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Tonington

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Anybody who accepts all of these lovely graphs as having any meaning would do well to look at the charts and graphs that stock analysts produce.

Keeping in mind that a stock price can be affected by consumer confidence, lower than expected returns, scandals...the surface temperature on Earth does not.
 

AnnaG

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I expect I would adapt. ;-)
oh ha ha ha
Humans can adapt by moving around a lot like the nomads in the Sahara. Critters can, too, if they are given the time to do it. I imagine the polar bear population will drop drastically if the warming continues and given the chance will possibly recover. Humans have large brains, critters don't. It takes them longer to realize stuff like, "Hey, there's no grub left here" or "I can't get at the food here". Human goes and gets a ladder, or goes to the grocery store for more food.
Extinction is as old as life on Earth - about 3.5 billion years - but scientists calculate that we are losing species at a rate of somewhere between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural "background" rate of extinction. This means that technically we are going through a period of "mass extinction", the sixth that we know about over the hundreds of millions of years of the fossil record. But unlike the previous five mass extinctions, this one is largely caused by the actions of a single species - Homo sapiens.
- The Big Question: How quickly are animals and plants disappearing, and does it matter? - Nature, Environment - The Independent

If we are going to fight nature rather than get along with it, we're going to have to do it a lot smarter than we have been.



Please note that this graph doesn't show the amount of change, but rather the RATE of change.
So did the graphs I found except they showed temperature as opposed to time.

No it wasn't. I didn't say we couldn't accomplish mass extinctions. The passenger pidgeon, for example. I said the MAIN cause was cooling.
Actually, you said that you read somewhere the main cause in ALL extinctions was cooling. Your source was wrong.
And, by the way, those extinctions were far more deadly than what we can do.
Waitaminit. Extinctions are just plain deadly. A species can't get more dead one time than another time.
More than 99% of all animals that have ever existed are extinct, and it wasn't our doing.
Extinction is as old as life on Earth - about 3.5 billion years - but scientists calculate that we are losing species at a rate of somewhere between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural "background" rate of extinction. This means that technically we are going through a period of "mass extinction", the sixth that we know about over the hundreds of millions of years of the fossil record. But unlike the previous five mass extinctions, this one is largely caused by the actions of a single species - Homo sapiens.
- The Big Question: How quickly are animals and plants disappearing, and does it matter? - Nature, Environment - The Independent

You need to research more. Your science is lacking badly.


Yet, when warmer life has flourished
At the colder areas of the oceans. In the warmer sections there was basically just some plantlife.
 

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A friend of mine went to Tanzenia for 5 weeks and immersed himself in their culture. One of the women he got to know had a father that was in constant agony from a bad hip. His daughter said all he wants is to die. Here he would have had his hip replaced and his quality of life would have been great. My bro-in-law had both knees replaced in his 50's. He could hardly hobble before that. Certainly there are examples of life not worth living, but that is true in either situation.
We have a friend across the lake who needed both hips replaced. He got fed up with wheelchair living for months, went to the States and got first hip replaced inside a week after getting the go ahead. He healed and then did the second within a week of requesting replacement.
A friend up the road had knee replacement 3 times before he got one that didn't cause him grief. I agree medicine is a bonus, but we even screw that up sometimes.
 

AnnaG

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I expect mistakes are evident on both sides, but as yet I've seen no fraud on the skeptic side. Got ANY evidence?
Nope. I was just betting that the denier side isn't all angelic either.



Here's one for the last 1000 years. I don't have time to dig up one for the last 10,000 right now, I'll get back to you on that.


Seems those temps have been inflated due to faulty measuring station placement. There is an increase, but not that steep, and the last few years have declined, despite CO2 levels increasing.
That is a graph of temperature anomalies, you notice that the changes in temperature are almost all positive in the last decade? That means the temperatures themselves are rising. I can see why you think everything's peachy. You misread stuff.


You certainly don't give that impression
Oh well. I get into discussions with whomever.

That would be difficult right now as I'm short of time and I've never kept any records of his utterances. I'm only speaking from memory. When I get back I'll try and look some up.
Cool. But regardless of his motives, I haven't heard him use false data. Ever.


It's not a hybrid, it runs entirely on a little diesel engine.
Perhaps you should read this little bit from your link then (first paragraph):

Volkswagen L1 Concept
The L1 in the Volkswagen L1 Concept stands for 1-Liter — the idea being that this roughly 170 mpg hybrid can travel 100 km (62 miles) on just 1-liter of diesel fuel. It's close, but actually needs 1.38-liters to cover that distance. Still, its fuel efficiency is still good enough to make current hybrids look like gluttons.
 

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Anybody who accepts all of these lovely graphs as having any meaning would do well to look at the charts and graphs that stock analysts produce.
Are stock analysts producing climate graphs? Why? Isn't climatology a little out of their league?
 

