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Comment Re:Here is his TED talk (Score 1) 41

I think you are missing the point. All models are wrong, but we use them very successfully for a wide array of tasks. We used models to discover Neptune for instance. The models that we used were wrong (as are ALL models), but they successfully predicted the location of Neptune based on the orbit of Uranus.

Comment Re:second best (Score 1) 84

Perhaps a decade from now, when the vaccine is available, the poor folks living in these areas can stop cursing at the western do-gooders who got DDT banned.

Likely they are already aware that DDT was never banned (and is still in use) in areas with malaria. There's no stopping the frothing of the anti-environment types though - vaccine or no.

Comment Re:other planets easier, actually (Score 1) 298

Complete nonsense. Please show me the graph of how Venusian global mean surface temperature has changed over the last few decades. None exists. We have a few data points from which to infer (and these lead us to believe it was warmer in 1990 than in 2009 (Kostiuk 2011) which would seem to invalidate your theory).

The rest of your post is a little too nutty to parse although you seem to be implying that there is a global conspiracy to fake the temperature tends.

Comment Re:"and climate change deniers tout that" (Score 1) 298

To put it bluntly, even the phrase "global cooling" doesn't pass muster.

How many papers with the phrase "global cooling" can you find that show that the current warming trend is not primarily caused by humans? None of course. Any papers with the phrase "global cooling" are looking at periods millions of years ago. Why would slogging through thousands more papers that are not focused on the current warming be expected to have any thoughts on whether the current warming is caused by humans? Please find me even one paper with the phrase "global cooling" that takes a negative stance on the human contribution to the current warming.

biased evaluators

The papers were also evaluated by the people who wrote them. The authors themselves found greater consensus (98%) than the third party reviewers. So if the reviewers had a bias, it was towards non-consensus.

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