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Matt Ridley, "The Climate Wars’ Damage to Science"

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This article in Nature mag nails it.
Ideological thinking like Interbane's simply refuse to acknowledge the realities of scientific practice within and inseparable from a social context.

http://www.nature.com/news/reproducibil ... NatureNews

"Pecisely. Replication of the sort that can be done with tightly controlled laboratory experiments is indeed often impossible when you are studying the behaviour of dynamic, complex systems, for example at the intersection of human health, the natural environment and technological risks. But it is hard to see how this amounts to an argument against mandating open access to the data from these studies. Growing concerns about the quality of published scientific results have often singled out bad statistical practices and modelling assumptions, and have typically focused on the very types of science that often underlie regulations, such as efforts to quantify the population-wide health effects of a single chemical."
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ant wrote:Ideological thinking like Interbane's simply refuse to acknowledge the realities of scientific practice within and inseparable from a social context.
Why do you say that? It was a great article that I agreed with.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/worl ... /72014440/

Yay. The US will soon be paying reparations for extreme weather caused by climate change!

Interbane, this aligns with your socialism doesnt it?
Great way to distribute some wealth, huh?
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Great way to distribute some wealth, huh?
Why do you think that?
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Since we are fellow Californians, what's your take on this:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/09/12/c ... rry-brown/
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The website? It's garbage. As for green energy hurting the poor, there's some truth to that. But there are also ways around it.

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/ ... to-8030588
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Oh I knew what you think of the website and dont care.
You wouodnt even understand the science they discuss and cite anyway.
Youre just a bandwagon groupie.

Ill look at the link.
Thanks for that.
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You wouodnt even understand the science they discuss and cite anyway.
Nope, I'm really really dumb.
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... ks-carbon/

More miscalculations and "it is not known"s

But yeah, as a sink, the ocean is a significant aspect of climate variability.
And little is known on how that impacts long term forcasting.
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