And, to be fair, I’ve got lots wrong, but it’s all a learning experience. You’ll probably hate this, but people like Joshua and Willard are also a help, since they challenge you to think about what you’re doing.
I have learned much from people who tell me that I am wrong.
Sometimes I am wrong, and other times I was right but I really did not explain it well enough.
I do like for people to agree with me, I really do, but I learn less from them.
David,
The word “mainly” was there for a reason. It does mean there will also be other reasons, but it is “mainly” tone. It’s not a particularly complicated concept. Yes, I do also moderate “typical skeptic talking points”, especially if they are from someone who’s past behaviour would indicate that discouraging them from commenting on my blog would be advised.
matthew. Let’s assume for the sake of argument that there will be no increase or decrease in water vapor with a doubling of CO2. So, the contribution of CO2 would move from 2 w/m2 to 4 w/m2, let’s say. The water already in the atmosphere, in the static scenario assumed, will STILL be ~ 200w/m2. The extra 2 w/m2 or even the entire 4 w/ms will be washed out by water vapor.
I know this is a stretch for some who haven’t considered water as simply a greenhouse gas, but there it is.
I was referring to running and moderating a blog; as if that wasn’t obvious. You’re rather illustrating the point I was making in my response to tonyb.
Springer
Your comment was extremely unwelcome. However, I now have solid reason to ignore all your future comments, easy as side-stepping horsesh*t.
“I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. ”
― Voltaire, Candide: or, Optimism
I was applying a bit of humor. That being said, the US has a history of electing bad presidents of late.
conflict. yes
spectacle. yes
Skimpy dress? if you want to wear one be my guest
Dr Curry. Thank you for your blog about blogs! I had not heard of this one before. I don’t go looking for blogs, I just bump into them when I am looking for information and data. More often on Climate etc than elsewhere.
We have that kind of covered here;
Judy, my “Last Post” at The Oil Drum.
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/10249
The Oil Drum (TOD) was an internet energy phenomenon that ran for over eight years from April 2005 to September 2013. The site was founded by Prof. Goose (also known as Professor Kyle Saunders of Colorado State University) and Heading Out (also known as Professor Dave Summers formerly of the Missouri University of Science and Technology).
The site took off with the advent of Hurricane Rita in September 2005 and resulted in the first 200+ comment event, indicating that there was demand for a site where concerned citizens could gather round a camp fire to discuss events impacting their energy supplies and ultimately, their well being. In eight years, >960,000 comments have been posted. Two other energy linked disasters, the Deepwater Horizon blowout and the Fukushima Daiichi reactor melt downs would see readership soar to >75,000 unique visits per day.
These pages have hosted over 7,500 articles covering every aspect of the global energy system. It was not unusual for a post to attract over 600 comments, many of which were well informed and contained charts and links to other internet sources. The site would become known for a uniquely high level of discourse where armchair analysts of all stripes added their knowledge to threads in a courteous, and ultimately pro-social way that energy experts at hedge funds, corporations or universities might not have the freedom to do. It is this emergent property of smart people sharing knowledge on a critical topic to humanity’s future that will be missed.
The site was built on twin backbones that would often pull the readership in opposite directions. Drumbeats, edited by Leanan (who remains anonymous to this day) provided daily energy news digest and a forum for debate. And articles, written by a legion of volunteer writers, that strove to provide a more quantitative analysis of global energy supplies and the political, social and economic events that lay behind them. All the content would not have been possible without the tireless efforts of Super G, our site engineer, who maintained and updated software and hardware as the site grew and evolved for over eight years on a voluntary basis.
In the course of 2013, a decision was made to archive The Oil Drum and the main purpose of this Last Post is to provide some direction to new and future readers of the vast content it contains. The main contributors are listed below along with links to where their writings can be now be found. If you are looking for content there are two main options. The first is to look for author specific content where clicking on the live hyper linked name of the contributor will take you to a page giving access to all the content produced by that author. The second option is to use the Advanced Search facility at the top left of this page. Simply enter a few key words and this will return a page of the most relevant articles.
Matthew Marler, the hydrological cycle doesn’t prevent there being more water vapor over warmer water. It is just a more fueled cycle. It rains more heavily in the tropics and the air is moister there too. They go together, not compete.
Danny
I note from our records that you don’t appear to have paid your subscription after your months free trial of this climate product.
If you would just like to transfer your 500 dollars direct to my bank account I will make sure the correct administrative processes are started.
5 dollars from every subscription goes to support our polar bear population
Tonyb
Official administrator.
And my thoughts on it. Quality trumps volume. My most read post on Energy Matters (EM) has had 17,246 reads (What is the real cost of shale gas). The second most read 10,634 reads (The 2014 Oil price Crash Explained). The latter post has probably had more than 100,000 though on the webs, cross posted to about 20 other blogs including Zero Hedge and Automatic Earth, Oil price dot Com etc.
Comment volume is an extremely poor metric for a blog – from my perspective. I am looking to learn from a comment thread and whenever it goes over 100 I can’t follow and it normally means a few blow hards arguing with each other.
The bane of my life for years has been Green Trolls. They are inexhaustible and there is an infinite supply. Given the chance they will dominate the conversation on any energy or climate related blog – you need to watch out!. So I have a hard line on comment moderation, anyone suspected of being a GT simply gets placed on moderation. Most give up within days. But I have a couple of commenters at present who have much to offer by way of providing quality opinion from the warmist side of the debate who have been on moderation for months. I find when they are on moderation they provide quality input, off moderation they go wild.
Thanks. That is a pretty impressive drop in power output!
TonyB,
Fine, up my post count and get me that much closer to moderation (no fault of my own, of course).
I would “like” to send you $500 and am more than happy to have $5 go to protect polar bears (and all them others). But I’m skeptical of what the “correct administrative processes” might entail. But that’s just me.
Please keep jimmy dee around. He’s tedious and staunchly dogmatic in his obsessive defense of the cause, but an easy target. And if you like to entertain yourself by checking in on the left-looney shenanigans at huffpo occasionally, you can count on jimmy to drop their link for you, every hour or so. And compared with little joshie, jimmy dee ain’t so bad. JMVHO.
I too learn for people who tell me that I’m wrong, or who challenege me. However, they would typically have to do a little more than simply say “you’re wrong you idiot!” :-)
