tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post6053303492861622472..comments2024-03-25T05:30:23.847+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: Denier weirdness @wattsupwiththat - The US housing bubble collapse proves climate science is a hoax?Souhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-56038836112308744882016-09-03T15:43:51.752+10:002016-09-03T15:43:51.752+10:00Unless things have changed, grad students and post...Unless things have changed, grad students and postdocs do not "rake it in". Nobody does, except possibly the administration in the overhead part, and not on the scale that envy imagines. After all, they do have to have buildings and fire extinguishers and such.Susan Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16935228911713362040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-80506839556906391422016-09-03T15:33:31.199+10:002016-09-03T15:33:31.199+10:00Thanks for the RC borehole and simple summary; tha...Thanks for the RC borehole and simple summary; that was, in a perverse kind of way, fun.Susan Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16935228911713362040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-61265312284214445022016-09-01T04:52:30.144+10:002016-09-01T04:52:30.144+10:00I think what really matters is not how deep the gr...I think what really matters is not how deep the ground freezes, but rather to what depth does it usually thaw each summer. They're saying the region where this is happening has experienced an additional 10 inches of thaw below the normal level. When a carcass thaws and begins rotting, it can bloat with gas. They can pop, and do other unusual things. I believe veterinarians are trained to never post an animal suspected of dying of anthrax as the dead animal is a potential fountain of spores. On the tundra, I would imagine a bloated carcass could also rise to the surface of that muck. If they had 75 years of no outbreaks in the region, that could mean the anthrax spores close to the surface - dead hosts lying either on the surface or in very shallow graves - were no longer a threat, and that it took an unusually deep thaw to release viable spores.JCHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-69333922524590360312016-08-31T23:12:19.605+10:002016-08-31T23:12:19.605+10:00Don't let it happen again! I use it every day ...Don't let it happen again! I use it every day as well. Thanks for providing the service.jgnfldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-36795738256766488842016-08-31T22:57:26.354+10:002016-08-31T22:57:26.354+10:00It might have seemed like a few days, but it was r...It might have seemed like a few days, but it was really only a few hours, MM :D<br /><br />I needed the list and forgot to turn the descriptions and dates back on again - silly me!Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-46941419025723920212016-08-31T22:09:06.407+10:002016-08-31T22:09:06.407+10:00Ah, good. Sou brought back the post descriptions i...Ah, good. Sou brought back the post descriptions in the BLOGROLL. They were missing for a few days, and it was difficult to tell whether the site in question had actually posted anything new.<br /><br />Have to admit, I use Sou's BLOGROLL as a climate related RSS reader :-)metzomagichttp://metzomagic.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-58351376025787513402016-08-31T22:05:56.872+10:002016-08-31T22:05:56.872+10:00Thanks, Victor. I'm sure you're right.Thanks, Victor. I'm sure you're right.D.C.Pettersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05078422582348328238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-61425129398473946832016-08-31T22:02:55.279+10:002016-08-31T22:02:55.279+10:00Aha. So that guy posts as 'Victor' at real...Aha. So that guy posts as 'Victor' at realclimate? Explains a lot. He's quite offensive/know it all in that inimitable Dunning-Krueger sort of way. He's making an obnoxious fool of himself in the most recent thread there discussing the Cox/Roberts debate.metzomagichttp://metzomagic.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-3300344605508311122016-08-31T13:22:01.641+10:002016-08-31T13:22:01.641+10:00I would venture to say none frankly other than the...I would venture to say none frankly other than the financial regulator, and at that they do not exactly have a good track record on prosecutions. johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-55016501961050427732016-08-31T11:51:19.496+10:002016-08-31T11:51:19.496+10:00No need to feel responsible. WUWT will publish fiv...No need to feel responsible. WUWT will publish five pieces of nonsense every day no matter what the science side does or does not do. If someone is willing to make things up, he will never have a lack of material. Just lead your life in whatever way you see fit.Victor Venemahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02842816166712285801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-72951974338627574832016-08-31T07:35:38.232+10:002016-08-31T07:35:38.232+10:00Once more, I will appeal to your patient nature, S...Once more, I will appeal to your patient nature, Sou, and post a link to a new blog post. The excuse I'll use is that it is another debunking of a WUWT piece.<br /><br />I feel a personal responsibility for this one, since it grew out of something I did. I posted to LinkedIn a conversation about the anthrax outbreak in Russia. I argued then about it with Jim Steele, who came up with his own reasons why it had nothing to do with climate change having warmed the permafrost. He then wrote a WUWT "guest article" about it. My fault.