They have a really good handle on sensitivity.
They were asleep when basic physics was introduced to them.
They have cause and effect totally backwards.
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David Springer | May 31, 2013 at 5:21 pm |
I’m saying someone spun up the 12% figure and you bought it hook, line and sinker.
Suppose they’d said 97% instead? Would you believe that without checking?
I know a lot of people who doubt 97%, that instantly believe 12% like it were the Word of the Messiah.
The USA isn’t the bad guy in the world. The USA is the best thing to ever happen in, to, or for the world. That China steals US production capacity and then scams Americans into paying China to take US jobs and US capital growth from Americans doesn’t make the USA the bad guy. It makes the USA the victim.
Of course, like all victims of con games, you think you’re too hip to be fooled. It’s what makes you such a great mark.
And I could freaking care less about Europe. Sorry, Bjorn and Pekka and any other denizens of yesterdayland. It’s not that I think less of you, it’s that I have no place making decisions on your behalf.
I’m saying the USA will have higher ROI if it has less waste. I’m saying the USA has X-inefficiency in its energy markets due barriers to entry and exit, largely from subsidies for fossil. I’m saying what any competent businessman would know, if he made his money by smarts not by luck or charm.
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timg56 | May 31, 2013 at 5:57 pm | Reply
“As someone with a graduate degree in Environmental Science and Engineering who took courses in Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry, I do not come at this issue from a basis of political opinion.”
Well that explains why I only disagree with you about stuff that Ms. Manner’s already answered. Mostly in your favor too. I never was fond of the snooty old gal.
Comment on Rep. Lamar Smith on climate change by Faustino
tim, excellent, don’t expect a coherent reply from Eugene.
Comment on Rep. Lamar Smith on climate change by jim2
When are we going to pay the owners of the nitrogen cycle, the water cycle, the bi cycle … Bart, give it up. We all breathe the same air and we all get the benefit of fossil fuels. You are all cost and no benefit. You’d make a lousy bookkeeper.
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tony b
Not to go too far OT and get a fine, BUT:
You’ll be pleased to know that Verbier is considering re-opening its ski lifts.
Other ski locations are thinking of following suit.
Several thousand skiers are signing up for June skiing.
And, just think, climatologists were telling us just five years ago that snow in the Alps would soon be a thing of the past.
Just thought you’d be interested.
Max
Comment on Rep. Lamar Smith on climate change by Faustino
Bart, I didn’t know the word minarchist, assuming the wiki definition is accurate, it gives me a better understanding of where you are coming from. I perhaps have minarchist tendencies, but I’d see a significant reduction in the role, reach and size of government as a hopefully achievable goal. I try to promote that, the chance of government retreating to the minarchist position seems remote. But if promoting minarchism helps lead to reduction, at least that’s an improvement on the present overblown scale of government.
From memory, when the UK government introduced some social security measures about 100 years ago (1911ish), government accounted for only about 11% of the economy. That introduction led to the demise of many non-government co-operative schemes. (I might follow up the facts on that.)
Comment on Rep. Lamar Smith on climate change by Alexander Biggs
:For the record, and for the umpteenth time, there is no “great amount of uncertainty” about whether the planet is warming or why:”
. There have been two periods of global warming: 1910 to 1940 qnd 1070 to 1998. The second period may have been just the effect of the first delayed by the transport delay of the oceans. Despite ever increasing CO2 concentration, global average temperature has remained constant or fallen at all other times. This om/off nature of global warming is not understood nor is it predicted by models. So how can one say that climate is well understood by science?
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Max
Yes, I saw your comment about snow at 600metres. Apparently the Pyrenees are also opening for the first time ever.
Here is CET to 1538 with ten and 50 year climate shifts and with glacier movements noted. I have now graphed glacier change back to 1000BC
. Of course glaciers neither advance (to bottom of page) nor retreat (to top of page) as quickly as that
http://climatereason.com/Graphs/Graph01.png
Here is latest CET showing an anomaly of 0.4C
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/
I have noted that changes in glacier movement occurs at roughly plus 0.2C CET anomaly. Now, one year doesn’t create a meaningful trend but thought you might be interested that for the first time for years there looks to be the possibility of a change in glacier movement IF the current situation continues
tonyb
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Jim Cripwell
What you’ve written makes good sense.
I’s all about rationally looking at the empirical evidence at hand, rather than emotionally predicting future disaster backed only by model simulations based on theory.
It’s basically what Rep. Lamar Smith has suggested, as opposed to what President Obama is calling for (see previous post).
Max
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Faustino
My debt collectors don’t worry about Doors.
Tonyb
Comment on Rep. Lamar Smith on climate change by Patrick B
I agree. I work with a number of bright, hard working individuals at Rice. (I’m not a Rice employee.) I’m shocked that someone with such a lack of knowledge and grace is occupying a position there. I’m even more shocked that the hard science scientists and engineers at Rice haven’t spoken out – he tarnishes all of their reputations.
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jim2 | May 31, 2013 at 7:01 pm |
The N2 cycle doesn’t exhibit much scarcity. Not rivalrous. Not excludable. Not administrably feasible. NOx’s are subject instead to command and control regulation. Is that what you want more of?
Water? You think your water’s free?
And I’m not sure whether you realize it or not, but if you walk around picking up bicycles (or bi’s, if that’s what you mean), that belong to someone else and ride them around the town, pretty soon it’s going to lead to a bad end for you.
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Tim, add my kudos to those of Faustino. Well said. Very well said.
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timg56 | May 31, 2013 at 5:57 pm |
Try a shorter reply for better success. People who had to shorten ‘opinion’ and ‘editorial’ to ‘op ed’ may respond better to brevity.
Also, argument from authority may not be the best starting point. I know you didn’t intend it, but it’s how it came across. As for the rest, you may as well have simply put in a link to WUWT or GWPF with the note, “These guys are always right!!!”
And yes, putting one’s foot in one’s mouth is ‘emnarassing’. Unless you’re weaving a tapestry, in which case it may be a Persian Flaw.
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@GaryM…
I was talking about insurance, which I regard as part of a smart individual’s policy of resilience. And businesses. Smart, or required to have it by their counterparties, such as customers, vendors, lenders, etc.