Phil Jones & Climate Change

[Goose and Fig]

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Speaking of tinfoil hats, and the dog show, and climate change!!!!

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[Boyd]

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Speaking of tinfoil hats, and the dog show, and climate change!!!!

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OMGROFLYBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[redhen]

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Alright!! Mine is getting kinda worn out. I need a new one...
Cant wait for this class!

 

[Buster52]

From the BBC interview and a Q&A with Professor Phil Jones in question...

E - How confident are you that warming has taken place and that humans are mainly responsible?

I'm 100% confident that the climate has warmed. As to the second question, I would go along with IPCC Chapter 9 - there's evidence that most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity.

H - If you agree that there were similar periods of warming since 1850 to the current period, and that the MWP is under debate, what factors convince you that recent warming has been largely man-made?

The fact that we can't explain the warming from the 1950s by solar and volcanic forcing - see my answer to your question D.

I - Would it be reasonable looking at the same scientific evidence to take the view that recent warming is not predominantly manmade?

No

Phil Jones, the professor behind the "Climategate" affair, has admitted some of his decades-old weather data was not well enough organised.

He said this contributed to his refusal to share raw data with critics - a decision he says he regretted.

But Professor Jones said he had not cheated over the data, or unfairly influenced the scientific process.

He said he stood by the view that recent climate warming was most likely predominantly man-made.

News sources can distort the accepted scientific practice of never speaking in absolutes, dealing instead in probabilities based on the data. I am personally satisfied that global climate change is both real and predominantly manmade.​

 

[Buster52]

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Al Gore never said he invented the Internet. He said he was highly influential in its development.

Which is true. If it hadn't been for the things he accomplished, this forum would not exist.

 

[Amyable]

"I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

 

[Goose and Fig]

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in⋅i⋅ti⋅a⋅tive
  
–noun
1. an introductory act or step; leading action: to take the initiative in making friends.

Taking initiative is completely different than inventing something.

 

[Goose and Fig]

another definition of "initiative"

4. Government.
a. a procedure by which a specified number of voters may propose a statute, constitutional amendment, or ordinance, and compel a popular vote on its adoption. Compare referendum (def. 1).
b. the general right or ability to present a new bill or measure, as in a legislature.


The GORE BILL was the initiative.

As a Senator, Gore began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as "The Gore Bill"[4]) after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network[5] submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET (the ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock and others in 1969, is the predecessor of the Internet).[6]

Indeed, Kleinrock would later credit both Gore and the Gore Bill as a critical moment in Internet history:

ETA: I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee.......​

 

[dacjohns]

 

[Royd]

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Phil Jones, the professor behind the "Climategate" affair, has admitted some of his decades-old weather data was not well enough organised.

He said this contributed to his refusal to share raw data with critics - a decision he says he regretted.

But Professor Jones said he had not cheated over the data, or unfairly influenced the scientific process.

He said he stood by the view that recent climate warming was most likely predominantly man-made.

News sources can distort the accepted scientific practice of never speaking in absolutes, dealing instead in probabilities based on the data. I am personally satisfied that global climate change is both real and predominantly manmade.​

Are you, also, willing to lose another $2-3 grand of your income, every year, knowing that the problem will never actually get fixed?