<br /><br />So here is my response to his response. Feel free to delete this comment, print my blog in hard copy and use it to wrap fish. Or caribou carcasses.<br /><br /><a href="https://unfinishedprogress.wordpress.com/2016/08/30/heat-on-a-cold-case/" rel="nofollow">Heat on a Cold Case</a><br />D.C.Pettersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05078422582348328238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-81211893963299261742016-08-31T07:29:56.006+10:002016-08-31T07:29:56.006+10:00It's the Underpants Gnomes argument. X happens...It's the Underpants Gnomes argument. X happens, then MAGIC! then Y happens. The connecting tissue is Underpants Gnomes.<br /><br />I do think you're correct, Sou, that the connection here is Innuendo, which is frequently sufficient for a guilty verdict. No data needed.D.C.Pettersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05078422582348328238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-73925452814851947142016-08-31T03:50:04.032+10:002016-08-31T03:50:04.032+10:00Victor Grauer is a long-time resident at Real Clim...Victor Grauer is a long-time resident at Real Climate. To expand on Tadaaa's quote above, what he actually ended with is:<br /><br />"I’ll leave it for readers of this blog to draw their own conclusions regarding any possible parallels with the consensus on climate change. My own opinion is well known."<br /><br />His own opinion is not only well-known, but frequently repeated and often bore-holed at Real Climate ...<br /><br /><br />dhogazanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-82560161656715196342016-08-31T03:25:50.473+10:002016-08-31T03:25:50.473+10:00In the 1970s, I received a flyer for a book claimi...In the 1970s, I received a flyer for a book claiming that the theory of relativity was a hoax perpetrated by physics departments to get grant money. The beat goes on.Jay Dee Arenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-49235361222954372992016-08-31T02:32:39.646+10:002016-08-31T02:32:39.646+10:00Well gravity is just a theory that some weird old ...Well gravity is just a theory that some weird old guy at some snotty university dreamed up. He got a govenment job out of itjrkrideauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04869979887929067657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-66697763369026352932016-08-31T00:51:53.571+10:002016-08-31T00:51:53.571+10:00That's correct, Sou. There are very strict ru...That's correct, Sou. There are very strict rules about treating grant money the same as internal funds. For example if the university's budget is tight we can't give someone paid from grant funds a higher raise, justifying that they are unaffected by the university's budget. We have to treat them all equally.Raymond Arritthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04648714314250278353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-30574973802850121152016-08-31T00:39:46.997+10:002016-08-31T00:39:46.997+10:00About as convincing as a theory that suggests &quo...About as convincing as a theory that suggests "gravity" is simply a ruse that allows airline companies to fleece its consumers<br /><br />I will leave readers to draw their own conclusions on the sanity of science deniersTadaaahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07736188830660481871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-80710090273528323792016-08-30T22:55:40.569+10:002016-08-30T22:55:40.569+10:00I’ll leave it to readers to draw their own conclus...<i>I’ll leave it to readers to draw their own conclusions regarding any possible parallels with the consensus on climate change.</i> <br /><br />My conclusion is that Victor Grauer is not very good at logic or rationale thought.jrkrideauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04869979887929067657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-27533987369010631782016-08-30T21:48:36.820+10:002016-08-30T21:48:36.820+10:00I get that, numerobis, I think. However as I under...I get that, numerobis, I think. However as I understand it, you can't use a grant for any more than your normal salary rate. That is, you're unlikely to get a grant that puts in the cost of the principle researcher's salary at $1m for three months work (or a year's work).Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-17467745812452191652016-08-30T21:36:51.753+10:002016-08-30T21:36:51.753+10:00In the US, you're paid 9 months by the institu...In the US, you're paid 9 months by the institution, but summer funding is from grants. So you actually do pocket a bit of the grant.<br /><br />It's really the grad students and post docs who rake it in, with all their income coming from grants. Oh, and the university itself!numerobisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-33226079995264638402016-08-30T20:45:26.675+10:002016-08-30T20:45:26.675+10:00Markopolos' book was a cracking listen (I'...Markopolos' book was a cracking listen (I've got an audible subscription!), some overblown claims notwithstanding.<br /><br />But to somehow cite it as a hand-waving 'proof' that AGW isn't real is surreal, desperate and pathetic. It's not even wrong.<br /><br />And to be reduced to <i>publishing</i> this crap... well, who wouldn't be glad they're not Anthony Watts?billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-86327326755238391552016-08-30T20:26:18.859+10:002016-08-30T20:26:18.859+10:00Perhaps the Madoff story indicates that peer revie...Perhaps the Madoff story indicates that peer review is underdeveloped in the financial world.Millicentnoreply@blogger.com