tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post8451924927135634583..comments2024-02-12T15:25:44.028+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: The scientific illiterati rise up at WUWTSouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-10379377745308883342015-09-08T00:28:46.963+10:002015-09-08T00:28:46.963+10:00???
Oh, 'pissed with' meaning 'drunk ...???<br /><br />Oh, 'pissed with' meaning 'drunk with', not 'annoyed with'.Treesonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04557988696427026822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-79186436990605995572015-09-07T13:46:43.778+10:002015-09-07T13:46:43.778+10:00It doesn't matter that Emma Thompson got her f...It doesn't matter that Emma Thompson got her facts wrong, she is an actress, she's allowed to. Betts is a scientist who has distinguished himself by making poor public choices.<br />He felt compelled to rush into print to attack an actress who is half right yet happily gets pissed with a bunch of climate swindlers and publicly laughs about it afterwards.<br /><br />He thinks the worst crime in <i>science and risk</i> is to be prematurely prepared for 2C+. The guy's a jerk.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10807913317731807617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-22964692195060452012015-09-07T12:47:55.107+10:002015-09-07T12:47:55.107+10:00Agree.
But one could always get a gig at the Dai...Agree. <br /><br />But one could always get a gig at the Daily Mail with 'IPCC scientist Emma Thompson predates total disaster by at least 3 decades!'billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-59998028793910007372015-09-07T11:09:10.867+10:002015-09-07T11:09:10.867+10:00Turns out there was an error in printing! That abs...Turns out there was an error in printing! That abstract was supposed to say <i>I argue that, quite to the contrary, political theorists, philosophers, and other political thinkers have a prima facie duty to refrain from political activism that libertarians disapprove of.</i>billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-35883000326477850332015-09-07T10:41:02.992+10:002015-09-07T10:41:02.992+10:00OFF OFF TOPIC
Once more Richard Betts indicates th...OFF OFF TOPIC<br />Once more Richard Betts indicates that being Head of the Climate Impacts at the Met Office is probably <a href="http://rabett.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/richard-betts-puts-frighteners-on-eli.html" rel="nofollow">not his metier.</a>.<br /><br />PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10807913317731807617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-71442433629488632242015-09-06T21:18:05.925+10:002015-09-06T21:18:05.925+10:00PG, link for those of us who try to avoid Curry...PG, link for those of us who try to avoid Curry's nonsense threads?Bernard J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16299073166371273808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-14272609977149488202015-09-06T16:59:22.083+10:002015-09-06T16:59:22.083+10:00van der Voosen's abstract is worth reading sev...van der Voosen's abstract is worth reading several times:<br /><br /><i>Abstract. Many political theorists, philosophers, social scientists, and other academics engage in political activism. And many think this is how things ought to be. In this essay, I challenge the ideal of the politically engaged academic. I argue that, quite to the contrary, political theorists, philosophers, and other political thinkers have a prima facie duty to refrain from political activism. This argument is based on a commonsense moral principle, a claim about the point of political thought, and findings in cognitive psychology.</i><br /><br />Academics have a self-evident, common-sense moral obligation to abstain from political speech. Wow. I don't think that ringing in my ears is tinnitus.Brandon R. Gateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031044715994785956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-83616345118438323082015-09-06T13:08:54.527+10:002015-09-06T13:08:54.527+10:00You have to work hard to be that much of an idiot....You have to work hard to be that much of an idiot.KRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-13946379921613127912015-09-06T12:09:54.894+10:002015-09-06T12:09:54.894+10:00you should post that there...you should post that there...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12083190014669867976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-87345247515826263012015-09-06T09:27:11.979+10:002015-09-06T09:27:11.979+10:00Dear Eric,
