Pachelbel

Hartford, CT

Once slow-moving threat, global warming speeds up, leaving litt...

Once again, we know your bias. You have revealed no new information. That it became necessary for those critical of the IPCC exclusionary process and findings to come together to summarize "the rest of the story" speaks volumes about the current state of scientific "independence ".  (6 hrs ago | post #15013)

Hartford, CT

Once slow-moving threat, global warming speeds up, leaving litt...

Increasing weather losses: proof of higher property values and concentration. Weather is NOT proof of climate change as the warmers have told us time and again. It is merely noise. Is that page missing from your playbook?  (9 hrs ago | post #15011)

Hartford, CT

Once slow-moving threat, global warming speeds up, leaving litt...

If you read his bio you would realize he is well qualified to discern fine distinctions of opposing positions. For all your attack on skeptic scientists, organizations, and commentators you have refuted NOTHING.  (9 hrs ago | post #15010)

Hartford, CT

Once slow-moving threat, global warming speeds up, leaving litt...

Brignell's law of scientific equilibrium If it is settled it is not science. If it is science it is not settled.  (9 hrs ago | post #15009)

Hartford, CT

Once slow-moving threat, global warming speeds up, leaving litt...

Gee, why don't we just return the earth to its original state? Oh, of course we will first have to define what "original " means. Would that be preindustrial, pre metal ages, pre human, pre life, barren, molten, what should we use?  (12 hrs ago | post #14988)

Hartford, CT

Once slow-moving threat, global warming speeds up, leaving litt...

Another Crock of the Week? At the rate you are cutting and pasting the links you will run out very soon.  (12 hrs ago | post #14987)

Hartford, CT

Once slow-moving threat, global warming speeds up, leaving litt...

Do you have any real science, or even scientific commentary, or are you content to rely on exploitive scaremongering bits on You Tube?  (12 hrs ago | post #14986)

Hartford, CT

Once slow-moving threat, global warming speeds up, leaving litt...

Science is in on climate change sea-level rise: 1.7mm Drew Warne-Smith and James Madden From: The Australian November 07, 2009 12:00AM "SEA levels on Australia's eastern seaboard are rising at less than a third of the rate that the NSW government is predicting as it overhauls the state's planning laws and bans thousands of landowners from developing coastal sites." Gee, maybe Australia is getting ready to flip over on its back. Or maybe its just local phenomena manifesting differently in different places, revealing little if anything about global sea level trends. Ya think? Read more here: http://www.theaust ralian.com.au/news /nation/science-is -in-on-climate-cha nge-sea-level-rise -17mm/story-e6frg6 nf-1225795202916  (14 hrs ago | post #14981)

Hartford, CT

Once slow-moving threat, global warming speeds up, leaving litt...

More likely because the author is a well respected "opinion " writer. His strength is in gathering facts, analyzing them and then forming an opinion. Generally, when he writes something it is a strong well supported opinion. It NEVER claimed to BE science, only to critique the current methods of SO CALLED science. You guys ought to at least firm up the context before making stupid comments. They'd still be stupid but at least it would be informed stupidity.  (14 hrs ago | post #14980)

Hartford, CT

Once slow-moving threat, global warming speeds up, leaving litt...

Wait. You mean "Big Oil" has money to spend on "anti AGW propaganda" but NOT to protect their rights to explore, drill and produce? Absurd.  (15 hrs ago | post #14979)

Hartford, CT

Once slow-moving threat, global warming speeds up, leaving litt...

Relating to a Georgia Tech press release. http://www.gatech. edu/newsroom/relea se.html?nid=47354 By David Terraso Posted November 10, 2009 Atlanta “Across the U.S. as a whole, approximately 50 percent of the warming that has occurred since 1950 is due to land use changes”  (17 hrs ago | post #14966)

Hartford, CT

Once slow-moving threat, global warming speeds up, leaving litt...

Yes, we understand YOUR bias. This was an op-ed by a respected contributor to the Chicago Tribune as well as other credentials. Do you have anything specific to say about what he wrote? If not, then you have NOT refuted anything.  (17 hrs ago | post #14965)

Hartford, CT

Once slow-moving threat, global warming speeds up, leaving litt...

Peak oil" or "peak energy" for that matter has always been subject to considerations of economics. It is a function of the cost of getting it versus the market price. As cost increases of course the price of reaching profitability also increases. As the market reaches or exceeds that "profitabilit y" point, more energy is feasible and can be produced, thus increasing availability or "peak". Sure, there are other factors, but the economic relationship has always been key.  (19 hrs ago | post #14961)

Hartford, CT

Once slow-moving threat, global warming speeds up, leaving litt...

Worthy of emphasis. Beware of any "science " that claims to fully describe in single theory any phenomenon as complex as global climate change. Trying to tie it all up in such a neat package, as climate alarmists do, is a trap for the simple-minded. Dennis Byrne November 10, 2009 Chicago Tribune op-ed  (Yesterday | post #14954)

Hartford, CT

Once slow-moving threat, global warming speeds up, leaving litt...

BEWARE THE CLIMATE CHANGE ALARMISTS Dennis Byrne November 10, 2009 Key excerpts follow. Read the entire opinion piece at: http://www.chicago tribune.com/news/o pinion/chi-oped111 0byrnenov10,0,3012 538.column In the next few weeks we'll be relentlessly scrubbed with eyewash, brainwash and hogwash, all designed to cleanse us of any doubts that global warming is a proven menace to mother Earth. [...] Too bad, because the alleged "scientific " evidence of a coming man-made apocalypse is incomplete at best and, more likely, manipulated for political reasons. That's obviously not the conventional wisdom. According to climate alarmists, only "skeptics " or "deniers " would ignore the "scientific consensus" that the planet is doomed without draconian acts of economic self-immolation. [...] Inconveniently, that study itself has been studied by an independent group of scientists who concluded that the IPCC bible is wrong. They said the IPCC document "is marred by errors and misstatements, ignores scientific data that were available but were inconsistent with the authors' pre-conceived conclusions, and has already been contradicted in important parts by research published since May 2006, the IPCC's cutoff date." To back up the conclusion, the independent group, called the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), published its own analysis in a tome called "Climate Change Reconsidered. " The 856-page, nearly two-inch-thick volume did what all good science requires: check the work of fellow scientists to see if it stands up to a rigorous review of the available research, data and conclusions. [...] Climate change alarmists will condemn these findings as unspeakable and unthinkable. They will point to who is doing the research or who is paying for it, while ignoring the substance of the research. They won't bother contacting Chicago-based Heartland Institute, the report's publisher, to get their own copy. An honest examination of the science will reveal perhaps the only indisputable fact in this entire argument: The science is not settled and claims of a scientific consensus are an exaggeration, if not a deception. A scientific consensus -- if such a thing even exists -- would be surprising for any issue that is as complicated as this, involving so many different branches of science. As a layman struggling to comprehend this avalanche of science, I was struck by one truth: Beware of any "science " that claims to fully describe in single theory any phenomenon as complex as global climate change. Trying to tie it all up in such a neat package, as climate alarmists do, is a trap for the simple-minded. http://www.chicago tribune.com/news/o pinion/chi-oped111 0byrnenov10,0,3012 538.column  (Yesterday | post #14953)