Comment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by Matthew Hincman
An excerpt : “Rollo May (1977) stated that totalitarianism “may be viewed as serving a purpose on a cultural scale parallel to that in which a neurotic symptom protects an individual from a situation...
View ArticleComment on Sea level rise discussion thread by Jim D
Unfortunately for Pielke, the radiative feedback, the way he defines it is usually opposite to forcing, so yes it is negative, and yes it is the well known Planck response that is supposed to be...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change: Part II by omanuel
There will always be catastrophes, kim, and charlatan “scientists” and/or “religionists” on hand to claim that the catastrophe proves their dogma. The love of money separated “scientists” from reality...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change: Part II by Max_OK
“Profit is about doing something more efficiently.” That’s one way to make a profit. Other ways are to collude with your competitors or have a monopoly.
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by Scott
Now your being funny. Too bad we won’t be here when fusion starts but by 2015 we will get breakeven! Then it is a matter of engineering and cost. How much fun that will be. PE, if you are a PE we can...
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by Vaughan Pratt
The logic of the doomsday paradox would predict, from any example of a positive integer however large, that with probability 1 there can be only finitely many positive integers. Since there are...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change: Part II by jim2
Even though I know charcoal smoke is toxic, I continue to bathe my food in it and even breathe it in. The point is, it’s not a huge problem for me. Maybe someone who lives with a chain smoker and both...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change: Part II by jim2
Actually, Fan of More BS, your appear to me to be some sort of Drama Queen.
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by Pekka Pirilä
Essentially all energy absorbed by CO2 molecules in troposphere is very rapidly released as heat of atmosphere. Conversely heat of atmosphere maintains continuously so many CO2 molecules in excited...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by jim2
Pekka – I really liked the way you explained the lapse rate without saying lapse rate.
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by Vaughan Pratt
Imagine an American visiting England for the first time who takes a bus to an interesting part of the countryside and decides to hire a car, the better to sightsee. He sets out along an empty two-lane...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by steven mosher
haha. this caught my eye. http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/11/ivanhoe-reservoir-covered-with-400000.html#12
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Comment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by capt. dallas 0.8 +/-0.2
Let me simplify the envelop paradox. Someone gives you an envelop with money in it… You take it. Monty Hall, You have two out of three chances of getting a goat. Switch doors and fire up the barbecue
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by hunter
Scott, If we do solar and wind as you claim to wish, we will be too broke to do nuke.Carbon sequestration is a bs idea that is insanely expensive and will not work. Fusion has been just a few years...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by hunter
Jacob, The rational bet is to always bet against the malthusians, despite their always claiming to be the intellectual cutting edge. In reality Malthusians, from Malthus to Ehrlich and gang to our dear...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by lolwot
It’s not just one misguided billboard campaign is it. The skeptic blogs are awash with stupidity and extremism. You can’t reason with people who are looking for any excuse to deny....
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by hunter
lolwot, Lewandowsky is no cliamte scientists. He is no more qualified to his opinion than you or I. You just happen to like his opinion and so are ignoring the prepostrous nature of his infantile...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change: Part II by johanna
Even if autism rates have increased to the extent that you claim (and there is plenty of ground for dispute in that regard) it doesn’t detract from my point. You have said that “very likely something...
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by Peter Lang
Pekka Pirila, Nordhaus is a scientist and the paper is published in a scientific journal. Under those conditions the paper should be taken literally, i.e. one should not try to read between lines...
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