tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post974956929791419603..comments2024-03-25T05:30:23.847+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: Bring back the dinosaurs, cries Anthony WattsSouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-53170560489127121372014-11-07T11:18:20.901+11:002014-11-07T11:18:20.901+11:00Saying Willis's brain is similar in size to a ...Saying Willis's brain is similar in size to a dinosaur's is an insult to TroodonJoenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-22486412923353364832014-11-07T09:58:53.875+11:002014-11-07T09:58:53.875+11:00Contrarians think about their science the way they...Contrarians think about their science the way they think about their politics, they want "term limits". They believe that the longer you practice your craft, the further you get from the "real" people and the "real world". Experience and wisdom is not valued if it is the "wrong" kind. Contrarians resent career scientists, especially career scientists whose product bleeds into contrarian economic interest. The way to diminish the influence of "careerist" is to slander and cutoff their funding; and ideally, get them booted out of a job. Averyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00058998965414037964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-20266824628644855792014-11-07T08:51:27.393+11:002014-11-07T08:51:27.393+11:00WUWT has its own resident dinosaur in the form of ...WUWT has its own resident dinosaur in the form of Willis Eschenbach. Until recently I thought WUWT should be renamed "Willis Eschenbach Travelogue" or WET. I attempted to take him to task over several unscientific and actually untruthful statements he made as he blustered through <a rel="nofollow">The Most Important Sea Level Graph</a>, but he just ignored my comments and fudged onward as usual. (fudge; verb intransitive: to continue an unsupportable argument whilst remaining evidentially barren).<br /><br />He apparently thinks (no, he <b>does</b> think, he said so!) that a difference of 4 mm/year SLR between two locations is "statistically insignificant", based on more blather (polite-speak for bullshit).<br /><br />Dinosaurs of whatever species are doomed to extinction - very little brain, and an ego the size of a small blue-green planet.<br /><br />There - that feels better - totally off-topic, but it needed saying somewhere, and here's as good a place as any.MostlyHarmlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18058940884892720332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-91276352493795548342014-11-06T09:06:45.855+11:002014-11-06T09:06:45.855+11:00seriously?
seriously?<br />METEOR DEFENSESnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-26490437981136804682014-11-06T07:35:08.529+11:002014-11-06T07:35:08.529+11:00Richard Alley, in his famous AGU lecture of a few ...Richard Alley, in his famous AGU lecture of a few years ago (viewable here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RffPSrRpq_g) mentioned that during the height of the Cretaceous/Eocene "hothouse" climate, tropical sea-surface temperatures reached (or possibly exceeded) 100 deg F.<br /><br />Now, consider the implications of that -- with 100F+ sea-surface temperatures, you could see atmospheric dew-points approaching 100F. i.e., you could have conditions where you have 100 degree temperatures with 100% humidity.<br /><br />Google up a heat-index calculator and punch in 100 for the temperature and humidity. You will get a heat-index exceeding 190 degrees F!<br /><br />In conditions like that, everyone caught outside for more than a few hours will die of heat-stroke. **Everyone**. <br /><br />If conditions on the Earth returned to those of the Cretaceous Period, a very large fraction of the planet (including virtually all of the tropics and large portions of the Earth's temperate zones) would be completely uninhabitable by humans.<br /><br />So even though life thrived during the Cretaceous & Eocene we humans wouldn't, because we are physically unable to tolerate Cretaceous/Eocene heat and humidity.<br /><br />A return to the Cretaceous/Eocene would mean the end of human civilization -- full stop.<br /><br />But don't try explaining any of this to Watts and his followers -- it's *much* too complicated.caerbannoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03896552738444745753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-6964128256664601822014-11-05T23:47:00.266+11:002014-11-05T23:47:00.266+11:00Was there one to begin with?Was there one to begin with?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09759352237502531253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-82214970381160875162014-11-05T23:06:40.504+11:002014-11-05T23:06:40.504+11:00"The strength of the IPCC reports and the med..."The strength of the IPCC reports and the media reaction may have shaken him a bit."<br /><br />Wasn't it not that long ago that Watts - courtesy of Matt Ridley - was assuring his mindless worshippers that the IPCC reports were going to be significantly watered down this time around?Millicentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-38931091995592817852014-11-05T22:34:07.577+11:002014-11-05T22:34:07.577+11:00How will they stop what they've started?
A v...How will they stop what they've started? <br /><br />A very good question. I almost worry for their sanity. Maxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-2501195981607746812014-11-05T22:33:22.515+11:002014-11-05T22:33:22.515+11:00Sou you are treasure. Thank you.Sou you are treasure. Thank you.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10807913317731807617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-69955212134136230192014-11-05T21:58:42.939+11:002014-11-05T21:58:42.939+11:00Ya gotta move up in this world , you know...
R th...Ya gotta move up in this world , you know...<br /><br />R the anonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-90155417035502752232014-11-05T21:41:35.437+11:002014-11-05T21:41:35.437+11:00Good to know that Watts wants to be associated wit...Good to know that Watts wants to be associated with dinosaursAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-29921788376764341592014-11-05T21:12:48.699+11:002014-11-05T21:12:48.699+11:00I'm thinking Anthony's getting a bit reckl...I'm thinking Anthony's getting a bit reckless again. The strength of the IPCC reports and the media reaction may have shaken him a bit.<br /><br />Expect to read more "OMG it's insects" over coming weeks. He hasn't had much to offer on climate lately and is relying on Tedious Tisdale and nonsense from the rattier end of town, like Tim Ball and Eric Worrall and John Coleman. His other regulars (Wondering Willis and the potty peer) aren't contributing much. I think they are busy. And he can't keep copying press releases of scientific papers or people will start to wonder.<br /><br />Writing blog articles all by himself is definitely not one of Anthony's strengths.Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-40966489914611364592014-11-05T21:01:53.500+11:002014-11-05T21:01:53.500+11:00I don't know how to describe this kind of argu...I don't know how to describe this kind of argument as anything other than incredibly dumb! If all we were worried about was whether or not there will still be life on the planet in 100, or 1000, years time, then we can stop worrying. I'm pretty confident that there will be (unless something completely unexpected were to happen). As you say, though, the concern is whether or not the changes we are forcing on our climate will allow billions of humans to continue existing as we are today and to increase the number of people who are able to have a decent quality of life. ...and Then There's Physicshttp://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com