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KenDckey -> Climate Change (3/11/2015 6:09:03 PM)

I personally don't know whose science is correct. But I found this piece on the assault of those scientists in disagreement with the politically correct theories on climate change to be shades of the inquisition.

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/political-assault-climate-skeptics?utm_content=buffer27f0e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer





CreativeDominant -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 7:36:07 PM)

It's all a lie, Ken. The left is well-known for their tolerance of opposing viewpoints and their welcoming of diverse opinions, some of them contrary to their own




joether -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 7:58:49 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: KenDckey
I personally don't know whose science is correct. But I found this piece on the assault of those scientists in disagreement with the politically correct theories on climate change to be shades of the inquisition.

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/political-assault-climate-skeptics?utm_content=buffer27f0e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer


Let's see, it comes from the CATO Institute, which is a conservative think tank, whom is ....ALWAYS.... against science. They play on the typical viewer's ignorance to spin a viewpoint that a high level concept in science called 'A Scientific Theory' is like a laymen's term for 'just a guess'. Your typical viewer on the CATO Instute falls in one of three categories:

A ) Intellectually Dishonest

These people understand the science well enough to explain half truths and even out right lies. They will support those that have been debunked time and again as 'actual scientists whom are in disagreement with the scientific community'. These folks usually have a political and/or financial reason to being dishonest.

B) The Ignorant

The crowd that knows absolute.....SHIT.....about science. Most never took a high school level physics or chemistry class; and if they did, don't remember much from it. They do not have the facts, nor, know how to obtain good information that would show the shit on CATO to be 'full of it'. They think that the Intellectually Dishonest types are being up front with the information. If you asked them to define Climate Change, they would fail miserably.


C ) The Informed

People whom study the sciences, are informed on the information related to the Theory of Climate Change. Much with this theory is used in other scientific fields and studies. The science found within Climate Change is found in smartphones. No, there is no weather system in your smartphone (unless you farted on it recently). Its to say that concepts in science are 'cross platform' usage. Scientists and those that study the science understand the information being presented. The question: Is Climate Change taking place? Is a 'yes'. And that mankind is causing it. They know this because they eliminate variables. And there are many variables. The question is: What can be done about it?

Without having a decent level of understanding in science, its hard to explain the theory itself. Scientific knowledge builds upon itself. To understand how a molecule separates under kinetic force, one first has to learn what *is* a molecule. Many conservatives believe this is just some sort of 'liberal left wing conspiracy'. Its not. The science is solid, and those that dismiss it are pushing a political and/or financial agenda. If you ever wanted to learn about the theory itself, I would suggest taking a 'Introduction to Science' course at the local community college. Then ask the professor how best to take classes towards the understanding of the theory itself.




joether -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 8:01:42 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
It's all a lie, Ken. The left is well-known for their tolerance of opposing viewpoints and their welcoming of diverse opinions, some of them contrary to their own


Its science, not a political arena. Even you are intelligent enough to understand the concept....

You have an opposing view? That's fine. Got the evidence to support that opposing view of work you did directly? Or are you going to give me one of the several hundred conservative 'talking points' on the subject matter? Which I will probably find has been debunked by one or more legitimate sources.




CreativeDominant -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 8:13:15 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: joether

quote:

ORIGINAL: KenDckey
I personally don't know whose science is correct. But I found this piece on the assault of those scientists in disagreement with the politically correct theories on climate change to be shades of the inquisition.

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/political-assault-climate-skeptics?utm_content=buffer27f0e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer


Let's see, it comes from the CATO Institute, which is a conservative think tank, whom is ....ALWAYS.... against science. They play on the typical viewer's ignorance to spin a viewpoint that a high level concept in science called 'A Scientific Theory' is like a laymen's term for 'just a guess'. Your typical viewer on the CATO Instute falls in one of three categories:

A ) Intellectually Dishonest

These people understand the science well enough to explain half truths and even out right lies. They will support those that have been debunked time and again as 'actual scientists whom are in disagreement with the scientific community'. These folks usually have a political and/or financial reason to being dishonest.

