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13th December 2008, 03:47 PM | #681 |
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BTW - sorry for the brain snap all. I should have waited for all the data before commenting.
In hindsight it was probably inevitable that this sort of thing would happen with a new and complex system like ARGO. |
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16th December 2008, 03:44 PM | #683 |
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What on earth is this YIKES? business all about DogB. The fact is I busted him lying outright. Which is no difficult matter given that he is from both realclimate and Goddard.
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"Above all, be a sceptic. Not a GWSceptic: that's a whole other thing."
Looks like we have a compulsive liar here. But then again. I might be wrong. Now the above implies that you are the one with the evidence right? So no-one else has the evidence but you. Well thats good news. I've finally found you. The guy with the evidence whose been holding out all this time. So lets have the evidence for the likelihood of catastrophic warming. Lets have the evidence that a little bit of human-induced warming is a BAD THING during a brutal and pulverizing ice age. And it would be nice also to have evidence that increasing CO2-levels are a positive rather than a negative feedback if the other two propositions are just a little bit too hard for you. Fact is this racket is a baseless, transparent, leftist fraud. And skeptics aint what they used to be if they cannot determine that in a very short amount of time. |
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It implies nothing of the sort. Lots of people have the evidence - you can find it for yourself summarised in the IPCC AR4.
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Right so no evidence.
How did I know in advance? |
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I'll try again.
"So lets have the evidence for the likelihood of catastrophic warming. Lets have the evidence that a little bit of human-induced warming is a BAD THING during a brutal and pulverizing ice age. And it would be nice also to have evidence that increasing CO2-levels are a positive rather than a negative feedback if the other two propositions are just a little bit too hard for you." Lets have that evidence GO!!!!!! And if you don't have it thats my evidence for TrueSkeptic being a compulsive liar right there. |
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Its just embarrassing. Look at the infiltration here from total charlatans that would make the spoon-benders of old times embarrassed.
And no in fact the IPCC has no evidence for any of those propositions so that was a lie right there. |
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OK Capeldodger.
You want to take it up on TrueSkeptics behalf? But lying and saying that the IPCC has that evidence is not what we wanted. We wanted the actual evidence. Not some sort of lie that the evidence is elsewhere. You might have thought that lying about the evidence being elsewhere is what we were after. But I assure you that what we wanted was some actual evidence. |
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Yikes means you come across as a total fruitcake, sorry about that but there you go. Not saying you are, just saying that your writing style is a little….intense. Oh and BTW as I'm certain most people here have already figured out I'm a complete AGW skeptic. My gut tells me the whole thing is a bunch of garbage generated by clever liars in order to generate grant money. Fortunately I'm also a scientist and that that tells me my gut emotions aren't worth jack. Until I have sufficient personal knowledge to argue cogently from a position of equal familiarity with the subject matter, I have no choice but to accept the dominant hypothesis. I’m working as hard as I can to improve my personal level of understanding but I’ve got a hell of a long way to go. You do too, you just don’t know it - which IMHO makes you twice as ignorant as me. |
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It ought not take you too long to confirm your initial gut reaction.
Just ask them for evidence. They won't come up with it because they don't have it. If you fail to sort it out it will be more a moral and a mental failure then on account of any evidence these guys are coming up with. Since you are a scientist I can explain their basic model to you and perhaps you will understand. Their fundamental model is entirely otherworldly. And its a flat earth model. Their assumptions are as if we are talking about a flat planet, twice as far from the sun and its noon all the time. There is no liquid water and all the water vapour is in sympathy with earth averages on flatland by some sort of magic. The water vapour is averaged out throughout all of flatland. Quite literally this is flat earth science. Its not science at all. All their constructs, like their idea of "forcing", are highly processed and fictional notions. Their notion of Lambda is a fudge factor. And on top of that the chain of reasoning leading to their ludicrous calculations is a linear chain where one bad assumption builds directly on top of the one below it. Yet they almost never circle back to basic assumptions. |
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Well, that's certainly correct of the popular presentations of the radiative balance schemes, as presented by Warmers. The rotating Earth probably bothers them. ...like it might lose it's latest bit of AGW when it rotated to the dark side.
