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Bernard wrote:
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>take a look at Rachel Maddow's segment
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Rachel Maddow and DailyKos. Now there are some scientific, non-political sources to back up the non-political IPCC.
Ridiculous.
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I don't think the headline is exactly accurate, since they haven't actually "admitted" anything, but the implication is valid.
QuoteE-mail messages obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that NASA concluded that its own climate findings were inferior to those maintained by both the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) -- the sc
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Congratulations, Paul, and thanks to your mother for her service.
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Coffee Shop
More trouble looms for the IPCC. The body may need to revise statements made in its Fourth Assessment Report on hurricanes and global warming. A statistical analysis of the raw data shows that the claims that global hurricane activity has increased cannot be supported.
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Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.
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Very slick Don, thanks. Works with Chrome too.
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“The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,” said John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the IPCC.
The doubts of Christy and a number of other researchers focus on the thousands of weather stations around the world, which have been used to collect temperature data over the past
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'"This study was the first of its kind, and they had to make choices at various stages about how the data were processed," he says, adding that he "would not be embarrassed" to have been
involved in the work. '
Begs the question, what would he be embarrassed to be associated with?
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Dave L wrote:
>Posters should differentiate between questioning the basic facts of climate change and >questioning the actions of public bodies or individuals.
Problem is that regardless of the facts, 99% of all AGW issues have nothing to do with facts but with the actions of public bodies.
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QuotePhil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based.
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
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It's always seemed to me that the resistance to evolution is not a purely religious reaction, even though most deniers are religious people and fall back on a religious "solution" in ID. In my discussions and arguments with ID proponents the core of their resistance almost always seems to boil down to one core idea that they simply cannot accept - that humans were once not-humans.
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QuoteHe added that genetic data might also potentially lead scientists to underestimate ages by tens of millions of years.
I'd like to hear an explanation of that statement.
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QuoteThe chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt.
Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learnin
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Well, 20-30 years is clearly not an "age" of any sort, but...
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If I'm not mistaken it's quite a mainstream theory that our present brain size is an evolutionary compromise between brain size and death in childbirth due to the baby's over-sized skull.
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Geophysical Research Letter
Is the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions increasing?
Wolfgang Knorr
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
QuoteThis study re-examines the available atmospheric CO2 and emissions data including their uncertainties. It is shown that with those uncertainties, the trend in the airborne fraction since 1850 has been 0
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For a very interesting discussion of the biases of the individual Gospel writers, I can recommend this book:
He covers a lot of the territory you've been discussing here. For example, the implication that the writer of Luke uses the unlikely story of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem to cover the embarrassing fact (from a fulfillment of prophesy point of view) that Jesus was from Nazare
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Paul, let me first say that I did not intend to imply that you personally have any financial or other motivation - I apologize for giving offense.
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want to subject the "Institute of Economic Analysis" to
a political test, its connections to the Heartland Institute,
its founder, and other groups show that it is the typical
"thin tank", one of wh
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Quotejust one of innumerable "think tanks",
that conducts "research" as a part of advocating
a specific political point of view and agenda.
Project much? Have you been watching the Copenhagen circus? Talk about "specific political point of view and agenda"!
I'm not saying they don't have an agenda, or even that they're right, but there is a m
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QuoteThe HadCRUT database includes specific stations providing incomplete data and highlighting the global-warming process, rather than stations facilitating uninterrupted observations.
On the whole, climatologists use the incomplete findings of meteorological stations far more often than those providing complete observations.
IEA analysts say climatologists use the data of stations loc
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The point of the article is not whether the data is valid, but to show that it is completely insignificant in light of the historical changes in temperature over any period of time greater than a few decades.
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I read through it. I can see why he wouldn't want it to be made public. Pitiful.
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Yes, and the AP and it's reporters are shining paragons of unbiased agenda free truth seeking, right?
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Sounds like a bad case of unintended consequences.
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I note that you don't address Rick's comments about the so-called "alternative" solutions - all of which are pie-in-the-sky dreams (not that they won't be viable someday, but it will be decades or centuries before any one of these is a real "alternative").
And if you don't think nuclear is viable, I assume you've never heard of France.
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There's an excellent discussion of this in a "layman's" book I'm currently reading:
He also has some fascinating stuff about Nathan Myhrvold and Intellectual Ventures, and their take an various global warming topics - they refreshingly fall into neither the "denier" nor "alarmist" camp.
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The referenced web site has a nice summary of the arguments, and some compelling and interesting info, but the "skeptics vs consensus" framing is a big problem. If you've got consensus, you've got a preconceived expectation of result. You therefore think you can get away with arguments like
QuoteDistortion of climate records is a very real phenomenon. But it's one c
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