Anyone care to take over/under bets on how many MSM stories will focus on the coral atolls study?
Comment on Week in review – science edition by cerescokid
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Comment on Week in review – science edition by vukcevic
NATURAL VARIABILITY
Richard Betts:
‘… natural variability was always of interest to scientists as part of understanding how the climate system works,…”
Natural variability: what is it, where does it come from?
Why it is different in the Atlantic from the Pacific?
Another look at the North Atlantic’s SST trend lines could open a path to resolution of the enigma.
Ideas to the further understanding start HERE
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Comment on Week in review – science edition by ulriclyons
“Soil & human security in the 21st Century.”
Sustaining soil health and reducing soil erosion should be the main environmental concern rather than AGW. Increased forcing of the climate may increase some regional flooding, but overall continental interior rainfall is increased, so exposed soils are kept more stable overall. What would exacerbate soil loss most is solar minima, when there’s a sharp increase in El Nino conditions and episodes, and a warmer AMO. This solar minimum through the next ten years will help show what to expect from a much deeper and longer solar minimum starting in the 2090’s.
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Comment on Week in review – science edition by opluso
Apparently the budget cuts have already kicked in. Can’t get through to the GFDL/NASA links.
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Comment on Tackling human biases in science by Rob Johnson-taylor
Evidence is like beauty, it can sometimes only exist in the eye of the beholder.
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Comment on Week in review – energy, water and food edition by oldfossil
South Africa would buy the electricity.
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Comment on True costs of wind electricity by Mary Kay Barton
Mr. Pluckhahn – You are absolutely wrong when say: “You used white nose syndrome in your argument against wind turbines” – I did not. The report I posted is about the economic costs incurred by total bat deaths, from both wind turbines & WNS. This important report should not be discounted because it looks at total bat deaths. Thinking people do find the information important.
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Comment on True costs of wind electricity by Mary Kay Barton
By the way Mr. Pluckhahn, your insulting tone adds nothing to the discussion.
As you can see from a brief sampling of my posts on the wind issue from over the years, they include plenty of references which thinking people do find very relevant to the discussion:
New York Wind Wars – Hiding the Facts:
http://www.masterresource.org/2013/09/new-york-wind-wars/
New York’s “Sustainability” Plan (aka: Agenda 21): What About Wind Power’s Ecological Insults?
http://www.masterresource.org/2013/03/new-york-energy-plannin/
Dear Christian Science Monitor: Wind Is Not Sacred but a Sacrilege: http://www.masterresource.org/2013/01/dear-christian-science-monitor-wind-is-not-sacred/
Local Wind Subsidies: New York State’s Money-Road to Nowhere:
http://www.masterresource.org/2012/08/local-wind-subsidies-more-waste-new-york-states-money-road-to-nowhere/
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Comment on Week in review – energy, water and food edition by oldfossil
Lithium-ion batteries have exploded and started fires in aircraft and cellphones. I really wouldn’t want a large one mounted in the living area of my house.
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Comment on True costs of wind electricity by Mary Kay Barton
Thank you for the correction AK. My intended point was that, when combined, there is 100’s of Billion of cars, buildings and cats worldwide, which have greatly improved the quality of life for billions of people.
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Comment on True costs of wind electricity by Mary Kay Barton
By the way Mr. Pluckhahn, your insulting tone adds nothing to the discussion.
As you can see from a brief sampling of my posts on the wind issue from over the years, they include plenty of references which thinking people do find very relevant to the discussion:
New York Wind Wars – Hiding the Facts:
http://www.masterresource.org/2013/09/new-york-wind-wars/
New York’s “Sustainability” Plan (aka: Agenda 21): What About Wind Power’s Ecological Insults?
http://www.masterresource.org/2013/03/new-york-energy-plannin/
Dear Christian Science Monitor: Wind Is Not Sacred but a Sacrilege: http://www.masterresource.org/2013/01/dear-christian-science-monitor-wind-is-not-sacred/
Local Wind Subsidies: New York State’s Money-Road to Nowhere:
http://www.masterresource.org/2012/08/local-wind-subsidies-more-waste-new-york-states-money-road-to-nowhere/
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Comment on Quantifying the anthropogenic contribution to atmospheric CO2 by AK
<blockquote>Because the substrate it rests on, the sea floor is basic at pH 8.2.</blockquote>Actually, I'd say it was the other way around. Virtually <b>all</b> of the “<i>substrate it rests on</i>” that it's actually in contact with is composed of detritus that was deposited while in equilibrium with the <b>lower</b> ocean. Which doesn't say anything about the upper mixing layer, either way.
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Comment on What would it take to convince you about global warming? by Ragnaar
GaryM:
Thank for you comments. The above diagram helped me to visualize extreme libertarianism, Anarchists. I think it’s what you get when you take our arguments to their logical conclusion. Dynastic is not a bad description. I have mine, so things will remain the same. Consider the anti-migration people. While our Constitution was good, it was dynastic. For me, head to head a democracy is better than a Constitution. As far as autocratic goes, we passionately want control, of the fruits of our labor. “…taking no account of other people’s wishes or opinions…” That could be me.
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Comment on Week in review – science edition by JCH
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Comment on Week in review – science edition by fizzymagic
<i>Observational science. You don’t get to design experiments. You get the data nature offers.</i>
Wrong. It's not that hard.
In properly-designed observational science you <i>do</i> get to design experiments, using the data that nature offers.
Think a little harder.
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Comment on Week in review – science edition by JCH
<a href="http://www.cmar.csiro.au/sealevel/N_a_altimetry_gmsl_refined.html" rel="nofollow">Csiro</a>
So Hay 1900 to 1993 would be 1.2mm/yr; Csiro 1993 to 2008 would be around 2.7mm/yr, post 2008 around 3.8mm/yr. Seems to agree to the CO2 control knob.
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Comment on What would it take to convince you about global warming? by Ragnaar
With the signing of our Constitution, slavery was allowed and women could not vote. As things evolved some moved in the socialist direction and some in the libertarian direction even though they identify with a major party. Some didn’t move too much or as fast. We have seen dynastic rules fall but totalitarian flavored ones rise. In that diagram I put up, the corners are difficult. When people argue, they can point to their opponents corner. Their reply might be, they are closer to the middle. The corner are also interesting. If a society approaches any of the 3, it will tip over and collapse. If we remove the libertarian section of triangle, what are we left with?
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Comment on Week in review – science edition by captdallas2 0.8 +/- 0.2
AK, “The way the Oppo et al. 2009 IPWP becomes exceptional around 1500 might (very possibly) involve the population collapse in the Americas due to European diseases.”
I don’t have a clue. I do know that paleoclimate is going retro
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Comment on Tackling human biases in science by David Wojick
Richard, in my view any decision that is reasoned is rational, generally speaking, and most are. What else can rational mean? Do you realize that each person makes hundreds of decisions every day?
Of course if one’s beliefs are irrational then that is different matter. Descartes is said to have interviewed a lunatic who thought his head was made of glass. Descartes observed that he was very rational for a man with a glass head. He had only one false belief.
As for evidence, you seem to suggest that there is a weight to evidence that is independent of the observer. Weak, strong, etc. I disagree. I know of no measure of the strength of evidence that is independent of the observer. If you have one I would love to see it.
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Comment on Week in review – science edition by omanuel
Thank you, Peofessor Curry, for heeding George Orwell’s warning:
http://wchildblog.com/2015/05/16/george-orwell-a-final-warning/
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