Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-27 Thread Sam
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > Another source of historical temperature data are in the log files of > various British and American naval ships. That data goes back at least > a couple of centuries. Not only is temperature recorded but the ship's > position and typica

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-27 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Another source of historical temperature data are in the log files of various British and American naval ships. That data goes back at least a couple of centuries. Not only is temperature recorded but the ship's position and typically other weather observations. From the articles I've read about i

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-27 Thread Sam
You do realize urban sprawl causes many to be moved? Even when moved, if the data wasn't what they wanted they would adjust the data. It was all in the emails, you should read them. Congrats on the new resume addition. What chapter are you up to? On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Gruss Gott wro

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-27 Thread Gruss Gott
> Sam wrote: > You do remember the "hide the decline?" > Those numbers were changed to make it look like it's warmer, the temps > actually dropped last decade. > As an FYI, there is more than one source for outside air temperature. Check your local network affiliate, your local airport, or your

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-27 Thread Sam
You do remember the "hide the decline?" Those numbers were changed to make it look like it's warmer, the temps actually dropped last decade. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Gruss Gott wrote: > >> RoMunn wrote: >> >> That's not true, and it goes to the heart of why I have objected to the >> "sci

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-26 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > > That's not true, and it goes to the heart of why I have objected to the > "science" from the start. And yet we still had the warmest decade in *at least* 130 years. That duration happens to be over double the statistical amount necessary to declare a decade-over-decade trend

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-26 Thread Sam
Do you live in New Mexico? On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Casey Dougall wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Sam wrote: > >> >> When you overthrow the governments involved you can force your new >> subjects to pick nuts or whatever you want. As of today, we're talking >> about the IPCC

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-26 Thread Casey Dougall
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Sam wrote: > > When you overthrow the governments involved you can force your new > subjects to pick nuts or whatever you want. As of today, we're talking > about the IPCC report and how CO2 will destroy 40% of said forest. > > I'd believe acid rain but not CO2.

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-26 Thread Sam
When you overthrow the governments involved you can force your new subjects to pick nuts or whatever you want. As of today, we're talking about the IPCC report and how CO2 will destroy 40% of said forest. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Casey Dougall wrote: >> > Outside of providing about 20%

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-26 Thread Casey Dougall
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Sam wrote: > > More taliking points for ya > > > http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/26/more-bogus-agw-information-in-ipcc-report/ > > Apparently Dr. Rowell made up some shit that made it into the well > respected IPCC report. This time the Amazon has only a 40% c

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-26 Thread Sam
More taliking points for ya http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/26/more-bogus-agw-information-in-ipcc-report/ Apparently Dr. Rowell made up some shit that made it into the well respected IPCC report. This time the Amazon has only a 40% chance of survival, or not. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:21 PM

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Sam
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Dana wrote: > > I agree that peer reviewed data is good, but made up shit works as well when > needed > ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Dana
I agree that peer reviewed incontrovertible data is better. Merely reflecting that some solid science cannot in fact be proven, and the inclusion of hypotheses does not invalidate a set of conclusions necessarily. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > But it is still importa

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Sam
Start with the 50 million hungry people in Africa When you're done, if you ask nice, I'll give you more. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > not good enough sam, you're still parroting talking points. > > Lets put it this way. In your analysis what are the specific point

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Larry C. Lyons
not good enough sam, you're still parroting talking points. Lets put it this way. In your analysis what are the specific points. Please support these with direct quotes from teh IPCC reports and cross referenced by journal articles that support your points. Otherwise its just your bloviating and

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Sam
Here you go: http://catallaxyfiles.com/2010/01/22/ipcc-and-peer-review/ We also know from the climategate emails that the data and models the report uses was "modified" to hide the decline :) On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > I'm referring to page number and paragraph s

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I'm referring to page number and paragraph sections of the report itself. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > specifics please and just don't quote your bloviators. Otherwise how > else do we know you're not just blowing it out your ass. > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:10 PM,

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Larry C. Lyons
specifics please and just don't quote your bloviators. Otherwise how else do we know you're not just blowing it out your ass. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Sam wrote: > > They used fake models. > Modified temperature readings. > Blocked dissent. > Phony Glacier data and phony Africa drought r

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Sam
They used fake models. Modified temperature readings. Blocked dissent. Phony Glacier data and phony Africa drought reports. Why are you still supporting this? BTW, it was in the summary. Same standard? When politicians constantly lie to me I turn against them. So yes. Not so with you. You're l

