Comment on Spatio-temporal chaos by Chief Hydrologist
Very foolish indeed. But is it not also foolish to poke a stick at a wild and angry beast? Taxes and cap and trade are pointless exercises with an overt anti growth agenda. Skeptics on the other hand...
View ArticleComment on Spatio-temporal chaos by Chief Hydrologist
A metatheory of climate will not have practical application any time soon – that’s not a reason not to pursue it.
View ArticleComment on Slaying a greenhouse dragon by Roger Taguchi
Is the presumption of a 2% change in (1/T) tied to a 2% change in flux found in textbooks, and generally accepted in the climate change literature? If so, then the generally accepted value for climate...
View ArticleComment on Spatio-temporal chaos by PaulM
I will post something a bit less technical with links later today.
View ArticleComment on Spatio-temporal chaos by vukcevic
Milanovic, Interesting and useful analysis. Sometime what may appear to be a chaotic behaviour it is just part of an orderly longer term process, engineers often refer to it as a noise. In the solar...
View ArticleComment on On Being a Scientist by Pekka Pirilä
The scientific process is about the cumulative evidence. The scientists have in general trust that the others do not cheat, but they do not trust that the others are right. Being skeptical of every...
View ArticleComment on Spatio-temporal chaos by Chief Hydrologist
Having consulted Tim Palmer’s Lorenzian Meteorological Office ‘Prediction of weather and climate are necessarily uncertain: our observations of weather and climate are uncertain, the models into which...
View ArticleComment on On Being a Scientist by Pekka Pirilä
Fred, I agree strongly with you. Great results have very often been the result of being stubborn against evidence. The scientists has reached an intuitive belief that a new approach may be valuable,...
View ArticleComment on Spatio-temporal chaos by Jeroen P. van der Sluijs
Strongly recommended reading in relation to these issues : Nancy Cartwright How the laws of physics lie, Oxford University Press, 1983.
View ArticleComment on Spatio-temporal chaos by Jeroen P. van der Sluijs
Here is a better link to how the laws of physics lie with preview of some pages of the book .
View ArticleComment on Spatio-temporal chaos by tallbloke
If your stick is made out of carbon dioxide I doubt the angry beast will notice. In my view, and your post on cloud seems to support it, most of the late C20th warming was due to the increased...
View ArticleComment on Slaying a greenhouse dragon by Pekka Pirilä
Bryan, In my comments to Claes I have stated, that there may be alternative ways of describing the same things. That is OK, but that gives you no right to say that the way others want to discuss the...
View ArticleComment on Slaying a greenhouse dragon. Part III: discussion by John O'Sullivan
Al, if my ‘ignorance’ is in question then yours can be in no doubt. Just two words utterly destroy your bogus thought experiment: Poynting’s law. To elaborate, when calculating any transport of...
View ArticleComment on Hiding the Decline: Part II by Steve Milesworthy
Stay focused please, Magnus. This is about whether the hockeystick is important to estimates of climate sensitivity. It is not because most climate scientists do not share your level of scepticism, and...
View ArticleComment on Hiding the Decline by Lazar
Michael, Judith did delete some of the data. I will not speculate as to whether that was dishonest, as I don’t have access to Judith’s mind, Judith. We might ask, as Steven Mosher asks, what scientific...
View ArticleComment on Hiding the Decline by kcom
Exactly. There is no analogy in Gavin’s “analogy”. The “hide the decline” graphmakers were leaving off (inconvenient) data that exists in the timeline they were graphing. The hurricane example above...
View ArticleComment on Believing Science by Pekka Pirilä
Concerning the gradual decoherence I add that it is perhaps easiest to understand when QM is formulated using density operators instead of wave functions. The formulations are equivalent, but different...
View ArticleComment on Hiding the Decline: Part II by Kasmirsen
Wealth is extraordinarily concentrated worldwide, and one of the principal goals of wealthy families is exerting power and influence (“impact”). As of 2004, 77,000 families worldwide controlled assets...
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