On Feb 6, 9:58 pm, Robert Indigo Ellison <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Dear Alastair,
> Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises - p13
>
> You haven't looked at this publication have you? I am simply making a
> rational evaluation of the data - what it can say and what it cant.
> Your stance on paleoclimatic conditions is akin to arguing about
> angels on pinheads. I can't be bothered.
I read that PNAS document when it was first published, and it seemed
to me that they did not know what caused abrupt climate change any
more that any one else :-(
Nor do you seem to understand that the stability of a ball balanced on
a pinhead is different from a ball lying in a saucer. The first is a
repelling point, the second is an attractor. Moreover, the main
forcing in the climate system is from the Sun, which produces a semi
sine wave of radiation on a daily basis. Under such circumstance the
ball on the pin head would not be stable, but the one in the saucer
could well be.
You claim to be arguing about what the data can and cannot say, but
seem to have decided it says nothing. Well in that case I can't be
bothered arguing with you either.
Cheers, Alastair.
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