Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-28 Thread LizR
On 27 May 2015 at 02:07, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 1:03:48 PM UTC+10, Liz R wrote: On 25 May 2015 at 00:34, Pierz pie...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 9:08:30 PM UTC+10, spudb...@aol.com wrote: I sure did, Telmo. Scroll to the bottom and you

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-26 Thread Pierz
On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 1:03:48 PM UTC+10, Liz R wrote: On 25 May 2015 at 00:34, Pierz pie...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 9:08:30 PM UTC+10, spudb...@aol.com wrote: I sure did, Telmo. Scroll to the bottom and you shall view my last, number 26th, the last

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-26 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 1:03:48 PM UTC+10, Liz R wrote: On 25 May 2015 at 00:34, Pierz pie...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 9:08:30 PM UTC+10, spudb

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 26 May 2015, at 16:07, Pierz wrote: On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 1:03:48 PM UTC+10, Liz R wrote: On 25 May 2015 at 00:34, Pierz pie...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 9:08:30 PM UTC+10, spudb...@aol.com wrote: I sure did, Telmo. Scroll to the bottom and you shall view my last,

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-25 Thread meekerdb
. -Original Message- From: Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com javascript: To: everything-list everyth...@googlegroups.com javascript: Sent: Mon, May 4, 2015 4:19 am Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 9:19 PM

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-25 Thread LizR
On 25 May 2015 at 00:34, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 9:08:30 PM UTC+10, spudb...@aol.com wrote: I sure did, Telmo. Scroll to the bottom and you shall view my last, number 26th, the last one. This kind of thing is interesting to me. I tend toward the materialist

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-24 Thread Pierz
, 2015 4:19 am Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 9:19 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List everyth...@googlegroups.com javascript: wrote: Hi Telmo, I have tried the Other Side stuff for a bit, and found it wanting. Not so

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-18 Thread LizR
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2objectid=11450770ref=nzh_tw Antarctica's Larsen B ice-shelf is on course to disintegrate completely within the next five years, according to a study by US space agency Nasa. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-18 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
I will eventually buy the book and let ya know. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, May 17, 2015 10:08 pm Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! On 17 May 2015 at 06

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-17 Thread LizR
On 15 May 2015 at 23:52, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:21 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 May 2015 at 21:38, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:07 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 May 2015 at 21:30,

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-17 Thread LizR
On 17 May 2015 at 06:38, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Here is another out of the box thinker, Telmo, that has published a book of course. He is a prof at Stanford University, with a view unlike anything I can recall covering this topic. Like Lomborg,

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, May 15, 2015 02:53 PM Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! Crap Telmo, because its WSJ, its a paywall for cut and pastes. Basically Lomborg got dogged because he

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:07 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 May 2015 at 21:30, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Clouds, especially high clouds have some effect. They reflect visible bands back to space and they also absorb and reemit IR. Low clouds tend to increase

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread LizR
On 15 May 2015 at 21:38, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:07 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 May 2015 at 21:30, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Clouds, especially high clouds have some effect. They reflect visible bands back to

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:21 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 May 2015 at 21:38, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:07 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 May 2015 at 21:30, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Clouds, especially high

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, May 15, 2015 07:52 AM Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! div id=AOLMsgPart_2_a34fccef-8e29-4c62-9f14-1acedd46bb00 div dir=ltr div class=aolmail_gmail_extra div class=aolmail_gmail_quote On Fri, May 15

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
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Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread meekerdb
On 5/15/2015 2:37 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:27 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/15/2015 2:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:07 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com mailto:lizj...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
- From: spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, May 15, 2015 02:53 PM Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! Crap Telmo, because its WSJ, its a paywall for cut and pastes. Basically

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
...@telmomenezes.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, May 15, 2015 05:52 PM Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! div id=AOLMsgPart_2_5d2b43db-de9f-4263-b4af-3052ef42ee24 div dir=ltr Thanks. The story, as told by him, sound

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, May 15, 2015 11:22 AM Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! div id=AOLMsgPart_2_e092defb-6ca9-4705-b1db-9c2615ea66e4 div dir=ltr Hi! Most of the article is behind a paywall for me... div class=aolmail_gmail_extra div class

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, May 15, 2015 02:53 PM Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! div id=AOLMsgPart_2_ab967ffd-fd70-4329-87a3-879ead672718 Crap Telmo, because its WSJ, its a paywall for cut and pastes. Basically Lomborg got dogged because he

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread meekerdb
On 5/15/2015 2:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:07 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com mailto:lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 May 2015 at 21:30, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com mailto:te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Clouds, especially high clouds have some

