppm), it will make some people feel drowsy.[83]
Tody we have levels of 400 ppm. The ideal level for food plants is thought to be over 1000ppm.
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David,
Floods do not harm the environment the changes to the environment are harmed by floods.
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David,
Your ignorance is astounding.
A supreme court ruling does not alter the physical world.
A supreme court ruling benefits those with the money and the power to hire lawyers prepered to wring as many permutaions from a single word as is finacially possible.
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No, they do not. They are beneficial. Floods are a perfectly natural part of the cycle of life on this planet. Imagine for a moment just how barren Australia would be without it’s regular, cyclic floods (which the alarmists jump up and down about as though they are something new).
Floods are simply a pain in the ass for people who were silly enough to settle in a flood plain… a flood plain that has been there for millenia.
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Five green thumbs if I could. 🙂
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The reason that I farm in a flood plain is because it is some of the best soil in Godzone, and it gets replenished to some extent at regular intervals. Give me a Karapoti silt loam anyday. Good shirt!
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http://atlasv.massey.ac.nz/soils/profiles/profile.html?P17
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One of the most noblest of trees on this planet cannot survive without fire. Nature has adapted to fire, floods, even hurricanes and tornadoes. They are not pollution or detrimental. They are required for nature to continue. http://www.ehow.com/about_6643082_do-sequoia-trees-reproduce_.html
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Actually, the Supreme Court didn’t rule as to whether or not CO2 was a pollutant. It ruled that the EPA had the authority to determine what was a pollutant and to regulate it.
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“The majority opinion commented that ‘greenhouse gases fit well within the CAA’s capacious definition of air pollutant.'”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_v._Environmental_Protection_Agency#Opinion_of_the_Court
CAA = Clean Air Act
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So what. Any definition can be capacious enough if you design it that way. Circularity fascinates you doesn’t it?
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Congress wrote the Clean Air Act, not the EPA. The Supreme Court ruled that CO2 falls under the definition of “pollutant,” and so therefore the EPA *had* to take action to control it.
The EPA was the *defendant* in Mass vs. EPA, not the plaintiff.
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And that is supposed to inspire us with confidence? Nothing whatsoever coming from the US government, or any of its instrumentalities, can be trusted as all are without exception completely and entirely corrupt and self-serving. Any definition of the Clean Air Act is politically motivated, with supreme court appointees beholden to their political masters. The ideas of separation of powers and an independent judiciary in the United States are an ‘antiquated’ concept without any connection to the status of the US legal system as it is currently manifest.
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[snip]
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“David Appell”,
Obviously you use “Animal Farm” as your (political) science reference…..
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And the director of the EPA when asked what the current level of co2 in the atmosphere was repsonded by saying that she didn’t have that information. In other words she had absolutely no idea. It seems fair to assume therefore that she also had no idea that a significant amount of co2 is essential for life to exist on this planet.
The EPA should not have the power to regulate co2. The US executive has driven a coach and horses through the US constitution and bypassed the right of Congress to legislate. A dangerous precedent, a step towards dictatorship.
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Floods are a PART of the environment! You are constructing a mythical place that has never existed, nor will it.
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All of this talk of moving goal posts reminds me of the history behind Royal Tennis (Real Tennis) where the rules were changed by the most powerful aristocrat playing at the time to greatly advantage their strengths to ensure victory every time.
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A 16th century French book on How To Win at Chess seriously advocated playing outdoors and seating one’s opponent with the sun in his eyes 🙂
And a number of regional civil wars were started when one chess player, apprehending that he was sliding into a losing position, left the game vowing to return on the “morrow”, but never did
You’ll notice that Appellations refuses to define “excess”, and continuously whines that the US Supreme Court ruled CO2 as a pollutant – that was one single Judge in closed court, quite a few years ago (one may also wonder how one particular Judge managed to be chosen in camera for the Decision of the Millenium). That was discussed at length on CA at the time. My advice is not to feed Appellations as he will ruin the thread with bombarding flak … ask Judith Curry. On my count, Appellations MMXVIII was reached there. Very tedious and utterly humourless, devoid of any self-irony or self-awareness
The floor of a dense tropical forest contains 1000+ppm CO2. Modern submarines, submerged for months, engineer an atmosphere for crews at 2000ppm. The Cretaceous Period globally reached 10000+ppm, based on peer-reviewed proxies. We are at 400ppm … and I’m terrified 🙂
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Just a slight correction.
The high level of CO2 in a submarine is not for the benefit of the crew, but because it is an extremely good fire retardant. Fire, onboard a submarine, is one of the worst possible scenarios.
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Ah, so because the Supreme Court ruled on it, using the EPA’s evidence, which has been shown to be thoroughly flawed, that makes it so?
Let’s see, I have an organization, such as the EPA, whose existence and growth depends on expanding their reach via powers that were not granted to them by congress. So I get my scientists to cook up some studies and reports that support the need for my organization to be able to exceed the power granted to it by congress via a judicial system that only looked at the studies and reports that I provided.
You’ll believe anything won’t you?
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“David Appell”,
Just saying something does not make it so!
Everybody is entitled to their own opinions BUT…..
NOBODY IS ENTITLED TO THEIR OWN FACTS !
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OK, then Apell, then we should remove it from the biosphere, all of it, now tell me bright-spark, what will happen then?
So since too little CO2 is very very armaggeddon bad, and too much CO2 is maybe, kinda, a little teeny weeny bit bad which side aught we err, on what level of CO2 is perfect for you? Hmmm?, how high is high enough that a natural decline in CO2 emission wouldn’t result in an extinction event? My guess is we need to be well over 1000 PPM to guard against a low CO2 extinction event which we’ve been living on the cusp of for a few thousand years, a natural cooling event which would result in marked Oceaninic CO2 uptake could just do it.
The EPA finding is unconstitutional it seeks to drive CO2 down, it puts the USA population at risk of an extreme low CO2 related event. It attempts by it’s own admission to reduce temperature to the level of the Little Ice Age, it therefore attempts to make alaska uninhabitable and create glacial conditions in the great lakes area. It attempts to reduce food availability and increase human mortality. It IS unconstitutional, because it fails to recognise the harm that LOW CO2 will do to the people. The EPA attempt will FAIL.
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CO2 is not a pollutant. It is an essential gas for life on earth. Unless you are claiming that life (not just homo sapiens) is a pollution as well.
Your logic is astoundingly ——. I will refrain from adding the last word.
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“David Appell”,
Obviously you failed LOGIC at school…..
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“David Appell”,
AGU says CO2 is plant food:-
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/31/agu-says-co2-is-plant-food/
By the way you learn that carbon DIOXIDE IS PLANT FOOD in primary school science !
I guess that you also want to ban that dangerous substance DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE also !!!
[snip]
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What is so delicious is that the vast majority will become disillusioned with their god as the cold sets in.
“Nothing is settled” will mean everything has to be investigated. We will get a tad smarter.
Good times coming if we can limit the immediate damage. Ozzies are showing the way.
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My June 21, 2014 at 10:57 pm
is a response to:
PeterPetrum
June 21, 2014 at 9:55 am
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MSimon:
‘What is so delicious is that the vast majority will become disillusioned with their god as the cold sets in.’
–
I’m not sure that many homo sapiens will appreciate a colder world, least of all myself.
However, if you are right and temperatures begin to plunge, then we will surely find out just how adaptive alarmists can be!
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No doubt they will try and resurrect the ICE AGE SCAM from the 1970’s again………
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❝ Just when you thought this tripe was dead, it comes round again.
Well, its winter at least in this hemisphere, and a bit chilly, so perhaps it seems plausible –
the septics usually have trouble telling weather from climate.❞
~ ~ ~
Mr. Connolley. “… septics usually have trouble telling weather from climate.”
This is a claim you continuously make. (Most recently @ notrickszone)
This would seem an opportune moment in “the debate (that) is over” for you to help define “weather from climate”.
The ‘settled science’, for some reason, seems to conflict with these recent expert examples:
Climate change a key factor in extreme weather, experts say
❝ A few years ago, talking about weather and climate change in the same breath was a cardinal sin for scientists.
Now it has become impossible to have a conversation about the weather without discussing wider climate trends, according to Professor Will Steffen, the report’s lead author and director of the Australian National University’s Climate Change Institute.
It might even be the case that the mantra chanted after every catastrophic weather event – that it can’t be said to be caused by climate change, but it shows what climate change will do – has become a thing of the past.❞
OR …
Greg Laden on March 6, 2014
Can we attribute specific weather events to climate change?
❝ Yes.
Not only that, but we can’t separate climate change from any single weather event that ever happens, anywhere, no matter what.
So just stop saying that we can’t.❞
. . .
Septics? Name calling?
Surely you didn’t accidentally mis-spell?
Yet, here you are again, feigning ‘insult’ because some-one called you a name @jonova.
I digress.
Can you clarify the difference between climate & weather and end the confusion for Steffen, Laden, and the rest of us who can’t tell the difference between science and media, or climate and weather?
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> Surely you didn’t accidentally mis-spell?
No, its entirely deliberate: http://mustelid.blogspot.co.uk/2004/12/septics-and-skeptics-denialists-and.html
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[c’mon… jokes and insults with reasons are OK. Ta – Jo]
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The septic is almost always connected to the WC.
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So William. Prove to us that there is in fact a consensus. We are all ears.
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Mr Connolley.
Thank you for responding:
“Which is why I prefer septic. Its close enough that you recognise the term. And it describes their style of debate quite accurately.”
. . .
If we are talking about Steffen & Laden, I can only concur.
To quote Steffen’s first 4 words, “A few years ago …”
Quite so how ‘convenient’.
It was only a few years ago when that was the settled science of an inconvenient truth.
What a woozle.
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This global warming scam is like a giant SEPTIC…..
All the chunky brown bits float to the surface!
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Great post. You have described it perfectly. I lost a friend over climate change. I regret losing a friend, but I don’t regret the way I acted. If someone passionately promotes a cause and refuses to partake in rational debate on the subject, smugly condemns you for disagreeing, then refuses to speak to you again, it is difficult to feel like you acted improperly.