Geology and Mineralogy has been rebadge...Dear Eric,<br />Geology and Mineralogy has been rebadged as Earth Science. As such, Earth Science covers Physical Geology, Mineralogy, Petrology, Paleontology, Stratigraphy, Seismology, Cosmology, Geological and Cosmological History, ... The 'name change' occurred 20-30 years ago in secondary schools in your part of the world. Where you live, students are more likely to cover Meteorology and Climatology as major units of work in a Multi-strand Science course; if they are part of earth science or geology courses, they are minor elements.<br />The rebadging was partly driven by the need to attract more school students to the subject in the face of competition from 'emerging' subjects in the area of IT, performing and visual arts, marine science, technology studies, legal studies, ... Among other considerations, it was thought that this could or might potentially slow the trend in declining numbers of students entering geology courses at tertiary level. Numbers in tertiary Geology courses in your part of the world are cyclical, being responsive to and generally lagging behind mining booms. <br />There's not a lot of time for dogma in Earth Science courses at any education level in your country, let alone in the US. The courses are weighted towards content as there's not much point in having students in the field being unable to identify the rocks, minerals, fossils, stratigraphy and landforms that they're looking at. Earth science laboratory time is spent in becoming adept at mineral, rock and fossil identifications, identifying rocks and minerals from their thin-sections, stream table modeling of erosion processes, mapping exercises, seismogram analysis, … It's a bit hard bringing geologically-scaled objects and geological-time scales into the laboratory.<br />All in all, you've totally missed the point. So, ease up on the interpretative and affective comprehension of what you read and, concentrate on the lexical and literal comprehension aspects of reading. It will help you avoid getting lost in the words and failing to understand what you're perusing. Finally, you can't form valid opinions on an article without the background knowledge; in other words, your piece fails the 'applied comprehension' test. <br />Warmest Regards, GeorgeGeorge Montgomeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07042191140401441348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-84401643150526746612015-09-06T08:36:27.441+10:002015-09-06T08:36:27.441+10:00It is indeed a strange pause which gets shorter ov...It is indeed a strange pause which gets shorter over time.Cugelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-63334270140260380562015-09-06T04:49:45.248+10:002015-09-06T04:49:45.248+10:00Harry, Jammy, Joshua, thanks for the kind words. W...Harry, Jammy, Joshua, thanks for the kind words. We all do what we can.D.C.Pettersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05078422582348328238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-4342861776361265472015-09-06T04:37:17.565+10:002015-09-06T04:37:17.565+10:00Yes, the faux pause lengthened. Also, the date the...Yes, the faux pause lengthened. Also, the date the faux pause started changed again, from December of 1996 to January of 1997.<br /><br />The WUWT article says that faux pause is likely to shorten due to the current el Nino, thus admitting it isn't an actual pause.<br /><br />I think they're just parodying themselves now.<br />D.C.Pettersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05078422582348328238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-37343554848947919942015-09-05T23:29:49.071+10:002015-09-05T23:29:49.071+10:00Very timely.....Chris has another post up at WUWT,...Very timely.....Chris has another post up at WUWT, lengthening the "pause."Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08058404311263880189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-64227384151876078062015-09-05T17:09:48.408+10:002015-09-05T17:09:48.408+10:00The shills, tea partiers etc. started their own ve...The shills, tea partiers etc. started their own version of Wikipedia a long time back. Sphilbrick could go there and do his thing safe from interfering lefty villains.<br /><br />Only problem is that a Wikipedia edited by the likes of Sphilbrick is shite so nobody uses it.Millicentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-68802754259795648952015-09-05T14:21:14.135+10:002015-09-05T14:21:14.135+10:00Funny you should mention Grunthos the Patriot
Mo...Funny you should mention <i>Grunthos the Patriot</i> <br />Mosher's intestines have been tickling his throat as he desperately searches for mechanisms to defend his host. He's now reliant on impenetrable non sequiturs. It's a <i>wicked problem</i>.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10807913317731807617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-41759278662066920132015-09-05T13:34:58.038+10:002015-09-05T13:34:58.038+10:00That's truly extraordinary!
