Re: FW: Obama administration to reject Keystone XL

2012-01-24 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I am not interested in myths. You made a statement that requires proof. Now I am calling you on it. Where is the proof? On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: Again no numbers etc., just more 'The Sky is Falling!!!' It's amazing.  Progressive statists can't

Re: FW: Obama administration to reject Keystone XL

2012-01-24 Thread Larry C. Lyons
BTW have you ever read Alinsky or have any idea of what he did? If so you would never be parrotting the right wing myth about the evils of the man. For instance you know that he was quite conservative and a republican. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote:

RE: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Eric Roberts
When a scientist says that CO2 plays no role in global warming, I have to seriously question this person's credentials and sanity. -Original Message- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 1:38 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Watch the Earth Cook

RE: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Eric Roberts
It's right there in the article... -Original Message- From: Sam [mailto:sammyc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 8:46 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Watch the Earth Cook Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is funded by API? Can't trust anyone. . On Mon, Jan 23,

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
And yet it's still cooler than it was a couple of hundred years ago. Go figure. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Gruss Gott grussg...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately for us we're at twice the levels of CO2 as we've ever had in 20,000,000 years. If the highest levels from those last two

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
See that's why it's pointless to discuss things with you. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: When a scientist says that CO2 plays no role in global warming, I have to seriously question this person's credentials and sanity.

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: It fails. It only works if you believe the faked data like the stupid hockey stick chart. Take out the faked data and you have nothing. The analogy works better and better with each post you make. Each time you sound more and

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Erika L. Rich
So what's the bottom line. Is the earth exploding into a fiery ball of flames in the next, say, 40 years? Or is it something that will happen 100 years from now? And can we even stop it? Seriously? ~| Order the Adobe

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
Facts be damned. Cam has a hunch. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote: It fails. It only works if you believe the faked data like the stupid hockey stick chart. Take out the faked data and you have nothing. The analogy works better and better

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
Not you too? You have time, most real scientists say at least a million years. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Erika L. Rich elr...@ruwebby.com wrote: So what's the bottom line. Is the earth exploding into a fiery ball of flames in the next, say, 40 years? Or is it something that will

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Larry C. Lyons
BTW: A study of the changing climate of the Arctic over the last 2,000 years, by an international consortium led by Darrell Kaufman of Northern Arizona University, was published on 4 September 2009. They examined sediment core records from 14 Arctic lakes, supported by tree ring and ice core

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Cameron Childress
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: Facts be damned. Cam has a hunch. Neah - I'm no scientist, though that does still fit the cigarette analogy. -Cameron ... ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Cameron Childress
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Erika L. Rich elr...@ruwebby.com wrote: So what's the bottom line. Is the earth exploding into a fiery ball of flames in the next, say, 40 years? Or is it something that will happen 100 years from now? And can we even stop it? Seriously? I can't tell who

Re: LeRoy Twelve

2012-01-24 Thread Cameron Childress
Time to call Dr House. On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone following the LeRoy Twelve Story? Diagnosis: Mass Hysteria. Bull shit. http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/150087/37/Update-on-Tourettes-Like-Illness-in-Leroy

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Well over the next 100 years sea levels will be increasing a lot. Most of the eastern seaboard coastline will be very different - over the next 100 years there's an expected 18 inches to 2 foot rise in sea levels - New York, Miami, most of Florida, and a lot of the east coast seaboard will be

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
The most recent decade, 1999–2008, was the warmest of the period, and four of the five warmest decades occurred between 1950 and 2000. Again with the hockey stick graph with hide the decline? That was modified and the new graph shows the Medieval warming having much higher temperatures. Faking

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
Al Gore loves you. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote: Well over the next 100 years sea levels will be increasing a lot. Most of the eastern seaboard coastline will be very different - over the next 100 years there's an expected 18 inches to 2

real cool stuff

2012-01-24 Thread Larry C. Lyons
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/01/23/sci-dinosaur-nesting-site.html -- Larry C. Lyons web: http://www.lyonsmorris.com/lyons LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/larryclyons There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Larry C. Lyons
That is straight from a set of studies put out by the National Academy of Sciences. What's the matter they use too many big words for you? On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: Al Gore loves you. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Larry C. Lyons

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Larry C. Lyons
where is the fraud? Again this has been addressed multiple times, and reputable and legitimate scientific committees have all noted no fraud. Sam, like your ideological kin, even though you may think that repeating a lie eventually makes it true, that is never the case. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Cameron Childress
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.comwrote: Its not going to be a flaming ball of gas, unless you are talking about the current Republican front runner. The planet's gonna be fine. Actually probably better with fewer humans around. -Cameron ...

