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Re: Ocean acidifcation .
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Originally Posted by AllenRbrts
You apparently didn't read Spencer's post about it, or do you disagree on his statement?
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And if you don't like Spencer then how about Nature?
"The ocean is the largest sink for anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), having absorbed roughly 40 per cent of CO2 emissions since the beginning of the industrial era."
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21068
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Re: Ocean acidifcation .
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Originally Posted by Lake-Effect
But so far it's the only formal published metric we have for assessing the size of consensus, and an honest understanding of its methodology shows that it's not a dishonest method for making this assessment.
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There are about a half dozen published studies that are congruent with Cook et al
Oreskes
Anderegg et al
Doran and Zimmerman
Stenhouse
Powell
Verheggen et al
Replication / reproducibility is a cornerstone of science. This study attempts to replicate the papers that reject AGW
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Learning from mistakes in climate research
Authors
Rasmus E. Benestad. Dana Nuccitelli, Stephan Lewandowsky, Katharine Hayhoe, Hans Olav Hygen, Rob van Dorl andJohn Cook
First Online: 20 August 2015
Abstract
Among papers stating a position on anthropogenic global warming (AGW), 97 % endorse AGW. What is happening with the 2 % of papers that reject AGW? We examine a selection of papers rejecting AGW. An analytical tool has been developed to replicate and test the results and methods used in these studies; our replication reveals a number of methodological flaws, and a pattern of common mistakes emerges that is not visible when looking at single isolated cases. Thus, real-life scientific disputes in some cases can be resolved, and we can learn from mistakes. A common denominator seems to be missing contextual information or ignoring information that does not fit the conclusions, be it other relevant work or related geophysical data. In many cases, shortcomings are due to insufficient model evaluation, leading to results that are not universally valid but rather are an artifact of a particular experimental setup. Other typical weaknesses include false dichotomies, inappropriate statistical methods, or basing conclusions on misconceived or incomplete physics. We also argue that science is never settled and that both mainstream and contrarian papers must be subject to sustained scrutiny. The merit of replication is highlighted and we discuss how the quality of the scientific literature may benefit from replication.
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https://link.springer.com/article/10...704-015-1597-5
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Re: Ocean acidifcation .
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Originally Posted by AllenRbrts
And if you don't like Spencer then how about Nature?
"The ocean is the largest sink for anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), having absorbed roughly 40 per cent of CO2 emissions since the beginning of the industrial era."
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21068
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personally I prefer to go with the nature program the episode of which is linked earlier in the thread ( thanks for finding it jack)
it shows that only about 1/3 of the co2 from the burning of fossil fuels likely ends up in the oceans . The majority of the " new " C12/13 is actually from submarine volcanic activity .
I don't disagree that fossil fuel based co2 is entering the ocean to some degree but the specific post I was replying to stated 50% of the human co2 was going into the oceans.
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Re: Ocean acidifcation .
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Originally Posted by jackdale
There are about a half dozen published studies that are congruent with Cook et al
Oreskes
Anderegg et al
Doran and Zimmerman
Stenhouse
Powell
Verheggen et al
Replication / reproducibility is a cornerstone of science. This study attempts to replicate the papers that reject AGW
https://link.springer.com/article/10...704-015-1597-5
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And I have posted the links to debunking if each of them . Look back in the thread .
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21-08-2019, 11:43
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Re: Ocean acidifcation .
The existence of anthropogenic climate change (ACC) remains somewhat of a public controversy, despite the consensus among climate scientists. The scientific consensus on AGW is robust, with a range of 80%–100% depending on the exact question, timing and sampling methodology.
Most of the leading science organizations around the world have issued public statements expressing this (ACC).
This is supported by multiple independent studies, despite variations in the study timing, definition of consensus, or differences in methodology including surveys of scientists, analyses of literature, or of citation networks.
