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Posted by schlimm on Saturday, June 14, 2014 6:39 PM

Hopefully people will look at actual science, not propaganda churned out as above,

An example:    http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/bas_research/science_briefings/icecorebriefing.php

  • Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are now nearly 40% higher than before the industrial revolution. This increase is due to fossil fuel usage and deforestation.
  • The magnitude and rate of the recent increase are almost certainly unprecedented over the last 800,000 years.

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Posted by Randy Stahl on Saturday, June 14, 2014 6:48 PM

Its all actual science.

Who's to say its not all propaganda. Its not hard to twist science to serve any purpose you want. Remember that cigarette smoking is healthy according to some studies ? All science, all facts. Just not the right conclusions.

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Posted by Deggesty on Saturday, June 14, 2014 6:49 PM
Yes, hopefully, people will look at actual knowledge gained through careful pursuit using scientific procedures, and not at the propaganda churned out by propagandists who have dreamed up “hockey sticks” or have discarded data that showed their postulates to be wrong and then claimed to follow the scientific method even when the actual data proved them to be mistaken in their ideas.

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Posted by Randy Stahl on Saturday, June 14, 2014 6:55 PM

"Scientific studies show that men that have sex twice a day will live a happier longer life."

 

Women took all my money and emotionally neutered me .. now what? I guess somebody doing that study missed something ?

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Posted by Norm48327 on Saturday, June 14, 2014 7:10 PM

schlimm

Hopefully people will look at actual science, not propaganda churned out as above,

An example:    http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/bas_research/science_briefings/icecorebriefing.php

  • Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are now nearly 40% higher than before the industrial revolution. This increase is due to fossil fuel usage and deforestation.
  • The magnitude and rate of the recent increase are almost certainly unprecedented over the last 800,000 years.

YGBSM!

Who was keeping records 800,000 years ago?

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Posted by schlimm on Saturday, June 14, 2014 7:19 PM

If possible, reading the brief survey would answer your "question."   Otherwise I will leave it at that.   If you keep an open mind, you might learn somethings that will surprise you.

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Posted by Norm48327 on Saturday, June 14, 2014 7:24 PM

schlimm

If possible, reading the brief survey would answer your "question."   Otherwise I will leave it at that.   If you keep an open mind, you might learn somethings that will surprise you.

So might the sheep if they thought for themselves.

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 14, 2014 8:08 PM

The False Alert of Global Warming:

http://spectator.org/articles/55208/false-alert-global-warming

 

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 14, 2014 8:12 PM
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Posted by RRKen on Saturday, June 14, 2014 8:12 PM

You sure it ain't global cooling?

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Posted by JT22CW on Saturday, June 14, 2014 8:34 PM

Randy Stahl
It's all actual science.

Who's to say its not all propaganda. Its not hard to twist science to serve any purpose you want. Remember that cigarette smoking is healthy according to some studies ? All science, all facts. Just not the right conclusions.

Actual science sticks to observation and data; it does not try to find data and observations to fit a preconceived bias.

All of the IPCC's "computer models" omit the effect of water vapor.  That is clearly not science when one bases one's agenda on an atmosphere that does not exist on planet Earth.

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Posted by schlimm on Saturday, June 14, 2014 8:59 PM

All the denial comments are chapter and verse from the Heartand Institute's campaign of disinformation. Much of their funding comes from the oil industry.   BTW, one of their chief organizers, Fred Singer, was the leader of the Heartland Institute's tobacco industry-sponsored campaign to try to discredit the science on the lethality of tobacco smoking.  But some folks choose to believe this stuff, rather than the overwhelming consensus of climatological scientists.   

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 14, 2014 9:04 PM

"World's top climate scientists confess: Global warming is just QUARTER what we thought - and computers got the effects of greenhouse gases wrong":

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420783/Worlds-climate-scientists-confess-Global-warming-just-QUARTER-thought--computers-got-effects-greenhouse-gases-wrong.html

 

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Posted by JT22CW on Saturday, June 14, 2014 9:05 PM

schlimm
All the denial comments are chapter and verse from the Heartand Institute's campaign of disinformation. Much of their funding comes from the oil industry.   BTW, one of their chief organizers, Fred Singer, was the leader of the Heartland Institute's tobacco industry-sponsored campaign to try to discredit the science on the lethality of tobacco smoking.  But some folks choose to believe this stuff, rather than the overwhelming consensus of climatological scientists

There was "overwhelming consensus" in the days of Galileo that the sun orbited the earth.  Likewise, before red shift proved a certain theologian right with respect to the universe having an origin, there was "overwhelming consensus" that the universe had always existed.

Science is not about consensus.  It is about observation and data-gathering; anything beyond that is politics, especially when the government is involved.  It most certainly is not about political conspiracy theories to which the sole end is the increase of government bureaucracy (the sole response to "climate change" so-called is limitations on industrial activity and increase in taxes and regulations).

