Comment on Talking past each other? by ian (not the ash)
I believe Jack Maloney is correct in stating that the “convinced” and “skeptics” may be open to reasoned debate, unfortunately it seems that on Climate Etc. a select number of feuding “deniers” and...
View ArticleComment on Climate Stabilization by ferd berple
“The only reason to build a coal fired plant anywhere in the world outside the US is that you can’t get a nuclear plant in the time frame desired or you have a staunchly anti nuclear population.”...
View ArticleComment on Talking past each other? by ian (not the ash)
Hmmm, Judith, I think my post may have gone straight to spam.
View ArticleComment on Talking past each other? by Gene
I would have expected organizations such as the Sierra Club, The WWF, Greenpeace, and the Union of Concerned Scientists to be mentioned among this group, but The IPCC should not if it is to have any...
View ArticleComment on Climate Stabilization by GaryM
ferd, “Welfare creates generations of institutionalized poverty” is just a rephrasing of what I said. Preaching to the choir here. But I must disagree on a limited basis that redistribution NEVER lifts...
View ArticleComment on Talking past each other? by cwon1
As with so many political disputes the sides can’t come together when you reach such a core point of “belief”. AGW was required to tax and regulate co2, the science came after the fact and the...
View ArticleComment on Talking past each other? by John Carpenter
Pragmatic action could be taken if common ground action items were identified. Let me suggest that common ground items are: We will need abundant, reliable, inexpensive and efficient energy now and in...
View ArticleComment on Talking past each other? by JT
I would like the “warmers” to debate openly and honestly with the likes of Spenser and Idsos or even Motl to resolve the discrepancy between empirical estimates of climate sensitivity and model...
View ArticleComment on Talking past each other? by Rattus Norvegicus
Judith, Perhaps the classification of the IPCC and the NAS as “believers” should mean the the author of this report should do some reflection on the weaknesses of his methodology.
View ArticleComment on Climate Stabilization by ferd berple
agreed. Use taxes to teach a man to fish, not to give him fish.
View ArticleComment on Foxes, Hedgehogs and Prediction by hunter
Pekka, Yet mitigation of ‘climate change’ by way of CO2 management has been shown to be a complete failure, terribly expensive, and dubious even if it could be implemented.
View ArticleComment on Foxes, Hedgehogs and Prediction by huxley
As is inventing stuff that people didn’t say. Jeffrey D: “Passing laws against straws” is poetic and broad, but if your side is not about regulating carbon severely, what are you for? I find debating...
View ArticleComment on Reasoning about floods and climate change by Bart R
Harold I regretted my word choice in that line almost immediately. Your reasons amplify the worries I have. It may be better to say that mathematics in particular and science (and engineering, etc.) in...
View ArticleComment on Foxes, Hedgehogs and Prediction by hunter
Gary, A better interpretation of Dagfinn’s point using your metaphor is that the IPCC & gang are playing a game in a stadium that is emptying out due to it sbeing seen as a very poor quality,...
View ArticleComment on Reasoning about floods and climate change by Gene
Agreed, “favorable” would seem to be the most applicable. I have a deep skepticism regarding the “one true path” outlook, but I will concede that “correct” works in some cases. By the same token,...
View ArticleComment on Foxes, Hedgehogs and Prediction by hunter
Jeffrey, You are over your head, and yet you never leave the shallow end.
View ArticleComment on Foxes, Hedgehogs and Prediction by James Beattie Morison
I am glad to see that my review has generated so much discussion: http://www.bukisa.com/articles/448289_a-review-of-future-babble-why-expert-predictions-fail-and-why-we-believe-them-anyway I would...
View ArticleComment on Foxes, Hedgehogs and Prediction by Peter317
Let’s get a bit of perspective here. A 1cm rise in sea level would create an increase in pressure on the sea bed of literally 1 gram per sq cm. This is rendered totally insignificant (if at all...
View ArticleComment on Foxes, Hedgehogs and Prediction by Peter317
Not to mention that, up to now, most of the sea level rise has been down to thermal expansion. In other words, the sea level rise has not meant a commensurate rise in weight of water. Not that it makes...
View ArticleComment on Foxes, Hedgehogs and Prediction by Fred Moolten
Maxwell – I responded to a comment by Hunter addressed to me. Peter – about half of the sea level rise has been eustatic, and so about 15 cm over the past hundred years has increased the weight that...
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