Re: More Gore

On May 27, 9:05 am, John Larkin
<jjSNIPlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 2008 05:55:48 -0700 (PDT), "J.A. Legris"



<jaleg...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 27, 6:45 am, bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On 27 mei, 01:50, John Fields <jfie...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 26 May 2008 15:46:01 -0700 (PDT), bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On 26 mei, 18:48, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Bob Eld wrote:
Richard Henry wrote:
Al Gore is not the issue.

He's a significant part of it. By popularising outright lies, many people
now have
an entirely false idea of what's going on with climate.

Graham

Tell us Eeyore, what is going on with the climate. You seem to be the
expert.

What's going on with climate ?

It's in a state of continual natural change. Pure and simple. CO2 is a
sideshow.

Graham hasn't a clue, so he is convinced that nobody else has a clue
either.

---
PKB?

Probably not. Amongst the subjects that I had to study on the way to
getting my Ph.D. in physical chemistry were infra-red spectroscopy and
elementary quantum mechanics, so I do have some understanding of what
greenhouse gases do, and how they do it, and what "pressure
broadening" is and why it is important.

There are - of course - whole areas of climate science where I am
probably nearly as clueless as Eeyore, but at least I do know what CO2
does and how it does it.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

And this is the crux of the matter. The only way to estimate the
effects of CO2 is through scientific investigation, and that is what's
being done, with some alarming results.

What's alarming is not scientific investigations, it's simulations,
and not very good ones. A bad simulation of a wildly chaotic system,
with unknown factors, and no experimental confirmation, is nonsense.
But it can be self-serving.

And even if humans are causing GW, it's not necessarily an unmitigated
disaster, and we're not going to do much about it. So relax.

John

Then why don't you impugn the rest of science and its methods?
Computer simulation is ubiquitous. Chaotic systems are everywhere.
What's so special about climate change?

How is it that you, as an outsider to the relevant scientific
community (I presume), are qualified to comment on the quality of the
research? If your opinion rises above mere rhetoric then why haven't
you communicated it to the relevant journals? I guarantee that a
blanket indictment of their methods, inferences and conclusions would
be very big news - if you could support it.

The scientific community seems to be much more worried about GW that
you are. Who should we trust: a disorganized, more-or-less ignorant
subculture with various political axes to grind or a scientific
community that is professionally committed to scholarship, objectivity
and open discourse? Of course they're only human, and individually may
be as weak and corruptible as anyone else, but collectively they're
our best shot at getting to the truth.

It's not necessarily an unmitigated disaster?? Forgive me if I'm not
necessarily mollified. This inspires a variation on Pascal's wager -
instead of believing in God because the possibility of eternal
punishment in hell outweighs any advantage of believing otherwise,
let's believe that GW is a lie because if we're right we can continue
trashing the environment without significant consequences and if we're
wrong there will be no one around to regret it.

--
Joe
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