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Comment on Arctic warming opens region to new military activity by Howling Winds

Another science that might benefit from the Arctic warming (assuming it’s true) might be that of archaeology, if there are in fact the remains of humans or other civilizations there to be uncovered.

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Comment on Gleick’s ‘integrity’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’d rather Gleick post real science under a false name than junk science under his real name. Alas all we’re ever likely to get is junk science either way.

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Comment on Arctic warming opens region to new military activity by tempterrain

I was thinking of putting up , just as a joke, a comment disputing that the Arctic is actually warming. But I see genuine climate change deniers have already done that in all seriousness! I really...

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Comment on Assessing climate model software quality by Bart R

Sure, for this curve the r^2 isn’t as much of an issue, as you’re already talking about a derivative. Which means you should not label your derivative curve “Observed”, as you are not directly...

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Comment on Assessing climate model software quality by Bart R

Your conclusion is clearly backwards, Mr. Orssengo. The fact that you’ve produced only four identical 60-year slopes on 120 years of data tells us the global warming rate has varied widely in the last...

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Comment on Arctic warming opens region to new military activity by Bernie...

Certainly there is a remarkable degree of resistance on this forum — and even animosity — with regard to the notion that the US Navy, having driven its nuclear submarines under the polar ice for more...

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Comment on Week in review 4/13/12 by Bart R

timg56 | April 18, 2012 at 3:23 pm | I suspect that the only thing it might predict is that extremes are possible, but nothing about the nature, extent or frequency. More a connection that is difficult...

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Comment on Week in review 4/13/12 by Chief Hydrologist

IR is emitted from surfaces which then warms the atmosphere. There is no physical mechanism for atmospheric warming without the emitted IR. If the problem is conceived as a high temperature atmosphere...

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Comment on Lindzen et al.: response and parry by John S.

I’m amused by your rapid move from one groundless presumption to another in your uninsightful reply. Such boorish personal attacks should find no place in scientific debate. Nothing has seriously...

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Comment on Arctic warming opens region to new military activity by David Wojick

The Navy cannot know about the cumulative effects of AGW because it cannot know about things that are not known to exist, and probably do not exist.

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Comment on Arctic warming opens region to new military activity by David Wojick

Temp, you are the one who is anti-science, as I have noted many times before. You have no scientific case so you resort to repeated name calling.

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Comment on Assessing climate model software quality by Girma

How about calling it “trend for the observed data”?

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Comment on Assessing climate model software quality by capt. dallas 0.8 +/-0.2

Bart, really complex problems are great at making very intelligent people look like idiots. CO2 is going to make a whole bunch of intelligent idiots The GCMs are impressive and surprisingly...

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Comment on UQ by Arcs_n_Sparks

>We cannot predict earthquakes, yet we have earthquake building codes. This engineer would explain that we have a good understanding of the bounding parameters regarding earthquakes (which of...

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Comment on Week in review 4/13/12 by Chief Hydrologist

So here we have the ocean warming to 10m and more with SW and cooling with IR from the surface and with convection and latent heat. Because the warming is all radiative – it is all very nearly...

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Comment on The Righteous Mind by DocMartyn

The 60′s Liberals had been through WWII, the present day leadership cut their teeth in Vietnam.

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Comment on Questions on research integrity and scientific responsibility by...

I in addition to my guys were found to be reviewing the excellent secrets and techniques located on the blog and then quickly I got a terrible suspicion I had not thanked the blog owner for them. All...

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Comment on The Righteous Mind by philjourdan

We’re lousy at challenging our own beliefs, but we’re good at challenging each other’s. Haidt compares us to neurons in a giant brain, capable of “producing good reasoning as an emergent property of...

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Comment on Arctic warming opens region to new military activity by Scott

Thanks Tonyb. For fun I checked out The Cooling a 1976 non fiction by Lowell Ponte about the coming ice age. Starts with “Our planet’s climate has been cooling for the past three decades.” NAS...

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