Comment on Week in Review 2/3/12 by Faustino
I don’t know what Bill’s readership is, but I seem to be almost his only commenter; though hunter has gathered with me since Bill’s post. Bill’s blog has some interesting posts, and I like his attitude.
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by dp
It is utter nonsense to suggest, worse to believe that people trained in one discipline cannot judge the quality of work done by those trained in another field. One need only study the methods to find...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by ianl8888
@William Martin ” … banning of some Monkton youtube files” Which ones, please ? (I’m not much interested in Monckton, but I am interested in censorship details)
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by Nicola Scafetta
Dear Judith, I believe that the issue is a little bit more complicated than what you summarized. First, it is not reasonable to request that so-called “climate scientists” be granted the special...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by Chief Hydrologist
Numbnut, Abrupt changes are the sad thing about it. They imply extreme sensitivity at saddle points – as I have said in this thread. And indeed as Tsonis and colleagues say in the paper from which I...
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That’s not a multiple choice test; that’s essay free-form. In multiple choice the choices are pre-listed by the examiner. I’m afraid that’s a FAIL (somebody’s).
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by Steven Mosher
joshua. like dydson. not dyson. someone like dyson grant judith her presumption that dyson has metacognitive abilities. amd stay on topic. frankly I question whether metacognition is that useful. your...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by Steven Mosher
Note that judith suggested someone like dyson. then mote that joshua turned it into a discusion about the man in particular amd into a discusion about judith and others. not one cogent thought from him...
View ArticleComment on Week in Review 2/3/12 by John Kannarr
White House Science Czar would use free market . . . Obviously, Holdren doesn’t begin to comprehend the free market. Some bureaucrat/would-be-dictator doesn’t use a truly free market for anything. In a...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by Girma
Nicola Thanks for your considered comment. …it cannot be claimed any more that CO2 does what the AGW advocates have thought because such a conclusion is based on climate models whose outputs have not...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by Girma
Nicola Thanks for your Forbes article.
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by WebHubTelescope
You mention Martin Gardrner, an all-time fave. Lots of crackpots writing comments on this blog, of whom Martin would probably have a chuckle over. Freeman Dyson admitted to a real misunderstanding when...
View ArticleComment on Radical essays on science & technology by Punksta
Re: Science & Capital – Radical Essays on Science & Technology, … a stimulating book that questions many dominant assumptions about the function of science and technology in capitalism Little...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by William Martin
@ Ian18888 re banned Monkton files, I can’t provide exact details of date, file name. I can say that the item was related to the Durban IPCC Conference. a message came on the youtube screen when I...
View ArticleComment on Radical essays on science & technology by Punksta
Joshua : … never before have I read a fantasy/rant about the dangers of “blind trust” in science. Well, except ever time I read Climate Etc. Yes – hiding declines, hiding data etc etc, and generally...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by Lars P.
if they have no scientific theory they are doing astrology. if they have a scientific theory I would like to see how its predictions are validated. If predictions are not validated or poorly validated...
View ArticleComment on Week in Review 2/3/12 by Tom
What can we expect from all the brite lites of Main-Stream-Media… OBAMA ELIGIBILITY COURT CASE…BLOW BY BLOW By Craig Andresen on January 26, 2012 at 9:25 am Given the testimony from today’s court case...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by Michael
“JC note to the IPCC: rely less on expert judgment and appeal to authority, and more on carefully crafted and documented arguments.” And the very opposite extreme to “carefully crafted and documented...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by lolwot
“Global temperatures have stubbonly refused to go on increasing.” It has gone on increasing: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/gistemp/from:1950/mean:60 I note you don’t comment on arctic sea ice, which...
View ArticleComment on Argument and authority in the climate fight by JCH
Somewhere in there, I think, is an admission that the residence time on a planet known as earth is very long, and that on some “Freeman in Wonderland” planet it’s his number.
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