Welcome to the MacNN Forums.

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

You are here: MacNN Forums > Community > MacNN Lounge > Political/War Lounge > The Paris Climate Disagreement

The Paris Climate Disagreement (Page 9)
Thread Tools
Snow-i
Professional Poster
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Maryland
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 12:30 PM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
That's why I'm very impatient with stupid arguments like Chongo's. Politicians should not be given wiggle-room by science denying hicks.
Besson.

This is why no one listens to you. You're insufferable.
     
Snow-i
Professional Poster
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Maryland
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 12:31 PM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
Why do you so badly want to believe this shit? What will it take for you to change your mind? My Wikipedia article says 60,000 peer reviewed articles. Subego finds the number possibly dubious, so to avoid that squabble let's say it is 30,000 instead.

Is that enough? Let's say it is 100,000 instead. Will that be enough, or sun spots? How about 500,000? Your pope has already acknowledged global warming, so maybe 500,000 plus Jesus Christ riding a hippo through the streets of Las Vegas?

Has anybody called your stubborn before? Let it go. Embrace science, it's good for you.
No matter what the number is, you're still insufferable.
     
BadKosh
Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Just west of DC.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 01:39 PM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
To clarify - you're saying that NASA doesn't believe that climate change is caused by humans?
No, the discussions end up about sloppy work.
     
BadKosh
Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Just west of DC.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 01:40 PM
 
Besson has immaturity/anger issues.
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 02:22 PM
 
Originally Posted by BadKosh View Post
Besson has immaturity/anger issues.
Question - is using the term "O'Bummer" considered mature?
     
Cap'n Tightpants
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Shaddim's sock drawer
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 03:36 PM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
When it's thousands of the world's top scientists vs. Chongo's limited Googling skills, I think the appeal to authority is valid.
Then he can present the case, instead of hand wave, spit out some dismissive sarcastic junk, and expect the discussion is just over (and then have the gall to get upset when it isn't). If he doesn't even want to do that, then he can choose not to engage at all.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
     
Cap'n Tightpants
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Shaddim's sock drawer
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 03:42 PM
 
How can you tell when you've hit a sacred cow? All the mooing turns darkly sarcastic and they stampede.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 03:52 PM
 
Originally Posted by Cap'n Tightpants View Post
Then he can present the case,
Really? You think that'd be effective? A lay-person presenting scientific findings?

YOU are not a scientist. Quit trying to have some relevance by parroting things you don't understand. You have a reputation of trying to lecture others.
SCIENCE? Don't claim to be a scientist AT ALL!
Be lots more specific. You know, pretend to be a scientist.
anyone who is a 'scientist' must know what they are talking about. LOL
And you would know because???????? Are you a practicing scientist? Is science a hobby? Did you take a science class in high school?
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 03:53 PM
 
Originally Posted by Cap'n Tightpants View Post
instead of hand wave, spit out some dismissive sarcastic junk, and expect the discussion is just over (and then have the gall to get upset when it isn't).
You're implying that this is the only approach he's taken.
     
besson3c
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 04:10 PM
 
I've tried downright pointed "get with the program" hostility, a little humor (the 70s Russian weather balloon thing), being weird, being creative, appealing to aggregates, appealing to facts, appealing to the scientific community, peer pressure, prayer to baby Jesus, sarcasm, mockery...

Any other suggestions, Laminar?

I'm convinced to get Chongo and Badkosh to come around, because humanity can't be this sad, and there can't be people that are actually satisfied with their arguments.

Badkosh's global conspiracy has now progressed to "I know some guys at NASA". What's next?

Chongo's "nobody knows for certain" has progressed to sun spots, and trying to make the argument that he knows best. What's next?

Somebody put me out of my misery.
     
besson3c
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 04:13 PM
 
Originally Posted by Chongo
I guess I was being a little stubborn. All of this scientific consensus must mean something. I'm sorry for causing you to suffer, besson3c.
Originally Posted by BadKosh
I'm not as knowledgeable about climate change as scientists that have put years of work into studying this (the vast majority of them concluding the same thing). I'm also sorry to have made you suffer, besson3c. I'll just stick to obsessing over Hilary's emails
Finally!
     
Cap'n Tightpants
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Shaddim's sock drawer
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 04:45 PM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
Badkosh's global conspiracy has now progressed to "I know some guys at NASA". What's next?
"Progressed"? Since he works for NASA, I guess he does.

Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
You're implying that this is the only approach he's taken.
Lately it has. Admittedly, years ago he may have been less hostile about the subject, but I don't remember.

Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
Really? You think that'd be effective? A lay-person presenting scientific findings?
Really? You thought that would be helpful? Quote-mining without context? What was I thinking? You only come here to stir the pot, you're virtually unseen unless it's time to give the paddle a good turn.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 05:07 PM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
Any other suggestions, Laminar?
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

If they have no understanding of or respect for the merits of the scientific method, appealing to its virtues will fall on deaf ears.

As long as there's a voice out there telling them what they want to hear, they have no reason to listen to any other voice.

Originally Posted by Cap'n Tightpants View Post
"Progressed"? Since he works for NASA, I guess he does.
Wait, who was just complaining about appeals to authority? BadKosh does IT work, right?

Really? You thought that would be helpful? Quote-mining without context? What was I thinking? You only come here to stir the pot, you're virtually unseen unless it's time to give the paddle a good turn.
You suggested that someone who is not a scientist take scientific data and make a case for AGW, because that would be an effective method for those that doubt the existence of AGW.

I responded with a list of quotes. Multiple choice, who was I quoting:

A. ghporter
B. andi*pandi
C. Snow-i
D. SWG
E. Doofy
F. BadKosh
G. Cipher13

But as always, you've managed to turn the conversation away from why your suggestion was a poor one, to me defending some weird facet of the content of my post. Brilliant, really, as long as you have no interest in productive discussion.
     
subego
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 06:14 PM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
Subego finds the number possibly dubious, so to avoid that squabble let's say it is 30,000 instead.
Why not go in the other direction. Unless Chongo and BK absolutely deny all possibility of AGW, they'd make the list.

Which is one of the things which struck me about this whole debate after entering into it fresh a few weeks ago.

There's a startling need, on almost everybody's part, to be binary.

This isn't a binary subject. The question isn't what, it's how much.
     
besson3c
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 06:26 PM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
Why not go in the other direction. Unless Chongo and BK absolutely deny all possibility of AGW, they'd make the list.

Which is one of the things which struck me about this whole debate after entering into it fresh a few weeks ago.

There's a startling need, on almost everybody's part, to be binary.

This isn't a binary subject. The question isn't what, it's how much.

Are you sure? To Chongo and BK it seems clear to me that they are denying all possibility of AGW. Am I reading them wrong?
     
OreoCookie
Moderator
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Hilbert space
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 9, 2017, 07:50 PM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
This isn't a binary subject. The question isn't what, it's how much.
You can only have such a discussion if all sides are grounded in facts. What good would it do when discussing the nuances of the topic if the person you are talking to think the scientific community commits fraud on a global scale for grant money (without providing any evidence for such an extraordinary claim)? If you post a link to a scientific study or a report and the person you are talking to can always choose to dismiss it, because the scientists who have contributed are in on it. What good would that do?
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
     
subego
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 01:18 AM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
Are you sure? To Chongo and BK it seems clear to me that they are denying all possibility of AGW. Am I reading them wrong?
Only one way to find out, eh?

@Chongo and BadKosh,

Are either of you claiming it's impossible humans are warming the planet?
( Last edited by subego; Aug 10, 2017 at 05:19 AM. )
     
Cap'n Tightpants
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Shaddim's sock drawer
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 04:35 AM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
Wait, who was just complaining about appeals to authority? BadKosh does IT work, right?
It's not an A2A if you're stating a guy works at a place, and that he probably knows some people there. That's all I was saying. Geez.

You suggested that someone who is not a scientist take scientific data and make a case for AGW,
WTF? I did not. None of us are climatologists, or physicists (I think we had one of the latter at one time, but they grew tired of the bitching around here), or any type of proper research scientist. Some of us have science backgrounds or research and technical degrees, that aren't in the theoretical sciences, but that's it.

Ugh, how did I get to this? Oh, you butted in when I was talking to Oreo, that's right. /ignore
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
     
Cap'n Tightpants
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Shaddim's sock drawer
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 04:45 AM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
Why not go in the other direction. Unless Chongo and BK absolutely deny all possibility of AGW, they'd make the list. Which is one of the things which struck me about this whole debate after entering into it fresh a few weeks ago.

There's a startling need, on almost everybody's part, to be binary.
Originally Posted by subego View Post
,

Are either of you claiming it's impossible humans are running the planet?
Great point. Since we can all agree that humans aren't exactly helping the Earth's climate, we all "believe" in AGW, according to the "who supports the theory of AGW" stats. We'd all be part of the 98%, whether we like it or not.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
     
subego
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 05:18 AM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
Only one way to find out, eh?

