Comment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by lolwot
Are you serious? Did you not even read the PDF you quoted? Seriously explain yourself, did you just google search something (what?), find that PDF, and post the link without reading it and discovering...
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by lolwot
Any debate should be done in the scientific journals. The IPCC is more of a judge of that debate.
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by WebHubTelescope
Not surprised. Most of these climate skeptics are as scientifically illiterate as a doorknob.
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by jim2
Some would argue they are somewhat less of a judge than all that.
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by Rob Starkey
Lolwot Good point and well summarized. I add- the IPCC has been “a judge” of: 1. The rate of warming as a function of CO2 2. The changes in weather conditions that will result from the aforementioned...
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by Peter Lang
Why doesn’t John Quiggin apply this thinking to CAGW. He is one of the main alarmists and scaremongers. He also worked with Ross Garnaut on Australia’s CO2 tax and ETS justification. The basis for...
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by Rob Starkey
yet another stupid Web comment
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by Rob Starkey
Is it possible that the govrnment wanted revenue
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by Peter Lang
Megan, given the best information we have now, there is more uncertainty at the high end of climate sensitivity than at the low end. Does this conclusion from Nordhaus (2012) address your point? we...
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by Peter Lang
The huge uncertainties about mitigation are a) whether it will work at all (very doubtful), and b) whether it will do huge damage to the poor (almost certain).</blockquote> Good summary....
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by Peter Lang
<blockquote> And I have often considered the costs of mitigation and how much I would be willing to “spend” in order to prevent the damage that building up the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere...
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by Peter Lang
the rational decision depends on the tails of the distribution What tails? we conclude that no loaded gun of strong tail dominance has been uncovered to date....
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by lolwot
I agree with Stefan Lewandowsky’s argument. For a long time I have been arguing that uncertainty is the source of the danger from man-made climate change and that climate skeptics have been wrongly...
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Comment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by tempterrain
“Uncertainty is not your friend (?)” Is that so? I’d say it was certainly a friend of AGW deniers. It makes for a simple argument: Scientists aren’t totally sure there is a problem due to GHG emissions...
View ArticleComment on Sea level rise discussion thread by WebHubTelescope
“I look forward to Chief Hydrologists sanity check ” Captain Skippy’s sanity check is to call anyone who argues with him an insane AGW space cadet.
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by Pekka Pirilä
There’s radiative cooling from all altitudes up to the tropopause (stratosphere higher up is of lesser importance and very different). With more CO2 less and less radiation can escape directly to the...
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by Dagfinn
I think the problem is that “[good/reasonable/accurate] representation of reality” is far too vague to base any meaningful consideration on. Mixing that with precise concepts like 95 per cent...
View ArticleComment on Sea level rise discussion thread by Dave Springer
Choosing one’s battles. There is no evidence in recorded history of any calving glacier causing a large or instant rise in sea level. Yet as recently as 1859 a coronal mass ejection from the sun caused...
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by David Wojick
Maxok, you are a poster child for the irrational fear and outrage that drives CAGW. Disagreeing with you does not make people bad.
View ArticleComment on Sea level rise discussion thread by WebHubTelescope
<blockquote>"You left out specific heat of capacities which play a major role in temperatures."</blockquote> That's why I said a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_mass"...
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