B) The Ignorant

The crowd that knows absolute.....SHIT.....about science. Most never took a high school level physics or chemistry class; and if they did, don't remember much from it. They do not have the facts, nor, know how to obtain good information that would show the shit on CATO to be 'full of it'. They think that the Intellectually Dishonest types are being up front with the information. If you asked them to define Climate Change, they would fail miserably.


C ) The Informed

People whom study the sciences, are informed on the information related to the Theory of Climate Change. Much with this theory is used in other scientific fields and studies. The science found within Climate Change is found in smartphones. No, there is no weather system in your smartphone (unless you farted on it recently). Its to say that concepts in science are 'cross platform' usage. Scientists and those that study the science understand the information being presented. The question: Is Climate Change taking place? Is a 'yes'. And that mankind is causing it. They know this because they eliminate variables. And there are many variables. The question is: What can be done about it?

Without having a decent level of understanding in science, its hard to explain the theory itself. Scientific knowledge builds upon itself. To understand how a molecule separates under kinetic force, one first has to learn what *is* a molecule. Many conservatives believe this is just some sort of 'liberal left wing conspiracy'. Its not. The science is solid, and those that dismiss it are pushing a political and/or financial agenda. If you ever wanted to learn about the theory itself, I would suggest taking a 'Introduction to Science' course at the local community college. Then ask the professor how best to take classes towards the understanding of the theory itself.

See? There again is that remarkable capacity for tolerance of differing viewpoints. No matter how many times joether has been shown scientific viewpoints differing than his, his oh-so-open mind...which he will tell you is capable of accepting even those ideas contrary to his own and treating them with respect even though he disagrees...instead goes intolerant and gets around the contradiction by calling it bullshit.




bounty44 -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 8:31:51 PM)

ken in case you missed the last go around of amazingly mind numbing leftist educational entrenchment, i'll say a few things here ive said before and add some new ones too:

when one side changes their story from one decade to another, changes the terms of the argument, is caught manipulating data as well as suppressing others, there seems to be an insurmountable credibility problem to even start with.

that said---here's a partial, but no doubt unsuccessful retort to the criticism about being "informed" ---you know, where the people who are "deniers" are politicians and not "scientists"

quote:

“Any reasonable scientific analysis must conclude the basic theory wrong!!” — NASA Scientist Dr. Leonard Weinstein who worked 35 years at the NASA Langley Research Center and finished his career there as a Senior Research Scientist. Weinstein is presently a Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Aerospace.


quote:

“Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself — Climate is beyond our power to control…Earth doesn’t care about governments or their legislation. You can’t find much actual global warming in present-day weather observations. Climate change is a matter of geologic time, something that the earth routinely does on its own without asking anyone’s permission or explaining itself.” — Nobel Prize-Winning Stanford University Physicist Dr. Robert B. Laughlin, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1998, and was formerly a research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.


quote:

“In essence, the jig is up. The whole thing is a fraud. And even the fraudsters that fudged data are admitting to temperature history that they used to say didn’t happen…Perhaps what has doomed the Climategate fraudsters the most was their brazenness in fudging the data” — Dr. Christopher J. Kobus, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland University, specializes in alternative energy, thermal transport phenomena, two-phase flow and fluid and thermal energy systems.


quote:

“The energy mankind generates is so small compared to that overall energy budget that it simply cannot affect the climate…The planet’s climate is doing its own thing, but we cannot pinpoint significant trends in changes to it because it dates back millions of years while the study of it began only recently. We are children of the Sun; we simply lack data to draw the proper conclusions.” — Russian Scientist Dr. Anatoly Levitin, the head of geomagnetic variations laboratory at the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences.


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“Hundreds of billion dollars have been wasted with the attempt of imposing a Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory that is not supported by physical world evidences…AGW has been forcefully imposed by means of a barrage of scare stories and indoctrination that begins in the elementary school textbooks.” — Brazilian Geologist Geraldo Luís Lino, who authored the 2009 book “The Global Warming Fraud: How a Natural Phenomenon Was Converted into a False World Emergency.”


gee those look like people with expertise in the area, and there's plenty more on the site, and many hundreds more in the report.

http://www.climatedepot.com/2010/12/08/special-report-more-than-1000-international-scientists-dissent-over-manmade-global-warming-claims-challenge-un-ipcc-gore-2/


there really should be nothing more to say...but incredibly, (see my first line above), there will be.