@Chongo and BadKosh,

Are either of you claiming it's impossible humans are running the planet?
That's supposed to be warming the planet.
     
Cap'n Tightpants
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Shaddim's sock drawer
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 05:28 AM
 
Reminds me of the "who's a feminist" debate. As long as you merely said you were, they counted you as one of them, regardless of what your views actually are.

"You're a feminist, right?"
"Uh, yeah, I guess so..."
"YAY!! ONE OF US!! ONE OF US!!"

"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
     
BadKosh
Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Just west of DC.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 06:51 AM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
Question - is using the term "O'Bummer" considered mature?
Not by itself. I used to use OWEbama etc. Early I used 0bama, with a zero. I like to keep swapping out for newer variations as they get old after a while.
     
BadKosh
Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Just west of DC.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 07:07 AM
 
So you'll accept sloppy 'science' as fact when REAL scientists are discussing the methodology and are having serious questions about it. I did astronomy as a hobby in high school. i ground my own 8" mirror while in 9th grade, read all the Astronomy and Sky and Telescope mags and read physics and astronomy books I could get my hands on. Sure, it was a hobby, but I did learn a lot of what was going on. When I started at NASA I spent time with many planetary scientists as I fixed their computers. Much was just me asking them how they knew, or were able to discover about various subjects from how you can build an image from heat waves, or how they knew what was going on inside the sun, or even discussing unmanned exploration devices. They were happy to talk to me because I wasn't asking stupid beginner questions. I was on-site support when they had these meetings and such. While I don't understand the really complex stuff during some of these meetings that became heated discussions, after a while you knew who knew their stuff and who didn't or was being political. Some of these scientists and engineers had other hobbies in common with me and we'd talk about that. Some of these scientists were my friends.
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 09:28 AM
 
Originally Posted by Cap'n Tightpants View Post
WTF? I did not.
Here's how I read it:

Originally Posted by Cap'n Tightpants View Post
Yes you are, and what's more, you do it every time the anthropogenic climate change subject comes up; you make an appeal to authority, unleash the self-righteous indignation, and then act appalled when people continue to try and talk despite you being visibly annoyed. I can practically set my watch by it.
"Every time AGW comes up, you appeal to the authority of the world's top climatologists and expect people to respect their findings"

Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
When it's thousands of the world's top scientists vs. Chongo's limited Googling skills, I think the appeal to authority is valid.
Originally Posted by Cap'n Tightpants View Post
Then he can present the case, instead of hand wave, spit out some dismissive sarcastic junk, and expect the discussion is just over (and then have the gall to get upset when it isn't). If he doesn't even want to do that, then he can choose not to engage at all.
"Oreo should present the case [for AGW] instead of pointing to the top minds in the field and their findings."

What am I getting wrong?
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 09:28 AM
 
Originally Posted by BadKosh View Post
So you'll accept sloppy 'science' as fact when REAL scientists are discussing the methodology and are having serious questions about it.
What makes someone a real scientist?
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 09:29 AM
 
Originally Posted by Cap'n Tightpants View Post
Reminds me of the "who's a feminist" debate. As long as you merely said you were, they counted you as one of them, regardless of what your views actually are.

"You're a feminist, right?"
"Uh, yeah, I guess so..."
"YAY!! ONE OF US!! ONE OF US!!"
This is the second time you've tried to shoehorn feminism into the conversation. I can't figure out why.
     
BadKosh
Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Just west of DC.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 10:45 AM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
What makes someone a real scientist?
having a degree or several in the area of work, and publishing relevant work. There is a lot to the work from working with others with similar education and either doing the research, gathering data and publishing results or being in the mold of an experimenter and trying to verify theories. Some are QA types who look at what others are doing. Politics should not be involved. Some science is pure science with numbers, formulas etc. Physics, astronomy etc.
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 11:27 AM
 
Originally Posted by BadKosh View Post
having a degree or several in the area of work, and publishing relevant work. There is a lot to the work from working with others with similar education and either doing the research, gathering data and publishing results or being in the mold of an experimenter and trying to verify theories. Some are QA types who look at what others are doing. Politics should not be involved. Some science is pure science with numbers, formulas etc. Physics, astronomy etc.
Would you say that the scientists you know are real scientists, but the scientists studying climate change are not real scientists?
     
BadKosh
Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Just west of DC.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 11:43 AM
 
Sloppy. Didn't you see my last couple of posts?
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 12:07 PM
 
Originally Posted by BadKosh View Post
Sloppy. Didn't you see my last couple of posts?
Would you mind answering the question?
     
