2014-03-21 17:52 GMT+01:00 Jesse Mazer <[email protected]>: > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:19 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>>> The thing I most want to know about RCP4.5 is what RCP stands for, >>>>> Google seems to think it's "Rich Client Platform" but that doesn't sound >>>>> quite right. It must be pretty obscure, Wikipedia has never heard of RCP >>>>> either. >>>>> >>>> >>> For your information, that means "Regional Climate Prediction" >>> >> >> I'm pretty sure it's not "Russian Communist Party" but are you sure it's >> not "Representative Concentration Pathways"? Wikipedia lists 21 >> possible meanings of the acronym "RCP" and that's the only one that has >> anything at all to do with the environment. Wikipedia has never heard of >> "Regional Climate Prediction". >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCP >> >> > It seems you're correct here, the RCP4.5 scenario I discussed was one of > four "reprentative concentration pathway" scenarios as indicated by the > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_Concentration_Pathways wiki > page. >
Well then sorry I was the dumb here... I'm too much accustomed that John says BS... But anyway this ==> > Of course, this doesn't change the fact that you chose to use a > rhetorical question about the meaning of the acronym as a lame excuse to > totally duck my point > was what John wanted to do and do in every discussion he can have... he doesn't want to argue, he likes reading himself... he doesn't care if there is a genuine point of discussion... at least up until now. > that it shows emissions being reduced in a non-drastic way but with a > significantly better range of projected temperature rises by 2100 than the > business-as-usual scenarios. But this was in keeping with your 100% > non-substantive response which ducked every single issue I brought up, like > the fact that plenty of people who want to take action on the climate are > pro-nuclear (your only response was smartass-teenager style mockery of my > use of the word "strawman", ignoring the actual case I made that your > characterization of environmentalist views was entirely cherry-picked and > non-representative), or the fact that water vapor is not a climate forcing > factor like CO2, or the question of what general standard you use to judge > the merit of scientific claims in areas you have no expertise in (though > your various ignorant claims about physics suggest your standard is > something like "treat scientific expertise as worthless whenever it doesn't > match what I'd prefer to believe, and place unerring faith in whatever > handwavey verbal analysis of a scientific question happens to pop into my > head, arguing for this view with supreme confidence regardless of whether I > can find any expert support for it"). > > Jesse > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
