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Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Attempting to debunk legitimate science without evidence or citation is garbage. How typical that it's the first comment on the story.

How typical that the downvoting standards are selectively applied.

Inflammatory comments with no supporting evidence are usually downvoted, irrespective of the opinion they espouse.

Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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Take two parts physics, four parts advocacy science, and two hundred parts advocacy journalism, and what do you get? In Christian circles, you get creation science. It's cute when climate scientists pretend their work is on the level of finding the Higgs boson. Advocate science is garbage.

Creation science is a purely religious viewpoint with basically zero physical evidence. Climate science has a clear physical mechanism (CO2 traps more solar energy than N2, O2, etc.) and quite a bit of observation confirming the effect. It's simple to do an experiment showing that increasing CO2 increases a primary mechanism of the greenhouse effect. It's really pretty simple. The only debate is just how significant…

Wrong.

Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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As a supporter of living in a world of sane money, I’d like to see Reuter’s publish an article with a similar title like — “Evidence for gold standard as superior form of money hits 'gold standard': scientists”

The transition away from the gold standard and years of living in a post-gold-standard world show that fiat is a totally reasonable system of money. I'd love to see you support or justify your claims, so we can at least debate from a basis of shared understanding and fact instead of hyperbole. Your statement is completely unrelated to the topic at hand.

Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

#14
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Creation science is a purely religious viewpoint with basically zero physical evidence. Climate science has a clear physical mechanism (CO2 traps more solar energy than N2, O2, etc.) and quite a bit of observation confirming the effect. It's simple to do an experiment showing that increasing CO2 increases a primary mechanism of the greenhouse effect. It's really pretty simple. The only debate is just how significant…

Wrong.

"Wrong" isn't an argument.

Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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As a supporter of living in a world of sane money, I’d like to see Reuter’s publish an article with a similar title like — “Evidence for gold standard as superior form of money hits 'gold standard': scientists”

The transition away from the gold standard and years of living in a post-gold-standard world show that fiat is a totally reasonable system of money. I'd love to see you support or justify your claims, so we can at least debate from a basis of shared understanding and fact instead of hyperbole. Your statement is completely unrelated to the topic at hand.

If you consider the sharp upturn in divide between the rich and the poor since 1972 to be "totally reasonable".

Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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Take two parts physics, four parts advocacy science, and two hundred parts advocacy journalism, and what do you get? In Christian circles, you get creation science. It's cute when climate scientists pretend their work is on the level of finding the Higgs boson. Advocate science is garbage.

Clearly this is a fluff piece of journalism. He said - she said. "5 sigma". Sounds great. What does it mean? 2 out of 3 satellites reported data that gave the 5 sigma conclusion by 2005, the third by 2016. Great. What does it mean? It doesn't really say, other than a 95 percent chance that global warming since 1950 is caused by humans. Somebody said they would like to notch that up to 99% chance. Another person wouldn't go so far. I think it's totally fair to criticise this virtually content free article.

I don't think it's fair to so glibly criticise the science. This article isn't the science. I think we, as members of a community that is generally educated to a higher level than other communities should be calling out this nonsense that gets printed because it gives real ammunition to people (among whom it is possible you are a member) who deride climate science on the basis of bad journalism. It's a massive shame because it's an issue with potentially dire consequences.

Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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Take two parts physics, four parts advocacy science, and two hundred parts advocacy journalism, and what do you get? In Christian circles, you get creation science. It's cute when climate scientists pretend their work is on the level of finding the Higgs boson. Advocate science is garbage.

I used to evaluate scientific contracts for the federal government. I was lied to on a monthly basis.

Scientific fraud is not a thing of the past. It's not even rare.

Karl Popper is turning over in his grave.

Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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As a supporter of living in a world of sane money, I’d like to see Reuter’s publish an article with a similar title like — “Evidence for gold standard as superior form of money hits 'gold standard': scientists”

The transition away from the gold standard and years of living in a post-gold-standard world show that fiat is a totally reasonable system of money. I'd love to see you support or justify your claims, so we can at least debate from a basis of shared understanding and fact instead of hyperbole. Your statement is completely unrelated to the topic at hand.

You can read his comments in a cryptocurrency thread from last week for his specific positions. I did, don't even bother attempting to argue, you aren't going to change his mind.

Re: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard'

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How typical that the downvoting standards are selectively applied.

Inflammatory comments with no supporting evidence are usually downvoted, irrespective of the opinion they espouse.

Except the followup inflammatory comments, of course.
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