The Great Climate Debate: Potholer vs Steve Crowder.

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Re: The Great Climate Debate: Potholer vs Steve Crowder.

Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Sep 04, 2017 4:34 pm

The rich will be the first to go whinging to government when a storm surge wipes away their luxury but otherwise uninsurable beachfront properties. There's nothing that galvanises the OUTRAGE of rich like a crime against property, even if the weather is the perpetrator.
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Re: The Great Climate Debate: Potholer vs Steve Crowder.

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We had a windy day recently, and I had to clean up lots of fallen twigs! I want to sue somebody! :lay:
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Re: The Great Climate Debate: Potholer vs Steve Crowder.

Post by mistermack » Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:34 pm

Some thing you might not know about alarmism.

One is about the consensus. A new study has shown that as many as 99% of climate scientists agree that AGW alarmism has had significant benefits for their bank balance. :hehe:

On the subject of climate models, what a great many people might now know, is that direct warming, via CO2 trapping infra red, only accounts for about a quarter of the warming that is modelled. The rest of it, THREE TIMES as much, is modelled from a hypothetical feedback mechanism, whereby the warming from CO2 causes greater evaporation, leading to higher water vapour levels, (water vapour being the REAL effective greenhouse gas, not CO2) Without this feedback, the models are basically rubbish.
Funny, you never hear that on this site. All you hear is CO2 blah blah blah. But even the models themselves don't agree that CO2 without the feedback is much of a climate force.

The assumed feedback has never been verified, and the cloud effect has been pretty much ignored.

Below are some youtube talks that give a very different picture of climate. And also give an idea of just how great the resistance is in the community to any dissenting view.

The effect of the Sun, Cosmic Rays, and Clouds

The sceptics case by Dr. M W Evans ............... https://mises.org/library/skeptics-case


The 97% consensus fraud.
Some dodgy goings on in the consensus gathering. As far as that goes, I don't really give a toss if the consensus were genuine. It's self-perpetuating and self-serving, so it's meaningless anyway.
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Re: The Great Climate Debate: Potholer vs Steve Crowder.

Post by pErvinalia » Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:40 pm

mistermack wrote:Did you know that Al Gore charges over $300,000 dollars for a speaking engagement? And will need to see the questions and approve them? And excludes anyone who might prove difficult?

There is huge money in the global warming game that you people could only dream of.
Therefore conspiracy...
And that porky fat lying pig hasn't got a clue about science.


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Re: The Great Climate Debate: Potholer vs Steve Crowder.

Post by pErvinalia » Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:42 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:The rich will be the first to go whinging to government when a storm surge wipes away their luxury but otherwise uninsurable beachfront properties. There's nothing that galvanises the OUTRAGE of rich like a crime against property, even if the weather is the perpetrator.
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Post by pErvinalia » Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:44 pm

mistermack wrote:Some thing you might not know about alarmism.

One is about the consensus. A new study has shown that as many as 99% of climate scientists agree that AGW alarmism has had significant benefits for their bank balance. :hehe:

On the subject of climate models, what a great many people might now know, is that direct warming, via CO2 trapping infra red, only accounts for about a quarter of the warming that is modelled. The rest of it, THREE TIMES as much, is modelled from a hypothetical feedback mechanism, whereby the warming from CO2 causes greater evaporation, leading to higher water vapour levels, (water vapour being the REAL effective greenhouse gas, not CO2) Without this feedback, the models are basically rubbish.
Funny, you never hear that on this site. All you hear is CO2 blah blah blah. But even the models themselves don't agree that CO2 without the feedback is much of a climate force.

The assumed feedback has never been verified, and the cloud effect has been pretty much ignored.

Below are some youtube talks that give a very different picture of climate. And also give an idea of just how great the resistance is in the community to any dissenting view.

The effect of the Sun, Cosmic Rays, and Clouds

The sceptics case by Dr. M W Evans ............... https://mises.org/library/skeptics-case


The 97% consensus fraud.
Some dodgy goings on in the consensus gathering. As far as that goes, I don't really give a toss if the consensus were genuine. It's self-perpetuating and self-serving, so it's meaningless anyway.
Youtube > science.
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Post by Animavore » Tue Sep 05, 2017 2:13 pm

The Sun is in a cooling phase, yet the Earth warms. The Sun doesn't explain why the lower atmosphere warms while the upper atmosphere cools. If the Sun was causing the warming it would warm all of the atmosphere equally. CO2, however, traps heat in the lower atmosphere, because it's heavier and stays near the bottom of the atmosphere, while cooling the upper atmosphere, as less heat is escaping into the upper atmosphere.

This is a prediction of climate science since the early days, now vindicated by reality.

And that's just to answer one part of your pathetic Gish gallop off the top of my head.


