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Comment Re:Predictions versus reality [Re:The quiet part . (Score 1) 92

You're not paying me to be your research assistant. So far I've given four links-- you have given none-- and for three of them you explained why you're not going to read them, and one you simply ignored. Since you show not even a casual interest in the links I already gave, I see no reason to spend any of my time giving you more links to ignore.

The one you ignored is this one:

For a more scholarly summary, here a paper from the American Geophysical Union: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary....

As for

P.S. Calling me "an idiot" or "denier" is not going to work :-)

Yes, I've noticed that deniers don't like being called deniers.

Comment Re: Predictions versus reality [Re:The quiet part (Score 1) 92

I'll add that the greenhouse effect is the tool we use to understand the temperatures of ALL planets with atmospheres (and one moon), not just Earth.

(In fact, I can say that I have personally measured the infrared downwelling from the atmosphere on Mars (using the mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer on the Mars Exploration Rovers).)

Comment Predictions versus reality [Re:The quiet part ...] (Score 2) 92

And I'll even help!

Please, sift through your massive documents yourself

Yes, I've noticed that climate deniers are highly allergic to reading actual science, and in particular will do anything at all to avoid looking at IPCC reports, so I'm not surprised that you want me to read the reports and summarize them for you, so you can argue with me instead of actually learning anything.

to cite a couple of "precise, non-trivial and impactful" predictions. I assume, you've read the documents you're offering as evidence yourself, so it wouldn't be much of a burden for you. Thank you!

In fact, as a hobby I've been keeping a graph of the predictions based on the Manabe and Wetherald model (1967, the first greenhouse effect model using detailed CO2 infrared spectra and incorporating convection and radiation), as well as the National Academies of Sciences 1979 report, and comparing them to measurements. So far they've been tracking remarkably well. I'd post the graphs, but slashdot doesn't have that capability. However, here's an article from Forbes that does the same comparison: https://www.forbes.com/sites/s...

For a more scholarly summary, here a paper from the American Geophysical Union: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary....

Comment Re:The quiet part slipped out (Score 4, Informative) 92

Now, how about a successful prediction? Something reasonably precise, non-trivial and impactful, please — falsifiable, yet not falsified in due time... If you choose to play, be sure, each citation includes two links: one to the prediction being made, and another — to it coming true within at least 20% of the predicted value (for the quantifiable ones). Crucially, the two links must be at least 5 years apart...

And I'll even help! You can find the predictions in the IPCC assessment reports, all of which are easily available on the web. Here's the very first one, 1990:
The scientific basis: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar1...
The impact assessment: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar1...

Comment Re:Currents (Score 3, Informative) 92

No, if that current collapse, Europe is going to freeze. That current cools down Northern America and warms up Europe. That's why you have snow storms and it's cold in Montreal in the winter while comparatively a lot warmer in Paris France and Paris is farther up North than Montreal.

Paris 48.8567 N
Montreal 45.50889 N,

Comment Re:Just... wow (Score 1) 120

Its not racism or prejudice in the sense of judging people by immaterial qualities (skin color, sex/gender/ethnicity/etc) , it is the prejudice of Elitism. They think ONLY their elite compatriots are or should be eligible to doing the six figure job. There was a cute 80s movie that took this Elitism to task, The Last Starfighter.

It fits this pretty well.

Comment Re:This is a bit too new to tell (Score 0) 185

The very same people who told right wingers to "go start your own" social media, when the whole big tech cabal collectively went after various people, are the same ones now complaining that they were banned without cause for posting on a Tuesday.

This isn't a pro or con right wing post, this is a "you made your bed now lie in it" post.

I'm not a fan of the bigoted posts from any side. People love the powers that be right up to and until they are on the wrong side of those powers. Take a moment and think things through, and lets stop being so damn tribal, and maybe, just maybe Liberty will survive.

Comment Re:Or it kills them undiagnosed (Score 0) 70

Perhaps taxi and ambulance drivers just get killed on the job in the early stages of the disease, causing the death to be attributed to anther cause?

Or perhaps the study has controlled for that, as it clearly explains in the freely accessible text.

Or perhaps the way they controlled for that was inadequate. If even ONE PERCENT of the deaths attributed to other causes was actually due to Alzheimers, that would swamp the observed effect. Can they say for sure that their method of controlling for other effects is better than 99% effective?

Comment How do they measure occupation [Re:Do they die...] (Score 2) 70

It's a good question.

Not enough information here. Alzheimer's disease starts slow, and progresses incrementally for years. My first hypothesis would be that taxi drivers in the early stages of Alzheimer's become unable to drive effectively, and hence leave the profession years before they are diagnosed with Alzheimer's; hence their death certificates don't list "taxi driver" as their occupation.

But the observation that taxi drivers die an average of ten years earlier than other occupations also makes the explanation that their protocol for removal of confounding effects may be inadequate. That's a huge effect to compensate out.

Comment Re:millimeter scanning [Re:What a waste] (Score 1) 131

I'm sorry, when I read your earlier post I was so focused on your ignorance of millimeter waves that I somehow completely overlooked the part showing that you are a conspiracy nut who believes thinks like " 90% of hijackings, including Lockerbee and 9/11, were government intelligent funded psychological operations".

I apologize for wasting both of our time by interacting with you. Please carry on (preferably somewhere else).

Comment millimeter scanning [Re:What a waste] (Score 2) 131

Interesting comment, but in fact, millimeter wave machines are well understood to be harmless (millimeter waves are non-ionizing), and while they may have false positives, the response to a positive in airport screening is not to arrest people, but to do search to see what caused the positive. Eliminating mm scanners would mean more, not less, intrusive scanning.

Comment The message [Re:What a waste] (Score 3, Interesting) 131

Did politicians get the message that people don't want these yet?

It's slightly more complicated than that. The problem is, "the people" are afraid of crime, and what they want is the police to have the tools to track down and arrest criminals. So the message the politicians get is a contradictory one: "give the police the tools to make our neighborhoods safe from crime! Whatever it takes!" and simultaneously "we don't want government surveillance!"

If you don't like it, you will need to convince people that civil liberties are more important than stopping crime.

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