* Posts by Peter

14 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Aug 2007

Top British boffin: Time to ditch the climate consensus

Peter
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Re: Friends of the Earth?

You've got the wrong site - you're normally being quoted on http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/. Meanwhile, the "green" agenda isn't actually green at all - I've seen it, it's written on white paper. Lies!

Jacqui Smith ecstatically ignores more scientific advice

Peter
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Climate change?

I wonder if El Reg has ever considered its editorial policy on climate change in the same light? Massive weight of scientific evidence ... ring any bells? Or maybe another opinion piece made without reference to reality. Yes, that'll do.

UK.gov torpedoes personal carbon credit plans

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@Jim

Jim

Look on the bright side - at least none of the comments so far are trotting out the idea that anyone researching the issues are protecting their research grants. There has been a little known rush of energy executives leaving their jobs to take up research grants into environmental issues, so great are the rewards.

Big Climate's strange 'science'

Peter

@Sanity checks

Thats kind of why we have peer review, and why you shouldn't form your opinion of a field of science from media reports...

Peter

@@Peter' response to "It's wasn't an article."

OK, lets try again. It is an article: nonfiction prose.

I've no problem with someone asking questions as part of science. Even though it was in a news website. The problem is that if you're going to ask questions in science, it's normal to have some understanding of the field before you do so. Other posters have made it very clear why he's wrong in his basic assumptions. It's a pity you think freedom of speech is "dieing" (sic). Go and read some of the real science, and when you've educated yourself on the subject, you might be in a position to add something to the debate. Just don't expect to come along to a forum, post some twaddle without any understanding of the issues, and expect to be taken seriously.

Peter

Re: It wasn't an article

OK, so...it was comment...not supposed to have any proof or scientific data. Then you say people are attacking the person and motives, not the science he presents. So you're a little confused there. over whether science is being presented or not. At least you're agreeing the article has no basis in science, can't be justified, and isn't adding anything to a debate on the matter.

Peter
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Wahey! Climate twaddle!

So an "IT professional" is able to spout some twaddle about a field he doesn't understand? Bimey, the Reg is going downhill. OK: As others have pointed out, climate science didn't suddenly appear fully formed, it's based on solid science. It's not just about the climate models, those are based on the real data. It's a pity that someone calling themselves an IT professional clearly has no idea of real science. Obviously no-one has told the Royal Society that all these scientists don't believe it - but then why listen to an old-fashioned body of people who've actually achieved something, or read actual research papers?

Interesting also that the "It's all a green conspiracy" theorists are out in force - obviously articles like this written by a hack after a liquid lunch don't help, but neither do White House aides editing scientific reports to make it appear as if there's genuine consensus, or pseudo-independent think tanks funded by the oil industry duplicating the tobacco industry tactics to make it appear as if there's still a debate. Anyone out there really think the green lobby has more power than the oil companies? Anyone who believes that who isn't wearing a tinfoil hat? No, thought not.

Al Gore climate change site hacked

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A pity

Al Gore never claimed that he invented the Internet; he said:

"During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system"

Jeroen: Having a bit of a strop about facts you don't like? Go have some more of your happy pills, then ask someone to explain what 'science' is all about, in words of one syllable.

Red Arrows to fly at Olympics, Sun announces

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Great British Journalism

Fantastic - the Sun publishes a pack of lies, gets their readership frothing, and presumably then pretends it changed a few minds. Tw@s.

Judge rules Gore's film an inconvenient catalogue of errors

Peter

Bob Wheeler

Climate science and weather forecasting are completely different things.

DARPA code teams compete on same K9 robot

Peter

ROTM avoided?

Forget armed milbots, embrace the robohound humping your leg :D

Ninja she-devils rob Pennsylvania gas station

Peter

How to spot a ninja

Announce, in a loud voice "I know something else thats silent and deadly- my farts"

Consumers confused by HD

Peter

@ John PM Chappell and the grammatically challenged

Nope, John is right. Comes from the French influence on the English language (hence l'hopital, l'hotel de ville, etc)

Oono Transmita Vii wireless music system

Peter

Frankie Howerd

Can these guys produce a system called the TitterYeNot? They're halfway to being a Frankie Howerd tribute already being called Oono....