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:27 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/15/2015 2:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:07 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 May 2015 at 21:30, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Clouds, especially high clouds have

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
Clouds, especially high clouds have some effect. They reflect visible bands back to space and they also absorb and reemit IR. Low clouds tend to increase heat load because they reflect in the day, but they insulate day and night. It's not magic, it's just calculation. Of course, I am

Re: Occulus (was Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:20 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/12/2015 7:02 PM, LizR wrote: Brent, that link doesn't work for me - did you miss something off the end? Oops! Shoulda been:

Re: Occulus (was Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-13 Thread LizR
Aha, that's more like it. Now I just need something by The Smiths to get me in the right mood... On 13 May 2015 at 21:36, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:20 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/12/2015 7:02 PM, LizR wrote: Brent, that link

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-13 Thread meekerdb
On 5/13/2015 2:30 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: I am still worried about the reliability of the temperature values themselves. I would be less worried if the raw data was made public. It is public. But what good does that do. Well it does good, at least for people like me. So

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread Telmo Menezes
I disagree. I think this criticisms comes from a misinterpretation of what the p-value means. The p-value estimates the probability of seeing results at least as helpful to the hypothesis as the ones found, assuming the null hypothesis. A high p-value is informative because it tells us that

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread meekerdb
On 5/12/2015 12:33 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: I disagree. I think this criticisms comes from a misinterpretation of what the p-value means. The p-value estimates the probability of seeing results at least as helpful to the hypothesis as the ones found, assuming the null

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread Telmo Menezes
With climate change and cures for cancer you need statistics, because there are no such laws in these fields. There is no equation where you can plug-in a CO2 concentration and get a correct prediction on global temperature change. There's a law where you can plug in atmospheric

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com To: everything-list@googlegroups.com everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 12:22 PM Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! With climate change and cures for cancer you need statistics

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread John Mikes
Telmo, some long long time ago I was facetious about the climate change (lately I got more converted) and asked: how was the study of a substantial climate change established - say - over the past 30b years? - I meant: ALL of them? How was it for 'other' galaxies - star systems? I just did not

Re: Occulus (was Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread meekerdb
On 5/12/2015 7:02 PM, LizR wrote: Brent, that link doesn't work for me - did you miss something off the end? Oops! Shoulda been: http://www.polygon.com/features/2015/4/13/8371781/homesick-is-a-fantasy-walkabout-in-a-scary-lonely-world Brent -- You received this message because you are

Re: Occulus (was Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread LizR
Brent, that link doesn't work for me - did you miss something off the end? On 13 May 2015 at 09:53, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/12/2015 4:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 May 2015, at 00:43, meekerdb wrote: On 5/4/2015 11:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 May 2015, at

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread LizR
On 12 May 2015 at 21:53, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Yes, and there's geophysical phenomena to include-in, like the recently discovered active volcano's under antarctic ice. Melt's the underside of the ice shelf, while the top side has expanded.

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread meekerdb
, May 12, 2015 12:22 PM *Subject:* Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! With climate change and cures for cancer you need statistics, because there are no such laws in these fields. There is no equation where you can plug-in a CO2 concentration and get a correct

Re: Occulus (was Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread meekerdb
On 5/12/2015 4:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 05 May 2015, at 00:43, meekerdb wrote: On 5/4/2015 11:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 May 2015, at 10:23, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:08 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com mailto:lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2015 at

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread meekerdb
On 5/12/2015 12:22 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: With climate change and cures for cancer you need statistics, because there are no such laws in these fields. There is no equation where you can plug-in a CO2 concentration and get a correct prediction on global temperature change.

Occulus (was Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 May 2015, at 00:43, meekerdb wrote: On 5/4/2015 11:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 May 2015, at 10:23, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:08 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2015 at 06:45, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Of course believing

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, May 4, 2015 9:08 am Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:08 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: I sure did, Telmo. Scroll to the bottom

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 05 May 2015, at 02:01, meekerdb wrote: On 5/4/2015 11:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 May 2015, at 15:08, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:08 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: I sure did, Telmo. Scroll to the bottom and you

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
, 2015 5:55 pm Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! I believe satellites and weather stations give a lot of samples of atmospheric temperature (and other properties, I assume). Why is it hard to believe that we can make an estimate of mean global temperatures based

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-11 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 11:55 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: I believe satellites and weather stations give a lot of samples of atmospheric temperature (and other properties, I assume). Yes, I am not questioning these readings. I believe that 2010 was warmer than any year in the previous