If I can’t take the p— with my friends… then they’re not really friends.
It’s not just rage: it is also outright rejection, smug condescension, and fingers in the ears going ‘la la la… I’m not listening to the dumb, uncool, evil denier.’
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Never argue with an idiot: they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. Stop responding to idiots, they will go away….
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Collecting evidence has its value.
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These are merely trying to drive traffic to their own sites since no one knows about them or visits them.
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OR…
Never wrestle with a pig as the pig will enjoy it and you will just get dirty.
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all over our MSM:
Unattributed on Sky, but Guardian is carrying the same piece & it’s by AAP, as i had imagined.
ROBUST?
21 June: Sky News: America and NZ unite in climate change fight
US President Barack Obama has praised New Zealand Prime Minister John Key as a key ally in his crusade to tackle climate change.While Australia may have dropped off as a partner with the election of Tony Abbott as prime minister, Obama says the US and New Zealand will work closely together ahead of next year’s climate change conference in Paris where the world’s first global agreement could be hammered out.
The Kiwi prime minister visited the White House on Friday, a little over a week after Abbott met the president in the Oval Office.Obama and Key were so cosy the president announced he’d visit New Zealand, possibly later this year…
On the environment, Obama said the two nations would robustly work together ahead of Paris…
Obama: ‘So we discussed our plans for putting forward robust action in 2015 with the upcoming Paris conference.’…
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/politics/world/2014/06/21/america-and-nz-unite-in-climate-change-fight.html
NOT AT ALL ROBUST? ALREADY LOOKING TO THE NEXT PRESIDENCY!*** LOL:
20 June: RTCC: US cap on coal sector emissions “carbon crumbs”-Hansen
US power sector is already halfway to the EPA’s 2030 carbon cap
“President Obama had an opportunity when first elected, when his party had control of Congress, when he had 70% approval rating, when the country expected him to lead,” said Hansen, in his latest post on the Columbia University website.“That was the time he should have explained to the public that we must have a rising price on carbon emissions, it would increase the price of fuel at the pump, but if all the money went to the public it would spur the economy.”
“Why is Obama reduced to fighting for carbon crumbs via regulations? ***The next Presidency will be a new opportunity, but this time groundwork must be done.”Hansen has long argued for a national “carbon fee and dividend” approach to emissions regulation…
Analysis of carbon emissions since 2005 shows that US power sector emissions have already fallen by 15%, halfway towards the EPA’s 2030 target with a decade and a half to go.
In addition, even without the proposed ruling, almost all the expected power plant closures in the next few years would be coal, the most carbon emitting form of power generation, because these were the oldest and due for retirement…
http://www.rtcc.org/2014/06/20/us-cap-on-coal-sector-emissions-carbon-crumbs-hansen/
what a laugh.
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What Mr Key says, and what his Government does, are not always totally aligned.
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Obama might be partially right for the wrong reason. Burning coal is a waste of a valuable resource. Currently we only extract less than 1% of the energy in coal and send the rest of it up into the atmosphere as flue gas, never to be seen again. At least with nuclear waste we can re-use that waste and get the unused energy from it.
Coal should be processed to recover the uranium and thorium from it of which there is enough to provide 100 times as much energy as can be got from wastfully burning the coal. The remaining coal instead of being burnt can then be turned into chemicals and used for other means instead of wastefully burning it.
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J M, that depends on the type and quality of the coal and the quality of the technology used at the coal burning plant and the extractors and scrubbers used. Not all coals are equal! http://www.ket.org/trips/coal/agsmm/agsmmtypes.html
The major use of black coal is for generating electricity in power stations, where it is pulverised and burnt to heat steam-generating boilers. Coal used for this process is called steaming coal. Some types of black coal are suitable for coke-making. These coals are called coking coal and when heated in the absence of air produce gases and coke. Good quality coke is hard, has a high crushing strength, and is mainly used in blast furnaces (for smelting) that produce iron. Many organic chemicals, including tars and feedstocks for making various plastics, can be prepared from the by-products of coke and gas production. Some coal is used primarily to obtain these products. Black coal is also used as a heat source in the manufacture of cement and food processing.
Brown coal, sometimes called lignite, is a relatively soft material which has a heating value only about one-quarter of that for black coal. It has a much lower carbon content than black coal and a higher moisture content. Brown coal is also burnt to heat steam-generating boilers in electrical power stations located near the coal mines. It is also made into briquettes, which are used for industrial and domestic heating. Brown coal can also be used to produce water gas, which is used in the production of ammonia, solvents, and liquid fuels, and can be a source of industrial carbon, used to decolourise and purify solutions and (as char) in iron, glass, and cement manufacture.
Coal to liquid for use by vehicles and other machinery is an excellent and likely used of coal as the cost of oil increases. There are coal to liquid plants in at least the US, China and India and was used extensively by Germany in the War.
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Ha ha “the Guardian”.
Same standard as “the age”.
Not even useful for toilet paper !
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meanwhile, in NZ, Radio NZ, Stuff.co.nz & TVNZ have only the briefest of mentions of “climate change”, basically what u see in the TVNZ piece below*** –
21 June: TVNZ: Barack Obama praises Max Key after meeting PM
The Prime Minister’s son golfing skills have captured the attention of one of the most powerful men in the world…
Prime Minister John Key met with US president Barack Obama at the White House in Washington DC for an hour and 20 minutes today.
Following their meeting, the pair fronted media and Mr Obama gave Mr Key’s teenage son Max a special mention.
Mr Obama and Mr Key went up against Max and a presidential aide in Hawaii over the Christmas break.
The president told media that while he would not reveal the scores of the game, “it is important to note that John’s son, Max, can out-drive both of us by a substantial amount”.
Mr Obama also told media that he had indicated to Mr Key that he “would love to come to New Zealand” before the end of his term as president…
Other issues discussed included climate change, the threat to North Korea, the relationship with China, and the Iraq crisis…
(SEVEN PARAS LATER)
***Other issues discussed included climate change, the threat to North Korea, the relationship with China, and the Iraq crisis…
http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/barack-obama-praises-max-key-after-meeting-pm-6008989
Australian MSM is monolithic when it comes to CAGW advocacy.
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There is no threat to North Korea, other than them blowing themselves up.
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Launch ? I said Lunch !
The old ones are the best ones. He, he.
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Not forgetting to Nuke the Chinese
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nuke the towel heads….
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Jo is just very angry because her carefully chosen ‘pal reviewer’ Lubos Motl is not singing the praises of David’s work from the rooftops. [Some people might suggest that Lubos thinks the paper is rubbish but I couldn’t possibly comment.]
Jo has now switched to her usual tactic of blaming the UN, Bilderbergers, European Banking Families, ABC and the lizard men from outer space for maliciously sabotaging David’s much deserved Nobel Prize.
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Have another snort, take another pill. Your comment is unsupported with any evidence. You deserve to be snipped. You are a lose cannon. Not at all skeptical, a liar, a story teller. What use are you?
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Wow! What a inferiority complex you have BB.Pure petulance sonny and it confirms the topic discussed here:namely that proponents of this alarmist scam are largely brain-washed and are in denial.
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BananaBender, you are a nasty piece of work. Just why Jo allows the likes of you, Connolley, and Appell to pollute her blog with your know-it-all, narcissistic claptrap and generally abhorrent behaviour is beyond me. She has a stronger stomach than me!
How about we concentrate on David and Jo’s original thinking and superbly written-up hypothesis.
It’s all very well to have an idea, in particular a complex set ideas, then try and articulate those idea(s) so that (very) ordinary folks such as I can follow the story is a skill that is obviously lacking in the likes of BB, WC, and DA, but which is consummately exhibited by David Evans.
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Yes. Back in my youth people like bb and co were referred to as intellectually challenged, incapable of rational thought.
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Dear Richard111,
thanks for pointing out that obvious information for me. That means all those professionally designed tests I’ve taken over the years must be completely wrong.
Some misguided idiot mistakenly selected me for a programme for gifted children when I was 11 – obviously he got the names mixed up. A later series of employment tests said my Critical Thinking abilities were ranked in the >99th percentile. An army psychologist once told me that I was ‘Highly intelligent’ (ie IQ>140). The Mensa practice test was a bit more generous and suggested an IQ closer to 160 (even my rather stupid older sister was offered Mensa membership so it obviously isn’t much of an achievement). I tried the Graduate Management Aptitude test years ago and obtained 780 out of 800 without doing any practice (apparently this score would make me one of the highest ranking students accepted into in the Harvard MBA programme). It is now apparent that these were all terrible mistakes and I was getting other peoples results instead.
I must be the Forrest Gump of Australia. I keep on getting freakishly high scores in tests and effortlessly completing various university degrees by accident. Many of my friends, university lecturers and various colleagues have said I’m pretty smart when I’m obviously as dumb as dogs**t. How is this so?
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How’s your elbow and wrist ??
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“An army psychologist”
I suggest you try another one, the army guy didn’t help.
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“I must be the Forrest Gump of Australia.”
If you say so.
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“I keep on getting freakishly high scores in tests ”
Some people are just good at regurgitation.
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“bananabender”,
No doubt those high test scores are for “tests” to determine if you should be committed to an insane asylum.
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BB
A small thought !
The world’s population can be divided into two groups. One large group, which only provides constant critique, and another smaller group which focuses on answers and solutions.
If you work in a large corporation or company you will easily identify these people and you will notice that only individuals in one group will aspire to positions of leadership. The other group ends up disenfranchised. These are the people who usually complain endlessly about their wages, conditions and poor management, etc.
Now, the interesting part is that people with very high IQs can reside in both groups, but only those with a high IQ in one of the above groups will be able to use their ability to make a difference.
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You should have just stopped there.
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… and who make the right noises. Saying what wants to be heard is far safer than speaking truth to power in the corporate environment.
Save your best ideas for taking to the top. Don’t waste them on underlings who will twist and distort them, misrepresenting them to their own perceived advantage.