BadKosh
Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Just west of DC.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 02:03 PM
 
they are SLOPPY SCIENTISTS. Jeez.
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 02:36 PM
 
Originally Posted by BadKosh View Post
they are SLOPPY SCIENTISTS. Jeez.
All scientists currently studying climate change are sloppy? Or the ones that you saw interact with your scientist friends at NASA?
     
reader50
Administrator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: California
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 06:03 PM
 
Perhaps we could encourage those who disbelieve AGW to invest in seafront property. Or anything near the ocean and within a meter of sea level. Quite a bit of Florida and Louisiana qualify, but other coastal states have good choices too.

If they are right, those depressed properties will return to full value as the scam passes. Easy profit margin.

If the sloppy scientists are right, those properties will transfer to Davy Jones's locker, and the disbelievers will go to the cleaners. Or their grandchildren will become homeless when the tide comes in. The timing is somewhat uncertain.
     
Cap'n Tightpants
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Shaddim's sock drawer
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 07:58 PM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
Here's how I read it:
...
What am I getting wrong?
That merely pointing and saying, "I'm not going to even bother debating because 98% of scientists agree with this", and then just being sarcastic and dismissive, isn't a side of a debate.

(Especially, as subego pointed out, when the threshold for "agreement" is so absurdly low. Hell, all of us on this forum would likely fall within their pro-AGW camp, going by their metrics. You need only agree that it's not impossible that mankind is making climate change worse. It's like having a steeplechase but replacing the walls and hurdles with parking lot speed bumps.)
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
     
Cap'n Tightpants
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Shaddim's sock drawer
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 08:00 PM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
This is the second time you've tried to shoehorn feminism into the conversation. I can't figure out why.
I doubt it, especially since I explained why in the posts. IMO, you're smarter than that.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
     
Waragainstsleep
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: UK
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 10, 2017, 11:03 PM
 
Originally Posted by BadKosh View Post
So you'll accept sloppy 'science' as fact when REAL scientists are discussing the methodology and are having serious questions about it. I did astronomy as a hobby in high school. i ground my own 8" mirror while in 9th grade, read all the Astronomy and Sky and Telescope mags and read physics and astronomy books I could get my hands on. Sure, it was a hobby, but I did learn a lot of what was going on. When I started at NASA I spent time with many planetary scientists as I fixed their computers. Much was just me asking them how they knew, or were able to discover about various subjects from how you can build an image from heat waves, or how they knew what was going on inside the sun, or even discussing unmanned exploration devices. They were happy to talk to me because I wasn't asking stupid beginner questions. I was on-site support when they had these meetings and such. While I don't understand the really complex stuff during some of these meetings that became heated discussions, after a while you knew who knew their stuff and who didn't or was being political. Some of these scientists and engineers had other hobbies in common with me and we'd talk about that. Some of these scientists were my friends.

All this just makes a lot of your positions even more unfathomable.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
     
BadKosh
Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Just west of DC.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 11, 2017, 06:37 AM
 
Vague as usual.
     
BadKosh
Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Just west of DC.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 11, 2017, 06:41 AM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
All scientists currently studying climate change are sloppy? Or the ones that you saw interact with your scientist friends at NASA?
The debates at NASA. This is where I get to hear the back n forth, and see the AGW crowd back pedal. I don't know ALL scientists, which should have been obvious, just like Besson hasn't read through every one of the (insert inflated number here) papers.
     
besson3c
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 11, 2017, 08:41 AM
 
Originally Posted by BadKosh View Post
The debates at NASA. This is where I get to hear the back n forth, and see the AGW crowd back pedal. I don't know ALL scientists, which should have been obvious, just like Besson hasn't read through every one of the (insert inflated number here) papers.

So these scientists are not doing to be deemed as non-sloppy until you have had a chance to meet all of these scientists and watch them debate?
     
BadKosh
Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Just west of DC.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 11, 2017, 09:07 AM
 
Sure Besson. After you've read all the papers they've published.
     
besson3c
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 11, 2017, 09:15 AM
 
Originally Posted by BadKosh View Post
Sure Besson. After you've read all the papers they've published.

