At any rate, DT, the barring of people from ebola countries wouldn’t stop volunteers from going there and back to help out.
Comment on Week in review by jim2
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Comment on Week in review by Eric
Dr. Curry, the cartoon above again illustrates your belief that the world is cooling. Do the record warm global temperatures of the past year call you to question this belief?
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Comment on Week in review by rls
Vuk
Wonder how the sailors on the Victory kept warm? Would they have risked having a fire on board?
Richard
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by Faustino
pb, a widely shared view here.
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by Faustino
brent, I’ll skip the links, I’m about to lie down with a strained back, a quick comment on Dykxhoorn’s morality remark. I don’t know about Buddhists per se, but the Buddha taught a strict moral code, one already adopted by some in India before he taught, which in brief was to abstain from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying and taking intoxicants. Although adherence to this has benefits in itself, it was taught as a prerequisite of developing concentration of the mind, in turn a prerequisite for practising Vipoassana meditation to purify oneself of past conditionings and learn to live a happy, harmonious life, good for you, good for others. No ambiguity there. Buddhism developed about 500 years after the Buddha’s death, when unenlightened teachers sought to gain followers by relaxing the moral code.
But I take your point, many of those at the heart of UN-related approaches allegedly intended to forestall CAGW are fundamentally opposed to many of the foundations of the successful Western cultures. TTFN.
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Comment on Week in review by Danny Thomas
I agree, but I’m not comfortable with banning folks just because they’ve been there or near there. Plus, there are too many ways around any so called ban. We’ve made mistakes in our handling, but the fear the media has spread about this disease seems to be similar to Aids, Avian, West Nile, etc. and there is no epidemic of those that I’m aware of. But I guess it does sell advertising, huh?
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Comment on Ethics of communicating scientific uncertainty by Rob Ellison
Nothing from Pekka’s treatment is relevant to gas in a box. We have been through that before.
We have particles moving at an average speed of 466m/s at 273K. The gravitational acceleration down – an infinitesimal increase in downward velocity has nothing to do with density.
Nothing but hopelessly inadequate verbiage do we see.
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by beththeserf
Kinda’ Oceana Ministery of Truth, Justin.
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Comment on Week in review by angech
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Comment on Week in review by Jim D
This caught my eye. An article about James “Hoax” Inhofe’s potential new power after the elections. Millennials pay attention to his age, because at 80 he wouldn’t care if he was wrong.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miroslava-korenha/a-millennials-perspective_b_6081944.html
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Comment on Week in review by jim2
DT – your lax attitude concerning my countrymen makes me very uncomfortable. Ebola is a violently deadly disease with a too long incubation period. In larger cities, the potential for hundreds of people to be exposed in just one day exists.
I really can’t fathom your reasoning here. Why do you hold non-citizens in such esteem, more so than US citizens?
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Comment on Week in review by rls
Eric
“Dr. Curry, the cartoon above again illustrates your belief that the world is cooling. Do the record warm global temperatures of the past year call you to question this belief?”
Let me help with your thoughtful question Eric. The answer from Dr Curry would likely be “The cartoon is a humorous depiction of reality, where new explanations for the pause emerge daily. It is not an illustration of my belief. My belief, frequently stated, is that scientists have too little knowledge to make multi annual predictions.”
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Comment on Week in review by jim2
OIL 80.54
BRENT 85.96
NAT GAS 3.873
RBOB GAS 2.1478
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Comment on Week in review by rls
Change that to “interannual predictions”
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Comment on Week in review by jim2
From the article:
Summary
Cheap energy trumps cheap labor any day.
The entire oil sector has just gone on sale, including the companies building the infrastructure.
Peak oil is no longer a problem, but peak storage is.
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Comment on Week in review by jim2
There are so many articles on oil now that the price has eased, I won’t post them. Here are a slew of them. (And remember, Seeking Alpha has a wide variety of authors, so you have been advised.)
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Comment on Week in review by Danny Thomas
Not sure what gives an impression of a lax attitude, but that was not my intention, nor am I aware of your country.
As we’ve done quite well in handling the disease in the U.S. and as we’ve sent a number of folks to Africa to assist, and we are learning more and more almost daily, the fear surrounding the disease seems to be no more necessary than others that we’ve dealt with over our recent history. As a matter of opinion, once a disease such as this gets more coverage, the focus in the U.S. becomes more intense and that intensity has historically led to an improved ability to fight it. The fearful approach I have disagreement with. But I do believe that kind of coverage sells.
I don’t hold either U.S. citizens as more or less than any other people regarding this or other disease. Using common sense and appropriate PPE makes this virus no worse than any other deadly disease. Tragic in it’s consequences, especially in the areas of origin and outbreak, yes. But with focus comes action and our recent actions has proven to have positive results. Can we not agree?
No disrespect was ever intended. But folks will just fly, travel by ship, or other means and will cross borders no matter what bans are in place.
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Comment on Week in review by Rob Ellison
Natural, large-scale climate patterns like the PDO and El Niño-La Niña are superimposed on global warming caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases and landscape changes like deforestation. According to Josh Willis, JPL oceanographer and climate scientist, “These natural climate phenomena can sometimes hide global warming caused by human activities. Or they can have the opposite effect of accentuating it.” http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8703
1. Yeah right – it is based on weather.
2. Yeah right – record temps. Based on drought affected surface records I suppose?
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Comment on Week in review by Tom Fuller
Quite possibly it is worthwhile exploring the technology component of energy innovation irregardless of climate change.
As might be demonstrated by looking at scientific papers, trade journals and even magazines like Popular Mechanics from the days before climate change ruled the agenda.
Even absent climate change, fossil fuels tend to pollute, tend to increase in price and tend to favor some countries over others. It makes perfect sense to explore alternatives. We kind of like Edison, right? We think he did good things, don’t we? (Well, except for fans of Tesla–the human Tesla, not the automotive manufacturer…)
And if this innovation provides extra services in the way of insurance against the possibility of human-induced climate change, is that really a reason to oppose it?
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Comment on Week in review by Tom Fuller
Joshua scoffs at those noting the weather, but only when the weather is colder than it is supposed to be. We search in vain for Joshua’s scorn when the Consensus writes of Xtreme Weather, drought and heat.
Motivated, yes–reasoning, I’m not sure.
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