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Are stock analysts producing climate graphs? Why? Isn't climatology a little out of their league?

It's exactly the same. Produce a chart with wild swings, make a self-serving prediction for future behaviour, and then justify your prediction.

Same concept, exactly.

And the best part is, once we get carbon credit trading, it will be the same people profitting. What could be better?
 

AnnaG

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It's exactly the same. Produce a chart with wild swings, make a self-serving prediction for future behaviour, and then justify your prediction.

Same concept, exactly.
Can you show where all, not just the CRU, the sources of climate info have done this? Can you even show where NASA by itself has done this? No, I didn't think so.

And the best part is, once we get carbon credit trading, it will be the same people profitting. What could be better?
People will figure out a way to profit off anything. Big deal. I am not picky as to which bunch of scoundrels I should dislike.
 

Ron in Regina

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Weird question with respect to this CRU. I've only read this Thread and
not much else. I don't know what's true or not, but it sounds like this CRU
exaggerated the results that it found?

If this is true....the big question would be, are the results put forth by this
CRU significantly different than the results put forth by others conducting
this type of research?

If yes, then the Data from this CRU can be discounted from both sides of
this debate. Right? It becomes a non-issue.

If not, and the results released by this CRU were exaggerated....wouldn't
that raise some red flags for everyone, regardless of their position on
this topic?
 

TenPenny

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Weird question with respect to this CRU. I've only read this Thread and
not much else. I don't know what's true or not, but it sounds like this CRU
exaggerated the results that it found?

If this is true....the big question would be, are the results put forth by this
CRU significantly different than the results put forth by others conducting
this type of research?

If yes, then the Data from this CRU can be discounted from both sides of
this debate. Right? It becomes a non-issue.

If not, and the results released by this CRU were exaggerated....wouldn't
that raise some red flags for everyone, regardless of their position on
this topic?

That all depends on who gets data from where, and when you 'accidentally' delete data after threatening that 'I'll delete it before I release it', the credibility somehow decreases.
 

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The data that was thrown out was thrown out in the 80's. Before Jones was heading the CRU. Before this subject was politicized as it is now. They probably don't have the parchment that the records were written on in the 1800's either...
 

TenPenny

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The data that was thrown out was thrown out in the 80's. Before Jones was heading the CRU. Before this subject was politicized as it is now. They probably don't have the parchment that the records were written on in the 1800's either...
Oh, I understand.

It's truly stunning how the media completely distorts anything to do with science, if they report it at all.

Thank God for the mainstream US networks, they avoid this by completely ignoring the story.
 

Ron in Regina

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Do Research Scientists usually dispose of their Raw Data once they're come
to some kind of conclusion with their results? Is this a normal procedure? The
Raw Data, once a conclusion is decided upon, no longer has any value? :-?
 

TenPenny

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Do Research Scientists usually dispose of their Raw Data once they're come
to some kind of conclusion with their results? Is this a normal procedure? The
Raw Data, once a conclusion is decided upon, no longer has any value? :-?

No, they don't. If the scientists dispose of the raw data, then the analysis cannot be repeated, and therefore the scientific conclusions become unsubstantiated, and could never pass a proper peer review.

Typically, the only scientists who destroy data are those with something to hide.
 

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Wealth distribution...that is what this has become. They are shouting all over Copenhagen about it. Third World Nations are in front of every microphone demanding a decision that will require western nations to fill their nations treasuries. On NPR a leader from an African nation was saying that even a 10 Billion dollar pay out would be an insult to them. They want real cash and real money from the West to use for their economies... which is a laugh. All that money will dissapear in corruption as it most often does and not a darn thing will happen to climate change.

China however has the right idea. They simply said they will decide how they will respond to climate change and said they simply won't grow their economy as fast as they have. I think the US should do that as well... in fact we already are as our economy has been slowing for years now.
 

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No, they don't. If the scientists dispose of the raw data, then the analysis cannot be repeated, and therefore the scientific conclusions become unsubstantiated, and could never pass a proper peer review.

Typically, the only scientists who destroy data are those with something to hide.


Agreed TenPenny.
 

Tonington

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No, they don't. If the scientists dispose of the raw data, then the analysis cannot be repeated, and therefore the scientific conclusions become unsubstantiated, and could never pass a proper peer review.

That's the ideal. In the real world, many scientists use such shoddy documentation processes, that replication is impossible. This problem becomes more evident in projects with very long life spans, with many different researchers working on the project at different times.

You can watch this talk by Greg Wilson, or read this study in PLoS, an open access journal which requires the authors to make all data available.

In reality, data is thrown out all the time. And in reality, the data is not destroyed. CRU simply isn't keeping their copies of it. Remember that CRU makes a product using station data from other countries' meteorological services, which is why they can't release much of the data.