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Hardly seems worth it. Your comprehension skills aren’t likely to get any better are they? No I explained my knowledge is imperfect. Perhaps I should have used shorter words? Exactly, you made an extraordinary claim with no backup. Value = nil.
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At the end of a second full-on day of some pretty intense science at the AGU fall meeting, I do a bit of pre bedtime internet in my hotel room and I find this. I think my brain has whiplash.
I would present proof, but the only thing any raving about leftist conspiracies and offhand dismissal of the IPCC findings as 'lies' will ever evoke from me will be 'whatever'. If you have anything to back up your arguments I suggest you present it. In the meantime, I've got to get my beauty sleep. There's a high-profile presentation tomorrow afternoon. |
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Don't get ahead of yourself. We are not after PROOF we are after evidence. And no you WOULD NEVER present so much as evidence. Because you don't have any. So do the right thing and get a proper job. And stop this JIVE about claiming you have some evidence. You might better aquit yourself defending homeopathy or tarot reading.
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"Earth's history reveals that climate is sensitive to forcings, imposed perturbations of the planet's energy balance. Human-made forcings now dwarf natural forcings. Despite the climate system's great inertia, climate changes are emerging above the 'noise' of unforced chaotic variability, and greater changes are 'in the pipeline'. "
OH RIGHT? SO WHERE IS ALL THAT MISSING WARMTH HEY? HIDING DOWN THE WELL ALONG WITH THE TWELTH IMAM OF SHIITE NO DOUBT. "There is a clear and present danger of the climate passing certain 'tipping points'," NO THERE ISN'T. YOU ARE LYING. "...climate states where warming in the pipeline and positive feedbacks guarantee large relatively rapid changes with no additional climate forcing.? "The fact that we are close to dangerous consequences has a bright side: we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a level that will minimize many impacts that had begun to seem almost inevitable, including ocean acidification, intensification of regional climate extremes, and fresh water shortages. " THERE IS NO OCEAN ACIDIFICATION GOING ON THATS RUBBISH AND MINDLESS WORDPLAY AS WELL. "Actions required to stabilize climate, including prompt phase-out of coal emissions, are defined well enough by our understanding of the climate system, the carbon cycle, and fossil fuel reservoirs. These actions would also yield cleaner air and water, with ancillary benefits for human health, agricultural productivity, and wildlife preservation." THESE ACTIONS WILL LEAD TO MASS-DEATH JUST AS THE DDT BUREAUCRATISATION CAMPAIGN DID. You see you don't HAVE any evidence. Its just compulsive lying. Its just one wrong assertion after another. This is the ultimate in big-time spoon-bending. All this talk and no evidence. The UN. A bunch of people who can drink an enourmous amount of cocktails and not get any work done. |
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Wow, thank goodness there are people like you in the world to point out all the lies and half truths! If it wasn't for people like you and ,mhaze I might just blindly follow the data and science drawn from it and end up hoodwinked by those darned leftists! Now you have conclusively shown by shouting, name calling and blind assertion this AGW for the leftist conspiracy that it is, I am sure the physics will step right into line behind you. Well done you! Bravo Sir! |
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So its the argument from facetiousness?
No the fact is the scientific evidence says we will be COOLING. Thats COOLING and not warming. Thats what the science says and thats what you ought to follow. |
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Looks like I caused this rude interruption by posting a link to Graeme Bird. He must've found it in a search, or perhaps someone here invited him?
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It cerainly appears (from the style) that GMB and this Bird chap are one and the same. I'm sure he appreciates that those who do not share his unique insight might well conclude that he's deranged. If only he'd explain (rather than rant in caps-lock) that could so easily be avoided.
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"Troll" is just a commie term. Its a dumb-leftist word. But in any case you guys may have been filibustering so powerfully that you have forgotten what you are trying to avoid finding evidence for.
So let me remind you. We wanted evidence for: I. The likelihood of catastrophic warming. II. The idea that a little bit of human-induced warming is a BAD THING during a brutal and pulverizing ice age. III. Even the very idea that industrial-CO2 can warm the place globally, at sea level, more than a tiny amount. Filibuster away. But every so often I shall have to come back to this evidence-free-zone in order to remind you just what it is you are filibustering about. |
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You are not up to it mate. You couldn't get through it. As much as you might wrinkle that forehead of yours its just a little bit too much.
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