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Larry C. Lyons
multiple times. Perhaps in your mind. But other than the misrepresentation of the Himalayan data, what other prevarications are you talking about. At he most 1 page out of 3000. What other errors? You still have not answered my question, are you willing to apply the same standard to the things yo

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Sam
We caught them lying multiple times in this report. Now we're supposed to believe it's all true except what ever else is found to be a lie? The boy that cried wolf ring a bell? On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > so by your logic then anything published by the journal Na

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Judah McAuley
Thank you for the article Robert, I had not seen it and I seem to be wrong that it was an inadvertent mistake on the part of the people including it in the IPCC report. I appreciate that. See, recognizing that you were wrong about something and admitting it isn't the difficult. Now, how about th

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Larry C. Lyons
so by your logic then anything published by the journal Nature or Science is automatically invalid because once there were some invalid data published in that data. In other words that's thorough crap. All it does is invalidate the Himalayan data, it does not change one whit the data involving th

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Sam
Nice fail Judah On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > That's not true, and it goes to the heart of why I have objected to the > "science" from the start. They specifically put the glacier claim in to > influence policy, and that admission taints everything the IPCC has done: >

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Robert Munn
That's not true, and it goes to the heart of why I have objected to the "science" from the start. They specifically put the glacier claim in to influence policy, and that admission taints everything the IPCC has done: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245636/Glacier-scientists-says-knew-da

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Judah McAuley
No one involved said it was put in the IPCC as a known lie nor was it an attempt to influence politicians. It didn't even make it into any of the summary documents for decision makers. Nice fail there Sam. Judah On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Sam wrote: > > Dude, the guy said he put it in the

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Sam
Hmmm, so tell me Mr Scientist, do you agree with the IPCC report knowingly putting false info in the report so the stupid politicians would react? Didn't Gore pull the same stunt about Manhattan being 20ft under water in five years? On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > I

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Sam
Dude, the guy said he put it in the IPCC even though it was a lie to influence politions. That and climate gate emails tell me it's all political. You, like Rather, claim I know the report is all faked but I feel it's all true anyway. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > A

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I'd love to see Sam apply the same standards when it comes to things he agrees with. Then again if wishes were cars all beggars would be driving Rolls-Royces. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > Ah, so one mistake invalidates an entire project? I'm sure that the > people y

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Judah McAuley
Ah, so one mistake invalidates an entire project? I'm sure that the people you work for are happy to know that they don't have to pay you if anyone finds a bug in your code. Judah On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Sam wrote: > > I'm going to call that the Dan Rather defends. > > On Sun, Jan 24,

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-25 Thread Sam
I'm going to call that the Dan Rather defends. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > The claim that Himalayan glaciers would be all gone by 2035 was not > supported by the evidence at hand. The claim should not have made it > into the IPCC report. Everyone, as far as I'm awar

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-24 Thread Judah McAuley
But it is still important to make clear that Robert wasn't wrong about the paper. It should not have been included, period. That was a mistake and needs to be acknowledged as such. There are plenty of strong claims that can be made with sufficient evidence behind them; we do not need to lower the

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-24 Thread Dana
> > > That being said, the Himalayan glaciers have been retreating for 5 > decades (see the link I posted earlier) and there is evidence that the > rate is increasing. So the original claim may not be supported well > enough to make it into the IPCC report but it also isn't a spurious > claim eith

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-24 Thread Judah McAuley
The claim that Himalayan glaciers would be all gone by 2035 was not supported by the evidence at hand. The claim should not have made it into the IPCC report. Everyone, as far as I'm aware, agrees on that. That being said, the Himalayan glaciers have been retreating for 5 decades (see the link I

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-24 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Of course that's the meaning of faith-based science. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Dana wrote: > > I did not see that in the link suppkied. But supposing you are right and I > missed it, which is possible I gues, the nature of science is reluctance to > make categorical statements about caus

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-24 Thread Dana
I did not see that in the link suppkied. But supposing you are right and I missed it, which is possible I gues, the nature of science is reluctance to make categorical statements about causation. If you insist on them before taking any action, then you eliminate among other things most of modern m

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-23 Thread Robert Munn
the actual published report, once it was peer reviewed, said that there was not enough statistical evidence to link the two things together. On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Dana wrote: > > I hate to interrupt when you two are having such fun but all the Times > article actually says is that