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Have you read the weathergate mails? There you can see how the measures and the adjustments are done. taking into account that they systematically DENIED TO GIVE THE RAW DATA, the only thing that they demonstrate is a parapsychological power of so called scientists to influence the past depending

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-11 Thread LizR
On 11 May 2015 at 19:40, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 11:55 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: I believe satellites and weather stations give a lot of samples of atmospheric temperature (and other properties, I assume). Yes, I am not questioning

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-10 Thread LizR
I believe satellites and weather stations give a lot of samples of atmospheric temperature (and other properties, I assume). Why is it hard to believe that we can make an estimate of mean global temperatures based on such measurements plus observations of phenomena like shoreline erosion, glacier

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-10 Thread meekerdb
On 5/10/2015 2:55 PM, LizR wrote: I believe satellites and weather stations give a lot of samples of atmospheric temperature (and other properties, I assume). Why is it hard to believe that we can make an estimate of mean global temperatures based on such measurements plus observations of

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
. -Original Message- From: Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com agocor...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, May 9, 2015 5:10 am Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! The fiddling with temperature

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-09 Thread meekerdb
. -Original Message- From: Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, May 9, 2015 5:10 am Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever http

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
There is no dictatorship that can not be erected upon lies and violence. And this one that comes is the worst of all history 2015-05-09 11:09 GMT+02:00 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-09 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, May 9, 2015 5:10 am Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-08 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
politicians. It's a mafia, Liz. And, no benefit to the public, no new tech ever gets to Market. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, May 7, 2015 10:53 pm Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-08 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:47 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: So all these hottest years on record we keep getting are made up? Just curious. ​ Admittedly this is from 2010, maybe the trend has reversed in last 5 years? How long is the record? What is the p-value for the hypothesis of

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-08 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! On 8 May 2015 at 15:14, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Better yet, assume some of its true, and move to solar. The only way to move to solar is to create superb storage technology

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-07 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
exaggeration, savy?? Sent from AOL Mobile Mail -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, May 7, 2015 05:47 PM Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! div id=AOLMsgPart_1.2_5331f2a3-d522-4a14

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-07 Thread LizR
On 8 May 2015 at 11:59, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Color me deeply suspicious. A engineer named Vannevar Bush said, the validity of a science was its ability to predict. Bush also thought that guided missiles carrying hydrogen bombs were decades

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-07 Thread LizR
So all these hottest years on record we keep getting are made up? Just curious. ​ Admittedly this is from 2010, maybe the trend has reversed in last 5 years? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-07 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
becomes sceptical about scepticism! On 6 May 2015 at 14:34, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Much of the nobel committees even for physics and chemistry seem biased, and subjective. Templeton, is for scientists with intellectual

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-07 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, May 7, 2015 06:09 PM Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! div id=AOLMsgPart_1.2_600d12ce-8204-4df7-a753-465ec05eb76f div dir=ltr LizR: div My 1st impact to the 'global warming' fable' (1960-80) was: My termperature-records

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-07 Thread LizR
On 8 May 2015 at 15:14, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Better yet, assume some of its true, and move to solar. The only way to move to solar is to create superb storage technology, for night and winter times. Otherwise solar fails. Any demands for

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-07 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Let's say I have no objection to anything technical done to remediate AGW except regulation aka serfdom. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, May 7, 2015 9:40 pm Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-07 Thread LizR
On 8 May 2015 at 13:51, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Let's say I have no objection to anything technical done to remediate AGW except regulation aka serfdom. So you wouldn't be in favour of the government providing subsidies to help renewable or

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-07 Thread John Mikes
LizR: My 1st impact to the 'global warming' fable' (1960-80) was: My termperature-records are incomplete about the years 30 million (billion???) years ago so I cannot formulate an objective opinion. Later on changed position, because of human industrial activities contributing to technological

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 04 May 2015, at 10:23, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:08 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2015 at 06:45, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Of course believing in the

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:59 PM, PGC multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 4:03:50 PM UTC+2, telmo_menezes wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Alberto G. Corona agoc...@gmail.com wrote: Of course believing in the supernatural is absurd -- what does that even mean?

