No one objects to technological innovation or cleaner environments – e.g. http://watertechbyrie.com/2014/06/30/black-carbon-a-health-and-environment-issue/
What we object to is subsidies for energy production of any type.
Comment on Phunny Physics by Rob Ellison
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Comment on Phunny Physics by ROM
Addendum; Everything I see in climate alarmist science is, after 25 years when one would think after the hundreds of billions spent on climate research there would be huge benefits already appearing, is always sometime in the future as in the excellent “future will do this or that” examples just above .
Climate science has no ability to contribute anything to society except predictions, none of which have come to fruition even after 25 years and some hundreds of billions of dollars spent on research.
None of those predictions are useable here and now nor have made the slightest positive contribution to society now have they any indication of making any contribution to society as they are all still just predictions and hoped for’s..
Like China will do this or that or india or somebody else will do this or that or as the result of the [ unpredicted statistically non existent ] global warming.
All that climate alarmist science has ever promised is fear and hopelessness and utter depression of the human spirit for the future.
Nothing positive and uplifting to the human spirit has ever come from climate alarmist science
After 25 years of close to a trillion dollars of treasure being expended, thousands of avoidable deaths from hypothermia related health problems amongst the elderly, the destruction of entire industries and large parts of some national economies, science, very expensive science at that has been sent down an innumerable number of dead end paths and rabbit holes in pursuit of the unpredictable non existent global warming and it’s totally failed predictions of catastrophes always still to come but which never do.
Political parties, scientific societies, whole sectors of the publicly funded MSM, all have being corrupted and doing their utmost to destroy freedom of expression and opinion by censoring when it clashes with their leader’s and the climate alarmist adherents dogma and catastrophe fixated beliefs.
Nowhere in climate science after 25 years and a few hundred billions of dollars of research can I discern where there have been any significant and useable benefits to any society in any perceivable or useful way.
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Comment on Phunny Physics by Don Monfort
Jimmy says China plans to do something about runaway coal that is making the air in their cities toxic. Their plans are big. Spread the pollution misery around:
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/theres-a-coal-base-in-china-the-size-of-la
“But China isn’t just relegating its dirty coal-fired power plants to the outskirts of society; for years, it’s been building 16 unprecedentedly massive, brand new “coal bases” in rural parts of the country. There, they won’t stifle China’s megacities; they’ll churn out enough pollution to help smother the entire world.”
Why don’t you spend some time on Chinese blogs, jimmy. Harangue them for a while. We are not the problem.
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Comment on Phunny Physics by phatboy
Jim D, it wasn’t the conservative government which brought in these policies.
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Comment on Phunny Physics by phatboy
Indeed. With wind and solar power, we end up paying outrageously high prices for our energy, while wealthy landowners are lining their pockets.
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Comment on Phunny Physics by johanna
Dream on, Jim D.
Billing taxpayers and consumers for your dreams is not policy – it’s just legalised theft.
Do you not think that whoever invents a viable means of storage for the output of windmills and solar arrays will not become fabulously rich overnight? Of course they will. Are people trying? Of course they are.
So, get your hand out of our pockets in the meantime.
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Comment on Phunny Physics by Don Monfort
Here is another sample, jimmy. Description for but one of the huge ongoing projects:
“It’s projected to finally be finished by the end of the decade, when it will produce a jaw-dropping 30,000 MW of power, sucking down 100 million tons of coal every year in the process. And it’s just one of over a dozen such sprawling operations.
As such, Ningdong does a fairly good job of epitomizing China’s grave threat to the global climate system. A recent paper in Nature Climate Change noted that if all of the coal-to-gas plants get built, they’d produce 21 billion tons of CO2 alone. The Washington Post’s Brad Plumer puts that in context: “The entire nation of China produced 7.7 billion tons of carbon-dioxide in 2011.” Put simply, China’s on a path to produce an unholy amount of carbon pollution.”
They have big plans, jimmy dee. Are you going to stop them?
