From: dagmargoodboat on
Malcolm Moore wrote:
> dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote:

> <snip old material>
>
> >You have to grant me some leeway here because Bill's a fuzzy writer.
> >He works by implication and innuendo, so I had to infer that
>
> I don't have to grant you anything.

No, you don't.

> This saga shows you're the proven fuzzy writer.

I think I've been extremely clear. Excruciatingly, tediously,
tiringly so, in this post-mortem.

I understood Jan. You didn't. So, if you don't understand me at
least I'm in good company.

Bill stated a fact--a fact unrelated to Jan's point, you contend
below--without explaining what he thought it proved, or how it
related. That's fuzzy writing.

Bill could've said "The fact that France gets 80% of its electrical
power from nuclear plants proves XYZ." That would've been clear
writing.

<snip>


> >But Jan and I took it as a wrong answer to Jan's claim, that the very
> >infrastructure we're using was built on fossil fuel.
>
> There was no answer because there was no question. Bill made a correct
> claim in response to Jan's correct claim.

And there we have it.

Stating a new, unrelated fact is not a response, that's talking past
someone. If Bill meant his claim as a related response, it was
wrong. If he meant it as a new, interesting fact, it was non-
responsive.

Bill explains later that he meant it as a response, which is how I
treated it.

Either way, it leaves a misleading notion w.r.t. the extent of
France's independence from fossil fuels

I thought it interesting that even France is so dependent on fossil
fuels. Even more than 82% (of total energy), if they use coal.

--
Cheers,
James Arthur
From: JosephKK on
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:41:40 -0800, John Larkin
<jjSNIPlarkin(a)highTHISlandtechnology.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:13:35 GMT, Jan Panteltje
><pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On a sunny day (Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:59:29 -0800) it happened Rich Grise
>><richgrise(a)example.net> wrote in <pan.2009.11.25.16.59.25.64076(a)example.net>:
>>
>>>Not to mention that the warming cycles PRECEDE the elevations in CO2
>>>levels. This is pretty obvious, when you consider that cold water can hold
>>>more CO2 in solution than warm water can.
>>>
>>>But Bill has faith, which trumps facts, like this inconvenient one:
>>>http://www.infowars.com/al-gore-admits-co2-does-not-cause-majority-of-global-warming/
>>>
>>>Cheers!
>>>Rich
>>
>>Gore should be locked up.
>
>He's done an excellent job of turning off Sloman's mind.
>
>John
>

It was off long before Gore got to it.
From: JosephKK on
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:41:07 +0000, Martin Brown
<|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Jan Panteltje wrote:
>> On a sunny day (Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:53:04 -0800 (PST)) it happened Bill Sloman
>> <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote in
>> <4688b1c8-f155-4b23-bb22-a8e56c28fa1b(a)c34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>:
>>
>>>> And even if you assumed CO2 levels did, where did the CO2 come from?
>
>>> CO2 is being subducted - as carbonate rock - all the time. The
>>> carbonate is unstable once it gets into the outer mantle and comes out
>>> again in volcanic eruptions. The spectacular volcanic eruptions that
>>> created the Deccan Traps and the Siberian Traps released a lot of CO2
>>> in a relatively short time - geologically speaking.
>>
>> Good, so it does not come from us burning stuff.
>
>We already know how much fuel we burn and the residual amount staying in
>the atmosphere is around 60% from Keelings original work at Mauna Lau.
>Now refined by NOAA with global monitoring. You can even watch the
>fossil fuel CO2 emitted by the northern hemisphere industrial nations
>move to the southern hemisphere with a suitable time lag.
>
>AND you can tell it isn't coming out of the oceans because the changing
>isotopic signature matches the fossil fuel that we burnt.
>
>Be careful what you wish for...today volcanic activity contributes about
>1% of the carbon dioxide net increase. The rest is coming from us. A
>reasonably detailed article on CO2 from vulcanism is online at:
>
>http://www.bgs.ac.uk/downloads/directDownload.cfm?id=432&noexcl=true&t=Volcanic%20Contributions%20to%20the%20Global%20Carbon%20Cycle
>
>Climate change around the time of the Deccan traps vulcanism 65 Million
>years ago was one of the worst periods of global extinction the Earth
>has seen. Do you really want to go the way of the dinosaurs?
>

Don't ya know, that for a species that has _not_ even been around for
just 1 million years to bandy about causing events on the level of the
KT-boundary event is quite ridiculous.