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
Not fraud, an honest mistake by an honest scientist ;) But the graph has been changed and the new one shows that the last decade was NOT the warmest in the last 1000 years. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote: where is the fraud? Again this has been

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Gruss Gott
In other words you have a bias for inaction: you see something unprecedented in human recorded observation but you choose not to act until the danger is overwhelmingly proven. That's an understandable position. I'm sure you can realize and understand, however, why others are more

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
That was straight from An Inconvenient Truth. The sea levels will not rise and weather will not get more severe. They admitted they added those lies to shock people into believing them because they had no science. Like Cam's hunch is good enough. Believe or your a tool for big oil. . On Tue,

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Vivec
Links? On 24 January 2012 13:24, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: Not fraud, an honest mistake by an honest scientist ;) But the graph has been changed and the new one shows that the last decade was NOT the warmest in the last 1000 years.

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
I do. It's because they are morons. But nice job changing the scope. All you're so called facts are wrong so now you're going with the hunch and believe or your stupid. Fact is the earth is not the warmest in the last 1000 years but CO2 is the highest. If the CO2 is delayed why did the

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Larry C. Lyons
most of the comments I made was from a report by ICF for the department of transportation - Effects of Sea-level Rise on the National Transportation Infrastructure. In it, the report noted the 18 inch to 2 foot rise in sea levels on the east coast. Some of the maps and data tables show very

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Larry C. Lyons
you're expecting him to provide supporting evidence? On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote: Links? On 24 January 2012 13:24, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: Not fraud, an honest mistake by an honest scientist ;) But the graph has been changed and the new one

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Gruss Gott
Impossible to say since: 1.) climatology is nascent - we don't know what interacts with what. E.g., we know ice is melting at record levels and the rate is increasing beyond any forecasted levels. That releases a lot of methane which is a GHG and accelerates GW. 2.) since we can't predict

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Gruss Gott
Factually that is false - sea levels are already rising as a result of unprecedented ice melt that is accelerating. You can simply look at Greenland, Alaska, or Antarctica to see that. Or the northwest passage. You can watch it happen in time lapse here:

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
http://www.ncasi.org/publications/Detail.aspx?id=3025 . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote: Links? On 24 January 2012 13:24, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: Not fraud, an honest mistake by an honest scientist ;) But the graph has been changed and the new

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
Did you read it: Due to the overview aspect of this study, and systematic and value uncertainties in the involved models, this analysis appropriately considered sea level rise estimates from the IPCC reports as eustatic occurrences, in other words, as uniform sea level rise estimates, rather

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5067351/Rise-of-sea-levels-is-the-greatest-lie-ever-told.html . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote: you're expecting him to provide supporting evidence? On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:31

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Vivec
Interesting. This disputes the hockey stick style graph. It doesn't say anything for the last ten years as it stops at 2000. We also need to take into account what these studies were trying to show: The results of this study are relevant to the question of whether the MWP and LIA were real or

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Gruss Gott
Whenever you get a group of humans together to make a decision based on incomplete or unknowable facts you always get 2 general groups: * do nothing * do something This is most visual in investing, starting a new business, etc. An example of an action-extremist would be Steve jobs. In this

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Gruss Gott grussg...@gmail.com wrote: Whenever you get a group of humans together to make a decision based on incomplete or unknowable facts you always get 2 general groups: * do nothing * do something Most likely we're already too late and we'll be headed

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Gruss Gott
To my knowledge nobody has questioned the Andrill data or analysis which is circa 2010 and based on 13,000,000 years of climate data. It shows 2 key things across those 13 million years: 1.) a direct correlation between atmospheric CO2 and global temp 2.) atmospheric CO2 twice as high as was