For instance:
“The scientific consensus on climate change” ~ Naomi Oreskes (2004)
☞ https://science.sciencemag.org/conte...2/1686.summary
“The Perspectives of Climate Scientists on Global Climate Change” ~ Dennis Bray & Hans Von Storch (2007)
☞ https://www.researchgate.net/profile...ge-Science.pdf
☞ http://www.realclimate.org/docs/survey08.pdf
“Examining the scientific consensus on climate change” ~ Peter T. Doran & Maggie Kendall Zimmerman (2009)
☞ https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley....9/2009eo030002
"The scientific consensus of climate change revisited” ~ D Bray (2009)
☞ https://www.researchgate.net/publica...ange_Revisited
“Climate change: a profile of US climate scientists’ perspectives” ~ Stacy Rosenberg et al. (2010)
☞ https://link.springer.com/article/10...584-009-9709-9
“The structure of scientific opinion on climate change” ~ Stephen J. Farnsworth, & S. Robert Lichter (2012)
☞ https://academic.oup.com/ijpor/artic...24/1/93/659088
“Scientists’ views about attribution of global warming” ~ Bart Verheggen et al. (2014)
☞ https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es501998e
“A 2014 Meteorologists’ views about global warming: a survey of American meteorological society professional members” ~ Neil Stenhouse et al (2014)
☞ https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf...S-D-13-00091.1
“The climate change consensus extends beyond climate scientists” ~ J. Stuart Carlton et al. (2015)
☞ https://iopscience.iop.org/article/1.../9/094025/meta
“Expert credibility in climate change” ~ William R. L. Anderegg et al (2010)
☞ https://www.pnas.org/content/107/27/12107
“The temporal structure of scientific consensus formation” ~ Uri Shweda and Peter S. Bearmanb (2010)
☞ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3163460/
(Note: I’ve not included Cook et al 2013 Study https://iopscience.iop.org/article/1...326/8/2/024024, nor Richard Tol’s critical comments on it. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/1...8001I’ve which I've previously linked to their respective papers)
Edit:
I see jackdale beat me to it.
Newhaul did NOT contribute links to debunk each of Jack's list.
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Re: Ocean acidifcation .
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Originally Posted by GordMay
The existence of anthropogenic climate change (ACC) remains somewhat of a public controversy, despite the consensus among climate scientists. The scientific consensus on AGW is robust, with a range of 80%–100% depending on the exact question, timing and sampling methodology.
Most of the leading science organizations around the world have issued public statements expressing this (ACC).
This is supported by multiple independent studies, despite variations in the study timing, definition of consensus, or differences in methodology including surveys of scientists, analyses of literature, or of citation networks.
For instance:
“The scientific consensus on climate change” ~ Naomi Oreskes (2004)
☞ https://science.sciencemag.org/conte...2/1686.summary
“The Perspectives of Climate Scientists on Global Climate Change” ~ Dennis Bray & Hans Von Storch (2007)
☞ https://www.researchgate.net/profile...ge-Science.pdf
☞ http://www.realclimate.org/docs/survey08.pdf
“Examining the scientific consensus on climate change” ~ Peter T. Doran & Maggie Kendall Zimmerman (2009)
☞ https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley....9/2009eo030002
"The scientific consensus of climate change revisited” ~ D Bray (2009)
☞ https://www.researchgate.net/publica...ange_Revisited
“Climate change: a profile of US climate scientists’ perspectives” ~ Stacy Rosenberg et al. (2010)
☞ https://link.springer.com/article/10...584-009-9709-9
“The structure of scientific opinion on climate change” ~ Stephen J. Farnsworth, & S. Robert Lichter (2012)
☞ https://academic.oup.com/ijpor/artic...24/1/93/659088
“Scientists’ views about attribution of global warming” ~ Bart Verheggen et al. (2014)
☞ https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es501998e
“A 2014 Meteorologists’ views about global warming: a survey of American meteorological society professional members” ~ Neil Stenhouse et al (2014)
☞ https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf...S-D-13-00091.1
“The climate change consensus extends beyond climate scientists” ~ J. Stuart Carlton et al. (2015)
☞ https://iopscience.iop.org/article/1.../9/094025/meta
“Expert credibility in climate change” ~ William R. L. Anderegg et al (2010)
☞ https://www.pnas.org/content/107/27/12107
“The temporal structure of scientific consensus formation” ~ Uri Shweda and Peter S. Bearmanb (2010)
☞ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3163460/
(Note: I’ve not included Cook et al 2013 Study https://iopscience.iop.org/article/1...326/8/2/024024, nor Richard Tol’s critical comments on it. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/1...1/4/048001I’ve previously linked to their respective papers)
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it all still comes down to study bias .
Like if I had a published study on the use of powerbait to catch Brooke trout and climate changes effect on the viability of said bait . All I have to do is say that in some way I believe that man has caused 1% of the warming that has affected the results of my study. I am considered pro agw . So thereby part of the 97% consensus . And yet I said 99% of the warming was naturally caused by implication .
I get funding and published
I say that 99% of the warming affecting my study is natural.
I don't get funding and not get published .
But both reports say the same thing just in different ways.
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Re: Ocean acidifcation .
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Originally Posted by GordMay
The existence of anthropogenic climate change (ACC) remains somewhat of a public controversy, despite the consensus among climate scientists. The scientific consensus on AGW is robust, with a range of 80%–100% depending on the exact question, timing and sampling methodology.