Remember any idiot can have ideas and many of them do. They can also waste perfectly good ideas by failing to grasp and carry them through.
Good ideas should either be treated like valuable seeds, waiting to find the fertile minds to plant them in or like a mission that you are going to carry through , despite the obstacles of fawning middle managers and self appointed arbiters of good ideas lining up to take credit..
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bananabender
June 21, 2014 at 7:41 pm
That means all those professionally designed tests I’ve taken over the years must be completely wrong.
It happens. Sorry for your bad luck.
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Sorry, that comment was intended to be in response to Bananabender at 39.3.1.1
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Yeah, well, what you say probably applies to 50-60% of regulars here, may be more than that, we have never felt the need for a survey.
What is important is that almost all of the regulars here are used to analysing and solving complex problems as part of what they do on a daily basis. We have a significant proportion of Applied Scientists and Engineers, for example.
For all your self praise, you have yet to produce a coherent argument that will make any of us take pause and seriously listen to what you have to say. Perhaps you should try supplying some verifiable facts and presenting a coherent argument as to why they are important.
But no models please, we know enough about models, and their limitations, thank you.
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Sorry BB, apparently no one ever informed you that the levels of ones intelligence and their ability to actually use it are two entirely different things.
More often what is found is that people like you are so convinced of how superior your intelligence is that you become incapable of learning, being of the opinion that you already know it all.
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Also Robert, high IQ and a brilliant mind doesn’t have any relationship to maturity, politeness, civil behavior or political savvy.
BB has demonstrated that.
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“Mark D”,
You left out COMMON SENSE as well.
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Bent Banana: Congratulations! You are a self proclaimed genius (on blowing smoke up you know where).
I have know three genius’ in my life and I have always felt pity for them. They possessed no social graces, they were unable to act with humility and they were unable to develop relationships. All three are in their mid-sixties now and not one of them is married. All three of them were so smart that they could be said to be stupid.
One was a lawyer (crown prosecutor) who then decided to pursue a different career and was successful in landing a job unrelated to his expertise. He was fired for incompetence 7-months after hire. It was later learned that he was also fired from his first position because he could not win a case. So much for genius!
The second one has had a successful career. He is in the science field where for the past forty odd years he has been kept in a lab developing new varieties of wheat (and other grains). They do not allow him out of the Uni Lab unless to discuss his work and he is always sent with a minder to ensure that he does not embarrass the Uni. I spoke with him a few weeks ago and he says he doesn’t want to retire. I think if he should retire that he would die shortly thereafter because he has nothing else to occupy his life. So much for genius!
The third one has at least three or four degrees from very prestigious Uni’s. I don’t know what happened or where he was employed but around the age of 35 he reappeared on the local scene and has work for his dad for the last 30 odd years in a local deli. His only good social skill is to say hi Peter, see you later Peter. Other than that, I can not get him to carry on a conversation. So much for genius!
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Hey Peter, my experience as someone who has worked as both a tech and an engineer is this:
We get a University graduate who is always banging on about how they had a 4.0 GPA. He/she has no experience in the field but, because of that 4.0 GPA that they never stop going on about, he/she refuses to listen to the technicians working under them because they don’t have degrees (and even if they did they didn’t have a 4.0 GPA) even though said technicians have 15-20 years of experience in the area the engineer is now responsible for. In the end Mr/Ms 4.0 shows that they really don’t understand how to apply what they learned in their coursework to the real world but, again because they are just so much smarter than the rest of us, nothing anyone says can get them to try a different approach.
As you say, unable to act with humility. Gets old, more so because the Universities convince them during their time their how that degree is a must in order to do the work, though history has shown numerous examples of self-taught engineers accomplishing far more.
Education is a wonderful thing, even more so when one actually understands that it doesn’t teach you everything and the learning never stops regardless of how high in the alphabet soup of degree acronyms one went. Unfortunately some stop learning the minute the parchment for their degree is printed never to begin again.
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BB having a high IQ and knowing how to us it in polite society are two different things. Free thinkers unencumbered with a mind full of crap, have given us our modern world, high IQ’s not so much, as they are oft an impediment giving behavioural difficulties. Look your IQ in the mirror and see what is looking back.
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BB,
Big deal.
I would suggest there are definitely any number of contributors here that are at the least your equal.
And yet the ability for logical reasoning alludes you.
Fanatical ideology truly holds no boundaries and you are just more susceptible than most to the zealotry.
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FijiDave
June 21, 2014 at 3:42 pm
BananaBender, you are a nasty piece of work. Just why Jo allows the likes of you, Connolley, and Appell to pollute her blog with your know-it-all, narcissistic claptrap and generally abhorrent behaviour is beyond me.
Evidence.
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Bananabender:
The paper has been published openly and comments invited. There is nothing to suggest that a “pal reviewer” was appointed or even wanted. The problem with this approach is that it attracts people like yourself and Wil E. Stoat, who seem desperate to prove how devoted they are to an out-moded doctrine, and who spend considerable time and effort trying to stop any approach that would replace their dogma.
If your faith is so sound and everlasting, what are you afraid of?
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Don’t misquote me.
I’m probably the most sceptical person on this entire blog. I’ve often said that CO2 has no role in global warming.[Meteorologists rejected the role of CO2 back in the 50s.]
David and Jo (along with Monckton and Watts) should really be called ‘luke warmists’ rather than sceptics. They simply argue how much influence CO2 has rather than looking at the underlying physical energy transfer processes that control climate and weather.
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To be fair, BB HAS been reliably skeptical but unnecessarily rude and harshly critical. The Luke warmists he has named above deserve the name although I don’t know what difference it makes AND BB has made a logical contradiction since the recent hypothesis David and Joe have put fourth could potentially replace all of the effect of CO2, making them not luke warmists at all.
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BB has so far offered absolutely nothing to the discussion.
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BB, how about, just once, you engage your brain (if you have one), and try to think !
Try to see where this is going………… do you have the intelligence to do that?
I doubt it. !
But you can prove me wrong by shutting up and listening.
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All David had to do was post the paper under a pseudonym if he wanted to get his work into the public domain and obtain some constructive criticism. Instead he decided to do a ‘Dr Sheldon Cooper’ and boastfully and prematurely announce his ‘Nobel worthy’ discovery to all the world. Every Big bang Theory fan knows how badly that ended.
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Now we know your mental taste in television..
I bet you think its an education program.
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Griss, I look at Penny for her educational value every chance I get 🙂
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“bananabender”,
Obviously been bending way to many bananas lately.
Take a chill pill and lie down!
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Who mentioned Nobel, apart from Bananabender? Delusional, very.
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Like I said, censorship. So much for the free and open search for truth, Jo, you have no scientific credibility.
How much deleted information and evidence has there been here, Jo????
When things get a little too hot for you, just block it out and turn up the noise? Is that what you call science? Stick your fingers in your ears and let Griss chant Rhubbarb for you! Very smooth.
[Nobody gets censured here for their ideas. But people do get moderated for being rude, offensive, overbearing, dominating, and failing to add to the ‘culture’ of the site. If you disagree with anything that anybody else says on this site, then explain why, and provide contrary evidence or examples. I have not seen you present any evidence to date, but as this current comment shows, you are quite happy to insult your host. If you did that at a party, you could well end up with a broken nose. All we expect, is for people to be polite. Also, a bit of humor earns bonus points, and gains people a lot more leeway, when it comes to moderation. -Fly]
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OH “BilB”, you idiot, you’ve done it again !
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Billy shoots, he scores! Another goal for Joanne!
Your comment was posted. That negates it.
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YESSSSS.. I get singled out by the Blib !!! 🙂
But, I don’t like Rhubbarb, horrible red stuff that leaves a nasty stain behind it…..
Are you rhubarb? The description fits.
(thought I’d correct your spelling) 😉
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“Also, a bit of humor earns bonus points, and gains people a lot more leeway, when it comes to moderation. -Fly”
ummmm…. I think Blib’s post WAS him trying to be funny ! 🙂
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This is a video that’s funny but shows how information can be manipulated to match your idea of reality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MMc3f588yc
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A little reality manipulation for you: http://classicalvalues.com/2014/06/breath/
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19 June: Financial Post: Matt Ridley: Junk Science Week: IPCC commissioned models to see if global warming would reach dangerous levels this century. Consensus is ‘no’
Even if you pile crazy assumption upon crazy assumption, you cannot even manage to make climate change cause minor damage.
The debate over climate change is horribly polarized. From the way it is conducted, you would think that only two positions are possible: that the whole thing is a hoax or that catastrophe is inevitable.
In fact there is room for lots of intermediate positions, including the view I hold, which is that man-made climate change is real but not likely to do much harm, let alone prove to be the greatest crisis facing humankind this century…
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/06/19/ipcc-climate-change-warming/
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Sky News finds someone else to repeat this meme, say whatever they like without challenge. let’s face it, there’ll be a repeat of this story every time a CAGW-advocate makes the call. what about groups who don’t want it on the agenda? could they ever get published? no.
20 June: Sky News: Call for climate change on G20 agenda
Civil society groups want climate change to be a main topic at a G20 meeting later this year, but Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the forum should have an economic focus.
‘If left unchecked, climate change could cost trillions of dollars to our economy, and perhaps shave around two per cent off growth, which is one of the principal focuses of the G20,’ WWF Australia CEO Dermot O’Gorman told reporters in Melbourne on Friday… http://www.skynews.com.au/news/politics/world/2014/06/20/call-for-climate-change-on-g20-agenda.html
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C’mon, folks, Jo and Dave don’t need this. All these replies to the trolls is exactly what they want. You are being manipulated! Simply IGNORE the trolls so we can learn where they are in the thread and carry on reading the interesting stuff. I’m wasting so much time skipping the agro in the comments I am losing patience which is of course what the trolls want. Why are you helping them?
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Why do you think Jo put this thread in..
….. to take the random troll noise away from the important stuff. 🙂
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True, and a very effective inflatable tank it is. 🙂
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I’m doing my best to keep them here. 🙂
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Gotcha! I tend to be a bit cranky in the morning. 🙂
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Cranky? only before I have my coffee.. then I’m up and at ’em !! 🙂
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OMG you drink coffee?!!!!
