Comment on Open-mindedness is the wrong(?) approach by Vaughan Pratt
<i>It’s not worth returning back to square one every time some newcomer raises the question again. That’s not a way for learning more</i> Actually it's a way for <i>me</i> to...
View ArticleComment on Missing(?) heat isn’t missing after all by MattStat
Fred Moolten: who do you mean by “they”, and what do you mean by “ad hoc”? GCM modelers, having discovered that they were over predicting earth warming over recent years, modified their models to add a...
View ArticleComment on Missing(?) heat isn’t missing after all by Fred Moolten
MattStat – What I asked you was to give the names of the individuals you referred to as “they” and explain what you meant by “ad hoc”. I don’t think you answered my question.
View ArticleComment on Nature Physics Insight – Complexity by markus
Dyslexia prevents many of the trees to be seen, but the forest sure looks beautiful from up here. No good looking at trees in the wrong forest, as Michael Mann has done. My heart does feel for those...
View ArticleComment on Nature Physics Insight – Complexity by Eli Rabett
A simpler form of this, neural networks, has been applied to climate questions (just google "neural networks" climate or <a href="www.climate.unibe.ch/~plattner/papers/knutti03cd.pdf"...
View ArticleComment on Nature Physics Insight – Complexity by Philip
A direct application discussed here, http://judithcurry.com/2011/11/30/shifts-phase-locked-state-and-chaos-in-climate-data/. Closely related work here,...
View ArticleComment on Missing(?) heat isn’t missing after all by MattStat
Fred Moolten: MattStat – the net imbalance over the past decade might have been zero or close to it – that was one of my points about short term data. I hope, though, you’re not suggesting that the...
View ArticleComment on Nature Physics Insight – Complexity by markus
Tallbloke has taken the same attitude for a while now, and scientific facts are able too be seen from the noise. Probably time you think about your ability to lead the pack, and keep those mongrels...
View ArticleComment on Nature Physics Insight – Complexity by cui bono
Markus “lost in the forest of Greenhouse”. I like that.
View ArticleComment on Open-mindedness is the wrong(?) approach by Vaughan Pratt
I think you’ve put your finger on the difference between Berkeley’s Richard Muller and me. He seems to feel as you do that climate is BEST understood through millions if not billions of temperature...
View ArticleComment on Nature Physics Insight – Complexity by markus
How is it a greenhouse when its hotter on the outside?
View ArticleComment on Nature Physics Insight – Complexity by Chief Hydrologist
‘We develop the concept of “dragon-kings” corresponding to meaningful outliers, which are found to coexist with power laws in the distributions of event sizes under a broad range of conditions in a...
View ArticleComment on Nature Physics Insight – Complexity by Chief Hydrologist
Stop pretending you understand what it means or have looked at the PNAS paper. ‘McWilliams held a Research Fellowship in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at Harvard from 1971-1974 and afterwards worked in...
View ArticleComment on Nature Physics Insight – Complexity by markus
Moreover, how does physics , model greenhouses, when its hotter on the outside, or, do we not consider the mesosphere? Do we really consider the mesosphere separate from the climatic systems of Earth?...
View ArticleComment on Nature Physics Insight – Complexity by markus
Some of you lot are really insolent, Bob Ellison is a known as a noble man where I live, and deserves due respect. He knows more than the lot of us put together, about oceans.
View ArticleComment on Nature Physics Insight – Complexity by hunter
The true believers not only deeply believe in AGW, they think everything about AGW is the bestest ever. The one thing that even informed defenders of AGW have admitted is that AGW promoters have not...
View ArticleComment on Nature Physics Insight – Complexity by Joe's World
Judith, I think the idea of a network theory would give us the better knowledge base. Every individual thinks differently and may see insights that the author/discoverer may not have known or...
View ArticleComment on Nature Physics Insight – Complexity by hunter
Pinatubo is merely the largest volcano to blow during the highly instrumented era. It was by no means the biggest.
View ArticleComment on Open-mindedness is the wrong(?) approach by hunter
Reiner, It is fascinating to think of the implications that in EU and Germany, with its tremendous education system and much more secular than the US, even more people confuse weather with climate, and...
View ArticleComment on Missing(?) heat isn’t missing after all by Pekka Pirilä
Max, You present so many details that I can agree on many and disagree on many as well. Many statements about the role of solar forcing belong to this class. When IPCC lists the understanding of solar...
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