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The Climate Science Debate - Some Sanity

Finally an unemotive, balanced and objective analysis of how the use of labels such as "climate change denier" or  "climate change alarmist" have been being used in the ongoing climate debate and how, not perhaps unexpectedly, their use has been and still is very damaging to actually addressing how best to manage the shared environment we all live in and our impact upon it.  http://oxfordre.com/climatescience/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228620-e-382# It's such a pleasure to read something that isn't polarized and /or written by "axe grinders", of either persuasion writing articles presenting themselves as open minded while persistently pushing their own viewpoint while also trying to do as much damage as they can to those who hold differing views. Now where is my copy of that biography, "Arthur Scargill-His life and Times".  Authors Mrs M Thatcher and Mr N Tebbitt. Publisher - Free and Fair Press. Sponsor ...

Celebrity Scientists - GroupThink Fake 97% Consensus

Brian Cox has let himself down - badly  Until not too long ago I was reasonably pro - Brian Cox (BC) as someone popularising science to the wider public. The shine on that was taken off  by a Twitter notification relating to BC attacking John Macdonald about the latter's broadcast on LBC saying he found it hard to be friends with Tories implementing savage welfare cuts via Universal credit. However on reviewing BC's Twitter feed and what he said while I really don't agree with BC's view - it betrays a deep lack of understanding of what's actually going on with Universal Credit - I do accept he's entitled to opinion. ( Plus he's still posting lots of good scientific stuff!!) However when making pronouncements about science and scientists BC needs first to check the basis for his claims. In this BBC YouTube Clip : https://youtu.be/sG8gLt4GChg?t=3 BC obviously thinks he's entitled to treat a climate sceptic as an irritating Flat-Earther. By claiming an abso...

Complexity and large numbers - relevance to Climate Change

HELL, Eternity, James Joyce, Large numbers and Climate Change Policy A piece of writing that made a great impression on me many years ago in respect of the agonies of Hell (despite not believing in it) and how long one would have to suffer them for i.e. eternity is from James Joyce. See below Quote by James Joyce: “What must it be, then, to bear the manifold tor...” | Goodreads Essential to get across the level of suffering for sinners in Hell is the need to convey how long eternity is i.e infinity in a time sense, and I think James Joyce did that extremely well. However unless you are of a mathematical bent which alas I am you probably won't have tried to estimate how long in years it would take the little bird to achieve its mindbogglingly difficult task. Using the wonders of modern software Excel and the web and some admittedly gross assumptions about "the number of leaves in forests" scales on fish etc one can come up with an estimate as below: 10.1E+324 YEARS that...

Essential Reading on Climate Change

Where to Start  As a starter I suggest the following Presentation by a founding member of GreenPeace - Dr Patrick Moore https://youtu.be/dCrkqLaYjnc?t=67 A measured and reflective presentation by an ex-consensus supporter Dr Judith Curry. The presentation following hers contains - but its done quite cleverly - some of the techniques (*) used by a  mainstream supporter Dr David Titley of Penn State University also a US Navy Rear admiral to try and discredit their opponents while sycophantically (*) praising a co-mainstream supporter i.e in this case Prof. Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann who also happens to be a Director at Penn State..  https://youtu.be/pVXHaSqpsVg?t=929 Something to consider about the current, far less the future, consequences of supporting the climate change driven taxes “green” energy subsidy policies – here you can see who it is thats really benefiting from climate change  - those cashing in on massive green energy subsidies !!- and those who are losi...