Comment on Climate policy discussion thread by Robert
Improving education and providing easy access to contraception are not “authoritarian action.” Nor is choosing to pollute less.
View ArticleComment on Climate policy discussion thread by Robert
“I think it has been amply demonstrated that prosperity brought about by cheap energy dense sources of power is quite naturally lowering birth rates in the developed world . . .” No, you haven’t...
View ArticleComment on Letter to the dragon slayers by peteridley
Hi Doug, you really are getting confused aren’t you, possibly because it is 45 years since you had physics teachers help you to understand physics. I fully appreciate how difficult it can be trying to...
View ArticleComment on Letter to the dragon slayers by peteridley
If there are any other readers out there apart from Doug then I’m sorry that I inadvertently repeated Doug’s nonsense at the end of my own comment. Please ignore not only my repeat of “Doug Cotton...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 3/2/12 by A physicist
Punksta, for PIK's dozens of verifiably scientific research studies, you are substituting seven words from a blog post. This is called "synecdochic rhetoric", and such rhetoric is one of the Trish...
View ArticleComment on Lindzen’s Seminar at the House of Commons by ilma630
Prof Lindzen was speaking within the walls of the UK legislature, so he has to distil the message to that audience (not that there were many MPs in attendance – sadly – I was there), but I understand...
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Comment on Week in review 3/2/12 by A physicist
Pekka Pirilä says History been rather smooth with a certain typical range of variability for long … … and yet, the present combination of secular solar warming on a scale of years, accompanied by...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 3/2/12 by Punksta
Physicist Let me commend to you the notions of - not writing sweeping nonsense claims - when you have, and this is pointed out, facing up to it honestly (rather than suggesting the pointing out thereof...
View ArticleComment on Climate policy discussion thread by Peter Davies
No-one has any licence to do off-topic rants and if they do the rest of us will either ignore them or take them up on it. There’s nothing political in it at all. While I believe that CK’s science is...
View ArticleComment on Climate policy discussion thread by Robert
Richard, I don’t know if you’re new to the Internets, or what, but this is how it works: “derailer” = somebody the speaker disagrees with “troll” = somebody the speaker disagrees with “sock puppet” =...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 3/2/12 by Punksta
Oh, and in case in you’ve ‘forgotten’ (one of Trish Gleick’s recommended tricks perhaps ?), I have already applauded PIK for distancing themselves from the IPCC approach by taking an open and honest...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 3/2/12 by curryja
I have a post prepared on this paper, last week my coauthor Jiping Liu was swamped with media and email queries, and I was on travel. One of us should have time this week to field queries. So it is...
View ArticleComment on Climate policy discussion thread by Richard T. Fowler
Robert, not new to it, just trying to preserve some semblance of sanity. I thoroughly enjoy those definitions! I think I’ve commented about enough for this thread. I am well aware of how “different”...
View ArticleComment on Climate policy discussion thread by Beth Cooper
Inherently good….Ah! ‘The Good.’ Come up to my tower for a while and we’ll enjoy a nice discourse about essences. Quite platonic, I assure you.
View ArticleComment on Impact of declining Arctic sea ice on winter snowfall by curryja
If you live in Buffalo NY, you will understand lake effect snowfalls.
View ArticleComment on Impact of declining Arctic sea ice on winter snowfall by Anything...
A broad outline of Ewing and Donn’s theory, which proposes that the Arctic was ice free during the last glaciation, can be found here :...
View ArticleComment on Impact of declining Arctic sea ice on winter snowfall by Bad Andrew
“We think the recent snowy winters could be caused” Anyway, I think this is gramatically incorrect. Should be “could have been caused”. Andrew
View ArticleComment on Week in review 3/2/12 by Bob Ludwick
AP: “Bob, we may have to eat some mighty sour cherries.” Well, we have come full circle. I started out by questioning the likelihood that one of Hansen’s predictions would be realized, given the...
View ArticleComment on Impact of declining Arctic sea ice on winter snowfall by Ryan Maue
I agree with those comments. Bonus points for the Liu et al. paper referenced the Thompson and Wallace (2001) Science paper with the awesome paragraph: “The notion of blocking and cold air outbreaks...
View ArticleComment on Impact of declining Arctic sea ice on winter snowfall by DocMartyn
Try the Admirality Records, the RN ran convoys to Russian from 1941 and tried to keep as close to the ice pack as possible. After WWII British and American spy ships monitored the Soviet Navy pretty...
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