Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater

They are not very organised with their city planning and development though - nearby low lying Singapore has reclaimed loads of land at the same time Jakarta has been sinking. Nyt article on that one https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/magazine/how-singapore-is...

IT is obvious that you are thinking that when someone supplies you with the starting point and then encourages you to take the next step that you consider that they are unable to do so themselves.

"Politically correct" is no less a label to be applied to any of the political arena's (such as the Trump administration or the failed attempt by the Clinton Team) than it is to be applied to many areas in Science, Medicine and other supposedly logical disciplines. When dogma takes over and fights against systematic investigation of a subject then "political correctness" is on the march.

If you fail to see this happening, mayhaps, you should do a systematic study of history with regards to science and technology. People are people and all of us have biases. It takes work to not allow those biases to get in the road of systematic investigation.

If the Emperor's New Clothes are unseen then one has the opportunity to say such. In this particular case, the Emperor's New Clothes are the 1 to 10 metre ocean level rise scenarios.

You have the opportunity to call me any thing you like. I don't agree with Mr Trump. The US had a choice between two disagreeable teams, Trump who is an Isolationist and Clinton who is a Globalist. Neither was going to be useful to the future of the US.

The "burden of proof" lies with the anthropogenic climate change (ACC) community. Answering simple questions like "where the energy processes are" in a forthright manner instead of the essentially sensationalist manner that has been their habit for decades, would go a long way to be credible.

If someone says to you that it is storming outside, do you just believe them or do you actually look outside and do your own investigation? I have given you the base information and if you cannot be proactive enough to spend five minutes doing your calculations then what expectation should I have of you actually spending five minutes looking at any detailed figures I give you?

Since you bring up evolution, no I don't believe in the evolutionary theory (or theories) being promulgated. My reason is because I spent a lot of time reading the experimental evidence that was done and noting that the conclusions derived by those experimenters was different to the evidence that they found. Since, at that time, I was a believer in evolution, this made no sense to me and challenged me to look at it further. My considered opinion is that evolution as promulgated is dogma and has no basis in reality. I consider the various theories of evolution and the attendant alternatives in intelligent design to be philosophical and religious in nature and not science.

It is unfortunate that all sorts of people engage in the sexual harassment and sexual domination of others. This is inappropriate at any time, no matter whether it is a man doing it to a woman or to another man or a woman doing it to a man or another woman. The interesting thing is that some of those victims will be liars and others will be deeply hurt victims. The question is determining the truth of the matter.

However, that is a social matter that is not relevant to the discussion of whether or not climate science is full of dogma. Bringing up such is simply saying that you are so caught up in your dogma that you cannot afford to listen and discuss with someone else an idea that is opposed to your world view and that you are willing to attack the man instead of the statement.

I have robust discussions with various people and those of us who partake are expected to defend our stand points, with the expectation that those disagreeing will also actively contribute.

The emperor is naked and it is time for people to stand and say so.

But let's say, that 20 minutes if you look up the information yourself and you are slow about it, 5 minutes if given the starting point. Of course if you cannot use a calculation device other than pencil/pen and paper (or blackboard and chalk) then it might take you longer.

I have the calculations sitting in spreadsheet on my machine and I have emails to various people with those calculations, but as you are unable to spend 5 minutes doing, I can't expect you to spend 5 minutes reading.

And your theory on tidal effects of the moon falls flat because mean sea level takes all those factors into consideration! How? The name itself suggests that it's a "mean" over all variations in the sea levels due to tidal or inundation effects. Unless the gravitational pull of the moon dramatically increased or the moon got closer to the Earth your theory makes some sense. But the effects are pretty uniform. So mean sea level is the only meaningful statistic here. It's real and measurable. Everything else is bogus claims by climate change deniers!