I love Climate Etc.’s conception of science. You have RiH008 and climatereason arguing one side and others making Popper’s case for the other side.
If they would just publish their respective theories in a reputable journal so that actual scientists could review and evaluate them, there might be a hope of finding some common ground. As it stands however it’s just chaos with people contradicting each other with no accountability.
“…drop in oil prices.”
Yep, due almost entirely to fracking on PRIVATE land. Permits to drill on public land have been, at best, slow walked. However, that didn’t stop the Omamanator from taking credit for it.
Thanks, Michael.
If Rud can’t even spell Montford, it doesn’t exactly make a great case for taking him seriously on anything requiring even more precision.
Yeah and the majority of Jews in the US demonstrate insanity by continuing to support the Democratic party. Thanks for reminding me and actually depressing me. For those that don’t understand this comment, don’t worry about it, nickels understands.
One explanation of why people would respect Bernie’s views and not Condi’s might be that only Bernie’s views resonated with the common man.
The common man is neither leftist nor rightist, he or she speaks to what troubles people today. Whether at Liberty University or Rutgers University, the common man can appreciate that.
Categorizing universities as to whether they’re left or right is not the solution, it is the problem. One would hope that today’s students could rise up above this petty polarization that their predecessors have bequeathed to them.
More digging revealed that oxygen isotope ratios in ice cores or shells can be used to infer past temperature and rainfall. But not sure that is the same as atmospheric moisture content, exactly. I guess that’s why these things are called proxies. (& of course moisture is not a “well mixed greenhouse gas” so what good is any regional reading unless you have lots & lots of regions…?
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Paleoclimatology_OxygenBalance/
Another stump chimes in. You clowns really don’t have a clue and I won’t waste any more of my valuable time on this foolishness.
Jim D: So you can specify what Chu did wrong, and then you can have a case to complain about.
You did say to follow the money. The money led to Chu. Now you say that the money was irrelevant. So why follow the money? Soon and Chu received money from the fossil fuel industry, Soon less than Chu. Does that not rather tell against the idea that the fossil fuel industry was aimed at funding confusion instead of science?
Or, as in the sentence I quoted, follow the science and ignore the money.
Did anyone see the bit where VW has programmed its cars to cheat on emissions tests? Anywhere there’s a law, someone will break it …
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Volkswagen’s CEO said he is “deeply sorry” for violating U.S. emissions standards and ordered an external investigation Sunday, two days after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accused the automaker of purposefully manipulating emissions tests for almost 500,000 vehicles.
The German automaker ordered its U.S. dealerships to stop selling cars impacted by the probe until its engineers can deliver a fix.
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Chapter 4 is pitiful.
Thank you, Professor Curry, for making this book available. I have not had time to study it, but condfident it will be worthwhile after reading the first comment.
Nothing is as pitiful as certainty.
Bob, don’t forget bio chemical.
Thanks for your input.
Oops, sorry Doug.