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 14, 2014 9:07 PM

"Global Warming Alarmists Caught Doctoring '97-Percent Consensus' Claims":

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/05/30/global-warming-alarmists-caught-doctoring-97-percent-consensus-claims/

 

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Posted by RRKen on Saturday, June 14, 2014 9:09 PM

Is their consensus that the Perfessor will be able to understand that common sense?

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 14, 2014 9:18 PM

"The Period Of No Global Warming Will Soon Be Longer Than the Period of Actual Global Warming"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2014/02/24/the-period-of-no-global-warming-will-soon-be-longer-than-the-period-of-actual-global-warming/

 

 

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Posted by schlimm on Saturday, June 14, 2014 9:21 PM

Sorry to tell you, but empirical science trumps "common sense" every time.   There are many beliefs folks have which they call common sense because they don't understand the science.   Common sense once told us that the earth was the center of the universe.  Any sensible person could see that the sun revolved around us.  Science discovered that was not the case, but many folks continued to believe what was a fiction.

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Posted by RRKen on Saturday, June 14, 2014 9:34 PM

Well, common sense says all you do is look at the heavens, and know there has to be more than just our world out there.  

On the other hand, theories about Global Warming are just that.   A bunch of fearmongering and humbug.

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Posted by Euclid on Saturday, June 14, 2014 9:40 PM

I once heard a scientist chronologically place the beginning of time. 

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Posted by JT22CW on Saturday, June 14, 2014 9:40 PM

schlimm
Sorry to tell you, but empirical science trumps "common sense" every time.   There are many beliefs folks have which they call common sense because they don't understand the science.   Common sense once told us that the earth was the center of the universe.  Any sensible person could see that the sun revolved around us.  Science discovered that was not the case, but many folks continued to believe what was a fiction

Looks like the example is lost on some people.  In Galileo's time, it was the government that pushed Aristotle's claim that the sun orbited the earth—and Galileo paid a heavy price for "denying" the government dogma that was taken to be "empirical science" at that time.  Take note that it is governments pushing the "climate change" fraud, with only the goal of pushing "carbon trading", increasing regulations, and instituting Tobin taxes.  Equating empirical science with government dogma is beyond specious.  The whole "climate change" debacle is based on fraudulent science that uses "computer models" as prophets of events taking place in an atmosphere that does not exist on Earth.

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Posted by MP173 on Saturday, June 14, 2014 10:11 PM

So, today I have learned that:

1.  The hockey stick is broken....Mike Mann seems to have left out certain data in order for the stick to fit his theory.

2.  The "97%ers claim is stretched to fit the hockey stick.  

3.  Energy is a big business.

4.  Environmentalism is a big business.

Cant wait til tomorrow to learn a little more.

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Posted by schlimm on Saturday, June 14, 2014 10:13 PM

JT22CW
Take note that it is governments pushing the "climate change" fraud, with only the goal of pushing "carbon trading", increasing regulations, and instituting Tobin taxes.  Equating empirical science with government dogma is beyond specious.  The whole "climate change" debacle is based on fraudulent science that uses "computer models" as prophets of events taking place in an atmosphere that does not exist on Earth.

Yes,it it all a giant conspiracy!!   Fits in well with the deniers of 9-11.

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Posted by JT22CW on Saturday, June 14, 2014 10:21 PM

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Take note that it is governments pushing the "climate change" fraud, with only the goal of pushing "carbon trading", increasing regulations, and instituting Tobin taxes.  Equating empirical science with government dogma is beyond specious.  The whole "climate change" debacle is based on fraudulent science that uses "computer models" as prophets of events taking place in an atmosphere that does not exist on Earth.
Yes,it it all a giant conspiracy!!   Fits in well with the deniers of 9-11

There's clearly no comparison.  And I take offense to that, with all due respect, what with the latter not having to do with the integrity of science and scientists and denigrating the lives lost therein.  Sorry to see you are not taking the high road.

Any "climate model" that excludes water vapor from its calculations is a pure fraud.  Water vapor is the chief component of the planet's atmosphere that influences its ambient temperature; remove that and any calculations will be useless.  That is the pure scientific viewpoint.

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Posted by RRKen on Saturday, June 14, 2014 10:26 PM

Perfessor - fraud?  Say it ain't so.   Pure fraud at that.

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Saturday, June 14, 2014 10:46 PM

schlimm

Sorry to tell you, but empirical science trumps "common sense" every time.   There are many beliefs folks have which they call common sense because they don't understand the science.   Common sense once told us that the earth was the center of the universe.  Any sensible person could see that the sun revolved around us.  Science discovered that was not the case, but many folks continued to believe what was a fiction.

I agree.  Empirical science (like analysis of the actual temperature trend and the carbon dioxide levels found in deep ice bores) trumps flawed computer models and data manipulation by 'climate experts' with agendas.

Common sense says that facts speak for themselves.  If we become aware that facts don't support our pet theories, then honest scientists revise the theories to reflect the facts.  Others with agendas will either attempt to suppress the new information or discredit the people who brought it to the attention of the scientific community.