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, May 4, 2015 9:08 am Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:08 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: I sure

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-05 Thread LizR
On 6 May 2015 at 14:34, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Much of the nobel committees even for physics and chemistry seem biased, and subjective. Templeton, is for scientists with intellectual and spiritual leanings, Nobel is best left to academic

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-05 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, May 4, 2015 10:08 pm Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! On 5 May 2015 at 12:01, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-05 Thread LizR
On 6 May 2015 at 13:49, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Respectability? You must mean what a majority or a self appointed peer group like in Oslo decide what is acceptable. By the way, how's those 100 degree Fahrenheit summers you have been having for

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-05 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
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Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! Hi spudboy, I follow Ben Goetzel and have some of the books he recommends on the topic on my to-read list. I remain agnostic on this stuff, and just try to consider the simplest explanation, even if it's boring. In the case

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:08 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2015 at 06:45, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Of course believing in the supernatural is absurd -- what does that even mean? If, for example, ghosts were real, then this would just mean that current

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread LizR
That looks like a game I wouldn't play even if I played computer games...! -- 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

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
not come back with information. -Original Message- From: Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, May 4, 2015 4:19 am Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 9

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
a nobel prize or even any sort of recognition. -Original Message- From: Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, May 4, 2015 4:19 am Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 9

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Of course believing in the supernatural is absurd -- what does that even mean? If, for example, ghosts were real, then this would just mean that current scientific theories are incomplete or wrong. So what? -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
anything concerning Ben Goetzel's views. Thanks. Mitch -Original Message- From: Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, May 4, 2015 9:08 am Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! On Mon

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Of course believing in the supernatural is absurd -- what does that even mean? If, for example, ghosts were real, then this would just mean that current scientific theories are incomplete or wrong. So what? No

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread PGC
On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 4:03:50 PM UTC+2, telmo_menezes wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Alberto G. Corona agoc...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Of course believing in the supernatural is absurd -- what does that even mean? If, for example, ghosts were real, then this would just

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread meekerdb
On 5/4/2015 1:23 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:08 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com mailto:lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2015 at 06:45, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com mailto:te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Of course believing in the supernatural is

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Tuesday, May 5, 2015, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Totally agree, Telmo, regarding communication. On the Bostrom concept of Sims and, by extension, our reality being a sim, I like the concept, but in a way, it seems too simple, Rather than life

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, May 4, 2015 4:19 am Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 9:19 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Hi Telmo, I have tried the Other Side stuff for a bit, and found

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 May 2015, at 10:23, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:08 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2015 at 06:45, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Of course believing in the supernatural is absurd -- what does that even mean? If, for example, ghosts were

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
, as you can tell gave birth to his Promotion theory. Sent from AOL Mobile Mail -Original Message- From: Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, May 4, 2015 05:47 PM Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread LizR
On 5 May 2015 at 12:01, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/4/2015 11:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 May 2015, at 15:08, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:08 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: I sure did, Telmo. Scroll to the

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread meekerdb
On 5/4/2015 7:08 PM, LizR wrote: On 5 May 2015 at 12:01, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/4/2015 11:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 May 2015, at 15:08, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:08 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
this fix, but I am tweaking his work to suit myself and emotions. -Original Message- From: Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, May 4, 2015 2:15 pm Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread meekerdb
On 5/4/2015 11:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 May 2015, at 15:08, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:08 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: I sure did, Telmo. Scroll to the bottom and you

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread meekerdb
On 5/4/2015 11:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 04 May 2015, at 10:23, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:08 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com mailto:lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2015 at 06:45, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com mailto:te...@telmomenezes.com wrote:

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Tuesday, May 5, 2015, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Stathis, probably, Steinhart would agree with you regarding revision, for me, with the loss of contiguous identity, the succeeding person is merely a clone, as if you could magically clone a person

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-03 Thread David Nyman
Spooky! On 3 May 2015 at 12:03, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Shermer is the publisher of Skeptic magazine, which I used to subscribe to - but I could only take so many debunkings, lectures on science, and so on, and eventually I cancelled the sub, reasonably well convinced that I

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-03 Thread LizR
On 4 May 2015 at 06:45, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Of course believing in the supernatural is absurd -- what does that even mean? If, for example, ghosts were real, then this would just mean that current scientific theories are incomplete or wrong. That would just mean the

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-03 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
If you know of Ben Goetzel, and Damien Broderick, as well as Eric Steinhart, they have claimed Psi experiences, or spiritual experiences, but are split on the true significance? At the end of the day, it either works for us, or it doesn't. -Original Message- From: LizR

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-03 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
of months ago. Any data or opinion on Goetzel's view on all this? Mitch -Original Message- From: Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, May 3, 2015 2:45 pm Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-03 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi spudboy, I follow Ben Goetzel and have some of the books he recommends on the topic on my to-read list. I remain agnostic on this stuff, and just try to consider the simplest explanation, even if it's boring. In the case of this story, this sounds a lot like the event was staged by some nice