Dr Karl K. beloved of the ABC, was made to look very silly this week. It was pointed out that he'd exaggerated by 6 times the warming reported by the UK Met. His response? He deleted the Twitter posts where he'd said this. No apology, no explanation.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/.../comments/a_question_for_dr_karl_the_warmist/
Dr Karl, debating the figures of Britain’s Met, asserts the world has warmed 0.3 degrees in 16 years - which still isn’t that much, actually.
But the Met’s figures, as tweeter Bill correctly informs him, actually show a warming just one-sixth of what Dr Karl claimed. That is so small that scientists say it’s statistically insignificant. It’s indistinguishable from background noise. Essentially zero.
Just in case there is any doubt about what the Met figures show, here is the Met in its own words, excuses and all:
The linear trend from August 1997 (in the middle of an exceptionally strong El Niño) to August 2012 (coming at the tail end of a double-dip La Nina) is about 0.03 °C/decade, amounting to a temperature increase of 0.05 °C over that period...
The linear trend from August 1997 (in the middle of an exceptionally strong El Niño) to August 2012 (coming at the tail end of a double-dip La Nina) is about 0.03 °C/decade, amounting to a temperature increase of 0.05 °C over that period...
Or put it this way: if this rate of warming is real and was maintained for the rest of the century, the world by 2100 would be hotter by about 0.27 of a degree. You’d struggle to even measure it. You certainly wouldn’t notice a change in the climate, other than the natural ones that have always been with us.
Well, this is basilio sophistry at its best. Made an error in his maths???This is Andrew sophistry at its best. Pick one window of figures between the 2 most favourable points and then attempt to deny the rest of the evidence that shows a serious long term problem.
Karl K. made an error in his maths.
...Andrew Bolt is a sociopathic liar. His columns are full of deceptions, half truths and complete lies...
Isn't this defamatory?
Here is a snapshot of the apparently now removed tweets found on the same link provided by Logique:
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http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/.../comments/a_question_for_dr_karl_the_warmist/
So has he apologised or corrected his mis-statements.
I am sure his patients won't be too pleased that he makes such basic errors.
Imagine if he gave you a dose of amoxal that was one tenth of the proper dose when you had bronchitis. It could be serious.
gg
Keep playing dirty
PEOPLE claim Australia is ”ahead of the game” in cleaning up sport. That doesn’t wash. One of the most successful arguments against taxing carbon is that we must not get ahead of the game. And just as all right-thinking Australians believe we should do nothing to make fossil fuels dearer for Australian businesses, so they will believe we should do nothing to make it harder for our athletes to get drugs and continue to win.
We must insist that nothing be done to clean up sport in Australia that is not also being done in every other country. We must ensure that athletes from Fourth World countries that have never won so much as an Olympic bronze are not enabled to steal our gold medals because we have put our athletes in a politically correct straitjacket.
What’s the use of cleaning up your economy or your sport while everyone else is playing dirty? If we can live with sitting on our hands and doing bugger-all to secure the future of life on Earth as we know it, surely we can cope with doing bugger-all to save sport in Australia as we know it.
Colin Smith, St Kilda
If we can live with sitting on our hands and doing bugger-all to secure the future of life on Earth as we know it,
Interesting. I wonder what Mr Colin Smith will write to The Age about "securing...life on Earth" when the Yellowstone Caldera finally does its thing, which it will at some unknown time?
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