Comment on Tracking the line between treatment and diagnosis by manacker
<blockquote>Thankfully we have the blog scientists to rescue us from this sad state of affairs with their ever-so professional comments.</blockquote> Speak for yourself, Michael.
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Fred Moolten I have to agree with David [with this slight addition] that There is no cumulative weight or consilience of evidence in favor of [potentially catastrophic] AGW. This sort of makes the rest...
View ArticleComment on Tracking the line between treatment and diagnosis by Beth Cooper
Kim at 1.09 am: ‘A yellow crocus bloomed and cast a shadow,except when a cloud passed.’ ‘I think I never heard so loud The silent message in a cloud.’ Or in a crocus either, ‘ O sun flower!’
View ArticleComment on Tracking the line between treatment and diagnosis by Baa Humbug
@Latimer climatology and climatologits My fine pommy friend, let me correct your typo. Ergo.. CLIMATOLO-GITS
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
<i>I’ve said this to you before, Kim: this is delusional.</i> When two people each think the other is delusional, is the one who is less sure about that more or less likely to be the one...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
As far as predicting what will happen in 2050, more skill needs to be shown on shorter time frames first. I believe you have that backwards. If you could show any degree of skill at all on a one-month...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
Hey, pick on someone your own size.
View ArticleComment on Property Rights and Climate Change by manacker
Jeffrey Yeah. Parts of Europe are cleaner/dirtier than parts of the USA. Extremes (like sections of Detroit) are hard to find in western Europe. And it’s probably true that the infrastructure is...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
There is plenty of evidence to suggest experts’ predictions of the future are no better than that of monkeys throwing darts. For those whose working definition of “expert” is someone who has reliable...
View ArticleComment on Tracking the line between treatment and diagnosis by GerryM
Josh”:IMO, the thing that is most sorely lacking in the “climate debate” is comprehensive cost/analysis of future conditions likely resulting from present-day policies.” Isn’t that what the original 16...
View ArticleComment on Tracking the line between treatment and diagnosis by steven
Kim, one would hope you have taken your diagnosis as far as you can before doing diagnostic treatment. This doesn’t change the fact that sometimes treatment is used as a diagnostic tool. it wasn’t so...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
<i>Indirect (non TSI) solar forcing is the developing area of climate science that will I think, be understood during the weak solar grand minimum we have already entered.</i> I suspect it...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by maksimovich
<i>I suppose you picture Warren Buffett as a dart-throwing monkey.</i> Lost half a billion in the Christchurch earthquake,Coincidently a city where Popper in hIs enforced sojurn in WW2,that...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
Physics is the ONLY thing that can give us an estimate for that number. Why physics and not simple observation? If you were a 19th century physicist contemplating emission lines from a star, you could...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
Since the emissivity of the earth with the greenhouse effect is reduced more than the absorptivity is reduced, the equilibrium temperature increases. Without a definition of the vague notion “the...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
I would have to divide the responsibility for this disagreement between Dolphinhead and Judith. Dolphinhead is wrong for thinking that temperature itself matters, and I think Judith could have been...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by maksimovich
But if you want to know about temperature variation you can’t get by with fewer than two measurements. The fact that HADCRUT and GISTEMP give only anomalies should be a big hint that temperature is...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
Then the Earth’s gravitation could not pull the molecules back to Earth…. Venus has 100X the mass of Earth’s atmosphere but less than its gravity. How do you explain that Venus’s weaker gravitation is...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
<i>All goes to underscore the most inconvenient truth of all…Beware simplistic arguments.</i> Which are you offering? A more complicated argument, or nihilism?
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
<i>What then is modal falsification?</i> I was wondering the same thing. Looking forward to the answer.
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