Comment on Foxes, Hedgehogs and Prediction by Bart R
As a reference point — if only I could find the reference — it has been asserted that there is a detectible somewhat less than 1% variation in tectonic activity correlated to lunar (distance and)...
View ArticleComment on Foxes, Hedgehogs and Prediction by Peter317
Come on Fred, we’re disappearing down the rabbit hole here. Sorry, but it’s just absurd.
View ArticleComment on Reasoning about floods and climate change by David Wojick
Bart, how can you “jettison opinion for evidence” when evidence is a matter of opinion? You sound like Fred, who seems to think that evidence is a measureable thing, independent of human...
View ArticleComment on Foxes, Hedgehogs and Prediction by huxley
Fred M: Count me in with maxwell. “I don’t know,” “I doubt it” or “It’s not really significant” would all have been better answers. The oceans average ~3000 meters deep. Sea level has been rising ~1.8...
View ArticleComment on Foxes, Hedgehogs and Prediction by Fred Moolten
Bart – Regarding your comment, the following excerpts are from an article by Kasahara, entitled Tides, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes, which appeared in Science 297:38-349, 2002 The elastic strain...
View ArticleComment on Reasoning about floods and climate change by Chief Hydrologist
Fred has an unfortunate adversarial style, leaps in and then modifies a narrative as he proceeds, is adept at subtle slights, refuses to admit to any error in interpretation and must have the last...
View ArticleComment on Reasoning about floods and climate change by Chief Hydrologist
I will add this study as well – humidity is not the driver of rainfall – http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/5/2/025203
View ArticleComment on UK SciTech peer review inquiry by Punksta
What sounds right headed is to compete with Science and Nature. How are they funded?
View ArticleComment on Pondering the Arctic Ocean. Part I: Climate Dynamics by curryja
Steven, I do not align myself with any tribe. I ackowledge few actual “facts” in all this; there is ambiguous evidence and much uncertainty.
View ArticleComment on Pondering the Arctic Ocean. Part I: Climate Dynamics by harold...
Prof Curry Go get recent atlas of the earth. After a short study of the atlas, you will come to these conclusions: 1. There are few humans on the earth. 2. Humans occupy a small fraction of the earth’s...
View ArticleComment on Reasoning about floods and climate change by Bart R
Chief To clarify, how many G&T’s are we talking here?
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Comment on Pondering the Arctic Ocean. Part I: Climate Dynamics by DeNihilist
LOL Harry! How about, take a couple hundred Anthrax bacteria. introduce these into a human body. Blah-blah-blah….the body is uninhabitated by this bacteria. Therefore I do not want to read or hear that...
View ArticleComment on Pondering the Arctic Ocean. Part I: Climate Dynamics by DeNihilist
Sharper, it is all natural. Whether it be a species puking CO2 into the atmosphere for its’ betterment, or volcanoes spewing a brew of toxicities, there is nothing that occurs that is un-nature-all.
View ArticleComment on Pondering the Arctic Ocean. Part I: Climate Dynamics by Tom Fuller
There is certainly no shortage of skeptics here. Perhaps their appreciation of this site and frequent visits can be attributed to the somewhat frosty reception they receive elsewhere. However, there...
View ArticleComment on Pondering the Arctic Ocean. Part I: Climate Dynamics by Coalsoffire
Sharper00 says: “Of course. Simultaneously we don’t know enough about the past to say anything odd is happening yet the past is certain enough to say nothing odd is happening.” What do we know about...
View ArticleComment on Pondering the Arctic Ocean. Part I: Climate Dynamics by DeNihilist
Iananesh, too funny! You go on about how D’ers only say half truths. Well what about you? Almost all Cons whom I have spoken to do not have a problem with the concept that temps are rising. Got that?...
View ArticleComment on Pondering the Arctic Ocean. Part I: Climate Dynamics by Jim S
Fred, Thanks for your thoughtfull reply. However, my question was largely Socratic in nature. I was responding to Idunno’s list (not mine) of “possible” observations in an attempt to illustrate...
View ArticleComment on Pondering the Arctic Ocean. Part I: Climate Dynamics by R. Gates
You have made an error of logic. Identical effects do not have to have identical causes. If my drapes move at night, it could be becasue I left the window open and the wind is blowing them or it could...
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Comment on UK SciTech peer review inquiry by Bruce Cunningham
“Gillies’ words apply not only to scientific peer review but also to engineering practice in many cases. I’ve watched many a brilliant engineering solution deep-sixed because it was “different” “Many...
View ArticleComment on Pondering the Arctic Ocean. Part I: Climate Dynamics by GaryM
“stern rebukes and hurt confusion?” As a conservative skeptic, I probably disagree with Dr. Curry on most political issues, and I think the claims of AGW are even more uncertain than she does. However,...
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