The hypocrisy is...That's truly extraordinary! <br /><br />The hypocrisy is so blatant that one wonders that some part of Curry doesn't simply rebel at the contortion, along the lines of the fate of (Hitchhiker's Guide's poet) Grunthos the Flatulent who '...<i>was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled "My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain</i>. <br /><br />And, yes, Willard skewers both Curry and the purported 'honest broker' she's attempting to promote.billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-81189992302254310332015-09-05T07:28:09.886+10:002015-09-05T07:28:09.886+10:00Unrelated to the current topic, but Wiki user Sphi...Unrelated to the current topic, but Wiki user Sphilbrick (who I've written about previously) is once again trying to pull the same denier crap on the WUWT wiki entry. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Watts_Up_With_That%3F" rel="nofollow">talk page</a> is quite a laugh. Chase Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04659478289426350280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-88986778611396276202015-09-04T23:38:02.907+10:002015-09-04T23:38:02.907+10:00It's hard to wrap my sleep deprived mind aroun...It's hard to wrap my sleep deprived mind around all of it.<br /><br />http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32556-the-world-on-fire-record-breaking-wildfires-greenland-melting-and-the-hottest-month-ever-recorded-on-earth<br /><br /><a href="http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/44706" rel="nofollow">Dahr Jamail | The World on Fire: Record-Breaking Wildfires, Greenland Melting and Earth's Hottest Month Ever</a>looʞ oɹezhttp://arkansaswildlifephotography.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-18862399238124685272015-09-04T11:44:56.423+10:002015-09-04T11:44:56.423+10:00Off Topic (again) Check out CE. Judith has made a ...Off Topic (again) Check out CE. Judith has made a complete spectacle of herself again. Willard <i>strips her naked</i> and David Appell has another Hockey Stick to ad to the list.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10807913317731807617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-67551708500564875872015-09-04T06:13:09.667+10:002015-09-04T06:13:09.667+10:00palindom it could be that the 'revelation'...palindom it could be that the 'revelation' that what makes up the visible Universe including us, is only 4% of our Universe. And then to find out that our Universe is only one of an infinite number of universes makes the old battles of an Earth centred universe rather quaint.<br /><br />I wonder why all the religious texts missed out on this. Was/were their god/s keeping it a secret?<br /><br />Science is not in the business of proving or disproving anything about the supernatural. By definition it is beyond rational analysis. <br /><br />What I find appalling is that religious people attack science with no more than ancient superstitious beliefs written by goat-herders. <br /><br />The attacks on climate science and scientists by the ignorati/denialati is very much the same as the old religious vs science battles during The Enlightenment.<br /><br /> It is as usual not about the truth but about power and resources.<br /><br />BertBert from Elthamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-18948392345063271432015-09-04T01:45:17.551+10:002015-09-04T01:45:17.551+10:00Is Eric a young earth creationist then? I know the...Is Eric a young earth creationist then? I know they sometimes refer to geology as a pseudoscience and/or reject outright many foundational (pun, however weak, unintended) aspects of geology. Dan Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12732509347477810998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-90066136839059441532015-09-03T20:27:22.977+10:002015-09-03T20:27:22.977+10:00There was a documentary on BBC2 in the Horizon str...There was a documentary on BBC2 in the Horizon strand last night on the multiverse idea. There was, so far as I remember, not a hint of a mention that there are scientists who do not accept the multiverse idea. However, there won't be a pile of complaints about lack of balance. Now if the BBC could stick to that on climate, progress might be made faster.Catmandohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12313870265499015076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-11735719005631675112015-09-03T19:40:47.362+10:002015-09-03T19:40:47.362+10:00The Illiterati have friends in strange places. To...The Illiterati have friends in strange places. Today BBC Radio4 was presenting a report from the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/institute-economic-affairs" rel="nofollow">Institute of Economic Affairs</a> as if it was something we should take notice of.<br /><br />Apparently the net impact of alcohol on the economy isn't negative after all. Who would of thunk it? I wonder who paid for that 'deliverable'.Millicentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-24058978587985743492015-09-03T19:38:49.343+10:002015-09-03T19:38:49.343+10:00I also saw your article and thought it was very go...I also saw your article and thought it was very good. It was very insightful for me. Keep it up.Jammy Dodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360437479098314946noreply@blogger.com