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Comment:The song of the sewer
Date published: 5:48 pm, September 5th, 2009OK, What were Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Van Morrison, Neil Young and all thinking with their unashamed adoration of Hank Williams? Nobody, flat out nobody, sings of loneliness and the longing for love like Hank Williams. Dylan, Leonard, Joni, S Cooke, ...
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Comment:The song of the sewer
Date published: 5:13 pm, September 5th, 2009I love Leonard, my favourite song of his has always been Tower of Song in which he pays homage to the true master of singer-songwriters, Hank Williams. Who also happens to be the caricature of what most lefties hate, a conservative country and western ...
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Comment:Are you smarter than a 10th year?
Date published: 10:44 pm, September 3rd, 2009"Is this what you were saying at 9:31 when you said "There is no climate model that has been verified against real life data'? What I am saying is a model needs to make a prediction for a statistically significant time period in the future (say 60 years) ...
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Comment:Always an excuse to do nothing
Date published: 10:11 pm, September 3rd, 2009"Because if you do this as a reflex I cannot argue with you because you are making a conclusive judgment on the quality of the expert before we can even work out who to trust in interpreting the evidence." There are no experts on the future. If a scientist...
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Comment:Are you smarter than a 10th year?
Date published: 9:38 pm, September 3rd, 2009It is very easy to test and confirm. You can make a prediction and run a real life test to confirm your model very easily. It doesn't matter whether anthropogenic climate catastrophe is a theory or 100% understood. Currently the historical data is the best...
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Comment:Are you smarter than a 10th year?
Date published: 9:31 pm, September 3rd, 2009You develop a model by running it and then comparing the output with real life data. There is no climate model that has been verified against real life data. And this is because climate is a complex system, it would be arrogant to think that we can model ...
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Comment:Are you smarter than a 10th year?
Date published: 1:41 pm, September 3rd, 2009Computer models are not empirical data. They only have validity once they have been run out against real life data.
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Comment:Are you smarter than a 10th year?
Date published: 12:52 pm, September 3rd, 2009"You keep spouting the same BS that's been thoroughly disproved" Now you're just making things up. "It's not so much that you're a climate change denier but that you're a reality denier" Look out your window, that is reality.
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Comment:Are you smarter than a 10th year?
Date published: 12:47 pm, September 3rd, 2009"the science shows that another degree or so and we'll tip the climate into run-way warming." I'm sorry but thats not science, it's conjecture.
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Comment:Are you smarter than a 10th year?
Date published: 11:26 am, September 3rd, 2009Again, Bright Red, Take 1998 out of the data set and the warming period from 1980-1995 has abated and 1995-2010 is pretty much flat.
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Comment:Are you smarter than a 10th year?
Date published: 11:19 am, September 3rd, 20091980-1995 is no better a 'trend' than 1995-2010. 80-95 is the only period of warming on record since 1940. I have heard 30 years given as a statistically significant period of time for global climate. Temperature flattening since 2000 is very much a 'watch...
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Comment:Always an excuse to do nothing
Date published: 10:32 am, September 3rd, 2009What track record of correctly predicting climate does James Hansen have? I do recall him being censured by NASA for mnisrepresenting their views though. I think you may be confusing the large amounts of research showing the effects of warming which is ...
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Comment:Always an excuse to do nothing
Date published: 10:25 am, September 3rd, 2009"If you saw 100 doctors and 98 of them said you were ill would you take steps just in case you were ill?" If I saw 100 naturopaths(however well-meaning or experienced) and 98 of them told me I had bad chi, I wouldn't believe them. "Do you really believe ...
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Comment:Always an excuse to do nothing
Date published: 10:19 am, September 3rd, 2009OK, What was the CO2 in ppm in 1985-1995 and in 1995-2005 because that is what I was actually refering to.
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Comment:Are you smarter than a 10th year?
Date published: 10:16 am, September 3rd, 2009Your argument is a strawman. The trend of recent flat temperatures does not rely on the 1998 data, in fact take it out and you've still got the same trend. Temperature has no up or down trend since 2000. Here is the hadcrut data since 2000: 2001 +0.409 ...
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Comment:Always an excuse to do nothing
Date published: 10:08 am, September 3rd, 2009I have taken a look at feedback loops. They are called ice ages and optimum warm periods.
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Comment:Always an excuse to do nothing
Date published: 10:08 am, September 3rd, 2009There are no anthropogenic climate change experts. If we take the nobel prize for physics winners from 1901-1950 which would be a reasonable representation of the best scientific minds of the time, are any of them experts in nanotechnology? They may have ...
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Comment:Always an excuse to do nothing
Date published: 2:17 am, September 3rd, 2009Only because the records haven't been kept for very long. Over the history of human civilisation the 14 warmest years have been spread out over thousands of years.
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Comment:Always an excuse to do nothing
Date published: 2:13 am, September 3rd, 2009Some issues I have: How do CO2 emissions compare between the periods 1988-1995 and 1995-2005? How do temperature trends compare over the same periods? If the temperature rise from 1985-1995 was caused by CO2 emissions, why are considerably greater ...
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Comment:Always an excuse to do nothing
Date published: 2:04 am, September 3rd, 2009So temperature trends have been basically flat for 10 years?
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Comment:Always an excuse to do nothing
Date published: 2:03 am, September 3rd, 2009Like in the decades 1940-1980
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Comment:Malthusian merriment
Date published: 4:44 pm, August 14th, 2009This problem is already solving itself. http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
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Comment:Recreating the reserve army of labour
Date published: 12:30 pm, August 13th, 2009But all government jobs are work for the dole under a different name. These jobs have some value but any additional employment by government is fundamentally work for the dole, they still require a private sector job to provide the tax to pay for it.
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Comment:Recreating the reserve army of labour
Date published: 8:59 am, August 13th, 2009What are these steps?
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Comment:Recreating the reserve army of labour
Date published: 8:56 am, August 13th, 2009The government can't create jobs. It can avoid destroying jobs and it can offer work for the dole.
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Comment:Recreating the reserve army of labour
Date published: 8:35 am, August 13th, 2009"So what's your suggestion mate?" I think what he is infering is that economic growth should always be a priority because the good times of high tax income never last forever
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Comment:Recreating the reserve army of labour
Date published: 8:31 am, August 13th, 2009Thanks Labour for 9 years of failed economic policies
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Comment:Key speech: strategic blunder?
Date published: 3:52 pm, January 29th, 2008Santi - you're a scumbag! If you want to have a dictatorship piss of to somewhere that doesn't want engagement with people, and wants to take time to seek out a solution. Shithead! IrishBill says: Santi has made a comment (albeit one I strongly disagree ...
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Comment:Key speech: strategic blunder?
Date published: 3:16 pm, January 29th, 2008Key's plan is a farce! It's too little, too late! Trying to change a life time of behaviour that is so readily engrained at 16 is too late. Start at 16 months. Start earlier than that. This is not policy of great hope. It will not revolutionise anything. ...
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Comment:National on free speech
Date published: 4:00 pm, October 15th, 2007Hahaha! Fantastic! What a bunch of sad sacks!
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Comment:Answer this question and get FREE movie tickets
Date published: 6:52 pm, September 21st, 2007Pertinacious = Dogged. Stubbornly unyielding. "John Key is a loud mouthed and pertinacious ass."
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- Daily crossword, Thursday 4 July
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