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Comment on Lomborg’s Senate testimony by Wagathon

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I guess, having the courage to do nothing is difficult for those who are paid to look useful. The more we learn about the non-problem of global warming the more we also must know that those who have been ringing the alarm bell are not people we should look to for guidance… about anything! It’s impossible to make good decisions with a bunch of know-it-alls running around like chickens with their heads cut off, point fingers and blaming those who provide value to society for burning up the globe.


Comment on Lomborg’s Senate testimony by omanuel

Comment on Lomborg’s Senate testimony by ordvic

Comment on Lomborg’s Senate testimony by Wagathon

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The language of us moderns beginning to sound a lot like the chanting in ancient tongues at religious altars. For example, does it makes sense to say–e.g., the IPCC’s promotion of academia’s ‘hockey stick’ is a, remotely ethically defensible version of truth?

Comment on Lomborg’s Senate testimony by Stephen Segrest

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Comment on Open thread by Brandon Shollenberger

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Good to know WebHubTelescope. That means, according to you, I ran away by writing multiple posts to follow-up, having a series of discussions, generating many graphs and temperature maps and providing code to replicate my results.

I think I must suck at this running away thing.

Comment on Open thread by Rob Ellison

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This is less than third rate nonsense that I have actually looked at when I was actually still looking at webby’s stuff.

There are well developed engineering design – and data acquisition – techniques for nearshore wave environments. This seems particularly a waste of time – and if the US government paid for it – a waste of money.

Similarly – terrain modeling is well advanced.

e.g. http://www.terrainmodels.com/

I don’t actually recall the details – and don’t intend to refresh my memory. The stuff is totally useless for real world engineering. That seems about right for someone who seems to imagine that the wheel hasn’t been invented and then builds a square one.

Comment on Open thread by Rob Ellison

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Where did this start?

This is some interesting time series analyses I recently worked on:

The SOI is defined as the standardized index of SLP at Darwin and Tahiti. It starts from a seesawing of SLP that occurs for good physical reasons – as noted nearly a hundred years ago – and is an indication of the state of ENSO.

But the correlation tells you nothing about the physical processes.

There are other and more subtle analyses of the physical processes.

‘Here we attempt to monitor ENSO by basing the Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) on the six main observed variables over the tropical Pacific. These six variables are: sea-level pressure (P), zonal (U) and meridional (V) components of the surface wind, sea surface temperature (S), surface air temperature (A), and total cloudiness fraction of the sky (C).’ http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/enso/mei/

With the MEI – we can clearly see the change in frequency and intensity of ENSO events. Blue to 1976, red to 1998 and blue again since. It provides one of the central clues to the deterministically chaotic nature of the Pacific system – and therefore the chaotic nature of surface temperature and global hydrology.


Comment on Open thread by Ragnaar

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Lake Superior Surface Temperatures:
http://media.mlive.com/weather_impact/photo/lake-sup-avg-to-now-finaljpg-7ab30e22e41d1b5d.jpg
Browsing around it occurred to me what a good thermometer Lake Superior makes. Granted these are surface temperatures. One could argue that 2014’s low temperatures are noise. I’d hope the lake is in sync with global temperatures. Like Minnesota, Western Lake Superior is distant from the oceans. Near the end of the precipitation train, for example Gulf moisture which does bring us rain. I think it’s that distance the emphasizes changes in the oceans.

If these cool temperatures continue through this season, the Gitche Gumee is likely to freeze over sooner. Attempting to retain warmth. An indicator? Maybe.

Comment on Lomborg’s Senate testimony by Jeffn

Comment on Kardashian Index by FreeHat

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Evans over at Jo nova volunteered that he makes $600 an hour as a climate modeler type, never have so few done so little for so few.

Comment on Kardashian Index by Faustino

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Yes, Judith, full marks to Gatesy on this occasion.

Comment on Kardashian Index by Faustino

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Kim Kardashian? She’s not an alter ego of our beloved witticist, is she? More eye-liner than one-liner, I suppose.

Comment on Kardashian Index by curryja

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?? Who is paying him $600/hr? $600/day might be more realistic.

Comment on Kardashian Index by ordvic

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JimD,
I read what you said, twice and I agree completely.


Comment on Kardashian Index by FreeHat

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Someone asked Dr. Evans about the opportunity cost, he replied with numbers similar to what I reported. It’s in the threads…

Comment on Kardashian Index by Stephen Segrest

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97% of CE visitors want you to do Podcasts! (especially between you and Mosher).

97% of Tech freshmen could set this up (with an App for future use) in nanoseconds.

If you could ever land Mann (where the production set explodes at the end of the podcast) — guaranteed you’d go viral.

Comment on Lomborg’s Senate testimony by SUT

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PokerGuy + 2.

Moreover, Lomborg is the dog who doesn’t go sprinting to the horizon when the frisbee is hovering right above him.

The whole past decade we’ve been debating this, and so little trend (and therefore so little adverse effect). Show me a super El Nino, or a return to the 80’s monotonic increase in GMT and I’m going to start saying it’s time for some catch up ball on green energy policy. But realistically, the game’s not (even close to) lost if we experience +.4C over the next decade.But if we continue to spend $60B on wind subsidies (wtf?!) we are risking economic stagnation which produces ugly social and cultural effects: see Greece post-2008.

Comment on Kardashian Index by Daniel

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No matter how spurned the idea is because of its association with Kardashian I think scientists doing blogs and inviting comments is first class brilliant! The exposure to the thought processes of the best and the brightest cannot help but raise the level of everyone’s discourse (though I admit there are some comments on here that would prove me wrong). And it’s not just a one way street and it’s not just on one track that the benefits exist.
Even the people on here that I find to be idiots are useful idiots in that they help to give texture and contour to the issues. (They challenge one’s understanding which is hugely useful). And when all of that takes place in an atmosphere of intelligence, knowledge, and education it’s addicting. It’s thrilling. It’s exciting.
A blog from a scientist is a wonderful thing, a place to learn, to be challenged to participate in something that, for many of us who are not fellow academics, would simply not be possible.
I don’t mean to gush, but I am extremely grateful for this blog and others like it for what I have gained is invaluable.

Comment on Kardashian Index by andywest2012

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The ivory tower academic system seems tremendously vulnerable to insistent narratives, like catastrophism in climate science. The more so as the system has become so vast and with so many specialisms. Presumably because scientists in each ‘cell’ believe far too uncritically the output of the nearby cells they input into their own research. Science in social media is maybe a blunt instrument, but it breaks down cell barriers, reintroducing realism and countering arbitrary consensus via cultural cross-currents. A good thing. But the old system upholds a lot of power structures now, so I guess resistance to the new is inevitable. As state institutions in the West once struggled to seperate themselves from the formal heirachies of religion, they may now have to seperate themselves from what has become the similarly powerful formal heirarchy of science.

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