The Isolated Blurt Thread XXXI: Blurt Blisters

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Nice screen stretcher.

Your sources stink. That's precisely the sort of cartoonish propaganda designed to fool the ignorant and the gullible.

Marcott et al has been ripped to shreds.



 
No. Just no.

Yes! Some liver with onions sounds great....with bacon even better. Liver, like cilantro, is one of those foods you either love or hate. There's no middle ground.
 
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A few years ago a poster... Johnny Ray Wilson, or something like that.

He was yammering on and on and on about his "fatal" disease and how he was going to beat it. Then someone pointed out that 'Lupis" (his spelling) wasn't fatal and he went off the deep end and never came back.

That one was a nut.

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Lupus only happens to women, isn't that right?


Women are far more susceptible to systemic lupus erythematosus than men.

Severe cases of lupus can be fatal.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_lupus_erythematosus

 



An Open Letter To An Alarmist Shill/


Graham Woods, Ph.D. to Brian Cox of the BBC.





https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2016/09/open-letter-alarmist-shill/


A brief excerpt:

...Along with any other panel member, you had a perfect right to nominate the dimensions of climate and climate change that you believe deserve to be put on the table, but as a non-specialist and a non-expert you had an obligation to confine those dimensions to those about which there can be very little doubt whatever: dimensions or facts that any intelligent non-specialist could, in principle, discover for herself. Here are some of them, the first and second groups surely safe from dispute by any climate scientist:

• Planet Earth is a dynamic planet in a dynamic solar system: thus climate change is, now and for millions of years to come, inevitable and unstoppable. In the absence of climate change, life as it exists on our planet simply wouldn’t.

• Our global climate system is almost incomprehensibly complex: across geological time and into the present affected interactively by the sun; the moon; possibly by some of the larger planets; by tectonic plate movement; volcanic activity; cyclical changes in the earth’s oceans; changes in the quantum and distribution of the earth’s biomass; changes in greenhouse gases that themselves are the result of changes in more underlying factors; by changes in the earth’s tilt and solar orbit; probably by changes in the earth’s magnetic field; and possibly by some other non-anthropogenic factors that at present scientists either don’t know about or whose impact they haven’t yet fully appreciated.

• ‘Consensus’ means ‘majority view’; majority views can be egregiously wrong (witness the work of apostates Marshall and Warren in the case of Helicobacter pylori and stomach ulcers).

• There is no published estimate of the degree of consensus on any aspect of climate or climate change that is so statistically robust that it can’t be contested; in any case, the size of the majority in favour of a scientific conclusion is logically disconnected from its validity: scientific hypotheses and conclusions are refined and proven by empirical data, not crowd appeal.

• There are now countless thousands of studies drawn from at least twenty scientific disciplines that aim to – or purport to – shed light on how the earth’s climate ‘works’. Many of their results and conclusions are, by their authors’ own reckoning, tentative; the results and conclusions of some studies contest the results and conclusions of others. There would be few, if any, aspects of climate that could claim 100% agreement among the relevant researchers except some of the raw data – and even many of these are contested, because different (though prima facie equally defensible) methods have been adopted to collect them.

• In 2016, the feedback loops and tipping points that are assumed to affect global climate systems are, in actual real-world settings, imperfectly understood, and tipping points in particular are largely speculative. This is true regardless of the possibility (even the likelihood) that the current ‘very rapid pulse increase’ in CO₂ is geologically unprecedented or the possibility that it will have irreversible climatic consequences.

• There is demonstrable scientific debate about the presumptive roles (yes, roles) of CO₂ in medium- and long-term climate change in the real world – and there is no conclusion about how CO₂ is related to these dimensions that is supported by incontestable empirical evidence.

• The impact of anthropogenic CO₂ is therefore a scientific question, not a matter on which ‘the science is settled’ or ‘the debate is over’...


(lots) more...
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2016/09/open-letter-alarmist-shill/





 
Yes! Some liver with onions sounds great....with bacon even better. Liver, like cilantro, is one of those foods you either love or hate. There's no middle ground.

You ain't lyin'. I likes 'em both.
 
The dog has started burrowing under my blankets to keep warm at night. :heart:
 
Argh! Firedog does this! I never had a dog that wanted to be under the covers before, only cats. I have bought her some fleece blankets for the top of the bed to bury under instead. I also think I might try a 'snuggle bed' for down stairs rooms without a fire in.

:D She helps keep me warm as well; like a fuzzy space heater.
 
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