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Global Warming Confirmed

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Anti-AGW folks perfectly illustrate what Asimov referred to:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Issac Asimov​

...And here we are led by a man, Trump, who claims AGW is a hoax yet he wouldn't know a regression analysis if it slapped him the face, nor would he know what to do with or about it if one did.
 
Anti-AGW folks perfectly illustrate what Asimov referred to:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Issac Asimov​

...And here we are led by a man, Trump, who claims AGW is a hoax yet he wouldn't know a regression analysis if it slapped him the face, nor would he know what to do with or about it if one did.

Arrogant, ignorant BS. A primary critic of AGW orthodoxy is the Chairman of the Raccah Center for Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an IBM Einstein Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study.
 
Arrogant, ignorant BS. A primary critic of AGW orthodoxy is the Chairman of the Raccah Center for Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an IBM Einstein Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Quoting credentials (and not particularly relevant ones at that) really is arrogant, ignorant BS.
 
Anti-AGW folks perfectly illustrate what Asimov referred to:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Issac Asimov​

...And here we are led by a man, Trump, who claims AGW is a hoax yet he wouldn't know a regression analysis if it slapped him the face, nor would he know what to do with or about it if one did.

This

Clearly anyone supporting the Trumpian view fits this narrative like a shoe.
 
Please show me in this paper where it is "confirmed" rather than an activist journalist at Reuters lying about what the paper says.

Celebrating the anniversary of three key events in climate change science | Nature Climate Change

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Building castles in the sky!
Since we have not seen the actual paper, we do not know what criteria was used to isolate out the
human component from the natural component within the observed warming.
 
Quoting credentials (and not particularly relevant ones at that) really is arrogant, ignorant BS.

The post to which I replied, #3, included this:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

So Nir Shaviv's credentials were the perfect riposte. Read first, then post.
 
Building castles in the sky!
Since we have not seen the actual paper, we do not know what criteria was used to isolate out the
human component from the natural component within the observed warming.

‘We’?

I’ll be honest... no actual climate researcher cares whether you’ve seen the paper or not.
 
‘We’?

I’ll be honest... no actual climate researcher cares whether you’ve seen the paper or not.
We, as in the people discussing the article about the paper here.
Have you seen and cited the actual paper?
 
The post to which I replied, #3, included this:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

So Nir Shaviv's credentials were the perfect riposte. Read first, then post.

Shouting about credentials is simply not the way science is done. I'm sorry you still don't appear to understand that :(
 
Shouting about credentials is simply not the way science is done. I'm sorry you still don't appear to understand that :(

Again, that was a response to a specific post, not an explanation of science. I'm sorry you can't follow the discussion.
 
Again, that was a response to a specific post, not an explanation of science. I'm sorry you can't follow the discussion.

I'm sorry that you can't understand that credentials in one area of science do not mean expertise in all areas of science. Spouting them is simply a false appeal to authority.
 
I'm sorry that you can't understand that credentials in one area of science do not mean expertise in all areas of science. Spouting them is simply a false appeal to authority.

But they are a full defense against charges of "ignorance" and "anti-intellectualism," which is the point you seem determined to miss.
 
But they are a full defense against charges of "ignorance" and "anti-intellectualism," which is the point you seem determined to miss.

Do you still not understand? Reeling off titles and honours (rather than making actual arguments) is, itself, a form of anti-intellectualism.
 
Most of us knew this...what? twenty years ago. Well, now, everyone else willing to face facts knows it too.

Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard': scientists



Translation: duh.

Science does not "confirm" anything...

Facts are not "universal truths" nor are they "proofs".

Evidence is subject to Phenomenology...

What is the "gold standard" level of certainty?

There is no such thing as a "greenhouse gas"...

How does one measure a global temperature? How many thermometers does one use?? -- It is not possible to measure the temperature of the Earth.

Science is not "consensus"...

"Global Warming" is nothing more than a circularly-defined buzzword... It is a void argument.
 
Anti-AGW folks perfectly illustrate what Asimov referred to:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Issac Asimov​
There is no "cult of ignorance"... YOU are blinded by your AGW religion...

...And here we are led by a man, Trump, who claims AGW is a hoax
It IS a hoax... It denies various theories of science...

yet he wouldn't know a regression analysis if it slapped him the face, nor would he know what to do with or about it if one did.
A "regression analysis" is not science... Science is a set of falsifiable theories...
 

That is meaningless in separating human and natural warming. Too many variables, and only detected in two out of three datasets. Just because the five sigma significance is the gold standard in particle physics, does not mean it is with the climate sciences where there are numerous unresolved variables to any sufficient quantification.

You see, they incorrectly claiming they reached a gold standard. They stated this is a gold standard for a different science disciplined.

Damn, you guys are gullible.

Particle physics has discrete states. The climate sciences do not.
 
That is meaningless in separating human and natural warming. Too many variables, and only detected in two out of three datasets. Just because the five sigma significance is the gold standard in particle physics, does not mean it is with the climate sciences where there are numerous unresolved variables to any sufficient quantification.

You see, they incorrectly claiming they reached a gold standard. They stated this is a gold standard for a different science disciplined.

Damn, you guys are gullible.

Particle physics has discrete states. The climate sciences do not.

I was thinking that the only thing the statement about reaching a gold standard does, is diminish
what we call the gold standard.
 
Gotta love this:

we spliced together synthetic satellite temperatures from the historical simulations
 
Arrogant, ignorant BS. A primary critic of AGW orthodoxy is the Chairman of the Raccah Center for Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an IBM Einstein Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study.



The founder of the weather channel regularly refutes these people as well.
 
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