Comment on Proc. Roy. Soc. Special Issue on ‘Handling Uncertainty in Science’...
I’m having trouble finding Forster’s comments on that thread.
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Uncertainty is as unwelcome in postmodern science as Flaws in new cars and appliances, and Flatulence in closed elevators. I know one of the participants, Dr. Philip Campbell (Editor of Nature) and...
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I think it is possible to state with certainty that something bad will happen. Somewhere, sometime, somehow. Do they think that by enumerating potential tragedies they can frighten us into action?...
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Manipulative pleadings or double talk: “Their approach to communicating uncertainty should depend on the context but, except in some extreme emergencies, transparency is generally a virtue.”...
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Having reviewed the Lewis threads in more detail, I see no posting by Forster but a post by Lewis reporting what he was told by the IPCC lead author about Forster’s opinion. In any case, Fred, what I...
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Temp… You’re changing the parameters of the question. Your original question didn’t factor in politics, just as my answer didn’t. “Yet, if a radio astronomer claims the discovery of a new planet they...
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“By ‘unquestionably dangerous’, we could mean the complete loss of the Amazonian rainforest owing to shifting rain patterns, or of large parts of Bangladesh becoming uninhabitable owing to persistently...
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argon is a trace gas, completely relevant regarding temperature. God gave it for decreasing flammability of oxygen +. Edison used it in the light-devises. Bringing argon in the subject, says a lot...
View ArticleComment on Public engagement on climate change by Peter Davies
Steven professes to be disturbed by how human nature works – from schoolyard groupthink behaviour to anyone who dares not to conform through to the lofty portals of academia where the same groupthink...
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Rob: The carbon tax does reduce emissions, by an amount that is commensurate with EU climate policy. Ireland can reduce its emissions to zero without an appreciable effect on climate change. MattStat:...
View ArticleComment on The wrong(?) conversation by TomRude
Even Pierre Morel, founder of the Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique said so two years ago in his conference…
View ArticleComment on Ludecke et al. respond: Part II by Fred Moolten
Anteros – My apologies for addressing my comment above to you. It was intended as a response to Agnostic.
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I found a great quote from Bertrand Russell criticizing Henri Bergson, who was a prototype scientific skeptic/wacko known for his alternate space-time theories challenging Einstein:...
View ArticleComment on Ludecke et al. respond: Part II by Anteros
Thanks Fred – I didn’t mean to give the impression that I thought the papers weren’t flawed, far from it. I simply thought Prof.Tol’s criticism – that they didn’t mention climate sensitivity in the...
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JJ, The only irretrievably stupid thing written here is your comment above. It was entirely reasonable to have skeptical eye towards Richard Muller’s integrity after the WSJ article and political spin...
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Andrew, I think you could make better progress with your therapy if you would print these exchanges and share them with your mental health professional.
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So may I take that as a yes? Great. I’ve always wanted a doctorate in theology. And maybe one in marine biology.
View ArticleComment on Ludecke et al. respond: Part II by Anteros
Not a problem – it gave me pause to think about my comment!
View ArticleComment on Letter to the dragon slayers by Ken Coffman
No, you may not take my helpful suggestion as a ‘yes’ to your question. Honestly, Andrew, it’s clear your medication is not balanced properly. Seriously. Get some help with the cocktail.
View ArticleComment on Public engagement on climate change by DocMartyn
Sometimes comparisons are apt. Schrödingers wave equation is a description of everything, rather like Douglas Adams answer to life the universe and everything; 42. It is possible to generate answers...
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