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The weasel likes to recycle his comments, so why not? RP Sr. has shown up in the comments over at John Nielsen Gammon's blog to defend the family honor (John is not exactly buying, but he is very polite and it is worth reading). Among this that and the other Senior wrote
RPS said:
There is also conflicting information on the other climate metrics that you present, such as glacial retreat. It is more complicated as there are quite a few glaciers that are advancing.
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Eli replied
As compared to how many are retreating this is declaring the needle a haystack and a warning sign that the author is playing with 53 cards.
Do not play with a joker who is using 53 cards.
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That picture of Junior over at n-g's is just plain creepy.
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There is also conflicting information on the other climate metrics that you present, such as glacial retreat. It is more complicated as there are quite a few glaciers that are advancing. "
Yeah, it's almost as though some glaciers, such as a few in Alaska, are advancing because of increasing precipitation associated with warmer SSTs ...
And/or they may be advancing due to the cyclical behavior of some maritime glaciers, which is independent of their mass balance trend.
Also, there are some north-facing Himalayan glaciers that are able to advance because they get little sunshine. Their south-facing cohorts aren't doing so well.
RP Sr. well knows all of this but has kept repeating the talking point, which IMHO is crackpot territory, as is trying to pretend that Spencer & Braswell is not just garbage.
RJP Sr's "optimistic" view reads like a very depressing premortem examination of a patient with congestive heart failure, multiple strokes, diabetes, and kidney failure. He speculates that perhaps more strokes ("land-use changes"), might produce just the right amount of insulin resistance ("aerosols") to increase the patient's morbid obesity ("water vapor and cloud feedbacks"), which, combined with more caloric intake ("tropical development and biomass burning") will, perhaps, result in prolonging the life-span of the obviously dying patient by some unknown length of time.
He claims that reports of the patient's death are greatly exaggerated, since the timing and direct cause of death are, as yet, uncertain. Therefore, there's no need to change any of the patient's bad habits, including smoking and drinking, or attempt any form of exercise, as long as some minimal kidney and lung functions remain. And with all this uncertainty, imposing any such strict "health" regimens would be unwise when they might adversely affect the patient's full enjoyment of her/his last few years of life. As long as someone else's health insurance premiums are paying the medical bills, just wear this nifty new blood pressure monitor ("Argo network"), keep on partying like there's no tomorrow, wait, and watch what happens, says the good Dr. RJP Sr.!
Taylor B
http://www.climateshifts.org/?p=2525
AnonySpilosella
Dr. Jay Cadbury, phd.
Show me a world index of all glaciers. Eli's link is bogus, it is a classic cherry pick. Show me the index of all the world's glaciers and give approximate numbers.
http://nsidc.org/data/glacier_inventory/query.html
If anybody wants to take the time to search all the glaciers, I'm not doing it but it would be appreciated.
glacier mass balance especially figure 2
You're clasping at straws "Dr." Jay.
Summary of Cadbury's post: I don't believe it, but I'm too lazy to look up the data.
Hypothesis. 90% of the civilzed world would be destroyed in a nuclear exchange.
Since that isn't a testable hypothesis, thanks to the canny new understanding of AGW deniers, we must assume that the world would be unscathed by a nuclear war.
Fire when ready, Gridley.
Jeffrey Davis
google global glacier length dataset
click first link
see http://www.grid.unep.ch/glaciers/img/5-1.jpg
Total duration of search : less than 1 minute
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