I can picture you a bit like this Griss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-eMdMsMgCU 🙂
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And yet.. here I sit, calm as a cucumber 🙂
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I’m cranky before my first cup and after my last (15th or 20th but who’s counting) and all the cups in between.
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I must add that I drink 1/4 cups at double strength. So only 7 or 10 real cups a day. I’m a Navy man.
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MS
I’m also a Navy man but I drink RUM (although I DO have one strong/sweet coffee every morning) 🙂
Cheers,
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OT – Ove is at it again.
This time to UNESCO
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Ove and his scuba diving undergrads at James Cook and AIMS need more taxpayer money to keep their lifestyle choice a going concern.If this hoax keeps up they may as well develop gills.Geez I love diving myself.
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If it gets us the very useful technology then I am happy to play along with the idea that we should develop 4th generation nuclear in order to help the environment.
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Not that moron again !
Complaints against Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg:-
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/15/formal-complaints-against-professor-ove-hoegh-guldberg/
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It has occurred to me whilst reading David Appells comments on this thread,such as ‘carbon pollutant’that all sceptics would agree that the global warming anti co2 movement has become a huge industry since its origins back around the 1980’s.there are millions of people involved all over the world from politicians to bureaucrats and science to maufacturing and ngo’s to the usefull idiots.they are always preaching to others in industry that they need to reduce their co2 emissions and yet if you compare the rates of increase for emissions since the 1980’s i’d bet that the global warmers would have one of the steepest rates of rise in emissions themselves as their industry did not excist much before then.I would love to see someone with better math and english skills than myself design a graph to demonstrate this,i imaging there would be a flat no trend handle for approximately 4.5 billion years then a hockey stick blade from the 1980’s like the north face of the eiger lol.step forward lord Monkton
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OT !
Tony, This is for you 🙂
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/study-finds-wind-power-increases-costs.html
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Thanks Griss.
Say, allow me to refer you to an earlier Post of my own from the site I contribute to, and if you read that Post, note at the top the date I wrote it, October 2009.
Fancy them only taking five years to catch onto what I was saying so long ago.
Wind Power – Epic Fail
Tony.
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Tony,
Regarding your ‘epic fail’ link,
It would be interesting to know how much of the wind power was actually used by the grid. I’m guessing that the grid would probably dump anything over the 6% minimum as that figure is probably what they use each day for planning purposes. Also, when you factor in the hours when the turbines failed to deliver the 6% it gets even worse !!!
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My computer clock shows 13:02z my alarm clock 8:02AM local time. I got a different time stamp the last time I tried.
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It is now 2054z. Lets see if the time stamp on this comment matches (the minutes are off).
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I expect the mods won’t allow this through, but…
One particular commenter on here makes me think he should marry this woman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K3MoxlCaJ4&feature=kp
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I live in Minnesota and all I can say after listening to her is “You have got to be kidding me.” Unfortunately I think she was serious.
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Charming… and she doesn’t let it bother her.
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Naivety isn’t a crime. Taking advantage of it should be [edited] ED
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Taking advantage of naivety is the usual form for politicians of all stripes.
In Australia the Liberal Party has decided that it’s okay for the finance sector to take advantage of naivety by allowing financial advisors to push specific products upon which they receive a sales commission while avoiding the regulations against doing so by claiming this specific product is part of “general advice”.
I’ve got nothing against free markets and deregulation in principle, but the whole purpose of financial advisors is to help emptors that can’t caveat.
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This is by far worse. Note the really good stuff (an examination of the nature of humanity) begins about 1 minute in for the time pressed.
http://youtu.be/Cey35bBWXls
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I believe I dated this lady years ago, on a bus tour in the outback the tour guide told us that dinosaur bones were discovered only meters from the highway a few years prior, my then girlfriend exclaimed “OMG I wouldn’t have thought dinosaurs would wander so close to the highway!”
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I am right now surrounded by ice from hail that fell around 3pm yesterday afternoon, it is now 9am Sunday. The hail stones ranged from marbles to golf balls, more of the former thankfully. A seaside district that looks more like Thredbo NSW after a light fall of snow. I await the Clmate Change Institute claim that the event is another example of climate change. Will the ship of fools soon sail into the boat harbour to record this?
By the way, the CCI has announced an annual survey indicating that seventy per cent of Australians reject the Abbott Government plan to not support so called renewable energy in future. Once again I was not polled.
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How can we get through to these people that so-called renewables ARE A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY !!!!
If the current solar situation continues, the VERY LAST thing we should be thinking of is having to rely on expensive, unreliable, irregular inefficient wind and solar.
All I can do is keep saying so, and hope someone with some common sense , and in power, is actually listening.
The only way I can see to get through is to do as the global warming alarmistas have done, and go bat-s**t crazy.
I wish those in UK, northern Europe and northern USA, the best of luck over the coming decade. BUY BLANKETS !!!
Appel, WC etc….. I hope you are somewhere that gets really, really cold.. because you deserve it.
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I bought a kerosene wick style heater this past winter to keep the garage from getting below freezing. Various paints, solvents, etc. stored out there I didn’t want to have to worry about possibly freezing. Provided one cracks a window to allow for air replenishment it is rated as safe for use in the home, people used to use them all the time prior to central heating. Backup heat sources for warmth, cooking, etc. are never a bad idea if one lives in geographical regions where snow and below freezing temperatures are a normal part of the seasons. One never knows when ice on power lines may take your neighborhood off the grid.
The current push for unreliable “renewable” energy sources makes it even more likely one may find themselves without power at a time when it is most needed.
As has been mentioned cooling is far more of a concern than warming. But if the goal is to kill people off, then making it harder and more expensive for the elderly and ill to stay warm in the winter is certainly one way to do it.
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Hank Paulson, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs, and now chairman of the Paulson Institute, which he founded in 2011 to promote sustainable economic growth and a cleaner environment around the world(?), is very, very concerned about CAGW, & willing to repeat the tired old CAGW memes in the Paper of Record(?):
Hank, like other CAGW-ers before him, co-opts “BUBBLE” to mean something entirely other than the CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS TRADING BUBBLE we should fear more than any of the extreme weather events Hank is pushing here:
21 June: NYT: The Coming Climate Crash
Lessons for Climate Change in the 2008 Recession
by HENRY M. PAULSON Jr.
THERE is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned throughout my work in finance, government and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage.
For too many years, we failed to rein in the excesses building up in the nation’s financial markets. When the credit bubble burst in 2008, the damage was devastating. Millions suffered. Many still do.
We’re making the same mistake today with climate change. We’re staring down a climate BUBBLE that poses enormous risks to both our environment and economy. The warning signs are clear and growing more urgent as the risks go unchecked…
We need to act now, even though there is much disagreement, including from members of my own Republican Party, on how to address this issue while remaining economically competitive…
***(LOL)I was secretary of the Treasury when the credit bubble burst, so I think it’s fair to say that I know a little bit about risk, assessing outcomes and problem-solving…
Already, observations are catching up with years of scientific models, and the trends are not in our favor…
Fewer than 10 years ago, the best analysis projected that melting Arctic sea ice would mean nearly ice-free summers by the end of the 21st century. Now the ice is melting so rapidly that virtually ice-free Arctic summers could be here in the next decade or two…
Even worse, in May, two separate studies discovered that one of the biggest thresholds has already been reached. The West Antarctic ice sheet has begun to melt…
It is true that there is uncertainty about the timing and magnitude of these risks and many others. But those who claim the science is unsettled or action is too costly are simply trying to ignore the problem. We must see the bigger picture…
I’m a businessman, not a climatologist. But I’ve spent a considerable amount of time with climate scientists and economists who have devoted their careers to this issue. There is virtually no debate among them that the planet is warming and that the burning of fossil fuels is largely responsible….
In a future with more severe storms, deeper droughts, longer fire seasons and rising seas that imperil coastal cities, public funding to pay for adaptations and disaster relief will add significantly to our fiscal deficit and threaten our long-term economic security…
Let’s not ignore the climate BUBBLE.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/opinion/sunday/lessons-for-climate-change-in-the-2008-recession.html?_r=0
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the money keeps flowing:
21 June: Daily Texan: UT engineering program receives $12 million to research reducing greenhouse gas emissions
The University’s Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security, led by engineering professor Larry W. Lake, received a $12 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, also known as the DOE, to continue researching carbon storage challenges aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The four-year grant is a continuation of a five-year, $15.5 million grant awarded by the DOE in 2009. Although 31 other Energy Frontier Research Centers across the nation received grants, UT is the only university in Texas to have been awarded one…
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2014/06/20/ut-engineering-program-receives-12-million-to-research-reducing-greenhouse-gas-emissions
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heard this being promo-ed on Tony Delroy’s “What the Papers Say” segment on ABC Friday nite, with a mocking tone about how those NOT without solar panels will pay astronomical electricity prices when these batteries take the solar crowd off the grid. no hint of concern on radio or in the article for those who were/are NOT in a position to take advantage of taxpayer largesse for buying solar panels, not to mention feed-in tariffs:
22 June: Australian Financial Review: Batteries rev up solar tensions
by Ben Potter and Angela Macdonald-Smith
Out of the garage, the red and black Zero SR motorcycle purring contentedly below Melbourne’s Bolte Bridge is a beast that produces 60 horsepower and has won a “Holy s##t!” road-test rating from Gizmag.
At home, it doubles as a 14kWh storage battery that the bike’s owner can plug into a solar roof-top system to power the house and avoid peak grid charges.
It’s part of a new wave of battery technology that – if embraced by the 1.3 million Australian households with roof-top solar panels – threatens to tighten the screws on an electricity industry already battling falling demand.
New generation batteries like those in the Zero motorcycle or in stationary storage systems are a quantum leap forwards for households that make their own electricity…
Adam Dalby, owner of Solar Australia in Newcastle, has installed 16 lithium-ion storage systems costing $7500 to $14,000 for a fridge-sized 8kWh system, which can make a household self-sufficient 70-80 per cent of the time.
