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Ah, I just noticed skiphill has already mentioned it on WUWT. Thanks. I have issues with commenting on wordpress blogs so its good to see the proposed award is mentioned there too. This is going to be fun.
It has - the aliens are here on holiday. Just ask Whitehall.
Prof Karoly withdraws Gergis et al paper. Prof Karoly withdraws ABR review. A lot of withdrawing going on. Is a pattern of climatic coitus interruptus emerging?
or Prof Karoly gets off at Edge Hill (Scouse joke)
sorry but I didn't get the meaning of this post.
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Is a pattern of climatic coitus interruptus emerging?
Surely that should be climactic?
Nah, it'll be a Climax, a Fork-lift truck made in Coventry.
Used to be seen a lot in the Locarno Ballroom after chuck out time in the 1960s when the strapping women delivery drivers chose blokes at random.
Very clever you guys :)
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TerryS: You must be a fine old age, I lived on the border of Edge Hill and Toxteth and can well remember hearing the sounds of trains in Edge Hill and boats on the Mersey going on well into the night. As for my sex life I tended to get on and off at Edge Hill.
This excerpt from Karoly's book review, along with his slur claiming Steve McIntyre has no expertise, may well explain why it was pulled:
"With the introduction of legislation setting a price on greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, the Climate Wars have heated up here, with coordinated misinformation campaigns from politicians, from media commentators such as Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt, and from geologists with vested interests such as Ian Plimer and Bob Carter."
Vested interests? I think Karoly might have a hard time justifying that comment in a court of law.
Re; geronimo
You should also remember the 1 0'clock gun and the air raid siren that went off every morning.
TerryS: I can remember the one o' clock gun. Do you know they still have one in Hong Kong? And I remember the trams, my Mam used to take me on the 26 to the Victoria Monument, then the 27 back to where came from, the top of Lodge Lane. It was what constituted a day out! Better stop there or we're going to get into the: "We were so poor..." stories.
@geronimo, small world of Raving Denier Skeptics, obviously there was something in the Pennine water. I was born near the corner of Tunnel Road and Smithdown Road in a "no longer present" street called Wainwright.
For those of a scientific bent, you might be interested in a new bit of IR physics which emerged yesterday from turnedoutnice; http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/12/some-progress-on-the-skeptic-vs-denier-ugliness/#more-67315
There can be no CO2-AGW because emissivity levels off at the self-absorption limit of ~200 ppm [long optical path]. It comes from Metallurgical Engineering. The new thinking is that if you illuminate a self-absorbing IR emitter [thermal IR in air] with the same wavelength, the emissivity towards the illumination increases. In the case of the earth's surface, that extra Prevost Exchange Energy reduces emission in those wavelengths. Hence CO2-AGW is self-limiting, as is the rest of the GHE.
Climate science has missed this because it has less than zero understanding of radiation physics.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15037533
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4276
Shame Osama, Idi Amin ,Arafat ,Gadaffi , President Nassar and The Ayatollah khomeini wernt all around long enough to see this.
Now we got another reason to ignore the Enviromentalists.They dont like it already
If there really is Shale Oil under the Palestinian Territories. Then Hamas, Hezbolla and the PLO really will have something to fight over.
Jamspid; don't like these authors confuse oil shales, like the Kimmeridge shales in the UK, with shale gas/oil, which is hard rock you have to frack.
Jul 12, 2012 at 3:06 PM SandyS
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(why are they so often turn up so high?) Legionella I think
That is probably the reason. Even though it is an irrational Elf-an-Safetee belief.
Legionaire's disease outbreaks occur where warm water (in cooling towers or ventilation systems) is left for the bugs to breed and then be blown around the place by air currents. The risk from hot water taps is absolutely minimal - apparently the risk from your car's windscreen washer is much greater.
Has there been a single documented case from hot water supplied to a tap? Maybe, but if so, I'd like to have the details. However, the risks of scalding are very real - it's a significant cause of injury.
An article in the journal Safety Science is reported as having said:
"For the healthy individual, the risk of contracting Legionella from any source is minimal and this has to be weighted up against the known and significant risk of thermal injury occurring as the result of dangerously hot household water"
http://captcopy.net76.net/pdfs/HotWaterDiscussionPaper.pdf
The activists at Carbon Brief have got their carbon briefs in a twist 'cos John Humphry had a go at Ralph Cicerone of the US NAS.
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2012/07/the-today-programmes-ill-researched-climate-change-interview
How can we justify spending vast, unimaginable sums of money to protect ourselves against a catastrophe? After all, some distinguished scientists say it isn't actually proven.........You can't absolutely prove, can you, that CO2 in the atmosphere is responsible for global warming?
Bit of a milestone, actually - I've only ever heard his withering put-downs aimed at Tory politicians before this.
Could the tide be turning at last - at the Beeb?
By Jiminy, had an Aunt and Uncle lived in No. 2 Wainwright Street, name of McDonough. I lived in Clarendon Street, nearly opposite and now no longer existing, but my Mam wanted to get to her roots in L8 so we moved the 400 yards to Beaumont Street in L8.
Geronimo, well we lived at Number 6, but the older brothers do not recall your family. At least we never had fights with them, we would have remembered that. Yes similar, we emigrated to Tuebrook, then Whiston then... well many places after. Even lived in Hong Kong for 7 months...
Jiminy, they lived there until the late 50s, had two children Patricia (Pat) and John, who became a bouncer in later life, well known round the clubs. I lived in Hong Kong on the peak and mid-levels for 6 years or so, hence knowledger of their one o clock gun.
"Yes similar, we emigrated to Tuebrook, then Whiston then... well many places after." Always best to keep on step ahead of the rent man in my view! -:)