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Post by Animavore » Tue Sep 05, 2017 2:18 pm

Lol. And "The Skeptics Case" is a classic argument from authority. Notice the author leads with his credentials, just like creationist fucktard, "Dr." Kent Hovind. And like Kent Hovind his doctorate has nothing to do with the field he's trying to lecture us on. He's an electrical engineer for fuck sake.

Come back when you have something that isn't laughable.
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Post by Animavore » Tue Sep 05, 2017 2:26 pm

Oh, and he's associated with CFACT.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committ ... e_Tomorrow

Who are, surprise, a libertarian think tank.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Co ... e_Tomorrow

(check out who funds them)

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Post by Animavore » Tue Sep 05, 2017 2:58 pm

As for the consensus video: notice how MM posts a video supposed to dispute consensus (I got no further than 2 minutes to see the laughably flawed reasoning in the opening, I don't hold much hope for the rest), but insulates himself from a rebuttal by saying he doesn't care if the consensus is shown to be 97% because it's meaningless (which makes you wonder why he felt he had to post the vid). He is literally standing there with his fingers in his ears saying, "Nah. Nah. I can't hear you."
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Post by mistermack » Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:20 pm

The Danish scientists are not saying that Solar OUTPUT is responsible for warming, but the strength of the Sun's magnetic field.
The magnetic field, so the theory goes, has been about double the normal level for the last 100 years.
This deflects more cosmic rays, which results in reduced low-level cloud cover, which allows more solar energy to reach the Earth.
The correlation between solar magnetic field, and temperatures, that sparked off this research, are extremely strong. Far stronger than the correlation between CO2 and temperatures, which is looking very shaky over the last twenty years.

What's also highly significant, is the antagonistic way that the work has been received.
But then, it would, if you had only one possibility that your brain is willing to consider. And that's what it shows about the climate industry in general. Anything pointing away from the holy message must be fought.

And Ani, I've always said that the so-called consensus is a self-serving irrelevance. Am I supposed to suddenly change my mind on that?
I threw that in just to shed light on the non-scientific atmosphere inside climate alarmism.
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Post by Animavore » Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:30 pm

mistermack wrote:The Danish scientists are not saying that Solar OUTPUT is responsible for warming, but the strength of the Sun's magnetic field.
The magnetic field, so the theory goes, has been about double the normal level for the last 100 years.
This deflects more cosmic rays, which results in reduced low-level cloud cover, which allows more solar energy to reach the Earth.
The correlation between solar magnetic field, and temperatures, that sparked off this research, are extremely strong. Far stronger than the correlation between CO2 and temperatures, which is looking very shaky over the last twenty years.

What's also highly significant, is the antagonistic way that the work has been received.
But then, it would, if you had only one possibility that your brain is willing to consider. And that's what it shows about the climate industry in general. Anything pointing away from the holy message must be fought.

And Ani, I've always said that the so-called consensus is a self-serving irrelevance. Am I supposed to suddenly change my mind on that?
I threw that in just to shed light on the non-scientific atmosphere inside climate alarmism.
Yeah... No.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar ... w-clothes/

http://grist.org/climate-energy/no-glob ... smic-rays/
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Post by mistermack » Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:34 pm

Animavore wrote:He's an electrical engineer for fuck sake.
You are an idiot sometimes :
wikipedia wrote: Evans obtained the degree of Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney in 1983; and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1989. He has four other degrees.[1]
From 1999 to 2005 Evans worked in the Australian Greenhouse Office.[2][3] There he contributed to the development of FullCam, a fully integrated carbon accounting model for estimating and predicting all biomass, litter and soil carbon pools in forest and agricultural systems for the Australian government.[3] (FullCam, part of Australia's National Carbon Accounting System, received a Special Achievement in GIS award at the 2010 ESRI International User Conference).[4]
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Re: The Great Climate Debate: Potholer vs Steve Crowder.

Post by Animavore » Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:49 pm

mistermack wrote:
Animavore wrote:He's an electrical engineer for fuck sake.
You are an idiot sometimes :
wikipedia wrote: Evans obtained the degree of Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney in 1983; and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1989. He has four other degrees.[1]
From 1999 to 2005 Evans worked in the Australian Greenhouse Office.[2][3] There he contributed to the development of FullCam, a fully integrated carbon accounting model for estimating and predicting all biomass, litter and soil carbon pools in forest and agricultural systems for the Australian government.[3] (FullCam, part of Australia's National Carbon Accounting System, received a Special Achievement in GIS award at the 2010 ESRI International User Conference).[4]
Maybe not just sometimes :funny:
Your quote proves exactly what I said. :hilarious:

Do you think the fact that he was contracted to help develop a carbon accounting model (not even a climate model) means he's a climatologist?

His four other degrees. https://www.desmogblog.com/david-evans
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Post by Animavore » Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:54 pm

Wow! This Evans guy really is a piece of work.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090308033 ... nce_16.php
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