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polyama · 2009-11-29 11:59:55

[QUOTE=Lord_Farquar;8313332][QUOTE=Burbage;8313166] What's AGW? :eek:

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Feb 4th 2010 | 1:59 pm

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Re: Global warming

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What's AGW?

Feb 4th 2010 | 2:03 pm

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Re: Global warming

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What's AGW?

Scientific method is based on null hypotheses.

Are you sure you're not telling porkies about your PhD?

Feb 4th 2010 | 2:10 pm

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Re: Global warming

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Are you sure you're not telling porkies about your PhD?

Of course not.

You haven't answered the question.

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Feb 4th 2010 | 2:15 pm

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Re: Global warming

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Of course not.

You haven't answered the question.

Use your PhD skills to work it out.

Feb 4th 2010 | 2:18 pm

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Re: Global warming

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Use your PhD skills to work it out.

Well as far as I'm concerned it's no more than a hypothesis. What's your view?

Feb 4th 2010 | 2:22 pm

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Re: Global warming

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Well as far as I'm concerned it's no more than a hypothesis. What's your view?

I think the climate change deniers get far more coverage in Australia.

Feb 4th 2010 | 2:29 pm

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Re: Global warming

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I think the climate change deniers get far more coverage in Australia.

No one denies that the climate is changing. The climate has always changed, and always will.

Feb 4th 2010 | 2:39 pm

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Re: Global warming

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No one denies that the climate is changing. The climate has always changed, and always will.

Yes, but its easier to ridicule and dismiss sensible critical thought if you just change someone's objections to the IPCC "widely accepted" science *cough* to something as radical and stupid as that.

Feb 4th 2010 | 2:42 pm

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Re: Global warming

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Yes, but its easier to ridicule and dismiss sensible critical thought if you just change someone's objections to the IPCC "widely accepted" science *cough* to something as radical and stupid as that.

Indeed. The roman church used the term 'heretic' in much the same way.

Feb 4th 2010 | 2:43 pm

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Re: Global warming

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Yes, but its easier to ridicule and dismiss sensible critical thought if you just change someone's objections to the IPCC "widely accepted" science *cough* to something as radical and stupid as that.

I think the IPCC issue has only clouded the water and given further rise to the skeptics.

Feb 4th 2010 | 2:45 pm

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Re: Global warming

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No one denies that the climate is changing. The climate has always changed, and always will.

I think you will find plenty that deny it.

Feb 4th 2010 | 2:46 pm

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Re: Global warming

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I think the IPCC issue has only clouded the water and given further rise to the skeptics.

Which skeptics? The ones who are skeptical that global warming is caused by humans, or the ones who are skeptical that global warming is caused by nature?

Feb 4th 2010 | 2:47 pm

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Re: Global warming

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I think you will find plenty that deny it.

Everyone agrees that the climate is gradually getting warmer. That is not the issue. It is the cause of the climate getting warmer that is in question.

Feb 4th 2010 | 2:49 pm

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Re: Global warming

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Which skeptics? The ones who are skeptical that global warming is caused by humans, or the ones who are skeptical that global warming is caused by nature?

You are being obtuse. You know exactly what I am talking about.

Feb 4th 2010 | 2:55 pm

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Re: Global warming

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You are being obtuse. You know exactly what I am talking about.

The word skeptic means nothing unless you say what the skeptic is skeptical of. It is used by the IPCC as a pejorative term for non-believer, or heretic, in an attempt to divert attention away from the real problem, that science without skeptics is not science, it's religion. This is spin and I am not interested in spin.

If you want to contribute to a scientific debate then say what you mean.