Comment on WHT on Schmittner et al. on climate sensitivity by bob droege
Here are some numbers for you. At the peak of the last glaciation, sea levels were 120 meters below what they are now, with global average temperatures 5 C less than today, giving a rather imprecise...
View ArticleComment on Letter to the dragon slayers by Pete Ridley
In his comment of 17th Nov. at 6:26 am. John O’Sullivan talked about Andrew Skolnick’s dismissal from Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). What John omitted to mention is that Andrew had...
View ArticleComment on WHT on Schmittner et al. on climate sensitivity by WebHubTelescope
I agree they can cool more rapidly as Fourier's Law and Stefan-Boltzmann say that the <i>rate</i> of cooling is proportional to temperature differences (Fourier) and absolute temperature...
View ArticleComment on Discussion thread: Durban, emails by PhilJourdan
I know that now. But like most of the naive public, until recently, I thought there were just honest differences of opinion. To see the level of deceit and fraud should be shocking to anyone except the...
View ArticleComment on Emails by cwon14
When in doubt Joshua you get to fall back and claim you’re more “science” focused? It’s pathetic. You seem as usual to be confused about what “authority” is involved here and who is trying to do what...
View ArticleComment on Discussion thread: Durban, emails by tonyb
Mosh I don’t follow the minute detail of the emails but Deep Climate clearly says in his second paragraph that it was Trenberth not Jones who said ‘ He Has done a lot but I don’t trust him’ and then...
View ArticleComment on Slaying the Greenhouse Dragon. Part IV by simon abingdon
Joel, thanks for your reply and for raising the interesting question of what establishes an ELR. You give the explanation that self-correction through convection means it has to be less than the...
View ArticleComment on Discussion thread: Durban, emails by cwon14
Fair enough Phil. You should bone-up on “Agenda-21″ and review your George Orwell http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/ and reconsider Soviet Science authority and history if you want to understand...
View ArticleComment on Slaying the Greenhouse Dragon. Part IV by Chris Ho-Stuart
Bryan, you have simply posted this twice. I replied to it above. I’ll try to explain my position a bit more precisely in the specific context of the dry adiabat and no convection. The position I am...
View ArticleComment on WHT on Schmittner et al. on climate sensitivity by WebHubTelescope
Yes, something other than a CO2 change can kick off the initial warming but then the oceans start outgassing more CO2 and H2O. Since the CO2 is the non-condensing of the two, this will continue on in a...
View ArticleComment on Discussion thread: Durban, emails by steven mosher
did I say his post was good? I choose my words carefully.
View ArticleComment on Discussion thread: Durban, emails by Anteros
I have an odd response to the second tranche of emails – I somehow feel it should be an occasion for everybody to have a ‘time-out’ from tribalism. It seems so predictable that one group of people is...
View ArticleComment on Emails by Mike Jonas
Judith – get onto Forbes, say that since you are referred to in the article you wish to put the record straight and submit your pont of view in your own article. (a) I am sure people here will help...
View ArticleComment on WHT on Schmittner et al. on climate sensitivity by Paul S
Gavin’s cleared it up at RC. -2.2ºC is the average amount of cooling only in the areas where they had data. Gavin thinks the global average which was used to constrain sensitivity was -3.5ºC though the...
View ArticleComment on Discussion thread: Durban, emails by PhilJourdan
I love Orwell (even though he was a big socialist, his books are the most anti-socialist outside of Ayn Rand). And I know about Agenda 21. I do not hold out any myopic visions of politicians being this...
View ArticleComment on Slaying the Greenhouse Dragon. Part IV by Chris Ho-Stuart
<blockquote>Despite being asked several times to apply it to the neutral atmosphere they have totally failed.</blockquote> <b>(1)</b> Here are links to comments above which have...
View ArticleComment on Shifts, phase-locked state and chaos in climate data by Jim Cripwell
Idle thoughts of an idle fella. If we haved a series of dates of discontinuities, is it possible to electronically search all the data bases in cyberspace, to see if this series coincides with ANYTHING.
View ArticleComment on Slaying the Greenhouse Dragon. Part IV by Bryan
Joel Shore says …..”That being said, Mann’s work was clearly path-breaking in that particular field”… I’m not exactly sure if this was the first blatant fraud in climate science. Mann’s ‘Hide The...
View ArticleComment on New report on climate change and security by Jake
This is not exactly on-topic but interesting none-the-less. I am a Nova Scotian grade 12 student, and, like many school boards, ours has a “school firewall” (or internet “filtering”, as some may call...
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Comment on Shifts, phase-locked state and chaos in climate data by Richard Drake
I have to admit that I read the first paragraph of Dr Douglass and at once did a search for Tomas Milanovic, to see his reaction, which is how I ended up here. Nature’s certainly fascinating enough to...
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