Why Climate Change Doesn’t Scare Me (cite). Guest essay by Walter Starck at WUWT, the usual kind of fluff, and as usual I'll add my comments there, to here.
(in which AW does finally admit that I'm banned from WUWT)
This blog consists of comments from my real blog, http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/, which I don't want to publish there. Plus some other stuff convenient to place here. And its becoming a convenient place for me to dump my comments on other blogs so I can find them again.
William Connolley says:
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June 7, 2014 at 8:45 am
> Be scared, the experts tell us, be very scared.
I think you’re failing to distinguish the science from the meeja. IPCC doesn’t tell you to be scared.
> Although a small amount of CO2 in the air results in significant warming, this effect is quickly saturated
The forcing, at levels within plausible multiples of the current CO2 level, is approximately logarithmic in CO2. Which, obviously enough, doesn’t saturate.
> To call the warming induced by CO2 a greenhouse effect is highly misleading.
Indeed, but that’s hardly news. Wiki will tell you the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect#Real_greenhouses
> A better explanation for any increased glacial flow might be that the increasing snowfall, also recorded, is increasing the flow of ice as the Antarctic ice cap is already at the level to induce plastic flow
No, that would be a very poor explanation, due to the timescales involved.
(apparently I'm pretty scary too)
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June 7, 2014 at 8:45 am
[snip - as you know, you are a persona non-grata here, as well as many other places, for your snotty, condecending style of thread disruption. While in fairness, I allowed you to comment on the recent thread that discussed your many biases and edits related to Wikipedia, I had no intention of allowing that to become an open offer to rise from your previous ban here, and disrupt threads that are not about you or your undue influence in Wikipedia. Now run along and write something nasty on your blog about this, as has been your typical modus operandi, and please refrain from commenting on any threads that are not about you. -Anthony]
(however, that comment was too scary to be permitted)
ReplyDeleteWilliam Connolley says:
June 7, 2014 at 8:45 am
[snip - as you know, you are a persona non-grata here, as well as many other places, for your snotty, condecending style of thread disruption. While in fairness, I allowed you to comment on the recent thread that discussed your many biases and edits related to Wikipedia, I had no intention of allowing that to become an open offer to rise from your previous ban here, and disrupt threads that are not about you or your undue influence in Wikipedia. Now run along and write something nasty on your blog about this, as has been your typical modus operandi, and please refrain from commenting on any threads that are not about you. -Anthony]
(the explicit note re banning was interesting, though. The denizens there generally pretend I'm not banned. And, weirdly, comments on other threads have got through. So I left him)
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June 7, 2014 at 10:28 am
> you are a persona non-grata here… I allowed you to comment on the recent thread that discussed your…
You may want to have a word with your mods rehttp://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/03/epas-new-proposed-regulations-to-restrict-emissions-from-existing-fossil-fuel-based-electric-generation/ in that case; see-also http://stoat-spam.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/epas-new-proposed-regulations-to.html
The sure like debating science at WUWT.
ReplyDelete[ Mr. Venema, you wonder why you are on moderation, it is because you are sneering and taunting on your own blog. an example is that you took a comment by our host, suggesting you have a fixation on WUWT and then added words not said to make it "My immature and neurotic fixation on WUWT", writing a 4,225 word blog post to that effect. it proved exactly the point about you having a fixation on WUWT and Mr. Watts. you will probably write about this too. -mod]
Sounds like moderation at WUWT is not there to improve the discussion in the comments, but to punish people for their behaviour elsewhere.
Reminds one of the anecdote of a drunk that lost his key somewhere and looks for it below the street light.