brenthutch

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  1. That is just what the "hottest ten years on record" crowd does, I take a deeper dive.
  2. Make it then Of course you are referring to statism, as practice by the atheist states of the Soviet Union and Mao's China.
  3. It's called the Null Hypothesis "the null hypothesis is a general statement or default position that there is nothing significantly different happening, like there is no association among groups or variables, or that there is no relationship between two measured phenomena.[1][2][3] Testing (accepting, approving, rejecting, or disproving) the null hypothesis—and thus concluding that there are (or there are not) grounds for believing that there is a relationship between two phenomena (e.g. that a potential treatment has a measurable effect)—is a central task in the modern practice of science; the field of statistics, more specifically hypothesis testing, gives precise criteria for rejecting or accepting a null hypothesis within a confidence level.[3] The null hypothesis is generally assumed to be true until evidence indicates otherwise"
  4. You don't have to go back that far, a few decades is sufficient
  5. Temperature data can be incomplete, missing and miss/maladjusted. What is important is not the number on the computer screen, but rather the real world impact of that number. NOAA can manipulate a number, but they can't create hurricanes, floods or droughts or tornadoes (arsonists CAN start wildfires though)
  6. You mean the warmest ten since the early 2000s. (Prior to deployment of the Argo system, we did not have sufficient data on ocean temperature to make any sort of valid comparison, and prior to that, global surface temperature data was not comprehensive enough to be of any value until the mid 20th century.)
  7. All current meteorological phenomena are well within the range of natural variability. For the past few years Michael Mann has been up in his office frantically P hacking his ass off looking for a defensible example of attribution, and has not been able to provide a single one.
  8. It's the topic of the thread. Everyone wants to denigrate religion, even suggesting it is a mental illness. I merely pointed out, without it we would still be wearing loincloths and killing our neighbors with spears.
  9. Yes, I have experienced milder winters, I have also experienced harsher winters, it's called weather. It has been warmer in the past and it has been colder in the past. Sea level has been lower sea level has been higher. Deaths from climate related disasters are a fraction of what they used to be. Whatever impact anthropogenic influence has on the climate is dwarfed by natural variability and remains undetectable. I know the press is full of emotionally charged antidotes, breathlessly reporting on ever bit of bad weather as "proof" of AGW so I understand your confusion.
  10. The role of religion in the formation, organization and development of early civilizations is undisputed. (This forum being the notable exception)
  11. Sorry, I don’t have time to teach an anthropology course today.
  12. Just pointing out the irony of characterizing one of the mechanisms which made civilization possible as a mental illness.
  13. Yes yes, doomsday (just like catastrophic climate change) is always right around the corner yet it never quite gets here. The end times is something common in most religions.
  14. Hey, the 1980’s called and it wants its word view back
  15. You would still be wearing a loincloth and hunting with a spear if it weren’t for religion. Show me an example of a Bronze Age, atheist society.
  16. I hope you guys realize that religion played a pivotal role in the development of civilization. Without it we would still be a bunch of Neolithic warring tribes.
  17. Check out what Alfred Wegener and Luis Alvarez did to the “consensus” of the experts. (Or Galileo for that matter)
  18. It only takes one to falsify a hypothesis.
  19. BTW the consensus is starting to crumble http://www.journalpsij.com/index.php/PSIJ/article/view/30127/56520 Looks like the IPCC grossly overstates climate sensitivity to CO2
  20. You mean like this? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-exxon-mobil-climatechange-donation/exxon-puts-1-million-into-climate-group-promoting-u-s-carbon-tax-idUSKCN1MJ2E9
  21. https://notrickszone.com/2020/01/26/0-34-kwh-german-electricity-prices-skyrocket-to-new-record-highs-a-gigantic-redistribution-machine/ It is curious just how expensive "free" energy can be.
  22. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7924875/University-offers-students-struggling-anxiety-climate-change-THERAPY.html An example of religion and mental illness