> Deserved or otherwise, I understand that willard is one of these on her blog [with a time penalty].
It’s a bit more than that:
If you have more to say on this subject (or any other), please post at your tumblr blog and provide the link here.
http://neverendingaudit.tumblr.com/post/23241027012
The warning in the script may contain a misrepresentation, BTW. Not that it matters much, as it only adds a small but increasing penalty to those unwelcome guests.
And….
Rud Istvan hints darkly “The crescendo of climate change ‘bad’ news leading up to release of the problematic AR5 SPM continues.”
And for this there can be only one explanation:
“This must be the product of a great conspiracy, a conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man. A conspiracy of infamy so black that, when it is finally exposed, its principals shall be forever deserving of the maledictions of all honest men.”
Seriously Rud Istvan, doesn’t the best available climate-change science clearly indicated that IPCC5 is understating long-term global-scale ocean-warming risks, precisely as Naomi Oreskes has accurately foreseen, for the reasons that Wendell Berry has clearly explained?
These considerations are pure ordinary-citizen common sense, eh Rud Istvan?
Climate change will upset vital ocean chemical cycles
Natural ‘climate change’ or does ‘climate change’ throughout the Earth’s geophysical record bear a human fingerprint?
Ice Extent on Earth was Larger during the LIA. Albedo was higher during the LIA. It did not snow much because the polar oceans were frozen. The sun removed ice extent and Albedo decreased and Earth Warmed. Temperature always stays in phase with ice extent. Now the oceans are warm and it is snowing more and the ice extent retreat is over or nearly over.
More PR transmogrification nonsense?
Reverend
Stating “confidence intervals” is NOT necessarily the same as telling “the truth”.
As a man of the cloth, you should know the difference.
Max
Anybody who thinks a possible +3.5°C anomaly could adversely upset global marine phytoplankton biology cannot be thinking at all.
Yes. It isn’t possible that they were thinking and came up with a different analysis than you.
It isn’t possible that they are just wrong.
It is only possible that they cannot be thinking at all.
Such a calm, dispassionate, clear-thinking, careful, precise, and un-biased analyst you are, sir. Not to mention polite.
There is no other choice. You must be correct, and as a result, we know that anyone who might differ from you just isn’t thinking at all.
Fan
Your grasp of the English Language seems to be loosening. Not only do you call Sceptics ‘demagogues’-a word rightly used to describe Hitler, but then you say ‘I demand’ yes no answers. Where do I demand? You have some trouble it appears in providing answers so to make it easy for you I suggest that rather than shower us with quotes and smilies and irrelevant phrases, that you merely need to answer a simple yes or no . Is that demagoguery? Is that ‘Demanding?’ I think not it, is being caring enough not to want to over burden your ability to provide straight answers.
So here is your fourth opportunity to answer the question. It can be a simple yes or no or if you really want to, but by all means give us one of your flowery answers if you would prefer. If you prefer not to answer thats your perogative but I guess we can suspect the answer.
‘Hypothetically, if a scientist should want to promote their case by staging the circumstances of his or her speech to an important political body, would deliberately turning off the aircon on a hot day in order to more forcefully put over their case be considered ethical? ‘
With best regards
Tonyb
I have the same analysis elsewhere on this thread and show a Monte Carlo run that can reproduce a pause. Given the size of the yearly temperature fluctuations, it statistically isn’t that rare.
Yet statistically, most skeptics have little knowledge of statistics.
We can build carbon absorbers on coal fired power plants but they will also remove NOX, SOX and mercury so that will be a benefit. We can go to electrical and fuel cell transportation which will clean the air over LA and urban centers. When energy prices get too high we can build nuclear power plants, which will also help desalinate sea water and let us tear down silted up dams. We can fertilize the desert and grow more things there. Then spread iron on tropical oceans to allow phytoplankton to grow, currently limited. So lots to do. Won’t change temperature but interesting experiments.
Scott
Great big orbiting mirrors made of aluminized micron-thick glass film. Faster, cheaper, and easier than microwave energy. Of course you can’t use it as easily as microwaves in a rectenna, but it will heat things up, if that’s what you want.
There’s always all of these pesky unintended consequences that in their systemic ignorance Leftists are too stupid to take account of when planning their liberal Utopia.
David Springer | September 24, 2013 at 4:08 pm |
Springer. In that comment you pretty well epitomize one of the great faults of the dimmer end of the intelligence scale of the human race.
Whilst blind obedience of one’s commander is a very useful thing to those who would send their massed minions against dug-in machine guns, in those instances when one has most of the facts in hand, and it is obvious the leaders of one’s state are flailing and blundering and playing local and international politics with the lives of their young soldiers and those of the citizens of some foreign land, sometimes those few with integrity must stand their ground and say no.
I hugely admire Muhammad Ali for his decision on Vietnam, where he put aside his whole career to stand his ground against the travesty that is a lottery draft to fight in a war no leader had ever paused to think through.
I’d not have the same respect for a man who deliberately avoided serving in WWII.
No doubt you share the strange mindset of the many commentators recently nominating their main important reason to go armed into Libya: “Because we implied we might, so we better not back down now or we will look weak”. A thought process born of bullies in school playgrounds.
Speaking of quick fixes…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sox_Scandal
Remember, say it ain’t so Joe.
“Global warming is irreversible without massive geoengineering of the atmosphere’s chemistry. ”
Excellent idea!
Fred Pearse was the originator of Himalayas fiasco. That should be enough of a warming to anyone.
Now he suggests he can project at most 20 years of warming from 1975-1995 and extrapolate it one thousand years into the future.
Good job he’s only a second rate pop sci journalist , not a would be climate ‘engineer’.
I know, Let’s explode a thousand nuclear bombs simultaneously in an attempt to nudge the planet a tad further from the sun. If that doesn’t work, at least we’ll get a few years of nuclear winter as an off-set to the deadly 1-2- degrees C. of warming.
Willis: that’s massive Spin Engineering we’re talking about here….
“Global warming is irreversible without massive geoengineering of the atmosphere’s chemistry.”
That’s a perfectly sane thing to say.
Andrew
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