tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post4666875639223283333..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: On RecordsEliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-74854796484718856432018-07-30T16:53:45.065-04:002018-07-30T16:53:45.065-04:00Not exactly on topic, but U.S. Supreme Court says ...Not exactly <i>on</i> topic, but U.S. Supreme Court <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-30/u-s-supreme-court-won-t-halt-teenagers-climate-change-lawsuit" rel="nofollow">says <i>Juliana v United States</i> can proceed</a>.<br /><br />Woo hoo!Jan Galkowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07636706072515906253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-1927004173650460182018-07-30T12:17:43.817-04:002018-07-30T12:17:43.817-04:00Eli: Dr. Roy has a bad case of looking for a reaso...Eli: <i>Dr. Roy has a bad case of looking for a reason to help his unbelief. </i><br />It's worse than that. He has <a href="https://cornwallalliance.org/2009/05/evangelical-declaration-on-global-warming/" rel="nofollow">publicly declared</a> that his evangelical Christian belief won't allow him to accept the lopsided consensus of his peers for AGW. In 2009 Spencer, along with a dozen other folks <a href="https://cornwallalliance.org/2009/05/signers-of-an-evangelical-declaration-on-global-warming/" rel="nofollow"> described as 'Climate Scientists'</a> by one "Cornwall Alliance For the Stewardship of Creation", signed An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming:<br /><br /><i>...<br />WHAT WE BELIEVE<br />We believe Earth and its ecosystems—created by God’s intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence —are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory. Earth’s climate system is no exception. Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of warming and cooling in geologic history.<br />...<br />WHAT WE DENY<br />We deny that Earth and its ecosystems are the fragile and unstable products of chance, and particularly that Earth’s climate system is vulnerable to dangerous alteration because of minuscule changes in atmospheric chemistry. Recent warming was neither abnormally large nor abnormally rapid. There is no convincing scientific evidence that human contribution to greenhouse gases is causing dangerous global warming.<br />...<br /></i><br /><br />That is, "Screw the evidence, my deity won't allow AGW to threaten human security and prosperity!" Roy Spencer and the other signatories with scientific credentials have, IOW, explicitly repudiated any commitment to justified knowledge of 'reality' ("that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" -PK Dick), thus forfeiting all claims to scientific credibility individually and collectively. My ellipses represent nothing more than the superfluous, self-refuting yet undead AGW-deniers' argument from consequences: namely, mitigation will harm poor people dontcha know (not necessarily, and not nearly as much as BAU will). While perhaps sincere, their ostensible concern for the world's poor is misguided, and will result in vastly greater harm.<br /><br />This is not simply the <i>argumentum ad hominem</i>. If science is a way of trying not to fool yourself, then Roy Spencer's religion is a way of fooling himself. Whatever he gets right is accidental.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03978734878355263008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-9817429118685846512018-07-19T17:41:19.207-04:002018-07-19T17:41:19.207-04:00When it gets hot enough to see things unseen in 5,...When it gets hot enough to see things unseen in 5,000 years , <a href="https://vvattsupwiththat.blogspot.com/2018/07/5000-years-is-lot-of-weather.html" rel="nofollow">you may be looking at the anthropocene </a><br /><br /><br />https://vvattsupwiththat.blogspot.com/2018/07/5000-years-is-lot-of-weather.htmlTHE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-82803399921698375532018-07-15T23:41:49.666-04:002018-07-15T23:41:49.666-04:00My comments are here.My <a href="https://667-per-cm.net/2018/07/15/on-records/" rel="nofollow">comments are here</a>.Jan Galkowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07636706072515906253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-39995325772821448392018-07-15T14:03:55.216-04:002018-07-15T14:03:55.216-04:00Dr. Roy has a bad case of looking for a reason to ...Dr. Roy has a bad case of looking for a reason to help his unbelief. Accounts for the multiple changes to UAH.EliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-59188623916142227152018-07-15T10:23:02.299-04:002018-07-15T10:23:02.299-04:00But Dr. Roy says (http://www.drroyspencer.com/2018...But Dr. Roy says (http://www.drroyspencer.com/2018/07/summer-causes-climate-change-hysteria/) paying attention to all the record highs is climate hysteria caused by summer, even though it has been well documented over the past several decades that the earth is seeing far more record high temperatures than record low temperatures.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08662023726655826252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-79684746141099870932018-07-15T09:52:12.135-04:002018-07-15T09:52:12.135-04:00Minor addendum: the first value sets two records -...Minor addendum: the first value sets <b>two</b> records - a record high, and a record low. The second value will do one of three things: set a record high, set a record low, or tie the high and low records. <br /><br />You have to wait until you get a spread between the record high and record low before you can have a new value that doesn't set a new record or tie an existing record. The earliest that can happen is with value #3.Bob Loblawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11643980587768003219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-51965668295371586512018-07-15T01:28:34.593-04:002018-07-15T01:28:34.593-04:00Yes, but Willard Watts tells us that these extreme...Yes, but Willard Watts tells us that these extreme weather events are being caused by inadequately sited weather stations. It's God's punishment on humanity for dodgy thermometers.Andy Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14975141756383175819noreply@blogger.com