Bigger systems could just about take them “off the grid”. Dalby says houses in NSW can save 52¢ /kWh at peak times by storing solar power for later rather than having to sell it into the grid at the reduced 6¢ feed-in-tariff…
Electric industry’s death spiral
Experts warn that this could accelerate the electricity industry’s “death spiral”, pushing up costs for anyone reliant on the grid. As industry shutdowns and energy efficiencies cut electricity demand, network charges – more than half of retail prices – rise. The more people cut their use, the more prices rise…
James Deutsher, who imports Zeros from California and has sold 10 from his Collingwood warehouse, says 40 per cent of inquiries are from “green-oriented” people; the rest want “the next curve in motorcycle evolution”…
***At $19,000-$25,000, the Zero SR isn’t cheap and none is yet connected to a solar system…
Soaring retail energy prices and the slashing of feed-in tariffs from 60¢ or more, to 6-8¢ encouraged Bosch Australia to bring in the high-end BPT-S 5 Hybrid, which provides 4.4-13.2 kWh. It sells for about $25,000-$30,000 retail…
MacGill (Iain MacGill, associate professor of electrical engineering at UNSW) cautions safety is an issue – stored energy can escape as fire…
On Thursday, the Solar Citizens event was part revival meeting, with testimonials from “saved” solar householders, and part campaign rally to warn politicians off any changes to the renewable energy target – one of the props for solar . A crowd of about 200 – earnest faces, cycling gear and a few “crazy professor” hairdos – cheered strategies to “sting” suppliers.
“I am now inclined to say, ‘stuff the utilities, stuff the government’, put on more panels and go off the grid,” said Peter Campbell of Templestowe, a Collins Street IT consultant.
http://www.afr.com/p/national/batteries_rev_up_solar_tensions_XeJwOp1rNDyLMSt75pFncN
look forward to any comments from TonyfromOz & others.
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I would love to see affordable batteries that can do that !
In his dreams.
Again my BS meter breaks !!
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what our MSM will not acknowledge – to the detriment of our economy – but it no doubt makes them feel “cool”:
21 June: Toronto Sun: Lorrie Goldstein: Obama’s fossil fools
Canada, were being played for a patsy on the oil sands.
It’s being orchestrated by an unholy alliance headed by U.S. President Barack Obama, aided and abetted by American Democratic billionaires, hypocritical Canadian and U.S. environmentalists and Canada’s opposition parties.
While Obama acts like Hamlet on approving the Keystone XL pipeline, and while the rest of the usual suspects rail against the Northern Gateway pipeline, or Keystone, or both — proxy fights for the real issue, which is the development of Canada’s oil sands — Obama is upping U.S. fossil fuel production like stink.
And no one among the usual suspects is calling him on it.
It’s not like Obama hasn’t given them ammunition.
Here’s Obama speaking in March, 2012 at the Cushing Pipe Yard in Cushing, Oklahoma:
“Under my administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years … Over the last three years, I’ve directed my administration to open up millions of acres for gas and oil exploration across 23 different states. We’re opening up more than 75% of our potential oil resources offshore. We’ve quadrupled the number of operating rigs to a record high. We’ve added enough new oil and gas pipeline to encircle the Earth and then some.
“So we are drilling all over the place … In fact, the problem … is that we’re actually producing so much oil and gas … that we don’t have enough pipeline capacity to transport all of it to where it needs to go — both to refineries, and then, eventually, all across the country and around the world. There’s a bottleneck … because we can’t get enough of the oil to our refineries fast enough. And if we could, then we would be able to increase our oil supplies at a time when they’re needed as much as possible.
“Right now, a company called TransCanada has applied to build a new pipeline to speed more oil from Cushing to state-of-the-art refineries down on the Gulf Coast. And today, I’m directing my administration to cut through the red tape, break through the bureaucratic hurdles, and make this project a priority, to go ahead and get it done …
“So, yes, we’re going to keep on drilling. Yes, we’re going to keep on emphasizing production. Yes, we’re going to make sure that we can get oil to where it’s needed.”
The pipeline Obama’s referring to is the southern half of the Keystone XL…
***But instead of keeping more coal in the ground, the U.S. has upped its coal exports to record levels. Obama isn’t reducing U.S. emissions. He’s exporting them…
That’s his job.
What’s surprising is how many hypocritical Canadians are helping him do it, at the expense of our economy.
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/06/21/obamas-fossil-fools
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abc/fairfax/guardian: why can’t you face reality? how dead can this scam get before they bury it?
21 June: Bloomberg: Matthew Carr: Rising German Coal Use Imperils European Emissions Deal
The European Union’s attempt to cap greenhouse-gas emissions over the next 16 years is threatened again as rising pollution from the bloc’s biggest economies shows even developed nations want to burn cheap coal.
Germany, Europe’s largest economy, boosted consumption of the fuel by 13 percent in the past four years, while use in Britain, No. 3 in the region economically, rose 22 percent, statistics from oil company BP Plc show…
Countries including Poland, which relies on coal to generate more than 80 percent of its power, want to guarantee their right to use the fuel before signing off on targets they say penalize lower-income nations…
“Both the U.K. and Germany are on a collision course with Poland,” Maciej Bukowski, president of the Warsaw Institute of Economic Studies, which has advised Poland on greenhouse gas cuts, said by phone June 17. “To cut emissions, it needs to spend a lot of money up front,” he said, predicting a 50 percent chance the October deadline will slip…
The so-called Visegrad group of former Soviet-controlled countries — including the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia — said in May that the EU’s plans for 2030 put a “disproportionate burden on the lower-income member states.” …
German fossil-fuel emissions climbed 5.5 percent to 843 million tons in the four years through 2013, the BP data show. To meet its commitment, Germany would have to reduce its pollution by about 379 million tons, a further 45 percent. The BP statistics cover only fossil-fuel burning, which makes up about 88 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas output…
Failure of the EU to reach a deal this year risks diluting the global climate agreement due to be forged in Paris in December 2015, said Robert Stavins, director of Harvard University’s Environmental Economics Program…
“If it requires unanimity, it’s going to be very, very difficult,” Stavins said. “Poland is right to be concerned for its economy.” …
The cost of emitting one ton of carbon dioxide in the EU’s emissions market has slumped 81 percent since 2008 as the financial crisis cut industrial demand, fueling a surplus of the pollution rights…
***European governments handed out $57 billion in 2012 for green energy projects, more than half of the global $101 billion, according to the International Energy Agency in Paris…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-19/rising-german-coal-use-imperils-european-emissions-deal.html
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BFDNR –> Badly Formatted Did Not Read
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@David Appell
Here’s a paper which illustrates why it is that you could not justify your conclusion that elevated CO2 is harmful to food plants. I’m not sure if it will help you to understand how the scientific method works , but there are lots of helpful people here who can explain it to you.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13281.html
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580 posts on this topic in 24 hours! A good fraction of them by the self appointed protectors of the sacred CAGW dogma. This for something they say is not new, not true, trivial, wrong, …. Clearly, David’s work is frightening them. They are blazing away with everything they have. What they have is not much more than paper airplanes, spitballs, and ghost stories. This against a scattered, unfunded, and unorganized bunch of free thinking individuals who are simply using their minds and words and who know how to use them well.
Poor things. One might feel some sympathy for them until you remember that what they are defending. They are defending a dogma who’s STATED goal is global governance by the UN, global redistribution of wealth, the enslavement of every productive person on earth, the total destruction of modern technological civilization, and the reduction of the human population of the earth by well over 90%.
I, for one, am not going to cooperate with their plan.
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I was just marveling at the almost 600 posts myself Lionell and all on an apparent non issue 🙂
Over the past couple of days I’ve been narrating these posts to Mrs Yonnie when today she exclaimed “Forget Game of thrones, this s&%t fight makes it look like a school yard scrap!”
BTW we refuse to cooperate with the plan also.
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Lionell,
what gets me the most about those who so blindly support their side of the argument is that they say that the debate is closed and they need to move on to action ….. NOW.
For years they have been saying this, and how that they ….. CONCLUSIVELY know the cause, the emissions of CO2.
So, has there been any action?
If it is in their minds that it is so enormously detrimental, have they stopped those CO2 emissions at the source?
Well, no.
All they do is rabbit on ad infinitum.
Have their string pullers in political power closed down completely and utterly, the source of 40 to 45% of those emissions?
No again.
In fact not only have they not closed any of those large scale coal fired plants, they are actually allowing many Countries to construct more of them, and not only a few here and there, but what is a plethora of new large scale plants.
The only plants closing in the U.S. where what amounts to only lip service to closures are small, tiny time expired power plants, replaced in more than their totality by ….. CO2 emitting natural gas fired power plants.
The supporters of this CAGW dogma have blinkers so wide, they cannot see what is actually happening around them, CO2 emissions rising, everywhere they look.
There is no action being taken, and what action there may be chips away by the tiniest fractions of CO2 reduction while the increases in emissions are of a quantum level.
You lot ….. and you know who you are, open your bloody eyes.
Your political masters are using you, and giving you nothing in return.
THAT is why I know that you’re not for real.
Talk talk talk. That’s all you’ve got.
Get your bosses to actually do something if the problem is as bad as you make it out to be.
Don’t come here and bitch and complain that we are Deniers.
Bloody well do something, you pretenders.
Tony.
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Haven’t they managed to reduce emissions then by the historically most profligate of nations, and set up a fund to do more, albeit by saddling developed economies with soaring unemployment and burgeoning debt?
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I hope these guys will have the GUTS to stand up and APOLOGISE if the temperature does start to drop into a mini ice age.
They will have a LOT to apologise for.
They have effectively decimated the power supply systems of many countries, and held back development in underdeveloped countries.
Wasted huge amounts of money on trying to prevent a small amount of highly beneficial warming and CO2.
UTTER STUPIDITY !!!!!!
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Worse than that! The rising cost of energy is increasing the cost of food production AND DISTRIBUTION! The result is starvation. So not stupidity, carefully planned global population reduction! Easy to work out which countries go down first. Always third world. Keep an eye on Africa.
