Old Rocks
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Obviously, world socialism is the only thing that will save us.
Obviously, world socialism is the only thing that will save us.
Obviously capitalism as practiced by the Bush admin and Conservatives is the only thing that will save us from the ravages of prosperity.
Little Green Footballs - Anthony Watts: Disastrously Wrong Again
Anthony Watts: Disastrously Wrong Again
Charles Johnson
Environment Mon Nov 22, 2010 at 10:07 am PST Views: 26,575
Pseudo-scientist Anthony Watts of the Watts Up With That climate change denial blog posted a bold prediction earlier this year he said this summer would decisively show that the polar ice cap had stopped declining. He guaranteed this, in fact.
Now the scientific measurements have been taken, and the results are in, and Wattss prediction is revealed as the denialist propaganda it is; in fact, polar ice has declined to historically low levels, and this summer, both the Northwest Passage and the Northeast Passage were completely clear of ice for the first time in recorded history. Watts is a hack and a fraud, posing as a scientist to feed his right wing audience the soothing false claims they want to hear.
Environmentalist Peter Sinclairs new video makes this very clear.
UPDATE at 11/22/10 2:51:56 pm:
To be precise, it was not Anthony Watts who predicted the sea ice would rebound, but one of his blog co-authors.
Here is an honest question. How much CO2 is produced in a 24 hour period around the globe from plant life, in the absence of photosynthesis, both above and below sea level?
Here is an honest question. CO2 being such a great nontoxic refrigerant, Why aren't we taking advantage of that?
Anthony Watts
Just Enough Information to Mislead
Tags: Alan Cheetham, Anthony Watts, Der Spiegel, Nature, Richard Littlemore, WUWT
You can't beat Anthony Watts' team at WUWT (either Watts Up With That or We Use Wishful Thinking, it's hard to tell) for the delicate selection and presentation of "evidence" to argue that climate isn't changing.
Here, for example, is a post that trumpets a Nature article on the climate effects of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. WUWT also credits the reputable German publication Der Spiegel as an intermediate source for this information and then posts the graph (left) as easy visual proof that what's happening in climate today is all part of a normal up and down.
But have a close look at that graph. First, it doesn't come from the Nature paper or from Der Spiegel. It was cobbled together on a denier site run by an engineer named Alan Cheetham. Second, the yellow lines showing a downward resumption on the right side are based on - well, actually, on no data points whatever. While Cheetham may have a crystal ball, a touching optimism or a cavalier disregard for objective presentation, he has no evidence at all.
But he has a fan in Anthony Watts. Watt does that tell you?
Anthony Watts
Just Enough Information to Mislead
Tags: Alan Cheetham, Anthony Watts, Der Spiegel, Nature, Richard Littlemore, WUWT
You can't beat Anthony Watts' team at WUWT (either Watts Up With That or We Use Wishful Thinking, it's hard to tell) for the delicate selection and presentation of "evidence" to argue that climate isn't changing.
Here, for example, is a post that trumpets a Nature article on the climate effects of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. WUWT also credits the reputable German publication Der Spiegel as an intermediate source for this information and then posts the graph (left) as easy visual proof that what's happening in climate today is all part of a normal up and down.
But have a close look at that graph. First, it doesn't come from the Nature paper or from Der Spiegel. It was cobbled together on a denier site run by an engineer named Alan Cheetham. Second, the yellow lines showing a downward resumption on the right side are based on - well, actually, on no data points whatever. While Cheetham may have a crystal ball, a touching optimism or a cavalier disregard for objective presentation, he has no evidence at all.
But he has a fan in Anthony Watts. Watt does that tell you?
without looking into this more closely it seems obvious that " the yellow lines showing a downward resumption on the right side are based on " the continuation of the pattern of the ocean current oscillation! of course I can see why Old Rocks can't understand the concept of pointing out patterns, that would entail thinking. did they really think the article wasn't about showing a pattern?
Dude! your proof that Watts is a liar are awfully lame. nitpicking details, ad homenum attacks, guilt by association just dont cut it. especially when the evidence against the other side is so much stronger.
...In the eyes of many punters, he puts the taxpayer-funded Met Office to shame. How on earth does he do it? He studies the Sun.
He looks at the flow of particles from the Sun, and how they interact with the upper atmosphere, especially air currents such as the jet stream, and he looks at how the Moon and other factors influence those streaming particles.
He takes a snapshot of what the Sun is doing at any given moment, and then he looks back at the record to see when it last did something similar. Then he checks what the weather was like on Earth at the time – and he makes a prophecy.
I have not a clue whether his methods are sound or not. But when so many of his forecasts seem to come true, and when he seems to be so consistently ahead of the Met Office, I feel I want to know more...
And what happens to plant life if we dramatically reduce CO2?
That is really the crux of the matter. No matter what temperature you think the Earth should be, whether you think it should be warmer or cooler or think it is just right for Goldielocks, you still cannot tell the Sun what to do tomorrow and expect it to obey.Climate Change: It's the Sun, Stupid
You cannot expect Global Warming Cult to succumb to logic.Dude! your proof that Watts is a liar are awfully lame. nitpicking details, ad homenum attacks, guilt by association just dont cut it. especially when the evidence against the other side is so much stronger.
You cannot expect Global Warming Cult to succumb to logic.Dude! your proof that Watts is a liar are awfully lame. nitpicking details, ad homenum attacks, guilt by association just dont cut it. especially when the evidence against the other side is so much stronger.
Mention climategate and they go deaf.