“There is now a rebuttal paper”
You’re still taking this stuff seriously, JCH?
Andrew
“There is now a rebuttal paper”
You’re still taking this stuff seriously, JCH?
Andrew
Homophobia has melted away in this society sense people became aware gays exist in their own circles, so the result in the study makes some sense. The nation just lived through it.
“Homophobia has melted away in this society”
What about Junksciphobia? Or Badweatherphasia? What’s the status of those in society?
Andrew
Not sure where I saw this. Apologies if it was at Climate Etc.
“Slim by Chocolate!” the headlines blared. A team of German researchers had found that people on a low-carb diet lost weight 10 percent faster if they ate a chocolate bar every day. It made the front page of Bild, Europe’s largest daily newspaper, just beneath their update about the Germanwings crash. From there, it ricocheted around the internet and beyond, making news in more than 20 countries and half a dozen languages. It was discussed on television news shows. It appeared in glossy print, most recently in the June issue of Shape magazine (“Why You Must Eat Chocolate Daily,” page 128). Not only does chocolate accelerate weight loss, the study found, but it leads to healthier cholesterol levels and overall increased well-being. The Bild story quotes the study’s lead author, Johannes Bohannon, Ph.D., research director of the Institute of Diet and Health: “The best part is you can buy chocolate everywhere.”
[ … ]
It was, in fact, a fairly typical study for the field of diet research. Which is to say: It was terrible science. The results are meaningless, and the health claims that the media blasted out to millions of people around the world are utterly unfounded.
Here’s how we did it.
http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800
As the weather turns…
2015 – warmest year. May heating up. In the first months of 2015 The Wall Street Journal calls this no warming, which in a few months will make them look like complete idiots they are.
O’Malley just said it: it’s not just the rich but global warming that is the problem. He even gives a nod to the teachers. Climate isn’t science — it’s politics that is caused by gas bags not gas.
cerescokid, maybe this one will convince you. It is one of many such indicators.
http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/more-u.s.-downpours
Nice to see the home energy storage idea starting to be taken seriously (energy storage link). I raised that here 2 years ago. Start with this and search my comments on that thread.
http://judithcurry.com/2013/06/29/an-energy-model-for-the-future-from-the-12th-century/#comment-338440
The wrinkle now is that the power company could maintain the storage devices on the property rather than those being owned by the homeowner.
Robert Pindyck was interviewed on Econtalk in 2013.
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/08/pindyck_on_clim.html
Yes, read the lies in the rebuttal paper if you got time to waste. Dude is busted. Caught redhanded:
http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-sn-gay-canvassing-study-retracted-20150528-story.html#page=2
He will get the Peter Gleick Progressive Clown of the Year Award and other accolades for his clumsy attempt to play a trick on the folks, who resist hope and change.
It’s amazing how John Cook launched himself as a leading spokesman for climate change, and is the one who spearheaded the “97%” mantra. He was literally a cartoonist before becoming a global warming pundit. He is not a scientist, his title; “Climate Communications Fellow for the Global change Institute at the University of Queensland”, is honorary. It sure sounds better than former cartoonist.
He actually said the rich and powerful are the problem and climate change is an opportunity.
Right your no tech lead acid battery rambling. To get lead acid batteries to last their rated lifetime you have to limit discharge to about 70% meaning you need at least three times the capacity of your estimated peak demand.
Until better hydrogen storage becomes available, just about any onsite or near site battery storage is going to be an expensive boondoggle.
Now it you really want to show the world how well domestic car batteries can work, you start from ground up with all LED lighting and dedicated low voltage systems for all your electronic toys. Use direct solar for hot water, ventilation and refrigeration where possible and basically design your lifestyle around intermittent power.
That is pretty much why solar will make its biggest splash in third world and off grid applications. If you do all the basics needed to be solar off grid prepared, your on grid costs would be so low it would be a waste of money.
See, energy efficiency comes before alternate energies.
I’m sure the Californians will be delighted with the news.
that should be limit discharge to 30%.
“This is a theory with no theoretical basis, experimental support, or observational verification.”
The theoretical basis lies here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_harmonic_oscillator
The experimental evidence is here
http://www.wag.caltech.edu/home/jang/genchem/infrared.htm
And the observational verification lies here
http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/eoc/special_topics/teach/sp_climate_change/p_keeling_curve
and here
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
There is a theoretical basis for the greenhouse effect, backed by experimental evidence and observations of increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere as well as increased global temperatures verify those.