If I owe $100 to Tom but Harry owes me $100, the situation is the same as if Harry owed ... zam | 7Feb12 | More
Again, if you don't mind, a short follow-up Mr. Snark. Please forgive me for being so circumlocutory in my response. ... proletarian | 28Jan12 | More
Hey Snark, good to hear from you. I have a confession to tell. Whether I agree or disagree with your ... proletarian | 28Jan12 | More
Now don't do anything drastic, Prole! I remember some of my more fringy friends on the left wing fringe ... Snark Twain | 26Jan12 | More
Dave - you are quite right. I have tried a few times to explain to Joel that the issue is ... Mike Jonas | 21Jan12 | More
Joel and Mike: Gentlemen, you're getting hung up on the wrong issue. The issue is NOT the validity or ... Dave | 21Jan12 | More
Sorry Mr. Snark, I'd like to do a little follow-up if you don't mind. I refuse to vote for Mitt, ... proletarian | 13Jan12 | More
Oh, my, my, my, Mr. Snark -- always a pleasure to read you. As usual you have been very eloquent ... proletarian | 13Jan12 | More
Joel - your habit of portraying criticisms of scientists' work as ad hominems is getting ridiculous.
All of the data used ... Mike Jonas | 4Jan12 | More
Mike:
You claim BEST used the same data as previous studies. This is disingenuous and borders on a lie. ... Joel | 4Jan12 | More
Happy New Year to all. 2011 was a pretty miserable year in many ways, so here's hoping that 2012 will ... Mike Jonas | 3Jan12 | More
Geez, that's unbeilevbale. Kudos and such. Keischa | 17Dec11 | More
Thank you Mike,
On the third try you finally answered the question, sort of. "yes and no".
Just to be clear: ... Joel | 12Dec11 | More
Joel - Everything that I have said concerning Michael Mann directly or indirectly has been about the science and the ... Mike Jonas | 12Dec11 | More
Chief:
You requested: "Show me the science that is not so easily debatable, rather than debate the very debatable with esoteric ... Joel | 12Dec11 | More
Mike,
We're making some progress. You now say, "their numbers are correctly derived from their data using their stated methodology". ... Joel | 12Dec11 | More
Joel - You have very conveniently ignored all the pertinent points from my last comment(s). A lot of what was ... Mike Jonas | 11Dec11 | More
Mike,
You are misrepresenting the study again, and you're intelligent enough to know it.
From an article quoted on Watts's climate "skeptic" ... Joel | 11Dec11 | More
Joel - You ask "Is the science they did right?". They didn't do much science. The figures they ended up ... Mike Jonas | 10Dec11 | More
Mike,
In my experience with the HIV-AIDS "skeptics" (yes they like being called skeptics too), their arguments typically diverge quickly from ... Joel | 10Dec11 | More
Joel - that was a long and passionate comment, but you aren't seeing the whole story.
Anthony Watts was very optimistic ... Mike Jonas | 10Dec11 | More
"Make the science unassailable with out needing to have majority political support."
Herein is the challenge. People make a very ... Joel | 9Dec11 | More
Joel, I thank you for all things that you voluntarily do and for the sincerity with which I trust you ... Chief Hypocrite | 9Dec11 | More
Hi Chief,
You pointed out that even the "science is settled crowd" is unwilling to make significant personal sacrifices to reduce ... Joel | 9Dec11 | More
Ellen,
wow, that was harsh. You posed a question, but provided only a partial recollection of the data, which in ... Joel | 8Dec11 | More
Mike,
I find your argument tempting on the face of it, but it just doesn't stand up to inspection.
First, given that ... Joel | 8Dec11 | More
@Joel
Sorry I was away and could not respond to your posting.
If I recall the glacier photographs (daguerreotypes) were ... elleno | 7Dec11 | More
Joel - it's mainly a matter of language.