Most of the leading science organizations around the world have issued public statements expressing this (ACC).
This is supported by multiple independent studies, despite variations in the study timing, definition of consensus, or differences in methodology including surveys of scientists, analyses of literature, or of citation networks.
For instance:
“The scientific consensus on climate change” ~ Naomi Oreskes (2004)
☞ https://science.sciencemag.org/conte...2/1686.summary
“The Perspectives of Climate Scientists on Global Climate Change” ~ Dennis Bray & Hans Von Storch (2007)
☞ https://www.researchgate.net/profile...ge-Science.pdf
☞ http://www.realclimate.org/docs/survey08.pdf
“Examining the scientific consensus on climate change” ~ Peter T. Doran & Maggie Kendall Zimmerman (2009)
☞ https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley....9/2009eo030002
"The scientific consensus of climate change revisited” ~ D Bray (2009)
☞ https://www.researchgate.net/publica...ange_Revisited
“Climate change: a profile of US climate scientists’ perspectives” ~ Stacy Rosenberg et al. (2010)
☞ https://link.springer.com/article/10...584-009-9709-9
“The structure of scientific opinion on climate change” ~ Stephen J. Farnsworth, & S. Robert Lichter (2012)
☞ https://academic.oup.com/ijpor/artic...24/1/93/659088
“Scientists’ views about attribution of global warming” ~ Bart Verheggen et al. (2014)
☞ https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es501998e
“A 2014 Meteorologists’ views about global warming: a survey of American meteorological society professional members” ~ Neil Stenhouse et al (2014)
☞ https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf...S-D-13-00091.1
“The climate change consensus extends beyond climate scientists” ~ J. Stuart Carlton et al. (2015)
☞ https://iopscience.iop.org/article/1.../9/094025/meta
“Expert credibility in climate change” ~ William R. L. Anderegg et al (2010)
☞ https://www.pnas.org/content/107/27/12107
“The temporal structure of scientific consensus formation” ~ Uri Shweda and Peter S. Bearmanb (2010)
☞ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3163460/
(Note: I’ve not included Cook et al 2013 Study https://iopscience.iop.org/article/1...326/8/2/024024, nor Richard Tol’s critical comments on it. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/1...1/4/048001I’ve which I've previously linked to their respective papers)
Edit:
I see jackdale beat me to it.
Newhaul did NOT contribute links to debunk each of Jack's list.
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really ?? I do believe this covered it quite well .
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...ml#post2959016
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Re: Ocean acidifcation .
Climate change merchants of doubt are unlikely to give up peddling spurious uncertainty messages any day soon, because it seems to often work.
Newhaul, and others, will also continue to question the temperature record, despite the fact that multiple studies have confirmed that the anomalies observed in 2014 and 2015 are the highest since measurements began.
The doubters also seem unable to accept that the “Hockey Stick” graphs, which show that post-industrial global warming is unprecedented over the past two millennia, have been independently replicated several times.
Although multiple studies demonstrate that the overwhelming majority of climate scientists conclude that this exceptional recent warming is caused by humans, obstinate deniers will continue to insist, against all evidence, that the consensus on climate change doesn’t exist.
The scientific consensus on climate change is not founded on a single study. Instead, many research projects using independent methods arrive at similar results. It is these multiple lines of evidence that give the scientific community such strong confidence that humans are responsible for the recent unprecedented warming of the surface of the Earth. To put it simply, the evidence has led to the consensus.
And it is on this solid bedrock of evidence that policy makers have to construct the strategies that will reduce the irreversible change,s that we are making to the livability of the only home we have.
On another favourite bugaboo of the contrarian set:
“Discrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians” ~ by Alexander Michael Petersen, Emmanuel M. Vincent & Anthony LeRoy Westerling (August 13, 2019)
“... Here we show via direct comparison that contrarians are featured in 49% more media articles than scientists. Yet when comparing visibility in mainstream media sources only, we observe just a 1% excess visibility, which objectively demonstrates the crowding out of professional mainstream sources by the proliferation of new media sources, many of which contribute to the production and consumption of climate change disinformation at scale. These results demonstrate why climate scientists should increasingly exert their authority in scientific and public discourse, and why professional journalists and editors should adjust the disproportionate attention given to contrarians...”
☞ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09959-4.
newhaul DID, indeed, contribute a link to an article criticizing a (large) number of the previously noted "consensus studies". To say that Bast & Spencer "debunked" the studies is somewhat of a stretch.
But decide, for yourselves.
