Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-15 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:57:18 -0400: Hi, [snip] At present, biological processes are not having a significant effect on CO2 concentration. They do have a significant effect. In fact it is larger than the effect we are having. However at present our effect is

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread thomas malloy
Jed Rothwell wrote: thomas malloy wrote: And if you believe that, you will also believe that Martin Fleischmann, Stanley Pons, Ed Storms, Mike McKubre and ~2,000 professional scientists are engaged in a massive deception to convince the world that cold fusion is real by publishing fake

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Nick Palmer
The author of this book is almost certainly a professional liar or deluded or - giving him the most benefit-of-the-doubt possible - he is seriously misled and is not capable of making a valid rational assessment of data and evidence in the face of the glaringly obvious. He uses cherry picked

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: As soon as you include the biosphere in the calculations, then all the individual interactions that occur within the biosphere are also included, by default (and there are trillions of them). And you can't leave the biosphere out, because the annual swings in CO2

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
thomas malloy wrote: The notion that thousands of climate experts are engaged in a massive fraud is preposterous beyond words. It is conceivable that they are wrong, but absolutely, positively out of the question that they are engaged in fraud or that The point of my posting these reports

RE: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Lawrence de Bivort
this make sense? -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:45 AM To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies thomas malloy wrote: The notion that thousands of climate experts are engaged in a massive fraud

RE: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Lawrence de Bivort wrote: Yes. It is human nature when things are complicated and much unseen to conclude that the situation must be caused by a cabal or a conspiracy. The situations with cold fusion and global warming denial do not seem complicated or unseen to me. I don't know much about

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
(By the way, this list now includes fpur or five Stephens of one spelling or another, and either two or three Stephen Lawrence's.) Jed Rothwell wrote: Lawrence de Bivort wrote: Yes. It is human nature when things are complicated and much unseen to conclude that the situation must be caused

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com mounted the barricade and roared out: Robin van Spaandonk wrote: As soon as you include the biosphere in the calculations, then all the individual interactions that occur within the

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Most others just parrot what they read in Wikipedia. Cold fusion aside, this is actually not a completely stupid thing to do. As much as I dislike Wikipedia, I must agree. Wikipedia is a good source of information about conventional subjects. It is not such a

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com mounted the barricade and roared out: This is not caused by an Oligarchy but rather by specific people such as the editor of the Scientific American, the science writer for Time magazine,

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, Lawrence de Bivort ldebiv...@earthlink.net mounted the barricade and roared out: Greetings, all, Yes. It is human nature when things are complicated and much unseen to conclude that the situation must be caused by a cabal

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:29:19 -0400: Hi, [snip] An effect originating in complex phenomena may, in turn, cause a simple, predictable secondary effect. [snip] The secondary effect is only predictable in the sense that one can say A will cause B. It is not

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: An effect originating in complex phenomena may, in turn, cause a simple, predictable secondary effect. [snip] The secondary effect is only predictable in the sense that one can say A will cause B. It is not predictable in the sense that one can say A will happen at

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Just to summarize my previous message briefly -- Robin van Spaandonk wrote: The secondary effect is only predictable in the sense that one can say A will cause B. It is not predictable in the sense that one can say A will happen at such and such a time, and consequently B will happen also.

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
thomas malloy wrote: Dennis Prager just interviewed Christopher Horner, the author of Red Hot Lies. The thesis of his book is that the Oligarchy is planning making a lot of money off of the AGW hysteria. The inconvenient truth is that the Earth has been cooling off since 1998. . . . He

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-11 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com mounted the barricade and roared out: thomas malloy wrote: Dennis Prager just interviewed Christopher Horner, the author of Red Hot Lies. The thesis of his book is that the Oligarchy is

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-11 Thread OrionWorks
Thomas sez: Vortexians; Dennis Prager just interviewed Christopher Horner, the author of Red Hot Lies. The thesis of his book is that the Oligarchy is planning making a lot of money off of the AGW hysteria. The inconvenient truth is that the Earth has been cooling off since 1998. Mr.

RE: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-11 Thread Rick Monteverde
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies ... you will also believe that Martin Fleischmann ...

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-11 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Rick Monteverde wrote: Two seemingly similar but completely different situations. In LENR there is good evidence of heat and nuclear processes evolving from singular experiments where the parameters are well known and easily contained. On the other hand, there is no evidence whatsoever

RE: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Rick Monteverde wrote: On the other hand, there is no evidence whatsoever that humans have the ability in either measurement or computation to correctly take into account the dynamics of the vast paramater set of an ENTIRE PLANET (geez, how obvious can this be anyway???). That does not seem

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-11 Thread thomas malloy
Jed Rothwell wrote: thomas malloy wrote: Dennis Prager just interviewed Christopher Horner, the author of Red Hot Lies. The thesis of his book is that the And if you believe that, you will also believe that Martin Fleischmann, Stanley Pons, Ed Storms, Mike McKubre and ~2,000 professional

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-11 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:24:20 -0400: Hi, [snip] That does not seem obvious to me. The weather system of ENTIRE PLANET is a complex system of course, but it is not more complex than, say, an E. coli bacteria. It is infinitely less complex than the human body

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
thomas malloy wrote: And if you believe that, you will also believe that Martin Fleischmann, Stanley Pons, Ed Storms, Mike McKubre and ~2,000 professional scientists are engaged in a massive deception to convince the world that cold fusion is real by publishing fake data. Non sequitur Not

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: It is infinitely less complex than the human body and brain, or the ecosystem of the Serengeti, or my back yard, for that matter. It is more complex than all of those things, because they all form a part of it. Every living thing on the planet affects the weather

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-11 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com mounted the barricade and roared out: Robin van Spaandonk wrote: It is infinitely less complex than the human body and brain, or the ecosystem of the Serengeti, or my back yard, for that

Re: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-11 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:42:31 -0400: Hi, [snip] Robin van Spaandonk wrote: It is infinitely less complex than the human body and brain, or the ecosystem of the Serengeti, or my back yard, for that matter. It is more complex than all of those things, because

RE: [Vo]:Red Hot Lies

2009-03-11 Thread Rick Monteverde
Stephen: ... Rick, you're of the opinion that things have gotten hotter ... Please insert may (have gotten hotter), since it seems to be a trend, although trends in complex dynamical systems are notoriously untrustworthy. Jed: The planet's weather is less complex than a bacterium? Funny