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Solid argument there. Grow up.

I would like to know who put that forward, certainly not Tonington. The cause of global climate change is a compound effect of which carbon plays an integral (but not solitary) role. If that is your argument, then the discussion is over. This was never an issue.

You cannot have it both ways Scott. Either you understand the science involved and can deal with the details or you do not understand it and should not make accusations about the level of evidence. You cannot maintain your position of "correlation not causation" in the face of evidence merely by...

The funny thing about the stereotypical crackpot is the statement they make like clockwork: underdog science the most important. If you don't understand me, its because I am a genius. Anytime somebody wants to throw general relativity out the window, I like to point out a simple fact: without...

Ok, the surface temperature of the sun is a blistering 6000K, and that is just the optical surface. Long before a "rock" even got near the sun it would vaporize. Flux tubes breach the surface of the sun due to fluid and magnetic convection. There are also various instabilities which drive the...

Ah, quotes taken out of context by reporters. By, "The origin and stability of sunspots has been one of the long-standing mysteries in solar physics. I am delighted to see that with SOHO we are beginning to crack this problem," Fleck is merely drumming up support for his project. What we don't...

are nothing more than the failings of effective democracy. In all the places where communism has been tried, democracy was the framework which carried the philosophy. The two are of course not mutually exclusive. Communism states that the tools of production are owned by the entire population...

Please save me the headache of tracking down original sources. Two words taken out of context and then interpreted harshly by a journalist borders on libel. I am sure if you quoted the original source in its entirety this spin would simply appear like blatant dishonesty on Yeatman's part...

Unfortunately for the people who are interested in earnest discourse, the media would notice something like this. Tiny bit of celebrity related to the weather and bam, instant spokesperson for people who believe that appeal to authority is the be all and end all of a discussion. Anytime the lead...

That sounds so awesome, #juan. I will have to try that. Also, thumbs up for crockpots, best thing since sliced bread.

Lets, say that the person you voted for in the election lost. Being a responsible citizen you are still concerned with the ongoings of parliament and would still like to have your voice heard. The question is, which parliamentarian represents your voice on parliament hill?

Thats why Svensmark and Christensen erasing the upward linear trend, which is what Lockwood and Froehlich were searching for, is spurious. It is common knowledge that the solar cycle has a period of something like 11 years, which is not what Lockwood and Froehlich wanted to study. They had to...

The upward linear trend is physical, which is mentioned. Lockwood and Froehlich erase the 11 year cycle to search for a long term trend. As I stated, this is the standard method for dealing with auto-correlation. One can not search for long term trends using autocorrelated data, it is simply too...

Interesting link. I am glad I finally have a name to put on that phenomenon.

In direct contradiction to what the University researchers are saying. Here is what the scientists support, as opposed to what some dishonest journalist is saying, where you should understand likely in the Bayesian sense. Emphasis theirs.

States without evidence that the world is cooling, contrary to the best data available, for example. What then follows is a continuation of such dishonesty: conflation of climate change, suggests we lead by following, bad analogy to Mulroney and the fisheries, misunderstanding about how...

I have attacked the science behind this study before, but I guess it bears repeating. Their major complaint is that Lockwood and Froehlich use a running mean to analyze the trend in warming. This is a standard method of dealing with auto-correlation and their complaint with it is spurious, and...

From, www.underconstruction.com/brandnew/ This is a joke, don't take it too seriously. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The elephant—a symbol of the Republican Party dating back to Thomas Nast’s...

Nah, I just read the University press report. Those things are notorious garbage in the academic community. The University just wants to make inflammatory comments to generate hype and get their name out there. Once the actual papers hit the peer review process there isn't even a blip on the...

With 50 sampling points (according to the report), one does not have much hope of initial data making extremely accurate representations. The solution is more measurements, not different models. My models on black holes suffer from the exact same problems. I wouldn't even consider simulating...