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Energy poverty, old age, freezing winters, unstable irregular power (lucky you are on coal power, hey, David).
This is a recipe for major increases in death rates in UK, northern Europe, northern USA…
UK particularly will be very lucky if they don’t have major outages next winter.
Is this REALLY what they want ?
Is this REALLY the ultimate aim ?
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And of course energy poverty leads to pilfering of forest timber, burning of wood in cheap stoves, house fires, large rises in particulate pollution, and probably ZERO reduction of CO2 !
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Africa won’t be the worst. The middle east will just explode. More guns per head of population there and with the proliferation of nuclear warheads, thanks to Pakistan (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran at a minimum, have or are procuring), will make an interesting fireworks display … …trouble is, the `troubles’ will not stay localised but will be exported pretty quickly.
We’ve already had a taste of what will happen there with the `Arab Spring’ 2010-2011. Syria is still going.
When? Ten years, maybe less. Temperatures are predicted (David Archibald et al) to drop faster after next year, so food supplies will be hit with shorter growing seasons pretty quickly. Exporting nations are those with current large surpluses. They won’t export when the surplus disappears—they have their own people to feed. Less food => higher prices, more hunger.
looks like `interesting times.’
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The colder periods were always the periods of human suffering and disquiet..
The warm periods of human prosperity and progress..
Why do these MORONS what the cold !!!
Why are they so scared of the warm ????
UTTER STUPIDITY !!!
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what => want
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We are still barely above the lows of the LIA… and look like dropping back down to something similar.
And these MORONS what to rely on wind and solar energy……… ABSOLUTE IDIOTS !!!!
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Yep. Just when we thought we had left it behind. Europe alone lost over 2.5 million people in the LIA. The bicycle was invented because there weren’t enough horses. They had to be fed too. Instead, many were eaten.
Tch! Too mild. Cretinoid coprocephalics is a better fit.
It is looking somewhat like the Dalton Minimum all over again (1790-1840). Charles Dickens grew up in it and lived through it. It’s the time of all the weather he described in his books. Brr.
If you haven’t already read it, ask your library to get you Brian Fagan’s book: “The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850.” I would call it compulsory reading! And while you’re at it, if you haven’t yet read it, get them to get you David Archibald’s “The Twilight of Abundance: Why Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short.”
Read them together and you’ll be scared for the rest of the year!
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And a lot of once surpluses in corn etc have been run to low levels because of biofools. !
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of course. That caused the shortage which raised the price which triggered the riots three years ago.
Think of the size of the gap (shortage) when the solar sleep really hits. Because it will affect all crop-growing areas this time instead of just the bio-foolery, it’s gonna be grim. Egypt can feed about 40mill of its 80mill+ population currently. It imports the rest. If their agriculture loses 15% or more of its crop, internal prices will spike really high. But: not just Egypt will have a drop. Everywhere else will too. Prices will spike ever higher. There will be no recovery the next year. There may be a bigger shortage.
The hungry mobs will riot. And their rioting will go international.
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Killing off human beings is what the agenda of the global warming religion is.
Human beings are nothing but parasites on the Earth according to them !
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They just won’t quit with the feeble stunts http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/2014/06/22/carbon-tax-backers-put–dinosaurs–to-test.html?cid=BP_CAROUSEL_NEWS_dinosaurs-take-over-canberra_2206
Way to go John Hewson, if you wanted to get a stupid scientific claim on record for all time then job well done.
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the moment mr appell stated belief in the hockey stick is the moment i believe no more energy should have been wasted in reply.
to then go on and state that he owns a car as there are no suitable alternatives whilst claiming there is no need for dependence on carbon based energy sources anymore is laughable.
i think it would be far easier to move to a location with good public transport with amenities within walking or cycling distance than change the worlds energy sources overnight ,or even within a lifetime (despite all the alternatives currently being carbon based in their manufacture) ,yet what mr appell actually wants to see is everyone else doing that whilst he chooses to live where he wants,and travel how he wants .
mr appell is typical of those that know better for us all but would not entertain physical impact upon their own lives,a level of hypocrisy prevalent in the cagw movement, yet to date ,very hard to find in the sceptic community.
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A number of years ago I moved into the cities to look for work, my criteria for a residence was 1- on or close to a bus line, 2- cheap rent. That was it, for the next few years I didn’t own a vehicle as I didn’t want to have to deal with finding a place to park it. Along with the fact that in winter your normal parking location ends up off limits at various times so the plows can get the street cleaned it just didn’t seem worth it.
For 3 or 4 years I rode a mountain bike everywhere, including through Minnesota winters, took the bus, or walked. I did not own a car though I had owned several in years prior.
Sometime later I moved out west for awhile, also in a northern region where winters got cold and snowy. I had a car, but more often then not rode my mountain bike (same one for years) everywhere, even during winter.
Eventually I moved again, couldn’t get where I needed to go via bike, feet, or bus, and began driving again. So as you have noted, the alternatives are there if one chooses to make use of them. My choices were for economic reasons, not due to some activist drivel.
BTW, the reason for the latter move was to keep my dog as management of the complex I was in changed and with them so did the pet rules.
If Appell were really concerned he would make the required changes in his lifestyle. Sell the current residence and the vehicle, move to where he doesn’t need to use fossil fuels for his transportation, etc. Until he can walk the walk there is no point in listening to his talk.
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That is one thing his type cannot withstand: being ignored. If they are ignored, they feel they don’t exist. The interesting thing is that is true. They are totally second hand creatures. They exist as only others see them.
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“Appell” should also stop using any electricity not created by his wind/solar gods otherwise he would be a hypocrite.
Speaking of Hypocrites checkout this Greenpeace character !!
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/frequent_flying_green/
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That would be severely limiting since the devices used to collect the energy from wind and solar are made using Fossil Fuels. And elements that are much more damaging to the environment.
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I was fortunate to live close to where I worked for 6 years. And I started riding my bike then as well. I rode it every day.
Until the temperature went down to -5F! I drew the line there. If you were riding in Minnesota winters, you are a lot more cold tolerant than I!
BTW: During high school, I never had access to a bus, so rode my bike to and from school for the entire 4 years. That was not too bad except when we moved to Frankfurt Germany. It was about 5 miles – of arctic cold!
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Ah. Paul Krugman, the Nobel Laureate in economics who said that a housing bubble in the USA would be a good thing a little before it burst in 2008 and threw the world economy into profound recession. Niall Ferguson has a fine 3-part takedown of Krugman (they don’t love each other) on his website, and here is the first part:
http://www.niallferguson.com/journalism/miscellany/krugtron-the-invincible-part-1
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The financial crisis was created was created by U.S. Government policies that tried to sustain the Tech-boom of the 1990’s and early 2000’s by providing low interest rates to sustain a housing bubble. This innate weakness in the U.S (and World) economy was then exposed by Government policies that provided easy finance to millions of people who were not capable of paying back the money they owed. Ironically, then lawyer and community organizer Barack Obama was one of the chief advocates for this feel-good Democratic policy, while his future Republican opponent for President, Senator John McCain, was doing everything he could to stop the unfolding disaster.
The Left has re-written this sordid chapter of world history to make out that Wall Street (and the 1 %) was mostly to blame. The truth is that Wall Street was only reacting to totally irrational policies that was being rammed down everyone’s throat by the stupid feel-good Left.
This is very reminiscent of the mindless global warming religion that is being vomited on us by the Green-Left, not because it is based on any genuine scientific observations and theories but it because it makes those on the left feel good inside.
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Not just rammed. At the time, Freddie Mac and Fanny May held almost 50% of the US mortgage sector
Mid-size banks that had been approached by Freddie Mac and Fanny May for large underwriting loans refused these loans on the very reasonable basis that there was little chance of them being paid back, considering Freddie and Fanny operated from a legislative basis that precluded them from assessing an applicant’s ability to service the mortgage
Some of these mid-sized banks were then successfully prosecuted, for refusing the underwriting funds, on the grounds of racial discrimination. This had the desired effect on the remainder
Wall Street then quite ham-fistedly tried to package these toxic loans together with other safer loans to spread the risk, and sold these packages world-wide with the aid of various sleazy rating agencies
We know the result, although there is no hope of the meeja ever reporting these facts
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It seems to me that some type of study could be performed on blog comments with well defined criteria for determining which side a commenter is on and how much rage he or she is expressing. I would guess that most of the venom would be on the CAGW side.
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> some type of study could be performed on blog comments
That’s a good idea. We’ll use this very blog posting, shall we?
a Bilb> dummy spit..
b PM> stop reading Greenpeace B
b SMcH> This is a dummy spit
b Bobl> groupthinking brainless herd
b tG> You poor insignificant little worm
b TOB> All the dummies are at the NAS!
b scaper> the watermelon heads to explode is good value in my opinion
b JB> Bull S##t,
a BB> Christopher Monckton is a pretentious (but rather amusing) old tosser.
b tG> [SNIP]
b tG> [snip – nil content] (oddly, the previous comment was presumably deemed to have content)
b scapre> wanky designer beer.
b tG> Again with the slime.
That gets me as far as top level #8, at which point I got bored (well actually I got bored earlier, but persevered).
So, it looks like you lose. Feel free to propose a different criterion (I just used “rude words”) and do your own categorisation.
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” [snip – nil content] (oddly, the previous comment was presumably deemed to have content)”
It was about you..
Therefore .. nil content.
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“tG> Again with the slime”
And yet you continue.
Because its what you do.
Its all you have.
Its what you are.
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When you have something to offer apart from “nothing” maybe you will fit into society.
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Until then, all you can do is keep PLEADING for attention.
Well little child.. I have given you some.
I hope it helps your ego. 🙂
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The sad thing is that William Connolly actually believes that he has won
a debating point. The fact he is regarded by many people as a complete
laughing stock has completely gone over his head. Jo Nova goes the extra
mile to allow him to comment freely on her blog – which is much more than
he ever did at Wikipedia and yet he still doesn’t see the problem.
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> won a debating point.