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-23 Thread Dana
I hate to interrupt when you two are having such fun but all the Times article actually says is that the citation for the claim is from an article that isn't peer-reviewed, right? Not that there is evidence against it. On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > My apologies. The

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-23 Thread Judah McAuley
Speaking of data, you were convinced that the solar minimum was putting us on a big global cooling trend and that 2008's data proved it all and all those global warming folks were money grubbing, panic driven frauds. How's that data holding up? Care to show us how your theory is matching observed

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-23 Thread Judah McAuley
My apologies. The Himalaya's claim takes up less than 1 page of a 3000 page report. It was a minor claim, not making it into the summary for policy makers even, and isn't even necessarily wrong. It is just not evidentially supported in such a fashion that it should have been allowed in. The Hima

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-23 Thread Sam
Of course, 99% of Hope and Change is accurate also. On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > I love how you throw out a random percentage number without any backing data > to prove your point that science is working... > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Judah Mc wrote: > > >> Of

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-23 Thread Robert Munn
I love how you throw out a random percentage number without any backing data to prove your point that science is working... On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Judah Mc wrote: > Of course, 99% of the report is still found to be > entirely accurate. > > ~~~

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-23 Thread Judah McAuley
Yet, unlike your bullshit, the claims in the IPCC report continue to get scrutinized by peer review process and publicly changed when found to be incorrect. Of course, 99% of the report is still found to be entirely accurate. Hey, look, science is working! Judah On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:03 PM,

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-23 Thread Robert Munn
Funny, had you bet about the Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035, as predicted in the IPCC report, you would have been wrong. Had you bet about the relationship between increasing temperatures and global catastrophes suggested by the IPCC, you would have been wrong as well: http://www.timeson

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-23 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Given that you're not a climate scientist nor so far have you shown much understanding of climate science or for that matter science in general, I figure I could bet against you in your so-called Pepsi Challenge against the IPCC report and win every time. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Robert

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-23 Thread denstar
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Judah McA wrote: > >> >> >> Solar minimalists be damned (I'm looking at you Robert), it was still >> hotter than the previous decade which was hotter than the decade >> before, etc. > > > In the movie 2012, ev

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Judah McA wrote: > > > Solar minimalists be damned (I'm looking at you Robert), it was still > hotter than the previous decade which was hotter than the decade > before, etc. In the movie 2012, everyone dies when a solar maximum shoots hot neutrinos into the pla

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-22 Thread Scott Stroz
Did you guys even read the article: 'The U.S. space agency's data also revealed that 2009 was the second warmest year since temperature records began in 1880, and only narrowly cooler than 2005, the warmest year ever' I was using my '130 years' based on that paragraph. I doubt we have similar te

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-22 Thread Larry C. Lyons
If you include the British Admiralty records, then they go back to the late 1600's, ship captains were supposed to record temperatures etc at least once a day. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > We have data going back more than 130 years. We don't have detailed > data goi

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-22 Thread Judah McAuley
We have data going back more than 130 years. We don't have detailed data going back farther than that. But even if you include things like ice core samples, carbon concentrations (the absorption of various chemicals differs based on temperature) and such, the headline would still be incorrect. The

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-22 Thread Dana
I don't think data only goes back 130 years. I myself did a study at UNM of housing patterns following droughts in the 9th century using dendrochronological data. Ergo, the data is there, unless you want to dismiss it as not really data. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:13 PM, morgan l wrote: > > Sens

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-22 Thread Sam
I read James Hansen and LMAO On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:13 PM, morgan l wrote: > > Sensationalist headlines have been around as long as newspapers have been > printed. Nothing new there. > > The article clearly states how far back the data being analyzed goes, but > opponents of "global warming"

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-22 Thread morgan l
Sensationalist headlines have been around as long as newspapers have been printed. Nothing new there. The article clearly states how far back the data being analyzed goes, but opponents of "global warming" won't even read that much of it, and supporters don't care. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:01 P

Re: Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-22 Thread Ras Tafari
core samples of ice from Antarctica? On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > > http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/01/22/nasa.warmest.decade.data/index.html > > How the last decade can be declared 'the warmest ever on Earth' when > we only have data dating back 130 years? > > T

Someone please tell me how...

2010-01-22 Thread Scott Stroz
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/01/22/nasa.warmest.decade.data/index.html How the last decade can be declared 'the warmest ever on Earth' when we only have data dating back 130 years? This is the kind of bullshit hyperbole in the media that burns my ass. I hate that shit. -- Scott Stroz -