“The Myth of the Climate Change ’97%” ~ by Joseph Bast, & Roy Spencer [First published in the Wall Street Journal on May 27, 2014.]
☞ https://www.heartland.org/news-opini...te-change-97-1
BTW: I couldn’t think of a better entity to host the Bast & Spencer rebuttal, than The Heartland Institute.
* The Heartland Institute is a Chicago-based free market think tank and 501(c)(3) charity that has been at the forefront of denying the scientific evidence for man-made climate change.
The Heartland Institute has received at least $676,500 from ExxonMobil since 1998 [1] but no longer discloses its funding sources. The Union of Concerned Scientists found that “Nearly 40% of the total funds that the Heartland Institute has received from ExxonMobil since 1998 were specifically designated for climate change projects.”[2]
In the 1990s, the Heartland Institute worked with the tobacco company Philip Morris to question the science linking second-hand smoke to health risks, and lobbied against government public health reforms.
Now, the group is declaring itself victorious in its crusade to convince Americans that climate science is debatable — despite the broad scientific agreement that it is not — and says it is instead pursuing economic and moral arguments to advance policies that bolster domestic fossil fuel production.[3]
1 ☞ https://exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=41
2 ☞ https://web.archive.org/web/20150726...xon_report.pdf
3. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/a...ots-to-policy/
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Re: Ocean acidifcation .
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Originally Posted by GordMay
Climate change merchants of doubt are unlikely to give up peddling spurious uncertainty messages any day soon, because it seems to often work.
Newhaul, and others, will also continue to question the temperature record, despite the fact that multiple studies have confirmed that the anomalies observed in 2014 and 2015 are the highest since measurements began.
The doubters also seem unable to accept that the “Hockey Stick” graphs, which show that post-industrial global warming is unprecedented over the past two millennia, have been independently replicated several times.
Although multiple studies demonstrate that the overwhelming majority of climate scientists conclude that this exceptional recent warming is caused by humans, obstinate deniers will continue to insist, against all evidence, that the consensus on climate change doesn’t exist.
The scientific consensus on climate change is not founded on a single study. Instead, many research projects using independent methods arrive at similar results. It is these multiple lines of evidence that give the scientific community such strong confidence that humans are responsible for the recent unprecedented warming of the surface of the Earth. To put it simply, the evidence has led to the consensus.
And it is on this solid bedrock of evidence that policy makers have to construct the strategies that will reduce the irreversible change,s that we are making to the livability of the only home we have.
On another favourite bugaboo of the contrarian set:
“Discrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians” ~ by Alexander Michael Petersen, Emmanuel M. Vincent & Anthony LeRoy Westerling (August 13, 2019)
“... Here we show via direct comparison that contrarians are featured in 49% more media articles than scientists. Yet when comparing visibility in mainstream media sources only, we observe just a 1% excess visibility, which objectively demonstrates the crowding out of professional mainstream sources by the proliferation of new media sources, many of which contribute to the production and consumption of climate change disinformation at scale. These results demonstrate why climate scientists should increasingly exert their authority in scientific and public discourse, and why professional journalists and editors should adjust the disproportionate attention given to contrarians...”
☞ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09959-4.
newhaul DID, indeed, contribute a link (in the 'other' thread) to an article criticizing a (large) number of the previously noted "consensus studies". To say that Bast & Spencer "debunked" the studies is somewhat of a stretch.
But decide, for yourselves.
“The Myth of the Climate Change ’97%” ~ by Joseph Bast, & Roy Spencer [First published in the Wall Street Journal on May 27, 2014.]
☞ https://www.heartland.org/news-opini...te-change-97-1
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I challenge the temperature records of late because they don't even match the IPCC's own temperature records from 10 years ago .
The hockey stick has been replicated based on the same mis read of the relevant datum.
The part about humans causing the warming is not accurate .
I already posted an example of a study ( hypothetically) that would come under that umbrella but says that only 1% is human . So the main problem is in the degree they say its due to human causes and what part is natural caused.
Which is actually fully explained via the terms of reference.
Only interested in human sources.
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Re: Ocean acidifcation .
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Bast and Spencer make the following claim:
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Surveys of meteorologists repeatedly find a majority oppose the alleged consensus.
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The link to the study is broken.
A 2014 study: METEOROLOGISTS’ VIEWS
ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
A Survey of American Meteorological Society
Professional Members
is summarized in the table below.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf...S-D-13-00091.1
Only 5% of all respondents said that global warming was natural.
They also refer to the widely debunked Oregon Petition.
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Re: Ocean acidifcation .
