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    How the GW myth is perpetuated

    I don't really find it inconvenient. Some scientists also dispute continental drift. Some dispute the efficacy of vaccines. Some dispute evolution. The difference is that none of those 'actual claims made by scientists' are mainstream in the field. When you just call it a claim by scientists, it...
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    Conservative White Males Climate Skeptics

    So if it's the same thing that's been going on for hundreds of thousands of years, 'natural warming', where is the long increase in temperature that has always, that is until now, preceded the rise in CO2? It's in the ice cores for all the previous warmings except for this one. You should do...
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    Warming climate may fuel more lightning

    Ironic. Should scientists should ask you of your opinion first before they publish? Crap. You're a funny dim rodent. :lol:
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    Warming climate may fuel more lightning

    Legal? What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? :lol: I have no idea what you're talking about. Did you confuse me with Tbone? Try Lumosity, supposed to be good for keeping old knives from becoming dull.
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    Warming climate may fuel more lightning

    Except the OP didn't claim lightning strikes went up in the past 18 years, did it? Let's check: Nope. Nothing in there about the last 18 years. You're calling a study looking forward from now crap, based on what happened in the previous 18 years? Your post, and your reading comprehension...
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    Target Black Friday deals

    We might expect to see some crazy videos from Target shoppers this year. Highlights include a Samsung Galaxy S5 for $0.01 and a $129.99 40 inch 1080p LED television! Other deals include discounted Xbox One and PS4. Target's Black Friday 2014 deals include $0.01 Samsung Galaxy S5 and discounted...
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    Will there be a polar vortex this winter?

    :lol: You and your wife can't have been married that long, I suspect she's exaggerating the rarity of that fellow underneath her.
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    Confessions of a Climate Change Denier

    Communication is a two-way thing you realize. I could call you a ****ty listener, but that would be like brothers calling their mother ugly, and I find these kinds of conversations boring and tedious. But I guess I already said you have comprehension problems :-P Yes. Now let me ask you, a...
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    Confessions of a Climate Change Denier

    Admit what? You and I are disagreeing about what is the prominent problem. I'm saying the amount of heat trapping radiation is what matters, and it doesn't matter how you bring the value down. You're saying that it does, and that the number of humans matter more than how much the radiative...
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    Confessions of a Climate Change Denier

    No...jeez, I'll multi-quote since you seem to be having comprehension problems. In the examples I gave you, the end result for both scenarios is, 5 fewer tonnes of heat trapping gas. That's called equivalence. Then you need to go back to watching Sesame Street. No part of what I said should...
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    Confessions of a Climate Change Denier

    No it doesn't, no matter how many times you cut it. Five is still five in your world, I will assume. So why would you assert 5 less people emitting one tonne a year is more valid than 5 million people who all told emit 5 fewer tonnes per year? You're going to have to explain this logic. On a...
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    Confessions of a Climate Change Denier

    No, it doesn't, and no it isn't. Let's start with growth first. Geometric growth would mean the rate of change is increasing yearly. It isn't. At the turn of the century we were adding 80 million people per year. Now we're down to 70 million per year. i.e. the growth rate is declining, and the...
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    Confessions of a Climate Change Denier

    That's poppy cock. If everyone emitted the same amount, well you still wouldn't have a case for there being only one solution. Because increasing efficiency of say, gas mileage in cars would have the same effect as removing emitters. Total emissions go down. Or rather than calling them the...
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    So you still take "climate scientists" seriously?

    Reading the top half of the page from the bottom up. That figures.
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    So you still take "climate scientists" seriously?

    That's good engrish skills you have there.
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    So you still take "climate scientists" seriously?

    Yeah...Anthony Watts had one of his earliest smack downs from climate scientists when he pointed to different temperature datasets not agreeing on the amount of warming. The problem of course was that the datasets didn't actually disagree, Watts just didn't know what anomalies are. He does now...
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    Animated gif of 10+year flightpath of Rosetta with planned comet landing

    Pretty cool animation, with a few planetary gravity assisted slingshots. The flightpath: Rosetta snaps a selfie with comet in the background: And, the mapping of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: In November, with the comet mapped and five suitable locations discovered, a small probe...
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    Our cooling world

    That's according to a Senior Meteorologist at Environment Canada, not the Calgary Sun. The Sun just reported it... Alberta does get lots of sun.
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    99.999% certainty humans are driving global warming: new study

    Yes, that's true, though technically energy from combustion wouldn't need to go to zero to stop the human component from growing. Really, it depends on who you ask though, for how and when and all the actual important details. Sure, you might get some extreme folks that think it should happen...
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    So you still take "climate scientists" seriously?

    Oh those pesky thermometers and scientists...if only there was a way to check the thermometer record, like say with some temperature record that doesn't fill in the temperature over my house with the temperature measured at the airport... Oh right, there is! Check out the nearly parallel lines...