Comment on Teaching (?) the controversy by Barry Woods
Presumably someone will ask Gleick directly if he faked the document.. And why. ie the one with the clues that led Mosher, et all to Gleick.. These clues were ONLY in the document that Heartland state...
View ArticleComment on Teaching (?) the controversy by Herman Alexander Pope
Dr Curry, Teaching (?) the controversy is very likely one of your most important threads. There is a lot of disagreement on what should be taught. I hope we get this right.
View ArticleComment on Teaching (?) the controversy by DocMartyn
“I do not remember ANY current controversies taught in my high school biology, chemistry or physics classes” Didn’t you get the Darwin vs. religious views? The Monkey Trial? In chemistry, didn’t you...
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Comment on God and the arrogant species by Pekka Pirilä
Just wait until carbon capture is widespread and people start feeding liquid CO2 in huge quantities to deep sea locations
View ArticleComment on God and the arrogant species by Vaughan Pratt
TonyB, you’re supposed to say “straw man” here, aren’t you? Or didn’t you know that?
View ArticleComment on Teaching (?) the controversy by manacker
Jim D Regarding clouds, another Judy (Collins) sang “I really don’t know clouds at all” – and this could well have been the theme song for climate science today. The Chief has given you some thoughts...
View ArticleComment on God and the arrogant species by Vaughan Pratt
tonyb, there are no safe limits, only safe rates of change. Driving a car at 200 mph is only dangerous if you run into something.
View ArticleComment on God and the arrogant species by Jim D
Markus, you scored an own goal. It was CH that disagreed with my statement that effectively the ocean has a higher heat capacity. Take it out with him.
View ArticleComment on God and the arrogant species by Spence_UK
No, you have misunderstood the mathematics in the paper. The change in entropy due to the phase transition is accounted for. Yes, the term for the volume of liquid phase is not included. But the term...
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Comment on God and the arrogant species by Vaughan Pratt
Soulmate, CH? Or Geographically Impossible? Odds are not great, most people live north of the equator.
View ArticleComment on God and the arrogant species by tonyb
Vaughan Where tempterrain is concerned, I have a little device that automatically tweets a specially written ‘Strawman’ song as soon as the first three letters of his name appears here. tonyb
View ArticleComment on Teaching (?) the controversy by andrew adams
kch, I said in a previous thread that Gleick was wrong to do what he did given the position he is in. What I object to is people feigning outrage at supposed unlawful behaviour when they have applauded...
View ArticleComment on God and the arrogant species by Pekka Pirilä
Spence, Learn some thermodynamics. The smallness of the molecular volume in the liquid is important to the derivation as it’s directly related to the size of the binding energy. They go together and...
View ArticleComment on Teaching (?) the controversy by Jim D
Clouds can’t be a long-term forcing as they have no memory of their previous state. They are therefore a response to forcing or to natural variation (such as from the ocean). If low-cloud cover is...
View ArticleComment on Teaching (?) the controversy by manacker
Kim Cobb It looks like your students captured the key “take homes” from Dr. Curry’s lecture. I personally think that’s what “teaching the controversy” is all about. Ideally it would be to give them...
View ArticleComment on God and the arrogant species by Vaughan Pratt
While I enjoyed the indulgences story, I’m prompted to ask where the indulgences go in the respective cases of catholic and CO2 indulgences. If they both go into the pockets of those who dreamed up the...
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Comment on God and the arrogant species by Vaughan Pratt
Well put, hunter. I’m as guilty as Gleick in that regard.
View ArticleComment on God and the arrogant species by Spence_UK
So I suggest we do some numerical analysis to resolve the differences we are talking about here and your response is “learn some thermodynamics”? We can safely conclude you are lazy as well as arrogant...
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Comment on Why target Heartland? by Latimer Alder
@vaughan pratt ‘“Trenberth was talking about the ongoing problem of getting Earth’s energy budget to balance, which is not something that happens all by itself’ Vaughan. I have exciting news for you....
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