bounty44 -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 8:34:34 PM)

oh I just have to add this from the same place:

quote:

The rapidity of the global warming establishment’s collapse would have been unheard of just two years ago. Prominent physicist Hal Lewis resigned from American Physical Society, calling “Global warming the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life.” UK astrophysicist Piers Corbyn was blunt about what Climategate revealed: “The case for climate fears is blown to smithereens…the whole theory should be destroyed and discarded and UN conference should be closed.”





joether -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 8:37:16 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
See? There again is that remarkable capacity for tolerance of differing viewpoints. No matter how many times joether has been shown scientific viewpoints differing than his, his oh-so-open mind...which he will tell you is capable of accepting of ideas contrary to his own and treating them with respect even though he disagrees...instead goes intolerant and gets around the contradiction by calling it bullshit.


Its an amusing game your playing Creative. You believe that since your so innocent of guilt, therefore anything you state MUST be accepted as the same as actual scientific evidence that has been peer reviewed and retested again. Your word of the week is 'tolerance', isn't it? Here is a tolerance for you: Either put up or shut up!

You think the Theory of Climate Change is false....PROVE IT! Put your money in your mouth....and....PROVE IT. The first question I'll ask, to be up front and fair is: What is your scientific credentials and can you prove it? AKA where are your PhD's from?

I already know the games your going to play, Creative. So this material of yours better be hardcore intriguing stuff and not 'I never took a science class in high school and it shows here'. If I can counter it, you lose!




bounty44 -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 8:37:17 PM)

oh my, and this too, most consistent with your op:

quote:

Dr. Judith Curry, the chair of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at GA Institute of Tech, explained her defection from the global warming activist movement. “There is ‘a lack of willingness in the climate change community to steer away from groupthink…’ They are setting themselves up as second-rate scientists by not engaging,” Curry wrote in 2010. Curry critiqued the UN IPCC for promoting “dogma” and clinging to the “religious importance” of the IPCC’s claims. “They will tolerate no dissent and seek to trample anyone who challenges them,” Curry lamented. “The IPCC assessment process had a substantial element of schoolyard bullies, trying to insulate their shoddy science from outside scrutiny and attacks by skeptics…the IPCC and its conclusions were set on a track to become a self fulfilling prophecy,” Curry wrote.




KenDckey -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 8:38:43 PM)

LOL Ahhhhhhhhh the tollerence of the left and progressives with differing viewpoints. LOL




dcnovice -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 8:41:13 PM)

Roll cameras . . .

[image]http://www.glennmurray.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Plucky-band-of-billionaires.jpg[/image]




bounty44 -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 8:43:47 PM)

parting thought, the report in question referenced above:

quote:

The distinguished scientists featured in this new report are experts in diverse fields, including: climatology; geology; biology; glaciology; biogeography; meteorology; oceanography; economics; chemistry; mathematics; environmental sciences; astrophysics, engineering; physics and paleoclimatology. Some of those profiled have won Nobel Prizes for their outstanding contribution to their field of expertise and many shared a portion of the UN IPCC Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Gore. Additionally, these scientists hail from prestigious institutions worldwide, including: Harvard University; NASA; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the UN IPCC; the Danish National Space Center; U.S. Department of Energy; Princeton University; the Environmental Protection Agency; University of Pennsylvania; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the International Arctic Research Centre; the Pasteur Institute in Paris; Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute; the University of Helsinki; the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S., France, and Russia; the University of Pretoria; University of Notre Dame; Abo Akademi University in Finland; University of La Plata in Argentina; Stockholm University; Punjab University in India; University of Melbourne; Columbia University; the World Federation of Scientists; and the University of London.




joether -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 8:43:51 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: bounty44

oh I just have to add this from the same place:

quote:

The rapidity of the global warming establishment’s collapse would have been unheard of just two years ago. Prominent physicist Hal Lewis resigned from American Physical Society, calling “Global warming the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life.” UK astrophysicist Piers Corbyn was blunt about what Climategate revealed: “The case for climate fears is blown to smithereens…the whole theory should be destroyed and discarded and UN conference should be closed.”



