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Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by Joshua

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Heh.

“…Of course no one is topping me. ”

No one is stopping me. Where’s John Carpenter when I need him?


Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by willard (@nevaudit)

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> Please feel free to excoriate him OFF YOUR HOME TURF.

I don’t play home, and thought Judy’s was under Don Don’s protection services.

Greg is of no interest to me. Yet another blogger with an attitude. Yawn.

Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by Jim D

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Sardeshmukh seems to be playing around the edges. The summer mean surface temperature could easily have shifted four standard deviations by the next century, so a 2-sigma hot summer in the 20th century would then be a 2-sigma cold summer in the 2100’s. It doesn’t matter much how the shape of the distribution changes when you shift the whole Gaussian by 4 standard deviations. Some perspective is needed here.

Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by jacksmith4tx

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GaryM,
Define the root word ‘Capital’ as an economic model.
Do you know what behavioral economics is yet?

Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by kcom1

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Jack,
Explain how corners are cut in non-capitalist systems. How could it possibly happen? It just doesn’t make any sense. Humans are so noble until they are corrupted by capitalism, right?

You don’t need a definition of any economic model to understand human frailty. People in positions of responsibility cut corners, sometimes, when they can get away with it (or think they can). For a huge variety of reasons. Remember when the Challenger exploded and fell out of the sky? That was a result of someone cutting a corner. You would be hard-pressed to blame that on capitalism. Remember when the Chernobyl accident happened. That was humans cutting corners. Smack in the heart of the socialist utopia.

You really aren’t going to get much mileage going down that road, Gary. There is enough human frailty everywhere that whatever example you bring up an equally horrible example can be shown in a non-capitalist setting. And we haven’t even gotten to the environment yet. There is no stinking cesspool of environmental degradation bigger than the ex-Soviet Untion (unless China manages to outdo them, what with their Herculean efforts of late).

Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by kcom1

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Apologies, Gary. Of course, I meant Jack above.

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Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by cerescokid

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Thanks for that historical perspective. It is clear the warmists want none of it. To them ancient history was when Ike and Tina Turner were still married. Of course by ignoring past climate, they simply embarrass themselves.

Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by tomthegreekguy

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Steve M –

I agree. Hot days are not heat waves. Now can you please tell me why we should expect to have more heat waves? Is there some meterological principle you can point to? Is this a supposed output of models? I’m not harassing you, I really want to know.

Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by mosomoso

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Mr Laden is right about one thing. This devastating heatwave hasn’t happened yet. Of course, it could. If it happened in 1976 and 2003 (or 1868 for that matter) it could very well happen in 2015, especially with all the indicators.

But it hasn’t happened yet.

Never mind. Nowadays we have heatwave in advance, and maybe heatwave in actuality. Under warmism, it’s found best if the projected disaster gets most of the coverage. If the heat isn’t quite so bad as projected, the headlines, red/brown/purple maps, and pics of warped rails (in Australia, but meant for England) have done their promotional business. NZ’s hottest ever day in advance made headlines a couple of years ago. When it didn’t even come close to happening…the subject changed to Taylor Cyrus (or is it Miley Swift?). Still got headlines, right?

As for all that recent white stuff in NZ, it can be be dismissed as “polar vortex leading to enhanced flood risk”. I’m learning!

Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by cerescokid

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smith

Let me go out on a limb and take a guess. You probably have a picture of John Maynard Keynes hanging over your bed.

Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by jacksmith4tx

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kcom1,
In fact capitalism is such an effective economic model that it can control the destinies of nations. What was the argument to go to an all volunteer army? Was it democratic equality and shared patriotic responsibility or was it a economic argument? My point is American capitalism has become a hybrid political system. Remember the 2012 political slogan “corporations are people”? Why would a politician say that?

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Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by jacksmith4tx

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cerescokid,
My current favorite economist is Richard Thaler.


Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by Turbulent Eddie

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<i>Hot days are NOT heat waves.</i> If you examine the records, you will find most if not all state all time high temperature records were set during heatwaves. For CONUS anyway ( and no, CONUS is not the world ), the scarcity of new state high temperature records is not consistent with more frequent or more intense heatwaves.

Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by Ragnaar

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Jacksmith4tx:
Thank you for the interesting remarks.
“Some thinkers, such as Werner Sombart and Max Weber, locate the concept of capital as originating in double-entry bookkeeping, which is thus a foundational innovation in capitalism, Sombart writing in “Medieval and Modern Commercial Enterprise” that:
The very concept of capital is derived from this way of looking at things; one can say that capital, as a category, did not exist before double-entry bookkeeping. Capital can be defined as that amount of wealth which is used in making profits and which enters into the accounts.”” – Wiki
I could write on the piece of paper the word Capital, put a number on it and hand it to you. I’d call it the difference between your assets and liabilities. No it doesn’t exist as your bank account does. There are various definitions of capital. I’d say for you it’s your invested money. Somebody has your money and hopefully they are using it wisely and making you more money. But that’s just my way of looking at it. Say I buy a new copier. I have something that has value, and will help me make money. I don’t see that as particularly exploitative of anyone except the poor unemployed carbon paper employee. So if my copier exists, does my capital exist, or did I just make the whole thing up like Sombart and Weber may have indicated? Is my copier a concept? Perhaps. I had no idea accountants had anything to do with Marx. Is it our fault?

Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by Turbulent Eddie

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Where I live it was 103F today, so what did I do?
Paid good money to sit in a hot spring at 110F.
Now, I soaked for only an hour and continual exposure to 110F water or even 103F air will kill one. But it’s always been that way and for most of the US, such temperatures, at least occasionally, are a regular occurrence, one that a century ago, people did adjust to.

But, for the interesting part, the usual springs I frequent were closed. These springs drained into a river and one of the sights from the pools is of a school of carp swimming in place where the hot springs pour into the river.
I assumed they were after detritus from the pools but found it strange that they would swim in the warm, albeit diluted water.

Since this place was closed, I went to another which had private pools only. The pool I was in was at 110F and had a single spillway through which one could look. Just outside the spillway I was surprised to see the golden eye of a large frog staring back at me. The frog remained in place for the hour I soaked and presumably for much of the day.

Frogs and carp are ‘cold blooded’ of course, but it is interesting to see creatures other than humans drastically raising their body temperatures, evidently with pleasure ( if frogs and carp feel such things ).

Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by jacksmith4tx

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Ragnaar,
I thought Niall Ferguson did a good job illustrating the evolution of Capitalism with his book (and film) “The Ascent of Money”.
Wow, “Compound Interest of Money” – what a concept!

Comment on Heat waves: exacerbated by global warming? by kcom1

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“In fact capitalism is such an effective economic model that it can control the destinies of nations.”

Socialism seems to do a pretty good job of controlling the destinies of nations, too. Not always efficiently, but it controls them. So what’s the point?

“What was the argument to go to an all volunteer army? Was it democratic equality and shared patriotic responsibility or was it a economic argument? My point is American capitalism has become a hybrid political system. Remember the 2012 political slogan “corporations are people”? Why would a politician say that?”

Honestly, what does that got to do with anything? The point you made that I was responding to was that capitalism “tends to cut corners”. As if that behavior is a unique signature of capitalism. I posit that it’s a signature of humanity and people with responsibility. I think my point is much more generally true and defensible than yours. It’s probably true of animals, too, actually. My neighbor’s dog was in my house and instead of going around the pile of papers I had on the floor (between two boxes ) she decided to blunder straight through, to my general frustration.

Bonus points if you can find one quote where any politician said “corporations are people” (meant literally, excluding the obvious, implied point that corporations are made up of people). Why would a politician say that? They wouldn’t and didn’t. Well, they might have “said” it in misleading articles meant to fool underinformed people who don’t actually keep up with the news. But that’s a different story.

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