More questions:

1) There are probably thousands of them all over the world, do you intend to vet them all?
2) Do you need to know scientists who come up with vaccinations to trust their work, or is it just global warming scientists that are sloppy?
3) If the latter, do you realize that they abide by the same scientific method and peer review process?
4) Why do you feel uncomfortable with trusting the vast amount of peer review that has taken place? Is it solely based on your personal experiences?
5) If so, is it possible that your personal experiences are too small of a sample to really paint a broad picture? There is a ton of data that suggests they might be. What do you say to the argument that deeming all of the scientists you haven't personally met as sloppy is sloppy on your part?
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 11, 2017, 10:31 AM
 
You guys - this one time, a peer-reviewed scientific result was overturned after further study, as is the exact process of science. This proves that peer review doesn't work!
     
Doc HM
Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: UKland
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 11, 2017, 10:40 AM
 
So today this...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40899188

The BBC claims it is important to allow other views on air to spout demonstrably false claims about climate change and global temperatures in particular because thy have to show "balance" in their reporting.

"During the interview, Lord Lawson said that "official figures" showed that "during this past 10 years, if anything... average world temperature has slightly declined".
But speaking in a follow-up discussion on Friday morning, Dr Peter Stott from the UK Met Office said the former Chancellor had got the facts wrong.
"We know that 2016 was the warmest on record, over a degree warmer than late 19th Century levels, so this claim that we heard from Nigel Lawson that there's been cooling is simply not true," he told the BBC.
His view was echoed by Prof Richard Betts from the University of Exeter.
"The official figures do not show that the global mean temperature 'has slightly declined'. In fact, they show the opposite - global mean temperature has increased during the past 10 years," he said in a statement.
"The last three years were warmer than the previous seven, and indeed were the warmest on record, and this year is also shaping up to be nearly as warm (probably not quite as warm as last year since the influence of the El Nino has passed, but still a very warm year).""

I am most vexxed by the last paragraph (on the web page), in which the BBC state that:
""The BBC's role is to hear different views so listeners are informed about all sides of debate and we are required to ensure controversial subjects are treated with due impartiality."
This space for Hire! Reasonable rates. Reach an audience of literally dozens!
     
BadKosh
Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Just west of DC.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 11, 2017, 11:16 AM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
More questions:

1) There are probably thousands of them all over the world, do you intend to vet them all?
2) Do you need to know scientists who come up with vaccinations to trust their work, or is it just global warming scientists that are sloppy?
3) If the latter, do you realize that they abide by the same scientific method and peer review process?
4) Why do you feel uncomfortable with trusting the vast amount of peer review that has taken place? Is it solely based on your personal experiences?
5) If so, is it possible that your personal experiences are too small of a sample to really paint a broad picture? There is a ton of data that suggests they might be. What do you say to the argument that deeming all of the scientists you haven't personally met as sloppy is sloppy on your part?
I have seen the 'science' not being as settled as your hero AlGore would have you believe. People are human and not as precise as you assume. Where are the validated predictions of rapid changes in ocean levels? Your assumptions on how science works is at best fiction.
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 11, 2017, 12:33 PM
 
Originally Posted by BadKosh View Post
Your assumptions on how science works is at best fiction.
Could you explain for us, in short, the scientific process?
     
besson3c
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 11, 2017, 12:58 PM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
Could you explain for us, in short, the scientific process?
I would like the answer to this question too, BadKosh.
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 11, 2017, 04:21 PM
 
You guys, back off. He built his own telescope.
     
Cap'n Tightpants
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Shaddim's sock drawer
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 11, 2017, 05:10 PM
 
Is something missing there?
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
     
besson3c
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 11, 2017, 06:10 PM
 
Originally Posted by Cap'n Tightpants View Post
Is something missing there?

I don't know what this means, but I would be really interested in your paraphrasing why you feel it is that people like myself, Laminar, Oreocookie, etc. are frustrated with Badkosh and Chongo on this issue?

Maybe you can help bridge this gap.
     
subego
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Aug 11, 2017, 06:42 PM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
I don't know what this means, but I would be really interested in your paraphrasing why you feel it is that people like myself, Laminar, Oreocookie, etc. are frustrated with Badkosh and Chongo on this issue?

Maybe you can help bridge this gap.
1) Global warming will potentially destroy the planet.
2) People who scoff at it are complicit in the potential destruction of the planet.
3) This is bad behavior, it therefore deserves punishment, and/or attempts to alter it.
( Last edited by subego; Aug 11, 2017 at 06:54 PM. )
     
 
Thread Tools
 
Forum Links
Forum Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Top
Privacy Policy
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:58 AM.
All contents of these forums © 1995-2017 MacNN. All rights reserved.
Branding + Design: www.gesamtbild.com
vBulletin v.3.8.8 © 2000-2017, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.,