Comment on The Righteous Mind by Tom Schaub
Sowell is more a popularizer of pretty old ideas in economics, not an innovator. – You may be right with respect to economics. On some of his deepest work, an economic nobel wouldn’t apply. \Tom
View ArticleComment on The Righteous Mind by Chief Hydrologist
Bernie, I don’t what to say about any of that. Le Pétomane and his absurd arm waving. What does any of it mean? It is all fantastical. I think you should look further afield. Both ocean expansion and...
View ArticleComment on The Righteous Mind by Chief Hydrologist
Wrong place – http://judithcurry.com/2012/04/19/the-righteous-mind/#comment-194103
View ArticleComment on Climate change responses in the developing world by sunshinehours1
Mexico exports half of its oil production. They seem to have lots to spare. But they probably fell into the trap of not spending money looking for Bakken-like formations....
View ArticleComment on Assessing climate model software quality by WebHubTelescope
They don’t because scientifically inclined bloggers would have a field day in writing mocking posts dissecting the errors. So they instead say that nature is hopelessly complex and chaotic and leave it...
View ArticleComment on Assessing climate model software quality by Peter317
Posts like this one remind me in no uncertain terms why I’m a sceptic.
View ArticleComment on The Righteous Mind by Tom Schaub
Yes, and unintentionally insulting as well. My apologies. Per your Denizens profile, there is no reason you would have heard of Sowell. However, if you want to think seriously about the intersections...
View ArticleComment on The Righteous Mind by David Wojick
Regarding your “What if I had said anyone who hadn’t studied mathematical statistics should shut up when the grown ups are discussing statistical significance?” two points. First you are still using...
View ArticleComment on The Righteous Mind by blueice2hotsea
Bart R - Finally, the touch-point for this tiff was the modeling of an agent who believes that climate models are as close to falsification [...] as mathematically possible” Jeez. Couldn’t they have...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 4/13/12 by Chief Hydrologist
It was a term invented by Hansen for mixing of heat into the oceans to emerge later to add to surface warming. It doesn’t happen. There is no long adjustment time for CO2 – but even if there were it...
View ArticleComment on Climate change responses in the developing world by Tom Schaub
Please study economics. If fossil fuels look like they are going to run out, that will mean that the people who own it will leave it in the ground and wait for the price to go up. If the signals are...
View ArticleComment on Climate change responses in the developing world by kim
Bully for you, lolwot. My tag line for ~5 years has been ‘The globe is cooling, folks; for how long even kim doesn’t know’, specifically because I’m not certain of all this. I could be convinced that...
View ArticleComment on Climate change responses in the developing world by lolwot
Recent warming, eg warming since 1980 http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/uah/from:1980/to:2012/plot/uah/from:1980/trend “According to UAH the only warming in the last 30+ years occurred in conjunction...
View ArticleComment on Climate change responses in the developing world by Bart R
Jim2 | April 22, 2012 at 10:14 am | More LP, less DL. While much of what you say has some basis in fact, it then takes those bases, tosses away the, erm, _inconvenient_ bits, and builds an artificial...
View ArticleComment on The Righteous Mind by David Wojick
Thanks Tom, I appreciate your response. I was never criticizing the substance of your post. The grand challenge here is to be civil, or even (gasp, choke) polite. Sometimes I nag people about this,...
View ArticleComment on The Righteous Mind by Bart R
So.. a preference for DL without LP. Yeah, I’ve seen that in many Eastern philosophies, presentations by vibrational human energy motivational speakers , and stage magicians.
View ArticleComment on The Righteous Mind by David Wojick
Actually it probably does. But as usual I have no idea what your point is. We have to stop meeting like this.
View ArticleComment on Week in review 4/20/12 by johanna
Further to my comment above, I also recommend the review and analysis of the history and philosophy of climate science on the same site, here:...
View ArticleComment on Climate change responses in the developing world by Jim2
And Roy Spencer has shown that much of the rise in US temperatures, at least, can be attributed to UHI effect. Your case is very weak. And, unfortunately, the precautions necessary to validate the...
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