I think I may have mentioned this before, but pollution didn’t become a problem until the late 90’s with the rise of China’s industrial economy. So it’s difficult to draw conclusions about studies of the current population with such a short period of time when they haven’t been raised from childhood in a polluted environment. But the longer the Chinese are exposed to this unrelenting pollution the more the studies should show problems.
Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by Joseph
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Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by Steven Mosher
” We do need iron clad science before we mandate, at great cost, the overhaul of our entire electrical power infrastructure so that you can breath imperceptibly improved air that will not materially improve your quality of life.”
No we don’t. See how easy that is.
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by Don Monfort
Don’t get mad, jackie. I am trying to help you. I hate it when the Chicoms take advantage of unsophisticated neophytes who shouldn’t be allowed to handle their own finances.
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by johnvonderlin
Hi Jim,
I was curious about the details of the people who view the world as “ordered by a giant plot” and did a Boolean search of that term. I found only a link to this article and two related cites. How can large numbers of people view the world this way, yet never use those words on the Internet to describe their beliefs? More relevantly, why would Lew use a term to summarize their views that they never have used? Is it related to the mental sloppiness he displays when he calls them climate change deniers when all they deny is Lew’s level of understanding about how and why climate changes?
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by KenW
… cynicism … associated … with … dementia …
Well, that’s it for me folks. It was nice knowin’ ya.
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by fizzymagic
Excellent example of a bad paper getting published and then covered in the press despite execrable methodology, Jim. It illustrates Dr. Curry’s point quite well.
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by KenW
Jim, can you actually cite Lewandowsky and keep a straight face???
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Comment on Week in review – energy and policy edition by Fernando Leanme (@FernandoLeanme)
Danny, it’s a dumb approach. If the objective is to produce X kW using solar power the distributed system is at an disadvantage. The only positive is the real estate cost. The need to wash and maintain those roof mounted solar panel kits will destroy any real estate savings advantage.
What is really mind boggling is to see how a state government can be elected and set up the subsidies to make this madness feasible. The USA is starting to look increasingly like a blend of Germany with its solar craze, plus Latin America with their populist politicians.
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by Mike Flynn
Jim D,
Loopy Lew should have a field day with Whacko Warmists who believe they can stop the climate from changing! How stupid would you need to be to believe such garbage?
Talk about pseudo science! Do the taxpayers willingly fund stuff like this?
Would you? I guess you probably would. There’s one born every minute.
Cheers.
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by KenW
But seriously Jim, while Steve Mosher might try hard, I can think of nothing more convincing than Lewandowsky!
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by mosomoso
This is the problem that science has: that the exquisitely silly HuffPo can, on any day, find a funded study from an academic institution to gratify its Posh Left demographic and feed their conceit.
As I said elsewhere on this thread, it is reputable science which will pay a price for this disreputable push-polling, for stunt-based intellectualism masquerading as actual science, grabbing cheap headlines almost every day of the week.
Kids out of the kitchen. Now. Urgently.
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by ¿Se puede hoy distinguir, en la prensa, “la ciencia” del circo de los payasos? | PlazaMoyua.com
[…] Judith Curry: The Siddhartha heuristic […]
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by angech2014
The good news is that come September everyone will be pulled into line and Climate action will go ahead.
El Nino has come , the Arctic is melting despite Piomas up and the green army is growing in Australia.
Look forward to increases in electricity prices and a rampant EPA in the USA. China will be restricted to no increase in building its coal powered power plants for 20 years. India will go ahead with a solar panel in every field.
And Siddhartha will be happy.
By the way Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny was one of my best books to read ever and features Siddhartha.
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by Willard
> Ocean CO2 has obviously been higher through out the evolutionary past of nearly every species in the oceans.
Indeed:
Ocean acidification has occurred previously in Earth’s history. The most notable example is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which occurred approximately 56 million years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification
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> Why must some exaggerate the this?
Why must some minimize like this?
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by jim2
Horst, your 27 million tonnes of nitrogen is divided by 1,400,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons of ocean water. Or, 0.000000002%.
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by cap6097
Ole Willy, “Your favorite truism rests on “basicity,” which refers to the state of being a base, and may not apply to the relevant process referred to as “ocean acidification” in the lichurchur:”
Still playing games, eh Ole Willy. Wordological? look up thread Ole Willy. You used the imprecise term first. Admit you are wrong and I’ll leave your elbow patches to themselves.
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by captdallas2 0.8 +/- 0.3
tonyb,
http://www.amazon.com/Storms-My-Grandchildren-Catastrophe-Humanity/dp/1608195023
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity (Hardcover)
by James C. Hansen
a bargain at $3.92 for all CAGWers or you can get a collectible first edition for $9.99.
Probably not credible enough for willie
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by climatereason
guardian headline 2009
Met Office warns of catastrophic global warming in our lifetimes
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/sep/28/met-office-study-global-warming
George Monbiot
other references available from other serious publications
tonyb
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by David Springer
It’s obvious that neutralization is a less disturbing way than acidification to frame it for lay persons. There really aren’t any lay people on this blog and the hockey team won’t change their preferred term voluntarily. So what’s your point?
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Comment on The Siddhartha heuristic by cap6097
climatereason, “Sorry, but the UK outperforms for its size. It also is known for its innovation as opposed to follow on medicines! As are other countries”
Sorry, but you are incorrect. I am referring to innovative drugs, not me toos or minor variants. Not even close.
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