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Gerard is a nice person, knowledgeable, balanced, and experienced. I doubt you'd hear a bad word about him. I find him boring.

It is you who should be ashamed. Ashamed of your intellect and hypocrisy. The hijab, niqab, and especially the burqa oppress women all over the world. They are the ultimate symbol of their subjugation at the hands of Islam. As for antisemitism ? It's the Left that are Israel-hating weirdos. I'm pro Israel. I'm pro the only true democracy in the middle east. I'm pro their wonderful leader. I'm pro the Jewish people. It's the Left that wallow in identity politics. I care not about a person's colour, but I care massively about their culture. There is no place for Islam in the West. And plenty of cultures are vile.

Faux feminism versus real feminism. Iranian women in their droves are shedding hijabs.

In Paris yesterday. More cultural diversity.

It doesn't matter whether it's Australia, or Ireland, Africans cause mayhem wherever they go. Western cultures invite this mayhem into their lives. It's absurd. Naturally, the deranged Left accuse them of being "racist". http://altview.ie/700-strong-protest-antisocial-migrants-balbriggan-get-accused-racism/

OK. I will get to it, but it won't be today. In the meantime this discussion with climate data scientist John Christy is excellent.

Whether it's NASA's top dogs James Hansen, Gavin Schmidt from realclimate.org, or the American Meteorological Society, they are highly paid climate alarmists. "Retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist Dr. John S. Theon, one of the former supervisors of Hansen, has now publicly declared himself a skeptic and declared that Hansen “embarrassed NASA” with his alarming climate claims and said Hansen was “was never muzzled.” Theon was elected a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, given the NASA Exceptional Performance Award twice, elected an Associate Fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, and awarded the AIAA's Losey Medal for contributions to airborne remote sensing. Dr. William Gray In a February 7, 2009 essay titled “On The Hijacking of the American Meteorological Society”, Gray wrote: I am appalled at the selection of James Hansen as this year’s recipient of the AMS’s highest award - the Rossby Research Medal. The American Meteorological Society (AMS) was founded in 1919 as an organization dedicated to advancing scientific knowledge of weather and climate. It has been a wonderful beacon for fostering new understanding of how the atmosphere and oceans function. But this strong positive image is now becoming tarnished as a result of the AMS leadership’s capitulating to the lobby of the climate modelers and to the outside environmental and political pressure groups who wish to use the now AMS position on AGW to help justify the promotion of their own special interests. The effectiveness of the AMS as an objective scientific organization has been greatly compromised. Award-winning NASA Astronaut and Physicist Walter Cunningham of NASA’s Apollo 7 also recently chastised Hansen. “Hansen is a political activist who spreads fear even when NASA’s own data contradict him,” Cunningham wrote in an essay in the July/August 2008 issue of Launch Magazine. “NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science,” Cunningham wrote. Retired meteorologist Craig James, an AMS member, wrote a scathing commentary about Hansen. "I believe Dr. Hansen's political ideology has taken over his science and renders him no longer qualified to be the keeper of the global temperature data," James wrote on January 15, 2009. In June of 2008, Dr. Nicholas Drapela of the faculty of Oregon State University Chemistry Department expressed his outrage at Hansen and referred to him as “an apocalyptic prophet.” “My dear colleague Professor Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end. When you have dedicated the bulk of your career to a cause, and it turns out the cause has been proven false, most people cannot bring themselves to admit the truth,” Drapela wrote on April 21, 2008. Drapela wrote that Hansen’s recent claims “contain neither reason nor truth when compared to the volumes of daily literature being published in scientific journals today on climate change. It is not difficult to refute the words of Professor Hansen. On the contrary, one feels it is almost unfair.” “The global warming ‘time bomb’, the ‘present, dangerous situation’, ‘the perfect storm’, ‘global cataclysm’, ‘disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.’ These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist,” Drapela added. Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo also launched a sharply worded critique of RealClimate.org in January 2009 titled “Response to Gavin Schmidt – Global Data Base Issues Are Real.” “To Gavin [Schmidt] and the other alarmists, it appears, a piece that is fair and balanced can make no mention of any other opinion except that carbon dioxide is causing global warming and action is needed now and will deliver gain and no pain, something the one sided media coverage has gotten them used to over the years,” D’Aleo wrote on January 13, 2009. D’Aleo served as the first Director of Meteorology at The Weather Channel and served as chairman of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. Atmospheric Physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh, also critiqued RealClimate.org on June 24, 2008. Peden wrote, “‘Real Climate’ is a staged and contracted production, which wasn't created by ‘scientists,’ it was actually created by Environmental Media Services, a company which specializes in spreading environmental junk science on behalf of numerous clients who stand to financially benefit from scare tactics through environmental fear mongering.” Israeli Astrophysicist Nir Shaviv has also been critical. “The aim of RealClimate.org is not to engage a sincere scientific debate. Their aim is to post a reply full of a straw man so their supporters can claim that your point ‘has been refuted by real scientists at RealClimate.org,’” Shaviv’s website reported. Shaviv, who calls the website “Wishfulclimate.org,” noted that the “writers (at RealClimaet.org) try again and again to concoct what appears to be deep critiques against skeptic arguments, but end up doing a very shallow job. Jara, I could go on and on and on. And I will. The organisations you get your climate porn from are paid alarmists who falsify data and are presently relying on flawed weather surface stations where they manipulate data. They don't much like satellite data that has shown a 19 year "pause" in warming. But I can't help you, Jara. You're too far gone. Sad.