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Originally Posted by jackdale
Bast and Spencer make the following claim:
The link to the study is broken.
A 2014 study: METEOROLOGISTS’ VIEWS
ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
A Survey of American Meteorological Society
Professional Members
is summarized in the table below.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf...S-D-13-00091.1
Only 5% of all respondents said that global warming was natural.
They also refer to the widely debunked Oregon Petition.
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this study you posted even debunks the 97% consensus .
It only shows a 60% that believe humans are responsible for 50% or more .
And specifically only 78% of actual publishing climate scientists. ( not specifically climatologists) believe man is mostly responsible
This is all by your own chart.
Wonder how the same people would answer after retirement.
What will you do when history proves the majority were wrong?:-):-)
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Re: Ocean acidifcation .
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this study you posted even debunks the 97% consensus .
It only shows a 60% that believe humans are responsible for 50% or more .
And specifically only 78% of actual publishing climate scientists. ( not specifically climatologists) believe man is mostly responsible
This is all by your own chart.
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The chart is about METEOROLOGISTS. (American Meteorological Society
Professional Members) The group the good Dr Spencer claims is majority opposed.
You need to post less and read more. It would make the thread less noisy, and people wouldn't have to point out how often you screw up like this.
This is for your benefit as well as ours.
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Re: Ocean acidifcation .
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Originally Posted by Lake-Effect
The chart is about METEOROLOGISTS. The group the good Dr Spencer claims is majority opposed.
You need to post less and read more. It would make the thread less noisy, and people wouldn't have to point out how often you screw up like this.
This is for your benefit as well as ours.
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I was going just off the chart Jacko posted because for some reason ( which considering all he posts about on the forum is MMGW related ) he couldn't get the link to the Pdf that you were easily able to make work.
I shall read the students chat this based upon then post my conclusions not likely to change much but one never knows.
Hopefully this includes the terms of reference and specific questions they ask.
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Re: Ocean acidifcation .
An allegory of two frogs in a pan of water over a small flame.
Frog 1 says "gee, the thermometer says that the temp has gone up 2 degrees."
Frog 2 says "no, you're suffereing from parallax, in fact the temp has gone up only 0.01 degrees."
Both frogs agree that the water feels warmer than just a short while ago.
I submit that both frogs recognize that the flame below the pot is fueled by human development in the developing world, no small amount of which is actually used to feed and pleasure the two frogs as they lounge in the pot. I further submit that both frogs enjoy their thermometer debate more than they enjoy facing the truth of the certain reality that it's practically impossible to turn off the flame, and even if it was possible, that the feed and pleasure of both frogs would be permanently diminished in a manner that both frogs recognize to be non-acceptable to all the other frogs (many of which only "live in the moment" and/or "know they will be in paradise the moment after they cook").
Why else would the frogs be debating the thermometer?
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What I'd love to see is hard science predictions the proposed policies that are supposed to mitigate the problem in the first place. Even if 101% of people agree that AGW is real what comes next is "so what precisely are we going to do about it, and what is the evidence to support that policy as being both realistic and affordable. I've never seen such a discussion, particularly one that involves detailed real-world solutions in the developing world. We've currently got ~10% of humans starving and we can't even figure that one out.
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Re: Ocean acidifcation .
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Originally Posted by Singularity
An allegory of two frogs in a pan of water over a small flame.
Frog 1 says "gee, the thermometer says that the temp has gone up 2 degrees."
Frog 2 says "no, you're suffereing from parallax, in fact the temp has gone up only 0.01 degrees."
Both frogs agree that the water feels warmer than just a short while ago.
I submit that both frogs recognize that the flame below the pot is fueled by human development in the developing world, no small amount of which is actually used to feed and pleasure the two frogs as they lounge in the pot. I further submit that both frogs enjoy their thermometer debate more than they enjoy facing the truth of the certain reality that it's practically impossible to turn off the flame, and even if it was possible, that the feed and pleasure of both frogs would be permanently diminished in a manner that both frogs recognize to be non-acceptable to all the other frogs (many of which only "live in the moment" and/or "know they will be in paradise the moment after they cook").
Why else would the frogs be debating the thermometer?
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What I'd love to see is hard science predictions the proposed policies that are supposed to mitigate the problem in the first place. Even if 101% of people agree that AGW is real what comes next is "so what precisely are we going to do about it, and what is the evidence to support that policy as being both realistic and affordable. I've never seen such a discussion, particularly one that involves detailed real-world solutions in the developing world. We've currently got ~10% of humans starving and we can't even figure that one out.
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Have you seen? https://www.drawdown.org/
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