"Global warming" doesn't mean "global warming" any more. It means "man-made [CO2] global ... Mike Jonas | 7Dec11 | More
Mike,
The explanation for why the ocean warming cannot explain the time-scale of the observed trend is somewhat more detailed than ... Joel | 7Dec11 | More
Thank you from me and mine! Chief Hypocrite | 26Nov11 | More
Joel - apologies, somehow I missed your comments on 24 October. Briefly:
The sun's effect on global temperature over timescales longer ... Mike Jonas | 24Nov11 | More
Some good questions: "What is the ideal temperature for earth and when have we had it?" As humans we notice ... Chief Hypocrite | 24Nov11 | More
I love all the scientific garbledeegook. You're so much smarter than everyone else. I use to be a ... Max17 | 22Nov11 | More
Recently Gavin Polone, a manager and producer of Hollywood films wrote this in the Hollywood Reporter about Occupy Wall Street ... Chief Hypocrite | 6Nov11 | More
Chief, at lest your point comes across much more perspicuous this time. Although I may not agree with all of ... proletarian | 5Nov11 | More
Alan Greenspan once said something like, "if you understood what I said, I must have misspoken." He mistakenly thought he ... Chief Hypocrite | 5Nov11 | More
Telling them not to do drugs and then toking on a doobie at a party is also hypocitical. Hypocrisy is ... proletarian | 4Nov11 | More
Chief, I've read your article twice and find it more confusing the second time. It seems to be a little ... proletarian | 4Nov11 | More
Not a scientist just a 68 year old with some questions: 11 thousand years ago glacier national park was covered ... john grove | 3Nov11 | More
Lt., although I agree with your premise I believe what you are refering to is simply a by-product of what ... proletarian | 3Nov11 | More
The problem is not Capitalist.. The problem is not Socialists..
The problem is the constant 24/7 365 day a year bombardment ... Lt.Borgen | 3Nov11 | More
Hi Ellen,
Can you tell us when the second photo in any of these sequences was taken? If the first ... Joel | 25Oct11 | More
Here is a conundrum for all the tub thumpers that believe in AGW as opposed to GW.
1. Around the world ... Ellen O'Day | 25Oct11 | More
Here's an interesting thought experiment. The Koch brothers have a strong financial interest in arguing that people are not ... Joel | 24Oct11 | More
Mike:
I want to separately handle your repeated argument about solar activity. You claim that the fact that solar energy ... Joel | 24Oct11 | More
Hi Mike,
I'm sorry, but I find the accusations you're making to be just not credible. You are accusing a scientist ... Joel | 24Oct11 | More
Joel - Your last comment has only just appeared in my inbox, yet shows before mine in the blog. Not ... Mike Jonas | 23Oct11 | More
Joel -
>>>"I trust you’re offended at the person who made the initial claims way up at the top of this ... Mike Jonas | 22Oct11 | More
By the way: when an oil company funds a skeptic researcher to investigate global warming, they don't expect this answer, ... Joel | 22Oct11 | More
So I'm going to respond to a few of the points made above.
Mike: I'm glad you acknowledge that ... Joel | 22Oct11 | More
Chief, everyone has the right to express their opinions, and as long as it does not endanger anyone else that ... proletarian | 13Oct11 | More
Pro - The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claims that capitalism has run it's course and is at a dead end. In ... Chief Hypocrite | 13Oct11 | More
Thank you Vort for pointing that out to me, however, I already knew that. Maybe you didn't quite get my ... proletarian | 8Oct11 | More
1990, Bush was president, a republican. Vort saBinring | 7Oct11 | More
Mike
Hooray! Reason for hope. I'd more or less given up.
Trust you had a successful fishing trip. ... John Theophilus | 6Oct11 | More
John T - all fair comment, except for "If global warming isn’t anthropogenic we are also stuffed". If global warming ... Mike Jonas | 5Oct11 | More
I think that the scientific evidence for anthropogenic global warming is less than totally conclusive and that there is at ... John Theophilus | 5Oct11 | More
Is it allowed for Mr Assange to be awarded hypocrite of the year for a second year to celebrate his ... John Theophilus | 3Oct11 | More
Hypocrisy is not just saying one thing and doing another, or the act of "not practicing what you preach." It ... David | 3Oct11 | More
I've been away for a few weeks, and I see that the debate has moved along a bit in the ... Mike Jonas | 29Sep11 | More