Comment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
Remember, in a period when the oceans are cooling there is no global warming. Except when the radiative forcing gets ahead of it. Since RF is increasing while the ocean oscillations have presumably...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
If anything identifiable as a sudden increase in anthropogenic CO2 can be identified, WWII would be it If anything identifiable as a sudden increase in anthropogenic CO2 can be identified, CDIAC would...
View ArticleComment on Tracking the line between treatment and diagnosis by vukcevic
OT UK climate change minister Chris Hughne resigns!
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
<i>The first decade of the 21st century was supposed to warm by 0.2 degC according to IPCC. It didn’t warm at all (maybe even cooled slightly).</i> If you look at too short a time frame,...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
Or more if the Big Bang was anything like the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
Tamino wrote an entire article on why he felt that my analyses were wrong, and then prevented me from responding. Were I on the WUWT side of this debate I’d be as grateful for Tamino and Greenfyre as...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Vaughan Pratt
<i>At its formation in 1988 the IPCC was faced with ... Now, we have had 14 years without warming,</i> Given that the IPCC was formed 24 years ago, and given that we'd like to know what the...
View ArticleComment on Climate scenarios: 2015-2050 by Paul S
The 30 years prior to 1945 showed warming, which is statistically indistinguishable from the most recent 30-year warming cycle starting in 1975 (the IPCC AR4 poster period). This is only broadly true...
View ArticleComment on Tracking the line between treatment and diagnosis by Michael
I’m surprised Einstein ever managed to make any headway without a cacophanay of blog-scientists to tell him he was ‘only in it for the money’, or ‘just wrong’ or ‘a so-called expert’. Must have been...
View ArticleComment on Tracking the line between treatment and diagnosis by Michael
scott and ivpo, yes proxies are awful, just awful, and yet amazingly, all the skeptics know, 100% for sure, that it was warmer in the MWP.
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by lolwot
“But, we all know what the scientific method is” I doubt it
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by cui bono
lolwot They simply stated that not everyone agreed with the consensus, and the number was growing and some were ‘distinguished’. If there is any criticism to be made, it is that this was an...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by lolwot
When people talk about “scientific method” on blogs I get the impression they are demanding a simplistic cartoon version of the world in which scientists in a “lab” wearing white coats and shaking...
View ArticleComment on Week in Review 2/3/12 by Joshua
Heh. I do want to spend some time with that – and with your related comments. I have limited time right now – and in addition I fall into fallacious thinking that responding to multiple simplistic...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by lolwot
Denier scientific method: 1. Sit on butt all day 2. Log onto internet and winge and moan about the science 3. Don’t bother doing any 4. Fabricate bogus tests and declare all the science invalidated!
View ArticleComment on Week in Review 2/3/12 by Joshua
GaryM - Is a joke, dude. I don’t actually assume that I’m the real cause behind your display of skepticism (as opposed to “skepticism”). Not at all. I don’t discount the remote possibility that without...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by Jim Cripwell
lolwot writes “That’s an opinion.” Absolutely correct. But I wish you would read what I wrote. What I said was “So I agree completely with our hostess, and would point out that the opponents of CAGW...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by John Carpenter
I think the problem started with what the IPCC stated at it’s inception in 1988: to assess… “the scientific, technical and socioeconomic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by Rob Starkey
lolwot Imo, you are correct that the original wsj article skeptical of cAGW did invoke a strategy to appeal to authority by stating that many engineers and “scientists” doubt that the actions proposed...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by lolwot
The “proponents of CAGW” did provide hard data: “the long-term warming trend has not abated in the past decade. In fact, it was the warmest decade on record. Observations show unequivocally that our...
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