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
The hockey stick showed the temps flat until the last few decades. The revised version shows that the Roman period was just as hot and the Medieval period was hotter. Now it's just the normal cycle. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting. This

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
What about fake facts? While you say I'm in the do nothing camp, I have driven clean and efficient cars for decades while you have not. I also support improving our factories rather than closing them all and letting China do the manufacturing with dirty factories. See, I'm the real doer. You're

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
You guys will try anything to get cap-n-trade going. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com wrote: http://www.skepticalscience.com/Earths-five-mass-extinction-events.html What Veron 2008

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Gruss Gott grussg...@gmail.com wrote: To my knowledge nobody has questioned the Andrill data or analysis which is circa 2010 and based on 13,000,000 years of climate data. It shows 2 key things across those 13 million years: 1.) a direct correlation

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Most real scientists? Love the No True Scotsman fallacy. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: Not you too? You have time, most real scientists say at least a million years. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Erika L. Rich elr...@ruwebby.com wrote: So what's

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Larry C. Lyons
opinion piece, not a journal article or a report from a reputable source. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5067351/Rise-of-sea-levels-is-the-greatest-lie-ever-told.html . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
Some opinions have more weight then others: Nils-Axel Mörner was head of paleogeophysics and geodynamics at Stockholm University (1991-2005), president of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution (1999-2003), leader of the Maldives sea level project (2000-11), chairman of

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Cameron Childress
He also claims to have paranormal abilities to find water using a dowsing rod. Just sayin... -Cameron On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: Some opinions have more weight then others: Nils-Axel Mörner was head of paleogeophysics and geodynamics at Stockholm

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
That's pretty cool. Don't wear you foil hat while doing this folks. Some researchers have investigated possible physical or geophysical explanations for alleged dowsing abilities. One study concluded that dowsers respond to a 60 Hz electromagnetic field, but this response does not occur if the

Re: real cool stuff

2012-01-24 Thread PT
Oh, God, you practical joker. - Because I can lie beautiful true things into existence ... Neil Gaiman on Why I write. On 1/24/2012 11:12 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/01/23/sci-dinosaur-nesting-site.html

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Gruss Gott
If you're referring to the graph I sent, that's not the Andrill data On Jan 24, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Gruss Gott grussg...@gmail.com wrote: To my knowledge nobody has questioned the Andrill data or analysis which is circa

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Gruss Gott
With our eyes we can see record levels of ice melt. With our thermometers we can see 10 of the 11 hottest recorded years in the last decade. So either you look at that and say, yeah, as a collective we should be acting or you say, no, as a collective we should not act. You are clearly saying

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Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Its not just the ice melting, there are a lot of other indicators as well, time of year when new growth first starts has been progressively earlier over the last decades. Bird and animal migrations from south to north has also started earlier. Or look at the ranges for certain species of animals

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
Look at any graph that you think shows a correlation. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Gruss Gott grussg...@gmail.com wrote: If you're referring to the graph I sent, that's not the Andrill data ~| Order the Adobe

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
There's rational thinking and problem solving and there's the sky is falling mentality. Guess which one you are. Again, none of us deniers are saying to do nothing. We're saying don't act out of panic. Gather your thoughts and work responsibly. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Gruss Gott

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
And they used to farm in Greenland. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote: Its not just the ice melting, there are a lot of other indicators as well, time of year when new growth first starts has been progressively earlier over the last decades. Bird

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Ras Tafari
why does everyone on this list waste their time trying to get sam to agree to something he firmly doesnt believe in?? just wondering? larry i think you'd have more luck with your ferrets. im not saying either side is right or wrong, i couldn't care less. i really couldn't. but it's amazing to

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Cameron Childress
I tend to step in from time to time to make a point, but then am reminded that there isn't really a mutual desire to share information but really just one to argue. That's usually when I vanish from the thread again. -Cameron On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Ras Tafari rastaf...@gmail.com

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Ras Tafari
word. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Ras Tafari rastaf...@gmail.com wrote: why does everyone on this list waste their time trying to get sam to agree to something he firmly doesnt believe in?? just wondering? larry i think you'd have more luck with your ferrets. im not saying either