As a former working statistician I'm very aware of the various methods used by people who want to distort statistics to support an agenda.  The usual method is to provide flawed, incomplete or wilfully inaccurate data.  This whole, 'Disaster will happen if we don't act NOW,' scenario has a delicate aroma of rotting fish.

Somehow I suspect that this whole kerfuffle will blow away when some mad scientist teams up with a sane engineer to develop a working mass converter.  Then one box of used kitty litter will power your humble abode for a year, with enough (kitty litter) left over to allow you to drive your electric car thirty thousand miles - all without producing a microgram of exhaust of any kind.  I'm not holding my breath, but I won't bet it isn't going to happen.

In the meantime, the railroads will take up a larger percentage of inter-city freight traffic as private car owners start electing pols who will move the rubber-wheel long distance business onto steel wheels.

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Posted by DwightBranch on Saturday, June 14, 2014 11:05 PM

Settled.

Science.

Wow, I thought the full moon (on FTT) was last night? I keep repeating myself, but I don't think many of you are familiar with the scientific method, or with scientific proof, or what a theory means (it means proven). Nor even what a reputable scientist is (i.e., peer reviewed, with a minimum of a PhD in his field). I am not a physical scientist either, but my field still requires the same peer reviewed proof as the physical sciences before arguments can be taken seriously. I have yet to see a peer reviewed scientific paper posted by any AGW deniers here, just a lot of links to conspiracy websites.  Anthropocentric Global Warming is accepted by 97% of accredited, peer-reviewed scientists (almost every study shows this 97%, here are references to a study by nine scientists in four countries, here is one at the National Academy of Sciences, I have seen another from the University of Illinois referenced). Oberlin College geologist Dr. James L. Powell reviewed 13,950 papers published between January, 1991 and early November, 2012, and found that only 24 of them dissented. That's .17 percent., or 1 out of every 581. Powell further makes the point that those 24 were, on average, the least cited of the papers, saying, "Of one thing we can be certain: had any of these articles presented the magic bullet that falsifies human-caused global warming, that article would be on its way to becoming one of the most-cited in the history of science." Your odds of knowing someone who believes aliens walk among us disguised as humans are twenty times greater than finding a climate skeptic in a group of climate scientists.

Much of what has been posted today ranges from little more than ad hominum remarks (i.e. argument against the person, "you're only saying that becasue..." which is considered illegitimate in scientific discourse) to wild conspiracy theories. A lot of it is a search for an excuse, often by a shifting of the question, from the rapid global warming predicted to take place due  to added carbon dioxide percentages, to all shifts in temperature at all times.

These aren't explanations, these are excuses. We don't allow murderers to excuse their behavior by saying "well, he would have died eventually anyway",  because that issue, death from old age, isn't the issue at hand, the issue at hand is why he died today, in that manner, and likewise the issue at hand is the rapid global warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels, here , now, not in the entire history of the earth, becasue this AGW is what we are facing now.  Like the murderer's "he would have died anyway", the argument "temperature changes on its own periodically" is a classic dodge, the substitution of the question of a general issue (all death and all global warming) for a specific one (the murder victim's death and Anthropocentric Global Warming in the next few years). ANd as with a competent judge, the scientific community isn't buying it.

Benjamin Franklin once said that "he who is incapable of conversion is unworthy of conversation", and I see that applies to many of you, becasue you cannot view the issue objectively but rather through the lens of political beliefs, and, I would speculate, resentment (this is an ad hominum remark, but is acceptable becasue I am not putting it forward as a refutation of evidence, I have cited evidence throughout this thread). But just realize that you are defending scientific quackery. There is still a large percentage of AGW deniers in this country, but most of them are old (73% of those under 35 endorse AGW, compared to about 60% for the population as a whole in the US, about the same as those who believe in the theory of evolution, sadly for science in the USA). So, I see the issue becoming more important in coming years, and the 30% reduction over 2005 levels is just a start. 

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Posted by schlimm on Sunday, June 15, 2014 9:28 AM

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Any "climate model" that excludes water vapor from its calculations is a pure fraud.  Water vapor is the chief component of the planet's atmosphere that influences its ambient temperature; remove that and any calculations will be useless.  That is the pure scientific viewpoint.

Again you are speaking from a lack of knowledge which even a perfunctory Google search would have revealed.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/vapor_warming.html

 "We now think the water vapor feedback is extraordinarily strong, capable of doubling the warming due to carbon dioxide alone."

Because the new precise observations agree with existing assessments of water vapor's impact, researchers are more confident than ever in model predictions that Earth's leading greenhouse gas will contribute to a temperature rise of a few degrees by the end of the century. 

"This study confirms that what was predicted by the models is really happening in the atmosphere," said Eric Fetzer, an atmospheric scientist who works with AIRS data at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Water vapor is the big player in the atmosphere as far as climate is concerned." 

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Posted by schlimm on Sunday, June 15, 2014 9:50 AM

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Take note that it is governments pushing the "climate change" fraud, with only the goal of pushing "carbon trading", increasing regulations, and instituting Tobin taxes. 

I will assume you refer to a "Pigovian Tax"?   A Tobin tax is on spot conversions of currencies.

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