That’s what happens when the other side propose a challenge, I step up and answer, and your lot have nothing to say in return. I admit I’m surprised: I thought someone would manage to find *some* way to interpret the comments here to make “your side” look good, but apparently not.
> goes the extra mile to allow him to comment freely
That sentence doesn’t make sense. It takes no effort to not-censor people. The people who take moderators time are those who need snipping – see the list above. WUWT, BishopHill, etc etc all take the time and trouble to censor people who disturb their walled gardens.
> he ever did at Wikipedia
Wiki isn’t a blog, so isn’t a place for people to just comment, so your comment doesn’t really make any sense.
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Mind you, it is somewhere you got banned from
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He never will either.
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William Connolley says: “Catastrophic global warming is real because I say so!”
What William Connolley hears in reply: “qw%$S(@5 S%$@#! HWTSR$!* S So &^77 there!”
William Connolley says: “I have fully understood what you have said and you do not have a leg to stand on!”
What William Connolley hears in reply: “u&%@hST%)!AHS%QAA with L&@^*@*( bells )(&@( UIgs872 ON!”
William Connolley says: “Well argued but 1,297 % of all scientist on the TEAM say that I am right, so I must be right!
Evidence, you say, evidence….., who needs evidence to support a scientific argument!”
and on and on it goes……
someone is not listening!
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Its usual, when putting words inside quote marks, for them to be actual words that people have said; that’s what quote marks mean. At least, its what you expect from honest accurate people. Putting words in people’s mouths that are the direct opposite of what people say is called lying.
> William Connolley says: “Catastrophic global warming is real because I say so!”
No. I’ve said, repeatedly and recently on this blog, precisely the reverse: that CAGW is a strawman invented by the “skeptics”, and so you’re responsible for it.
> someone is not listening!
Agreed.
Meanwhile, what do you think of Canman’s idea that “some type of study” could be done on blog comments? Is it a good idea; would the comments here be good to study, or would it be better to seek out some other comments that put the “skeptic” side in a better light? Can you find *any* blog posting *anywhere* where the “skeptic” comments look better than, errm, whatever it is you call the “other side”?
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“No. I’ve said, repeatedly and recently on this blog, precisely the reverse: that CAGW is a strawman invented by the “skeptics”, and so you’re responsible for it.”
So…
….if it isn’t catastrophic we’ve got nothing to worry about, have we?
Or are you going to tell us that there is another word apart from ‘catastrophic’ that means we have to run around tearing our hair out because of a rise in global temps since 1900 of less than a degree? Can you point us to the correct word on Wikipedia? (you must know all about wikipedia – it’s that site you got banned from, do you remember?)
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> nothing to worry about
http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2014/06/24/if-it-isnt-catastrophic-weve-got-nothing-to-worry-about-have-we/
> site you got banned from
Wrong.
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Well you should be..
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It seems I’ve upset you Willy, as you’ve run off to your blog to have a whinge about me
Mission accomplished;)
You say your hobby-horse has nothing to do with the concept of catastrophic climate thermageddon, and then elsewhere on your blog, in amongst a rather daft article where you admit to “making up” an amount for a ‘carbon tax’, you quote that numpty Ed Davey:
Hmm… it seems Ed’s on board with the ‘catastrophe’ meme, so why aren’t you? Surely it has to be a potential catastrophe to warrant wasting billions every year on ‘climate mitigation’ (whatever that is). I don’t think wasting oodles of cash on something that could be mildly irritating is a very sensible economic policy, do you?
I tend to agree with the late Professor Hal Lewis when he called the whole global warming scam the, “greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life”. I don’t know about you, but I tend to listen to a man as learned as an Emeritus Professor of Physics. However, I’m sure you’d rather believe charlatans like Mikey ‘Sue them all’ Mann. I’m afraid you’ve been hood-winked Willy, plain and simple.
As for Wikipedia, they have said on the site itself that you were ‘topic banned’ from the subject of Climate Change. If Wonkypedia use the word ‘banned’ it means you were ‘banned’.
I await your no doubt erudite reply (or should I say unhinged rant?)
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Whoops – links screwed up!
Try these:
whinge – http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2014/06/24/if-it-isnt-catastrophic-weve-got-nothing-to-worry-about-have-we/
elsewhere – http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2014/03/31/3639/
topic banned – http://www.wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/william_connolley_topic_banned.png
Hope they work this time!
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You still have the original stain, regardless of the state of the tar and feathers.
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Yes, we all agree that there is NOTHING catastrophic or even UNTOWARD happening to the climate.
Its all a political and monetary beat-up…..
So, what’s in it for you,…. a new WC ?
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Billy boy is the snake oil salesman, tarred and feathered, who comes back and says “trust me! I washed off the tar and feathers!” The only problem is he has not washed off the filth that got him tarred and feathered in the first place.
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Some four years ago the trigger for me to start looking more closely at the arguments and evidence for AGW and CAGW was in fact that a friend of some decades passed off my questions through email quite dismissively, finishing with that interactive map showing the world being progressively flooded – I think that one was from the early 2000s. I continued to question, and when over dinner (with some others as well) I was explaining what I had learned about current observations and argument for and against, he turned on me not with calm discussion, but angry rebuke – what did I know of this and that? You see, he’s a polymath; of course his knowledge of science is so much wider, and his focus was on the old laboratory models of radiation and reflection. He had no response to what I offered as evidence and argument. His response was real anger, which stunned me. He is no longer interested in our friendship.
Since then the reactions of many others with whom I have raised the topic of AGW (I don’t use the term ‘climate change’, as I think that has been allowed to become a deliberate misnomer, simply because ‘CAGW’ and even ‘AGW’ became too embarrassing), has been far more courteous, but it’s been very clear that those who have a certain conviction about humans’ responsibility for the ills of the environment, have great difficulty in evaluating, let alone accepting, recent observations such as the current ‘pause’ in global temperature rises. We’ve now had two generations taught that humans are responsible for much envionmental harm, so they are quite susceptible to the cries of “we’ll all be ruined, said Hanrahan’ (the delightful and still relevant poem by John O’Brien).
I imagine that people on the extremes of politics, religion and even sporting teams, the ones who think that their “side” is in the right, or the best – some of these have great difficulty in recognising let alone accepting alternative views. But AGW and CAGW seems to have brought out some of the worst of this intolerance. Why is it so?
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You should show an updated map to your friend to show what BS it was……
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Peter Kemmis, much of what you’ve said rings true and is familiar. For me the “Big Argument” was with my older brother. Oddly, he’s otherwise quite conservative but his AGW “knowledge” is from collegues that were mostly scientists working for the State Department of Natural Resources. The “argument” wasn’t just one, it was at least three. The last one ended with me screaming: I’ll believe that you are truly concerned about GW when you sell your three SUVs, boat, recreation vehicles, and lake cottage.
That was while we were attending a family birthday party. We have never talked about it face to face again. Several years after that another brother took him to task on AGW and that ended with the two not speaking to each other for 5 years. (mind you we were a close family prior).
The happy thing is that those to events caused me to look on the web for more information and groups that were skeptical. I found family of sorts here at Joann’s site and have not looked back.
I don’t recognize your name so if you are new here, I think you’ll fit in well and I extend a welcome.
PS, after 15 years, my brother still believes in CAGW but has not sold his SUV’s, boats, recreation vehicles or Summer lake cottage.
I’m still not worried.
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Thanks for the welcome and your thoughts, Mark D. I don’t post very much on Jo’s site, although I often read it, together with comments from time to time (but there are so many of them, and not always adding fresh content). However, those addressing David Evans’ latest paper in recent days are a marvellous tribute to what we may call ‘open science’, for generally their tone is remarkably constructive, and their content substantial.
I find it very sad that the whole AGW saga has been taken personally by so many. To understand why, perhaps we need to put ourselves in the position of those who so strongly believe we are taking the Earth to hell in a handbasket. From their perspective, sceptics are heedless of ‘the facts and the consensus’, perhaps wilfully selfish, and therefore immoral. From the sceptic’s perspective, those firmly following the AGW meme who can’t even accept recent observations from the official sources, may seem to suffer from frozen thinking – but they’re certainly not immoral. (I distinguish between followers and their leaders who have distorted data, or deliberately presented part of the evidence, withholding whatever is unpalatable – those leaders are the ones I consider to be quite immoral, and some reprehensible.)
For me, the best strategy has become not to get into arguments; if someone doesn’t want to listen, or can’t engage courteously without getting upset, then there’s no point my hammering any points at all. If people don’t want to listen, they won’t listen. One of my good friends for whom I have great respect, has always been left-of-centre. We agree on much; and concerning AGW, she and I agree that she sees herself as agnostic. So we can have a constructive and harmonious conversation; she knows I’m not immoral, and she does accept what I tell her about observations. She’s read my copy of Bob Carter’s “Taxing Air”. But at this stage, as I see it she can’t get past the sheer bulk of pro-AGW commentary of the last 25 years. So, I just give her time.
A good question to ask, is one that occurred to me after that god-awful effort by the ABC of a couple of years back “I can change your mind about climate change”. (Jo and David may have some interesting recollections about their contribution to that program, both in its enactment and denouement.) I put this question at the Canberra launch of the book by Anna Rose on the making of the program (at least, I assume that is what the book is about). Anna’s response to “what credible scientific information would you need to receive, for you to change your mind about ‘climate change’?” Her response was that she would change her mind only were the ‘scientists’ to advise her accordingly. In other words, fact-free submission to authority. But I find it’s a good question to ask, because many haven’t even thought through why they think what they do, and it might encourage them to think a bit more. But I find it’s essential to ask quite gently. Softly, softly, catchee monkee.
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Peter (and others) thanks for thoughtful contributions. – jo
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Peter Kemmis, I think Rereke spoke up-thread about brainwashed POW’s and what it takes for them to be rehabilitated. Essentially a mental breakdown. I don’t know if the same thing applies to those that weren’t prisoners of war but based on what I’ve seen it will take something major for the average warmist to be set free from their mindset. The anger just under the surface is the subject of this post
I don’t agree with your policy about getting into arguments with warmists however. They need to hear it, my method is that I’m going to share what I know. Most people on the street don’t have a clue about the skeptical points and the profound weaknesses in the warmist positions. Add to that the political manipulations etc….well you know.
