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Comment on The Intermittent Little Ice Age by A fan of *MORE* discourse

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nottawa rafter asserts (in effect) “[ever-stronger climate-science (like Carling Hay’s) is evidence of a conspiracy among scientists]”

LoL … didn’t Joseph Heller vividly describe *THAT* kind of elliptical cognition, nottawa rafter?

Catch-22

“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he were sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.”

“Catch-22 states that agents enforcing Catch-22 need not prove that Catch-22 actually contains whatever provision the accused violator is accused of violating.”

“Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can’t stop them from doing.”

Summary  Denialism’s Catch-22 ain’t gonna guide us through climate-change Armagideon Time

*EVERYONE* appreciates *THAT*, eh Climate Etc readers!

(this-here Clash-poetry is for *YOU*, kim!)

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Comment on The Intermittent Little Ice Age by Mark Silbert

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rls, any more on this? Is there a story here?

Comment on Week in review by AK

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@Danny Thomas...<blockquote>Part of the prompt for my thinking was the net metering issue and other concerns you’ve raised. Localized proximity, design, installation, consistency of materials, control and grid cohesiveness would seemingly be addressed. Didn’t know if you’d considered, [...]</blockquote>Well, I looked briefly <a href="http://judithcurry.com/2015/02/14/week-in-review-43/#comment-675174" rel="nofollow">here</a><blockquote>In fact, to make it work the way I was supposing, I guess you’d pretty much have to have a full battery-backed frequency regulator, with an extra input for PV, rather than just an inverter. I’m not sure how much the upgrade from inverter to frequency regulator would add to the cost, assuming the battery to be there in either case, but it seems like the sort of electronics that might be at least partly subject to “Moore’s Law”.</blockquote>[...]<blockquote>I don’t know if, at this sort of price, purchase or lease of regulating equipment by the homeowner (along with batteries and PV) could be turned into a win-win situation or not. Or perhaps it’s supplied by the utility, built into the same system with the meter?</blockquote>I don't know if I could be fairly described as “<i>very involved</i>”, my background is IT, and my involvement in power planning is entirely amateur, as certain <i>ad hominem</i>'ers are quick to point out. I do have a good deal of professional experience in drilling down into the key details of problems, necessary for any good business analyst. One of the IT hats I've worn.

Comment on Week in review by captdallas2 0.8 +/- 0.2

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Steven Mosher, “That right it was citizen scientists who screwed this up.”

Mosher, there is more than 100 years of data provided by those screw ups. The general bias in the screw up data isn’t a lot different than the “pristine” data other than the screw ups generally didn’t report “unprecedented” records whenever a spider find a new place to build a web.

Comment on Week in review by Lucifer

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The fraud of global warming has never been about the principle but the but the imaginary harm that politicians gleefully exploit to motivate voters.

Conservatives can thank Margaret Thatcher for using global warming fear mongering to bust up the coal strike in England.

Now liberals proved they can learn and are trying to use it to advance their agendas.

And we’re all suckers for being played by unscrupulous, pathetic little toadies of politicians.

Comment on Week in review by mosomoso

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The creepy guy in the workplace certainly needs putting in his place, and may deserve sacking. However, after the carry-on over the good-natured comet guy with that terrific shirt, I’m inclined to leave this to what they call proper authorities – or to any fathers/brothers of the old school.

As for Pachauri, anyone who charters a private jet from NY to India to attend cricket practice should already be toast as a climate guru. The fact that he’s come this far should tell us all we need to know about MSM cheer squads and the Herd of Independent Minds.

There again, maybe receiving an Oslo Emmy is ridicule enough.

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Comment on Week in review by Danny Thomas

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AK,

Do you envision floating or on pylons? CaptDallas might appreciate the fish habitat side benefits.


Comment on Week in review by Danny Thomas

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AK,

I’d forgotten about the discussion with PE and only follow lightly (otherwise focused on seemingly inumerable tangents and moving goal posts) , but I for one appreciate your efforts. I’m polyanna by genetic design and think if we all work together who knows………………but that’s me.

Comment on Week in review by omanuel

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I agree, Rud. It is best to stay focused on the science behind the global climate scandal.

Comment on Week in review by Curious George

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Steven, thank you. I wrote a long reply, but it disappeared instead of posting – maybe it is in a moderation penalty box.

Regarding TOBS, can you point me to an experiment showing how a change from a noon observation to 7 am influences data? I mean running two thermometers, side by side, one under an old regime, one under a new regime, for a year at least? Do we have real data, or are we guessing?

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Comment on Week in review by AK

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Do you envision floating or on pylons?

Either way, whichever’s cheaper. It would depend on whether they’re out there by themselves, or if the surface is being used for something else as well. Tall pylons, supported by underwater floats, would probably eliminate much of the motion.

But I also envision using the ocean as support for floating farmland. In fact, I have a number of different ideas how humanity might lighten its footprint on the existing ecology, many of them involving moving much of agriculture, industry, and energy to parts of the ocean currently almost free of life.

Always assuming there’s time before we move it all to space.

Comment on Week in review by nottawa rafter

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Jim D

Clinton created the greatest income inequality of any president. The number of those earning more than $1 million quadrupled under Clinton going from 60,000 to 240,000. The number increased by 80,000 under Bush.

The share of aggregate median family income for the top 5% of families went from 17.6% to 21.1% after remaining under 18% from 1947 until 1992.

Liberals are having a fit the Fed may increase interest rates. Low interest rates and QE is trickle down economics
simply with another name.

Can’t have it both ways.

After Clinton raised taxes the millionaires exploded. Let’s see what happens to the number of millionaires now that Obama has raised taxes. They also are going through the roof so far.

It would be ironic to have 2 Democratic presidents in office after raising and then witnessing the greatest increase
of millionaires in US history.

So much for income redistribution.
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Comment on The Intermittent Little Ice Age by David whitehead

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Given the revelations of the Climategate scandal I would not place an iota of credibility on anything published by Dr Jones of The CRU department of UEA. His research had been totally discredited by the
revelation of lies, errors and dissimulations revealed and his refusal to release the data and methodology with which he reached those conclusions. Falsum in uno, faslsem in omibus.


Comment on Week in review by kalmuti

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Obama should go after Curry for sure.

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Comment on Week in review by nottawa rafter

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My hope is that the greens will thaw out by April. Even money.

Comment on Week in review by rls

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Mosher

“Which skeptical luminary will the committee call to make the case of fraud?”

Not sure about the venue, but my first reaction was that it was a set-up; the skeptical luminary will be escorted to a back room under an innocent pretext, never to be seen again.

Richard

Comment on Week in review by tonyb

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Rud

I agree. Lets play the ball not the man.

tonyb

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