First lesson on research.....CHECK YOUR INFORMATION!!

It took me all of 41 seconds to debunk your 'news' story, bounty.




joether -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 8:46:47 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: KenDckey
LOL Ahhhhhhhhh the tollerence of the left and progressives with differing viewpoints. LOL


Your trying to look at science as if it were politics. Doesn't work that way. If I place an ice cube on a table and the air around the ice cube is room temperature (generally 78 degrees F). What happens?

Does it stay a solid? Turn into a liquid? Or become a gas?

And did it do these things because it was a conservative, moderate, or liberal?

Do try to be serious when giving the answer.....





bounty44 -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 9:02:35 PM)

i feel a little like im piling on but ...

here's the science guy at cato:

"Patrick J. Michaels is the director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. Michaels is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. He was a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia for 30 years. Michaels was a contributing author and is a reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

"His writing has been published in the major scientific journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Nature, and Science, as well as in popular serials worldwide. He is the author or editor of six books on climate and its impact, and he was an author of the climate “paper of the year” awarded by the Association of American Geographers in 2004. He has appeared on most of the worldwide major media.

"Michaels holds AB and SM degrees in biological sciences and plant ecology from the University of Chicago, and he received a PhD in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1979."


http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-michaels




lovmuffin -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 9:16:19 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: bounty44

i feel a little like im piling on but ...

here's the science guy at cato:

"Patrick J. Michaels is the director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. Michaels is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. He was a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia for 30 years. Michaels was a contributing author and is a reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

"His writing has been published in the major scientific journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Nature, and Science, as well as in popular serials worldwide. He is the author or editor of six books on climate and its impact, and he was an author of the climate “paper of the year” awarded by the Association of American Geographers in 2004. He has appeared on most of the worldwide major media.

"Michaels holds AB and SM degrees in biological sciences and plant ecology from the University of Chicago, and he received a PhD in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1979."


http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-michaels


Obviously he has been paid off by those evil rich oil companies[8D]




Kirata -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 9:22:39 PM)


You obviously haven't the slightest idea what a logical fallacy is, or even how and when to use "whom". That strikes me as exceedingly peculiar, you being a proud college fellow and all. Plus, you're making shit up again. They don't know that man is causing it, and the reason they don't know is precisely because their models "eliminate variables," which is also why the predictions generated by those models have been consistently wrong.

K.











joether -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 9:53:19 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: bounty44
ken in case you missed the last go around of amazingly mind numbing leftist educational entrenchment, i'll say a few things here ive said before and add some new ones too:

when one side changes their story from one decade to another, changes the terms of the argument, is caught manipulating data as well as suppressing others, there seems to be an insurmountable credibility problem to even start with.

that said---here's a partial, but no doubt unsuccessful retort to the criticism about being "informed" ---you know, where the people who are "deniers" are politicians and not "scientists"


Yes, science can be boring for those without imaginations and thought processes. Its boring to many of America's school children, whom get those viewpoints from their parents whom find science boring. Yet, most people I observe these days have smartphones. How did smartphones come about?

You didn't understand how you and others got owned time and again on the science. You take things from sites believing 'HA, this will show them now!", and post it. With some research, it doesn't take long to understand where and how your wrong. Because you don't even understand what your posting. If someone asked you to perform a triple bypass surgery on someone in the next two hours, could you do it? Even with the internet at your finger tips, you would fail and kill the patient. That is why medical doctors study the human body and how it works. They study biology, chemistry and biochemistry. An you would to insult these people, and their work?

All these come from a 'talking points memo' from 2010 it appears....What year are we in bounty?

quote:

ORIGINAL: bounty44
“Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself — Climate is beyond our power to control…Earth doesn’t care about governments or their legislation. You can’t find much actual global warming in present-day weather observations. Climate change is a matter of geologic time, something that the earth routinely does on its own without asking anyone’s permission or explaining itself.” — Nobel Prize-Winning Stanford University Physicist Dr. Robert B. Laughlin, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1998, and was formerly a research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.


What did the professor get his Nobel Prize for exactly? Could you explain the full science to me, please.