Again, they need to hear it. Softly catchee or any other way 🙂
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Perhaps some of the believers in the global warming scam are missing some spiritual dimension in their lives as they have nothing else to believe in since they don’t believe in God….
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Your brother is a HYPOCRITE, just like all the other converts to the Global Warming RELIGION…
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Hi Mark D
Yes, they do need to hear it, but I’ve found the best approach when I meet resistance is to take it all gently, and just leave them with a couple of relevant observations. I find global temperatures and sea level rises are a couple of obvious ones readily demonstrated. And I put it in terms of “did you know . . .?” It’s less confrontational. And often, they don’t know, so to get that accepted is actually quite a big step. What I’m getting at is that people who have been ‘brainwashed’, as you quote Rereke above, will take time to process a wholly different perspective. And what I need to achieve is to keep the conversation alive, a conversation that might take a few years with each person. If they walk away, and we never talk of it again, then I may think I’ve won the argument, but I’ve really lost the war.
Where changes occur with religious belief, I suspect that much occurs at the unconscious level. Likewise for AGW belief. So I take the drip feed approach; I used to try to present the range of evidence, but it’s too much for those who are simply quite convinced about AGW. So it’s a little bit at a time. My sceptical friends that I meet with socially, are inclined to take a full frontal approach, and have difficulty understanding why it doesn’t work. I encourage patience with all my sceptic friends.
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Peter K., your approach is worth considering. I have no problem with patience so long as I imagine living long enough to see something good come of it.
But that is just me 🙂
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How much global warming is just fiddled data?
Prior to the year 2000, NASA showed US temperatures cooling since the 1930?s, and 1934 much warmer than 1998…
Right after the year 2000, NASA and NOAA dramatically altered US climate history, making the past much colder and the present much warmer. The [graphs] show how NASA cooled 1934 and warmed 1998, to make 1998 the hottest year in US history instead of 1934. This alteration turned a long term cooling trend since 1930 into a warming trend.
Read More Here:-
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/how_much_global_warming_is_just_fiddled_data/
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The largest correction is for time of observation bias:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/ushcn/ushcn.html
Please tell me: Why NASA should not correct for a known, artificial cooling trend in the data?
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THE ABC & THE ALP THINK THAT IF YOU WON’T VOTE FOR A carbon DIOXIDE TAX YOU DON’T DESERVE A SAY….WTF !
The cultural elite seems dangerously disparaging of democracy – particularly when the public dismisses the fashionable faith. From last night’s Q&A (http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s4008999.htm):
MARK CARNEGIE: Well, I certainly think that we’ve got to explore other ways of thinking about democracy. I think the silent majority of Australia feel incredibly disillusioned and disengaged…
I’d say is, having been to sort of summits and other things that are meant to be taking the great and the good to get them together to find some way forward, I would – all I would say to you is anything that we try is likely to have a better chance than what we are doing at the moment.
Even worse:
MARK LATHAM: … one of the greatest success stories in this country over the 23-year period, has been a policy model along those lines with the Reserve Bank of Australia independently professionally setting official interest rates and I think there must be scope to extend that model to other contentious areas of public policy. The most important long-term issue for the country is climate change, for the planet, is climate change but it’s the worst level of political debate. Surely there is room, at some point, perhaps under a Turnbull-led Liberal Party, to have an agreement about an independent policy-making authority to look after these contentious issues. Take out the partisanship. Take out the scare campaigns. Take out the low-level party politics. And so, too, in framing the Budget. Tony has been involved in this but the Budget debate in this country is just horrible. Again, full of scare campaigns and political opportunism. You could use a model in macro economics similar to what we have got with the Reserve Bank in monetary policies…
TONY JONES: …a non-elected body where the power…
MARK LATHAM: To make the decisions.
TONY JONES: …to make the policy is delegated, as with the Reserve Bank on monetary policy.
These people really want you unable to vote against the carbon tax. Really:
MARK LATHAM: That modern politics doesn’t handle big issues very well and we’ve now got to the point, effectively, of policy gridlock, where you can’t expect an Opposition Party like Labor to put forward carbon pricing at the next election for fear of Tony Abbott’s scare campaign…. That’s why I say that you have to think about alternative mechanisms of policy making that are independent, that are non-partisan…
That’s the first step, for both sides to acknowledge that, really, you won’t get much done in this area if you open it up to political scare campaigns. The Reserve Bank model for monetary policy has been phenomenally successful in this country and Australians now have got accustomed to the idea this is how it’s done. So it can be applied in other areas of policy.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/if_you_wont_vote_for_a_carbon_tax_you_dont_deserve_a_say/
SELL THE ABC ASAP !!
Carbon DIOXIDE IS PLANT FOOD AND NOT POLLUTION !!!
GLOBAL WARMING IS THE GREATEST FRAUD IN HUMAN HISTORY !!!
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/if_you_wont_vote_for_a_carbon_tax_you_dont_deserve_a_say/
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For me, books on meteorology written by genuine and experienced meteorologists are a must. As a climate amateur, I’ve had to attempt to decide whether the billions (choose your currency) spent on ‘the climate battle’ and ‘mitigation’ are worth it, and hence which political party I might vote for. The books on meteorology I’ve perused have put the whole business of weather into a much broader and fascinating perspective without the endless and tedious focus on CO2, and the current driving wish to model the world’s climate using mathematics and statistics.
As an example, the late Robin Stirling in ‘The Weather of Britain’ (1982) points out that ‘in a really cold spell, the air will be below freezing from the ground right up to the stratosphere’. He also says ‘what is often not appreciated is that though the garage roof may be covered in white frost, the free air at the same height only a few metres away may well be above freezing.’
A cynical question from me – how does CO2 do that? Stirling goes on to explain what occurs, and it doesn’t involve CO2!
On the subject of ocean temperatures, he tells us that very large fluctuations of sea-surface temperature can occur, ‘particularly off the Eastern United States and Newfoundland, with differences of as much as 10 degrees C between one January and another, and of 9 degrees C between one August and another.’
This prompts another cynical question from me – given such fluctuations, what use are the ‘average temperatures’ touted by those who believe in AGW?
The real world, ever changing, and not understood. He spends some time on p27 of his book describing the movement of air masses and their effects on the British weather, ending with the words ‘but we cannot explain why this happened, nor, for, example why high pressure has developed in some years and not in others. Who knows? It may be as well if the human race never discovers the answer.’
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“Giant of Geology/Glaciology Christian Schluchter Refutes CO2 Theory… Feature Interview Throws Climate Science Into Disarry” (yet again)
http://notrickszone.com/2014/06/09/giant-of-geologyglaciology-christian-schluechter-refutes-co2-feature-interview-throws-climate-science-into-disarray/
“The scandal of fiddled global warming data
The US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/10916086/The-scandal-of-fiddled-global-warming-data.html
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/noaanasa-dramatically-altered-us-temperatures-after-the-year-2000/
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Now we have the [snipped] Clive Palmer teaming up with Al Gore on the carbon DIOXIDE (PLANT FOOD TAX) !!!!!!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-25/clive-palmer-to-announce-carbon-tax-stance-flanked-by-al-gore/5549938
w t f ?????
traitor !!!
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If anybody’s still reading this thread, I’m having a bit of a debate over at Will C’s blog.
http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2014/06/24/if-it-isnt-catastrophic-weve-got-nothing-to-worry-about-have-we/
Does any one want to come on over and join me? (And I don’t mean thread-bomb it).
I seem to be the only one posting any links to back up my assertions, but it has (nearly) all stayed civil.
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If you are keeping him contained on his own site, then I thank you for that. But I would not go back there again, myself. I found the required decontamination process to be tedious, and time wasting.
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Only because WC is now pretending he doesn’t censor.
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Still dreaming of censorship? I thought you’d admitted your claims were imaginary. Unlike the very real censorship at WUWT, and at BishopHill, which doesn’t trouble you in the least.
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And does no mind stooping to libel.
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Ha ha. I’ve just noticed that my previous link to the comment you were so sad about having “censored” was deemed too rude to appear here, even as a link, because it partially quoted your words. That’s how ridiculous your claims are. In that case, http://stoat-spam.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/jonova-climate-rage-we-absolutely.html will do instead.
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You really are a [snip]. Trying to imply that the post where I told you to get f***ed (for censoring me) is what I am talking about only shows you to be a prat.
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Then what are you talking about? You’re clearly pretty angry about *something* but its rather hard to know what. You previously complained about a comment that had been censored, but as I pointed out, it hadn’t been (http://joannenova.com.au/2014/06/failure-of-peer-review-meaningless-statistical-significance-needs-fixing-says-doctor-journal/#comment-1482987).
You’ve had precisely one comment “censored” at my blog, and that comment is so rude that the mods here won’t allow it to be even partially repeated in a link.
Your complaints are imaginary.
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Oh, and if you think that moving posts out of a thread to somewhere else in the digital wilderness is not censorship, then that makes you [snip] king.
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You have nothing. Civil comments are published. I censored http://stoat-spam.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/[snipped].html (well, as you see, I published it but on a different blog; and there’s a link from the original to that post) but it would have been censored had you published similar here (as our hostess affirms: http://joannenova.com.au/2014/06/climate-rage-we-absolutely-cannot-have-a-rational-conversation/#comment-1491022). You have certain ideas stuck in your mind. You hold fast to them no matter how often its pointed out that you have no evidence for them.
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Again, you know very well that is NOT the censorship I am talking about. I gave you that very fitting message BECAUSE you were censoring me.
You freely censor anything that you feel threatens your cosy little vacuum. [snipped]
[This blog is not the place for name-calling please stay on topic – Mod]
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[snipped O/T – Mod]
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Riiiigggghhhht! And every one executed in Stalinist Russia was definitely guilty.
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[snipped – o/t – Mod]
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