OT - Who is your favorite climate scientist?

fishlessman

we could just build a wall to keep the climate change out... a big glass domed wall....china can pay for the wall

GATraveller

YEMTrey said:

Aren't we all going to burn up in a nuclear war before this anyways?!

Not me.....I'm conditioning my body by no longer burping my egg before opening.

TEXASBGE2018

GrillSgt said:

I don't think anyone is accepting this because A scientist proclaimed this to be so. It's closer to 100% of climate scientists have proclaimed it to be factual than it is to 90%. So you want to wait to address the issue until it actually is 100% of climate scientists? Not prudent.

You got me there. I mean they only deal in facts right, Not THEORIES.

GrillSgt

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2018/apr/15/australia-doesnt-exist-and-other-bizarre-geographic-conspiracies-that-wont-go-away

alaskanassasin

I don’t think it is necessary for you @johnincarolina to attack @texasbge2018 intelligence. Can you argue a point without putting yourself on a podium?

BobDanger

You know...the earth is flat...right?

TEXASBGE2018

GrillSgt said:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2018/apr/15/australia-doesnt-exist-and-other-bizarre-geographic-conspiracies-that-wont-go-away

This is 100% true. Have you ever really been to Australia? Also, the easter bunny is real and the earth is flat. Just ask Steph Curry

TEXASBGE2018

alaskanassasin said:

I don’t think it is necessary for you @johnincarolina to attack @texasbge2018 intelligence. Can you argue a point without putting yourself on a podium?

John is a Professor so naturally because he went to college for 4 more years than me and got 3 degrees instead of my 2 he's obviously smarter and I am a "lay person"

JohnInCarolina

alaskanassasin said:

I don’t think it is necessary for you @johnincarolina to attack @texasbge2018 intelligence. Can you argue a point without putting yourself on a podium?

I didn’t attack his intelligence.  Me asking him to learn to think critically is not an attack.  I am assuming that he can learn to do that and would like to as well.  Otherwise he wouldn’t be asking me for source material.

GrillSgt

I have never been to Australia but I find whatever accent that is to be absolutely one of the most annoying things on earth.

SonVolt

Every been to Alabama?

DMW

I’ve been to Australia. I can confirm it exists. 

TEXASBGE2018

GrillSgt said:

I have never been to Australia but I find whatever accent that is to be absolutely one of the most annoying things on earth.

No argument here.

SonVolt

I find it incredibly sexy on the womens. 

TEXASBGE2018

SonVolt said:

I find it incredibly sexy on the womens. 

I prefer British its more sophisticated sounding. Australian Women sound like they've been kicked in the head a few dozen times.

GrillSgt

Same for Alabama.

TEXASBGE2018

DMW said:

I’ve been to Australia. I can confirm it exists. 

Fake News conspiracy theorist. Go somewhere else....

thetrim

Guam will topple over, if the US sends too many Marines there.

GATraveller

For some reason this comes to mind. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQGgaI-BcI4

YEMTrey

DMW said:

I’ve been to Australia. I can confirm it exists. 

Does Outback Steakhouse count?

thetrim

Double points if you go to an Outback Steakhouse in Australia

HeavyG

alaskanassasin said:

I don’t think it is necessary for you @johnincarolina to attack @texasbge2018 intelligence. Can you argue a point without putting yourself on a podium?

Pointing out that a press release and an op-ed are not scientific reports is not necessarily attacking someones intelligence.

johnnyp

I don't understand why we aren't putting more effort into capitalize on the (future) economic powerhouse of renewables.  Battery tech is the only thing holding us back

The developing world was able to completely leapfrog telecommunications infrastructure once cellular tech was available.  They will do the same with a power-grid once batteries will allow for effective localized storage of energy. Somebody has to sell it to them. Might as well be us.

JohnInCarolina

TEXASBGE2018 said:

alaskanassasin said:

I don’t think it is necessary for you @johnincarolina to attack @texasbge2018 intelligence. Can you argue a point without putting yourself on a podium?

John is a Professor so naturally because he went to college for 4 more years than me and got 3 degrees instead of my 2 he's obviously smarter and I am a "lay person"

Jesus man I really didn’t mean anything derogatory by including the “lay person” thing. All I meant by that phrase is that it’s written for people who don’t necessarily have a background in climate science.  That is a fairly commonly used term in the sciences.

As for my own education I do tend to know much more about climate science than many people with advanced degrees.  It’s not so much due to the degrees I hold but rather my experience in a civil and environmental engineering department where these things are routinely discussed.  There is a climate related scientific seminar here about once a month.  I also serve as a member of ASCAC, which is the Department of Energy’s strategic computing committee.  On that committee I literally review ongoing climate science and modeling/simulation efforts at the national laboratories.  

lkapigian

GATraveller said:

For some reason this comes to mind. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQGgaI-BcI4

^^^^^^^^^^^Fits Right In^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

GATraveller

JohnInCarolina said:

TEXASBGE2018 said:

alaskanassasin said:

I don’t think it is necessary for you @johnincarolina to attack @texasbge2018 intelligence. Can you argue a point without putting yourself on a podium?

John is a Professor so naturally because he went to college for 4 more years than me and got 3 degrees instead of my 2 he's obviously smarter and I am a "lay person"

Jesus man I really didn’t mean anything derogatory by including the “lay person” thing. All I meant by that phrase is that it’s written for people who don’t necessarily have a background in climate science.  That is a fairly commonly used term in the sciences.

As for my own education I do tend to know much more about climate science than many people with advanced degrees.  It’s not so much due to the degrees I hold but rather my experience in a civil and environmental engineering department where these things are routinely discussed.  There is a climate related scientific seminar here about once a month.  I also serve as a member of ASCAC, which is the Department of Energy’s strategic computing committee.  On that committee I literally review ongoing climate science and modeling/simulation efforts at the national laboratories.  

  

JohnInCarolina

Hahaha

northGAcock

YEMTrey said:

DMW said:

I’ve been to Australia. I can confirm it exists. 

Does Outback Steakhouse count?

I am a fan of both Fosters lager and the bitter. Honorary Menrion?

Eoin

JohnInCarolina said:

Anyway... we have temperature measurements going back a century.  Beyond that what we have are proxy data.  This is data that can be used to infer (with a reasonable degree of uncertainty) as to what the temperatures have been dating back centuries, in fact millenia.  In other words, we can reconstruct the temperature record with some degree of confidence.  

Is there a graph of the 'proxy data' over a long period of time (thousands of years)? We have a lot of abandoned historic sites here in the UK where analysis shows that they were viable for agriculture a few thousand years ago because the climate was much warmer then. How does this fit with current temperatures / projected rises?

TEXASBGE2018

JohnInCarolina said:

TEXASBGE2018 said:

alaskanassasin said:

I don’t think it is necessary for you @johnincarolina to attack @texasbge2018 intelligence. Can you argue a point without putting yourself on a podium?

John is a Professor so naturally because he went to college for 4 more years than me and got 3 degrees instead of my 2 he's obviously smarter and I am a "lay person"

As for my own education I do tend to know much more about climate science than many people with advanced degrees.  It’s not so much due to the degrees I hold but rather my experience in a civil and environmental engineering department where these things are routinely discussed.  There is a climate related scientific seminar here about once a month.  I also serve as a member of ASCAC, which is the Department of Energy’s strategic computing committee.  On that committee I literally review ongoing climate science and modeling/simulation efforts at the national laboratories.  

Definitely not putting yourself on a podium right John?   y'all just get back to me when the average global temp raises by 25 degrees