I don't question any other science. Although, science is always questioning itself. Btw, it wouldn't matter if Watts was a milkman or plasterer, you just need to challenge his arguments. Naturally, you can't. The Left never can. Btw 2, comment on the University of Alabama in Huntsville's study that says there's been no warming for 23 years.

Name them.

You're a fool. It's the nicest thing I can say about you. One doesn't have the most widely read climate blog in the world if they're a nuffie like you. It just doesn't happen. You don't get asked to speak at climate conferences if you're a nuffie like you. But you're from the Left, so you can't debate, only besmirch. What are your views re the accuracy of the surface weather stations in his speech ? Were you concerned by how compromised many of them are ? And answer my previous question, "name some of these scientific organisations you speak of" ?

Name some of these scientific organisations you speak of ?

This is one of the major issues with Leftists, they can't or won't debate the facts. He's shown you why surface temperature weather stations are flawed, but you're either to dumb or disingenuous to appreciate the facts. Instead you try to smear a guy who has the most read climate blog on the planet. Leftists immediately assume the worst in every person that doesn't readily support their usually insane agendas.

Particularly, Jara, I'd like you to watch the following. It's an important video. Respond to its content when you can.

It's a stupid question. Comment on the other content of my posts. The ones that deal with science.

This is probably the greatest straw man argument I've seen on here. There are thousands of eminent scientists around the world that are sceptical on climate alarmism. Scientists are attached to universities, environmental groups, research groups, or government funded organisations. There's not going to be organisations that exist purely to refute climate alarmism. To think there would be is puerile. It's important to note that most scientists around the world (nearly all) don't think we're doomed. Read the following re the 97% myth and respond when able. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/97-consensus-exposed-gregory-wrightstone/ There's also the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The following is their most recent findings after a study was commissioned by the USA's Department of Energy. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Nov. 29, 2017) — The rate at which Earth’s atmosphere is warming has not significantly accelerated over the past 23 years, according to research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). If you take away the transient cooling in 1983 and 1992 caused by two major volcanic eruptions in the preceding years, the remaining underlying warming trend in the bottom eight kilometers (almost five miles) of the atmosphere was 0.096 C (about 0.17° Fahrenheit) per decade between January 1979 and June 2017. It's explained for the lay person here by Anthony Watts in his blog. Watts has probably the most widely read climate blog in the world. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/29/study-no-acceleration-in-global-warming-climate-sensitivity-to-co2-too-high/ The UAH paper can be read here https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/2017_christy_mcnider-1.pdf

Jara, I’m a sceptic because… 1. I’ve come to the view that we’re not warming the planet “dangerously”. The planet hasn’t warmed since 1998. 2. The climate models have been wrong. Climate scientists admit this. 3. Have you read the climategate emails ? There's a lack of trust with government funded climate scientists. 4. Ridiculous scares that have been made since the 1980s never eventuated. 5. We are aware that temperatures across the US were considerably higher in the 1930s than in recent years. This is when CO2 was at 280 ppmv and pre industrialisation. 6. Despite various attempts to disappear the MWP, evidence worldwide indicates that the climate was just as warm in the Middle Ages as now, and that previous warm periods, such as the Roman and Minoan, were warmer still. There is nothing unprecedented about current climate. 7. Ice cores show that the recent Little Ice Age (finished in the 19th century) was an exceptionally cold time. Why should we be surprised or concerned that there has been a small amount of warming since ? 8. Extreme weather, which is meant to be more frequent with more intensity is the opposite. The USA haven’t had a land based hurricane in 11 years, which is the longest on record. 9. The United Nations Christiana Figueres herself admitted that the goal of environmentalists is to destroy capitalism. Do I need to share her quotes again ? 10. The locations and professionalism of surface temperature weather stations are compromised, and I will shortly post a video that discusses this issue. 11. There's irrefutable proof that NASA and NOAA alter past data, because it doesn't their narrative and flawed models. I'm glad you asked the question, jara, because you now have 11 points to refer to whenever you're wondering why I take the position I do. Although, they're not new and I've mentioned them all in isolation throughout this thread.

The gym is fine. Name your destination.

Get some exercise ? How about I meet you at a gym of your choice ?

I never visit Breitbart, but come across an article occasionally linked to them. After all, they'll report what Left-wing alarmists won't. Not that it would matter if I did, because any articles of theirs I've shared are from scientists, who they happen to be quoting. You're right about more stuff coming. I have at least 50 articles or videos I could share within the next 5 minutes. Be patient though... Btw, if Breitbart quote a legitimate scientist, or study, why is that scientist or study not relevant because of who's reported it ? As for a predilection for climate ? I love learning and find the science and debates fascinating. While I don't post on science blogs the amount one learns from the comments section is extraordinary. There are a lot of people out there who have incredible insight into temperature and the atmosphere on BOTH sides of the argument.

We died in 2,000.

Remember when climate alarmists got stuck in ice at the Antarctic ? Four years ago today.