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Of course he is bloody serious. If you want to measure temperature would you rather do it with a thermometer, or try to infer it from the width of tree rings? Hmmm.... I wonder which would be more reliable.

I doubt that you will find this attitude in many Asian countries. In China, in particular, both science and scientists are held in respect. It probably didn't exist to nearly the same extent pre 1970 in the West either. I sometimes wonder if this anti-science stuff is a symptom (and one...

Pretty true observation. IMHO one factor is the attitude of the press which supposedly "prides itself" on presenting "both sides of the debate" - to the extent of giving equal time. Which sounds all nice and dandy and democratic. But what if one side of the debate is crackpot? And there...

3.5.5 seems pretty good on Linux. Except of course for Flash which is an abomination and not the fault of Firefox. HTML 5 and the video tag can't come soon enough.

The eye is terribly deceptive in these matters. As I said I tested such things as hammers using a stock screener I wrote and couldn't find any edge. I rather like the use of a screener for this sort of thing because you are testing over thousands of instruments and statistically any edge should...

I wrote some code to markup the "common" candle patterns on charts. Aren't they wonderful? With so many to choose from, cherry picking a few to support any proposition one cares to put forward should be a snap. More seriously, the code is also integrated into a stock screener with back...

Scientific consensus rocked? Hardly. He has been spruiking this stuff for years. Plimer is not taken seriously by people who know what they are talking about.

"Australia" did not defeat a "Global Warming Bill". Deeply divided conservatives (Liberal and National Parties) together with the Greens (for entirely different reasons) defeated it in the senate. When I say deeply divided I mean DEEPLY divided. The former conservative leader of the opposition...

Yes, but not over the time frame we are most interested in, which is the last few hundred and next few hundred years. And not over shorter time frame such as ten years. Some denialists eg Monkton have consistently said this and it is just NOT TRUE.

Bringing a law suit proves precisely nothing. I doubt that many people would contest that proposition. In this case it is clearly politically motivated. The truth is that there is vast amounts of climate data from many sources available, including from NASA. NASA publish their data, their...

All the climate models take into account multiple factors - not just CO2. This has been the subject of extensive research for a long time. Natural cycles such as El Nino. Short term solar cycles. Changes in the quantity of particulates dumped into the atmosphere (eg Sulphur compounds - the...

Variations in solar radiation are included in climate models. Attached figure shows the relative weight of the "forcings" used in NASA models. Notice the Sun on the right (and they do attribute some warming due to the sun)

Oops. I guess they overlooked that one. Why don't you write to the IPCC or NASA or any of the multiplicity of national science bodies that have stated that warming is human induced and point that out to them. I'm sure your expertise would be welcomed.

There is no evidence to show cooling. There are short term variations in the longer term trend. "The ten warmest years all occur within the 12-year period 1997-2008" http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2008/

Let me put it simply. The earth has a heat budget. It receives heat from the sun and most is radiated back into space. Some remains trapped in the oceans, the land surface and the atmosphere. There is (or was) a kind of equilibrium. The amount of heat radiated back into space depends upon the...

You right wing extremists who inhabit this forum set the gold standard for whining.

More drivel from Telegraph columnists. Lets abandon science and reason and return to the dark ages.

PS Pseudo code has the great virtue that you can make it as detailed or as abstract you like.

Err... If you want to discuss something on ET, why not just present it in pseudo code. I only use Java (though I can more than get by in C/C++) and it would take rather a lot to induce me to spend a lot of time in some other environment. And even then it would have to have Java bindings. I'm...

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