Posts by NomNomNom

Re: Other considerations aside

"I guess we all know someone who repeats Python sketches verbatim?"

I think you mean spam

Re: Re: "Key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science".

"Heartland has said this numerous times. If you read the fake document it reads like a 5yo wrote it, very obviously faked..."

See this is the part that doesn't make sense. Why would he write a fake document knowing that everyone would find out it was fake? I am just saying this doesn't make a lot of sense either way.

Re: Re: Big deal

"I should add that the fake memo meta data confirms it was generated AFTER the genuine stolen documents"

It only proves the document was scanned in after those other documents were obtained.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Balance?

"The University of East Anglia released a paper saying there had been no warming for 16 years."

I've heard the one about how the University of East Anglia "admitted" that there had been no warming for 15 years (also false).

But I've never heard your upgraded version. 15 becomes 16 and it's now a "paper" they released.

I won't ask you to provide this imaginary paper, because it doesn't exist. But I am always interested in knowing where you guys get these rumors. Can you tell me?

Re: "Human Warmist"....

More accurate but enough stupid sounding that it won't catch on.

Re: Re: Balance?

Well there is a science section on the site. It's not all IT. This subject could be said to fall under science.

Also I disagree with the call for balance. Even though I disagree with many of these articles (not so much this one), I think this is the kind of thing you live with. I don't like the idea of "fixing" it just because I disagree with it.

Re: Warmist?

Without these short labels people would have to use impractically long "Those who accept X but don't accept Y" phrases all the time to identify positions (actually that might be better..)

There are long and pointless "debates" about what the best labels to use are and people try to invent new "better" ones all the time. "warmist" is a pretty standard polite one (compared to "alarmist" or even "eco--fascist")

Re: Re: Pah!

The only question is the last one of the three. It all hinges on what "a major contribution" is.

The last IPCC report summarized along the lines of human activity being likely responsible for most of the warming since 1950 (where most is >50% I believe). I think that most scientists do indeed agree with that and that kind of figure does support a "major contribution" by human activities.

Re: Upgrade the software, not the hardware

forgot to mention the point. Another reason they want more computing power might be because they want to do more model runs for each forecast.

Re: Upgrade the software, not the hardware

I am no expert but as far as I am aware they run the weather model multiple times changing the initial conditions of each run very slightly and the forecast is based on the statistical spread of all the model run results rather than a particular one. Initial conditions being slightly different can make a big difference to the results. If they just do one run they can't know how common it's path is. Another anecdote: I heard that (but I might remember the details wrong) that big storm that Michael Fish was famously involved in was not predicted because at the time they were just using a single run, and the initial conditions happened to not produce the storm. If they had done multiple runs with different starting points they'd have spotted a fair few of them generated a massive storm.

Re: Re: "run at half the cost"

the owl hooted menacingly at me as I stroked its soft and luscious feathers

"Is not what that passage means."

The leaked Heartland document says:

""His effort will focus on providing curriculum that shows that the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain - two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science.""

They don't say they want teachers to teach correct science, they say they want to dissuade them from teaching science full stop. If you read the phrase literally.

And I thought that was what we were supposed to do since climate-gate isn't it?

Can I even shorten it to "His effort will focus on providing curriculum ... effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science"?

"Thera/Santorini may also be the explanation for the biblical 'pillar of fire' as it is likely to have been large enough to be seen from Egypt. It also probably caused the day into night with the ash clouds and this would have led to the water turning red and the subsequent plagues of flies, frogs and stuff as the fish died in the ash laden water leading to flies breeding on the dead fish and frogs feeding on the flies."

NOOOOO it was magic. Stop trying to rationalize it. How do you even explain the part where god sends in the orcs to attack?

"However, the archaeologists say that Minoan civilization survived the catastrophe"

I don't think that's enough to prevent the story getting out

i didn't realize there were so many wikipedia haters

There's nothing there anyway (both moon and ocean floor) no point going

if someone had that much control over people's machine they would be better off just bringing up a popup saying "DANGEROUS VIRUSESES DETECTED ON YOUR MACHINE. YOU NEED TO BUY WINDOW ANTI VIRUS11!!! CLICK TO SEND THE MONIES!!11"

surely they look up your address info and call up the bank saying that for some weird reason they've been locked out. By the way while we are on the subject they'd like an address change and a new pin device posted.

Haha hillarious. Did you try again asking for Doctor Who?

There's definitely an opening for someone like you on the NHS Choices website

is it illegal to bribe a doctor? I don't mean a full suitcase of cash just a few notes or chocolates or something. try the suitcase if that doesn't work.

the correlation between exercise and death is nearly 100%. My sample is a randomly selected 1000 individuals from the 17th century.

"as the reg author says, the weakness of studies like this is the fact that it's almost impossible to definitely exclude some other factor being the cause of the correlation you're observin"

it would be nice if the ones that were excluded are reported. For example maybe they ruled out the "fatties" in this case. Most media articles will just tell you what the scientists "found" though without explaining that they ruled out several alternative explanations.