That's fine, Steve, but please give me a reasonable explanation of my
single outlying data point.
Chuck Norcutt
Johann Thorsson wrote:
> Many of the comments/arguments these gentlemen have are addressed in the
> last IPCC report. But of course we don't know everything, this is a
> question of best available and accepted knowledge at any given time.
>
> This reminds me of Project Steve http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/steve/
> (sorry, could not resist...)
>
> J
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 12:49 PM
> Subject: [OM] Re: OT Probably controversial
>
>
>> And here's a longer list of scientists on the opposing side
>>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_
> assessment_of_global_warming>
>> including Robert C. Balling, Jr., director of the Office of Climatology
>> and an associate professor of geography at Arizona State University...
>> It seems all is not settled between Arizona State and the University of
>> Arizona.
>>
>> I like to consider myself a fan of the scientific method which to me
>> means that a theory must account for all the data points. It can't
>> ignore the outliers without thoroughly explaining them. To do so ain't
>> science in my book. One of the scientists mentioned here, Tim Patterson
>> paleoclimatologist and Professor of Geology at Carleton University in
>> Canada says: "There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and
>> Earth's temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2
>> levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million
>> years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period
>> in the last half billion years. On the basis of this evidence, how could
>> anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2
>> levels would be the major cause of the past century's modest warming?"
>>
>> Now there's one of them pesky data point outliers. Who's burying their
>> head in the sand, I ask?
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
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