Comment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by Peter Lang
Pekka Pirila, Where are we at? Summarising my thoughts, and thinking big picture this is my view: • Using central values of climate sensitivity and damage function, GHG emissions are not catastrophic....
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by Dave Springer
“An important corollary is that scientists also need to be prepared to go out and defend their findings to the public.” If public defense is needed it’s usually because it isn’t science that’s in need...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change: Part II by Michael
You gave TB as your example. Clueless much? And re:cold/flu – it is impossible to avoid air-borne viruses unless you plan to live life in a bubble – they are part of the natural environment. Bonfire.
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by Dave Springer
Does Ben Santer of someone of his ilk get to make 12th hour edits again?
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change: Part II by jim2
@johanna | June 8, 2012 at 11:26 am You are so full of it johanna. Millions of people owe there job which allows them to make a living to the rich. Your narrow, blinkered socialist vision will be the...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change: Part II by jim2
johanna – apologies to you!! I see you were defending capitalism. You! The one she was talking to, read my response!!
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Comment on Conservative perspectives on climate change: Part II by A fan of...
Non sequitur, Dave? “Second-hand smoke is OK for kids to breath, because other things are bad for children’s health too!” You’re right. YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! What we need is a LAW to block...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by Dave Springer
WebHubTelescope | June 8, 2012 at 4:04 pm | Reply “They actually think that AGW is totally responsible for green technology. You conflate alternative techologies with green technologies. If it weren’t...
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by Wagathon
There could be a problem with your statistics. The warming period between Ice Ages is 8-12k years and humanity’s entire experience on Earth has taken place during the Holocene Epoch which means 11k of...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by lolwot
Crichton is effectively making attacking strawman there, but probably not intentionally. Science shouldn’t work by consensus, but consensus is important when reporting science. This is perfectly valid:...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by Edim
If a consensus forms by itself, and in high agreement with observations, after being subject to serious and very critical scrutiny – then it’s a valuable consensus. But even then, it should be open to...
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty is not your friend (?) by David L. Hagen
Brian H Re: "most likely next abrupt nonlinear change would be a return to the overdue Ice Sheet condition which bounds interglacials like ours." Good observation. The greatest uncertainty is:...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by John M
The act of science itself is not about consensus. But no-one is claiming it is. You say tomahto, I say tomato, but I think “appeals to consensus” like this are what Crichton was referring to....
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by lolwot
Because I don’t have strong political or religious beliefs. Skeptics here evidentially do (strong political beliefs) and IMO have allowed this to bias their analysis of the science to the point that...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by lolwot
Yeah act dumb and dodge having to address the flaw in your bad argument
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by jim2
So, if this result holds up under criticism, the GCMs output, when processed in the same manner, should match the continuous spectral “background” given in the paper.
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by gbaikie
“However, only a very small fraction of the 0.474×10^21 J will actually remain in the earth/atmosphere system.” How small a fraction? Nitrogen and oxygen don’t radiate a significant amount of energy,...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by tempterrain
“Racial Socialism” ? Well I’ve never heard apartheid called that before. And democracy is totalitarian is it? So by that score Barack Obama is a totalitarian? It all sounds pretty dangerous talk to me....
View ArticleComment on Week in review 6/8/12 by jim2
lolwot – See the paper @ steven | June 8, 2012 at 4:29 pm It shows that CO2 lags temperature. So, I respectfully suggest you are wrong on this point.
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