Comment on Week in review 2/11/12 by cwon14
“Just because skeptics often come to their view starting with politics does not mean that is how scientists come to their view.” Common grade b dogma of the warming community who wish to avoid...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 2/11/12 by steven mosher
yes. Mann’s first sentence of the prologue is factually incorrect. His reconstruction of Nov 17th to Nov 19th of 2009, is wrong. His command of the facts surrounding climategate is appalling. There is...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 2/11/12 by Joshua
Latimer (that was you, wasn’t it Latimer? - Had he meant to say something different he was perfectly at liberty to do so. But he didn’t. That’s quite a duck we have there. Here is what is clear, we...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 2/11/12 by John from CA
Great comment Louise! “one in three lucky guess” is a great way to look at all the model rule sets given a climate system that is so poorly understood. The reason I give credence to the notion the...
View ArticleComment on Climate change & war by Beesaman
So a hypothesis that is not supported by evidence. Quick send it to the IPCC, they seem to have folk who can ‘find’ evidence!
View ArticleComment on Climate change & war by vukcevic
Hi Holly Only holly I know is a prickly sort of bush loves loads of CO2, deprived of it would be dead, as the rest of us too; the CO2 is life giving very rare commodity (only 300 ppm) and as such...
View ArticleComment on Nullius in Verba by dennis adams
Real Climate Scientists? After reading hundreds of indictments of the climate establishment, I doubt such a thing exists. But if it keeps you happy…….
View ArticleComment on Week in review 2/11/12 by blouis79
@Webhubtelescope “The skeptical view that what early scientists such as Arrhenius and Tyndall said is somehow gospel frankly astonishes me.” Nobody said it was gospel. But there are a lot of people who...
View ArticleComment on Climate change & war by Oliver K. Manuel
I appreciate your humor, Vukcevic. Before government funds appeared on the scene, honest science had shown that: a.) Sunlight + CO2 + Plants => Food for Animals Beneath the opaque photosphere (the...
View ArticleComment on Climate change & war by Mark F
I agree that the price of fuel has a huge impact on standards of living in all regions of the world, and that IF there were a dramatic rise in energy prices, we would see more conflict. I doubt,...
View ArticleComment on Trends, change points & hypotheses by Vaughan Pratt
Great re-rendering, CH. Two very minor picky points. You were ok with my humdrum aabbcc rhyming scheme but for some ridiculous reason (to which however I’ve no desire to be disloyal) you felt obliged...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 2/11/12 by Chief Hydrologist
The fundamental equations describing weather and climate are the Navier-Stokes partial differential equations of fluid motion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_equations These are...
View ArticleComment on Climate change & war by Eric Gisin
G Dyer wrote Climate Wars in 2008. Like most leftists, he thinks wars are caused by resource shortages (water, food, fuel), instead of insane leaders and cults....
View ArticleComment on Week in review 2/11/12 by Bruce
Two things that would explain all warming Sunshine http://i40.tinypic.com/xgfyok.jpg Albedo http://i39.tinypic.com/34oc184.jpg
View ArticleComment on Nullius in Verba by blouis79
“Makes one wonder what sort of people work for these societies and organizations.” It is self evident that the “chiefs” of organizations/governments/etc enjoy the power that comes with the job/title....
View ArticleComment on Week in review 2/11/12 by Pekka Pirilä
But there are a lot of people who think CO2 absorbs IR to cause warming, without experimental demonstration of such significant effect. It’s incredible that this kind of total crap is repeated...
View ArticleComment on Trends, change points & hypotheses by Vaughan Pratt
Forgot two things: this link (apropos of peer review), and that “ridiculous reason” is apropos of the current month.
View ArticleComment on Week in review 2/11/12 by Bruce
Steve, the earth cooled, warmed and paused from 1890 to 1945. But natural variations were capable of a .7C warming over 30 years from 1911 to 1944 .23C per decade....
View ArticleComment on Week in review 2/11/12 by Bruce
Pekka: “There is an infinity od strong experimental evidence for the warming effect. ” Which papers test CO2 warming on a large scale? Two huge jars. One with 290ppm one with 390ppm. Show the difference.
View ArticleComment on Trends, change points & hypotheses by Chris Ho-Stuart
No, I can’t do that; because I am not an economist or a policy maker. What I know about is the subject of scientific investigation of climate — which is also the topic of this blog post.
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