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
Were just bantering about old arguments. They are convinced everyone's forgotten the global warming was proven a fraud, renamed, and still a fraud. Al Gore is an idiot and his docudrama was stupid and false. Did you notice how the scope keeps changing from direct correlation to I have a feeling

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
Wow, so you're sharing information but I'm just arguing? I'm using science you are using a gut feeling. whatever. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote: I tend to step in from time to time to make a point, but then am reminded that there isn't really

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Larry C. Lyons
As it is a matter of superstitious belief then, yes I would agree, it is much easier teaching the ferrets new tricks. Some time or other i'll have to post a couple of videos of them performing a few... On Tuesday, January 24, 2012, Ras Tafari rastaf...@gmail.com wrote: why does everyone on

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Vivec
Put a cat somewhere in the video and watch the $$ roll in from Youtube lol ^_^ On 24 January 2012 19:44, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote: As it is a matter of superstitious belief then, yes I would agree, it is much easier teaching the ferrets new tricks. Some time or other i'll

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Gruss Gott
So what is it you're recommending exactly? If I understand, youre saying gather more data, but collectively create no pre-emotive opposing force; is that right? On Jan 24, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Sam sammyc...@gmail.com wrote: There's rational thinking and problem solving and there's the sky

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Gruss Gott
The two great lenses to observe human behavior are money and danger; everyone has some different level of action based on a different level of input. There's a great model describing human behavior as the sum of individual apps all looking for dominance - our personalities are thus a

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
I've told a dozen times already. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Gruss Gott grussg...@gmail.com wrote: So what is it you're recommending exactly? If I understand, youre saying gather more data, but collectively create no pre-emotive opposing force; is that right?

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Sam
My first guess is they made a study to fit their predefined results. Sounds too stupid to look into. . On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Gruss Gott grussg...@gmail.com wrote: Take s3x: There's a Cal study that depicts motivation in, say, political candidates who oppose legal marijuana use

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Dana
otherwise known as the bug-on-the-windshield scenario On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Gruss Gott grussg...@gmail.com wrote: In other words you have a bias for inaction: you see something unprecedented in human recorded observation but you choose not to act until the danger is

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Dana
I was wondering something of the kind myself. You can show Sam facts, or you can not bother. Both have the same effect, but the latter allow you to get something else done. Shrug. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Ras Tafari rastaf...@gmail.com wrote: why does everyone on this list waste their

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Medic
there isn't really a mutual desire to share information but really just one to argue. I completely disagree. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Cameron Childress
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Medic hofme...@gmail.com wrote: there isn't really a mutual desire to share information but really just one to argue. I completely disagree. Taken straight from the liberal playbook. Damn hippie. -Cameron ...

Ahhh so this is what wealthy republicans mean by Taxes...

2012-01-24 Thread Vivec
No wonder they see nothing wrong with the status quo. http://gawker.com/5878851/your-guide-to-mitt-romneys-obscene-tax-situation Romney paid just about 15% on about 42m in earnings. Nice... ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion

google changes

2012-01-24 Thread Dana
Just noticed that emails are displaying the circle activity of the senders; is this a new thing or did I miss a memo? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: google changes

2012-01-24 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
I've seen that for a couple of weeks. Not sure how I feel, though, about their privacy policy change. Apparently that don't do evil thing is a part of the past. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Dana dana.tier...@gmail.com wrote: Just noticed that emails are displaying the circle activity

Re: google changes

2012-01-24 Thread Dana
I'm not sure I object to it. The thing is, though, it makes certain assumptions that really don't bear out in my case. A lot of the people I send email to (family, for example) boggled at the idea of joining another social media program and aren't on Circles. A lot of people from Circles are

RE: Watch the Earth Cook

2012-01-24 Thread Eric Roberts
Imagine that...and industry research group About NCASI: The National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI) is an independent, non-profit research institute that focuses on environmental topics of interest to the forest products industry. NCASI was established in 1943 by the pulp

LA cops shoot a guy point-blank

2012-01-24 Thread Gruss Gott
See it on video: http://gawker.com/5878794/video-la-cops-shoot-shoot-a-guy-point+blank-outside-a-carls-jr ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!