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Comment on Phunny Physics by Alistair Riddoch
‘It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.’
Douglas Adams
Ironically, the shape of the gravity pattern of earth is called the “Pottsdam Potato”. Who’s this Douglas Adams guy?
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Comment on Phunny Physics by WebHubTelescope (@WHUT)
Paul Douglas is a genius.
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He founded EarthWatch Communications in 1990, which created weather visualizations for the films Jurassic Park and Twister. He made a cameo appearance in a weather center scene in the latter. He also co-founded Digital Cyclone in 1998. The company creates weather applications and supplies content for wireless devices under the My-Cast brand name. Douglas sold Digital Cyclone to Garmin in 2007 for $45 million.
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Try to enlighten him out of his $45 million.
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Comment on Phunny Physics by Alistair Riddoch
melting ice will have some interesting properties. If you consider that hot water freezes faster than cold water, then it would be plausible to expect a “stretching” or “accelerating” effect in the opposite direction during melting. Might relate to opening a super cold bottle of pop, or the glacial melt and refreeze that occurs almost instantly as shifts change the pressure being exerted on super cold ice that is almost water.
I saw a video with some guys playing around with very pure water that was cooled to -24 and did real neat tricks.
so I do wonder about seeing ice as a “heat” store. in a way. related to pressure on it.
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Comment on Understanding adjustments to temperature data by Carrick
nickels there are lots of sites that don’t trust or permit raw ftp. You might try a proxy server for that.
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Comment on Understanding adjustments to temperature data by Zeke Hausfather
RiH008,
There is no prescribed 0.5 C adjustment for MMTS transitions. Its handled by the PHA, which looks for breakpoints relative to neighbor difference series. Instrument changes tend to be really easy to pick up using this approach, as they involve pretty sharp step changes up or down in min/max temperatures.
In that particular case its pretty clear that there is a ~0.5 C difference in max temp readings between the instruments. I looked at many other examples of pairs of stations here: http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/a-cooling-bias-due-to-mmts/
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Comment on Understanding adjustments to temperature data by sunshinehours1
The peak of the AMO was around 1944.
Get ready for 35 years of declining temperatures,
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Comment on Understanding adjustments to temperature data by Zeke Hausfather
You can also open it in plaintext with any text editor. There are some conventions somewhat unique to the language, but most of it should be pretty easy to follow.
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Comment on Understanding adjustments to temperature data by Carrick
Thanks for the link.
Here’s a pdf version:
http://www.environ.sc.edu/sites/default/files/files/anderson2013.pdf
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Comment on Understanding adjustments to temperature data by johanna
If I am thinking of buying shares in a company, the last thing that I want to hear is that the auditors started from an assumption of good faith.
Auditors should start with no assumptions about “faith”, good or bad.
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Comment on Understanding adjustments to temperature data by Nickels
Mean nice mean nice. Pick a lane.
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Comment on Understanding adjustments to temperature data by Matthew R Marler
Mosher: Err no.
Assuming good faith is not a problem.
you do work for me. I assume you will make mistakes. that is not bad faith.
you do work for me. I claim you must have made mistakes because you
are self interested and because some one across the ocean made mistakes in a totally different field, and I refuse to look at your evidence
until you prove you are a virgin. that is what most skeptics do.
How you do go on.
There are professionals whose work is always audited. I mentioned the pharmaceutical companies, whose programs are always checked by outsiders. Financial institutions have their work audited; professional organizations like AAAS and ASA have their finances audited; pharmaceutical and other scientific research organizations maintain data audit trails and they are subject to audits by internal and external auditors.
Whether the auditors assume good faith or not, mistakes are so prevalent that it ought to be assumed by auditors that they are present.
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Comment on Understanding adjustments to temperature data by mwgrant
All I am looking for is a simple yes or no: is there a formal USHCN quality assurance program in place?
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Comment on Understanding adjustments to temperature data by Don Monfort
I have an analysis for you, perlie. The pause is killing the cause.
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