The good professor talks from the viewpoint that the Earth as a whole is a living organism (i.e. like you or me). That it cares not what happens on it, since all will eventually even out (sort of a religious belief here). Those two concepts are not within the realm of the Theory of Climate Change. Perhaps the Theory of Abiogenesis or another scientific theory yet to be established. Likewise, the Prof. Laughlin is stating that mankind will never have the tools nor knowledge to understand things. Yeah, because we have no idea how fire, toilets, gamer-level computer rigs, and even the sun operates....

You can find more information here.....


quote:

ORIGINAL: bounty44
gee those look like people with expertise in the area, and there's plenty more on the site, and many hundreds more in the report.

there really should be nothing more to say...but incredibly, (see my first line above), there will be.


You dont even know what these people are even talking about. That you feel they are reacting negatively to a concept, that your negative about; it must be the same thing, right? Wrong! Likewise, you and others on this forum view the concept as a religion. Its not a religion. Granted I'm sure there are some that take it as a religious belief, but that is effectively a religion and not science. Because science has one component that religion doesn't: the ability to correct itself.

As we understand more things about the world, the university and even the human body, we find where previous ideas either were limited or not explained fully. In some cases, just wrong. For people like you bounty, you'll never understand. Nor am I even going to attempt to explain it here. That if we research and find something that strikes at the Theory of Climate Change that is different; we'll research the shit out of it. If its found the concept does break the theory, people will go back and re-check everything with consideration of the new evidence (that has created a new definition in the theory).

For a long time, it was the scientific theory that only our planet could create and substain life upon it. As new research came about in tens of thousands of ways, we learn that was not quite the case. So things were changed, based on the new information. At one time, people thought Mars was just a chunk of stone with no really history to it. As we sent craft to study it, examine things, and even take pictures of it; we started noticing new concepts about it. An how did we understand it? Because some of the concepts found on Mars, are found right here on Earth! For a long time the discussion was how to transport water to Mars, believing none existed. Water is VERY heavy to transport. Now, we are aware of ice on Mars. Not only that, but there was once oceans on Mars with at least a depth of one mile.

If you remove all the political bullshit from the theory, what is left? The science known. Got better evidence? Show it. But spare us the mindless and numbing political crap. People wonder why our children are sucking at math and science on an international level....




joether -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 10:00:55 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Kirata
You obviously haven't the slightest idea what a logical fallacy is, or even how and when to use "whom". That strikes me as exceedingly peculiar, you being a proud college fellow and all. Plus, you're making shit up again. They don't know that man is causing it, and the reason they don't know is precisely because their models "eliminate variables," which is also why the predictions generated by those models have been consistently wrong.


An you have no clue what your babbling about....like this is some how different from the other 447 times (yes, I am counting).

You want to attack me on my education, what's yours? I want to hear it. Oh that's right, you slink back into the shadows because you dont have the BALLS.

Mankind and its technology are creating the problems. The evidence is there. You dont like it, I dont give a flying fuck! If you think its different, present the information to the scientific community. Oh that's right, you think the whole thing is a shame! So therefore it has to be the Devil's doing, right? Please, spare me your religious babble....

If I upset your 'Grammer Nazi' mind, take it as 'even penalty' for posting shit that you make up all the time!




joether -> RE: Climate Change (3/11/2015 10:03:15 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: lovmuffin
quote:

ORIGINAL: bounty44
i feel a little like im piling on but ...

here's the science guy at cato:

"Patrick J. Michaels is the director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. Michaels is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. He was a research professor of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia for 30 years. Michaels was a contributing author and is a reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

"His writing has been published in the major scientific journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Nature, and Science, as well as in popular serials worldwide. He is the author or editor of six books on climate and its impact, and he was an author of the climate “paper of the year” awarded by the Association of American Geographers in 2004. He has appeared on most of the worldwide major media.

"Michaels holds AB and SM degrees in biological sciences and plant ecology from the University of Chicago, and he received a PhD in ecological climatology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1979."


http://www.cato.org/people/patrick-michaels

Obviously he has been paid off by those evil rich oil companies[8D]


Yeah.....my bank account is swelling with money.....

...if you believe that I have some real estate in Alpha Centauri to sell you!





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