>>> The fact that some of the laval flow came up through coal fields meant
>>> that they burnt a fair bit of fossil carbon in the process.
>>>
>>>> It is much more simple (Occam's) to think CO2 levels went up because the =
>>> warmer climate
>>>> had more animals populate the earth....
>>>> But even that may not be so.
>>> It isn't. there aren't enough animals around to to have much direct
>>> effect on the CO2 level in the atmosphere - if they don't go in for
>>> digging up and burning fossil carbon on an industrial scale.
>>
>> Good, then we can forget all that Gore stuff about farting cows and pigs that are bad for the world,
>> and need to be more taxed.
>
>He has a point at least where methane emissions are concerned.
>
>CH4 though short lived is a more potent GHG in the atmosphere than CO2.
>And it could be a real menace if we release the huge volumes trapped in
>permafrost and oceanic seabed clathrates.
>
>And it would improve the health of the US population to eat a bit less
>meat. Japans high life expectancy is in part due to a much better diet.
>
>Regards,
>Martin Brown
From: JosephKK on
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:56:08 -0800 (PST), dagmargoodboat(a)yahoo.com
wrote:

>On Nov 21, 4:52 pm, Jon Kirwan <j...(a)infinitefactors.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:54:05 GMT, Jan Panteltje
>>
>>
>>
>> <pNaonStpealm...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >The global warming hoax revealed:
>> >http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/science/earth/21climate.html?partne...
>>
>> ><Quote from that article>
>> >This shows these are people willing to bend rules and
>> >go after other people's reputations in very serious ways,' he said. Spencer
>> >R. Weart, a physicist and historian who is charting the course of research
>> >on global warming, said the hacked material would serve as 'great material
>> >for historians.'
>> ><end quote>
>>
>> >LOL.
>> >Some science!
>>
>> >And that in a leftist newspaper!
>>
>> The points are addressed in realclimate.org.  By Gavin, who is one of
>> those whose emails were disclosed and others who post there.  The
>> _truer_ feelings that some climate scientists have for some of the
>> public naysayers are exposed.  Oh, well.  Too bad.
>
>It's not surprising they don't like their critics. But as scientists
>they shouldn't be
> a) resisting sharing their data,
> b) colluding to suppress competing publications,
> c) or directing one another--or anyone else--to delete their e-mails
>wrt AR4.
>
>Scientists cooperate, sometimes compete, but never conspire.

Real ones. Pretenders are another matter.
From: JosephKK on
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:00:17 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:54:05 GMT, Jan Panteltje
><pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>The global warming hoax revealed:
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/science/earth/21climate.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
>>
>><Quote from that article>
>>This shows these are people willing to bend rules and
>>go after other people's reputations in very serious ways,' he said. Spencer
>>R. Weart, a physicist and historian who is charting the course of research
>>on global warming, said the hacked material would serve as 'great material
>>for historians.'
>><end quote>
>>
>>LOL.
>>Some science!
>>
>>And that in a leftist newspaper!
>>
>
>
>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125883405294859215.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
>
>
>"In several of the emails, climate researchers discussed how to
>arrange for favorable reviewers for papers they planned to publish in
>scientific journals. At the same time, climate researchers at times
>appeared to pressure scientific journals not to publish research by
>other scientists whose findings they disagreed with."
>
>
>
>Some good stuff here:
>
>http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/hadley_hacked/
>
>" The other paper by MM is just garbage – as you knew. De Freitas
>again. Pielke is also losing all credibility as well by replying to
>the mad Finn as well – frequently as I see it. I can’t see either of
>these papers being in the next IPCC report. K and I will keep them out
>somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature
>is ! "
>
>
>John
>
>
So not the actions of honest scientists.