Comment on How did we get into this? by Chief Hydrologist
Just so you know that Mama don’t like bad mouthin’ baby Jesus. I think that Don was suggesting that both materialism and religion was supplanted to a degree by environmentalism. The religious impulse...
View ArticleComment on How did we get into this? by Pekka Pirilä
The real world and human societies are complex enough to contain all kind of processes, among them those described by Don Aitkin. Unfortunately it’s of very little help to list such processes as they...
View ArticleComment on How did we get into this? by Pooh, Dixie
I like this one: “For every complex problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong”. –H. L. Mencken Or “elegant, easy to understand and wrong”.
View ArticleComment on How did we get into this? by James Evans
Perhaps nuclear weapons are a good place to start, when looking at the causes of the present feelings of imminent doom. During the Cold War we understood that much of life on earth could be wiped out...
View ArticleComment on How did we get into this? by RobB
Margaret What an insightful comment you made. I have always felt that religion came about, first, as a means of controlling people (you must be good and do as I say) and, second, because it effectively...
View ArticleComment on America’s First Global Warming Debate by Joe Lalonde
Judith, Our theories of the past are based on no changes to the planet and that at the planets creation, there was no water. Just chemical soup. So far all the areas I have looked into differs very...
View ArticleComment on A Scientist’s Manifesto by Lyric User
While scientists might need a manifesto, the climate deniers already have one. It was written by a Norwegian man who cites Lord Monckton as one of his influences.
View ArticleComment on America’s First Global Warming Debate by andrew adams
You’re equating C02 with cyanide – but you knew that. No, he really isn’t. The point is the logical fallacy in the original argument, which would exist even if CO2 emissions were entirely harmless.
View ArticleComment on A Scientist’s Manifesto by curryja
tt, you misquote me. I have given two different very likely ranges: 0-10C, and when you pushed me to narrow it, i have 0.5-8C. There is a paper on expert elicitation (can’t find it) where climate...
View ArticleComment on Loehle and Scafetta on Climate Change Attribution by Luis Dias
Fair enough, it wasn’t my intention.
View ArticleComment on Loehle and Scafetta on Climate Change Attribution by Luis Dias
I assure you it is not snark. I recognize that feeling all too well and indeed think it is a blessful sentiment. However, we must distrust it, and this paper does transpire the same feeling one gets...
View ArticleComment on Loehle and Scafetta on Climate Change Attribution by Dallas
Ah, the Dr. S factor. I know it well.
View ArticleComment on America’s First Global Warming Debate by Pekka Pirilä
Tony, Have you looked at the paper of Büntgen et al “2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility”. I found also the related article in Der Spiegel (in German) interesting. I...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 07/22/11 by David L. Hagen
tt Cut the *** and return to civilized scientific discussion or find another bridge to hide under.
View ArticleComment on America’s First Global Warming Debate by Herman Alexander Pope
The plot linked to in this post is like the hockey stick. It shows temperature to be warmer in 2000 than in the Medieval Warm Period. That was not true.
View ArticleComment on A Scientist’s Manifesto by Tom
giptis444, “The manifesto comprises a set of positive values which should be “internalized” by all scientists in all disciplines.” Well done; I think. I am not sure where your Bible is from (I for One...
View ArticleComment on Loehle and Scafetta on Climate Change Attribution by Alexander Harvey
Fred, I return to resonance and these pesky quasi periodic variations. I am afraid that I may not be answering directly but more explaining a viewpoint that looks at the issue olbiquely and then asks...
View ArticleComment on A Scientist’s Manifesto by Tom
I should have writen: “The writer of the Bible suggests we continue, reading from Galatians; 5:22,23. Sorry for my mistake. Tom
View ArticleComment on America’s First Global Warming Debate by tonyb
Pekka Thanks. Unfortunately the first one is behind a pay wall although I have seen some snippets elsewhere. Will translate the second. tonyb
View ArticleComment on Loehle and Scafetta on Climate Change Attribution by Martha
As I said, others (on both ‘sides’) have the critique exactly right. You are exceptionally arrogant, Craig, if you imagine people do not see that your only goal is to show that there is an alternative...
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