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I know I'm not speaking for the majority (unfortunately) when I say this, but I'm of the opinion that what a climate scientist with a Ph.D from Oxford says carries more weight than the color of their fingernails.
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Anyway, the video is a really good example of the scientific method, where you can't (well, shouldn't -- plenty of people do) just cite a single study that corroborates a personal belief and ignore all the studies that don't.
Ph.D doesnt impress me. he could of gained it with a paper writern on why he has painted his fingernails green. i much prefer a person with practical experience and common sense approch in their respective industry . they also never state what their Ph.D subject matter was 🤔
But practical experience alone is also not enough for me to take them seriously depending on the topic being discussed.
For example, just because someone can change the oil, spark plugs and the tyres on a car does not in any way qualify them to design and build safe cars.
are you saying that the guy with the PhD in finger painting being discussed can/has built planet earth 🤔
No. What I am saying is that just because someone can fix or build something does not necessarily make him an expert in that thing or anything else.
but all mechenics can build ther own cars the same as any carpenter can build there own house and shipwrights can build there own yacht. but an Architect or engineer cant do any of those things because they dont have the practical experience or trade qualifacations. trust me i know ,my business partner is an architect and he couldnt paint a door to save his life 😂
But the mechanic uses components designed to do the job by people much more highly qualified.
Read my post more carefully.
I said just because someone can build or fix something does not make them an expert in everything related to that thing.
The same applies to the other trades.
I'm not armchair mathematician, I'm a research scientist for a living. I'm also in a field related to meteorology (wind energy).
Myself, John, Eric, and everyone else against you are all correct, and you are wrong. It's really that simple.
I don't understand how anyone could think doing larger block averages (which is all larger pixels do) is a more accurate approach than shorter (spatially or temporarily, doesn't matter) samples. If it were so, I wouldn't spend tens of thousands of dollars on high-performance sonic anemometers instead of cups when I need high-fidelity measurements of the wind. According to you, a LIDAR which samples a huge volume is more accurate than a sonic anemometer precisely because it samples a larger volume when, in reality, the opposite is the case.
Don, you're not doing yourself any favors. With the absolute bare minimum of "do your own research", you would have found:
uk.linkedin.com/in/climateadam?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
I'm a doctor in atmospheric physics, now working as a multimedia science journalist and presenter. I worked at Nature for over three years, producing video and co-hosting the award-winning Nature Podcast. I'm now working on a variety of freelance projects across media and scientific disciplines.
And yet your focus is on his fingernails painted green, which is a perfect example of why the "do your own research" and "I know someone who..." crowd are wreaking havoc on the world with how they vote. Again, I need to make it crystal clear that skepticism is absolutely healthy and I am absolutely NOT saying to merely take the word of what a scientist says (I mean, how many times have scientists/doctors been wrong?). But I am saying that, based on what you have said about this particular climate scientist's nail color and guesses about his education, when the details are easily found with the absolute minimum of effort, well, actually, I'll be kind and not say. And the same, of course, goes for your take on big pixels vs small pixels, for the same reasons, really.
give us a break GB. the climate prediction for eastcoast of australia summer 23 24 was for the dryest on record 😂😂 it hasnt stopped raining 😂 my yard is the greenest its been in 17 years and i have to mow twice a week. farmers are very pissed off as they have lost 100s of millions because they either sold off livestock and not planed for an extra wet season. and your trying to tell me my opinions are wrong 🤪as i said they have very little experience period, wonder if leejay was on that board of so called educated scientists that screwed the farmers 😁🫣 if i build a house and it falls down i get sued, but a so called climate scientist or what ever that is makes a huge mistake they blame it on ,my computer must of malfunctioned 😂😂
We had a very dry and warm Jan, Feb and Mar in the south-east of Australia where we live. April has been wet.
Can you post a screenshot or link of the Bureau of Meterology's summer temperature and rainfall figures for the area you live in?
You should really watch, and, more importantly, pay attention to what he is saying. No climate scientist -- not a single one -- is even remotely saying that they can predict the weather in any given place at any given time. In fact, in the video, he made a crucial point about the difference between climate and weather predictions.
Your "counter-argument" is like a billionaire who got richer during the pandemic laughing at all the people who find themselves in a significantly worse financial situation. In case the analogy is not crystal clear, I'll spell it out: the fact that the weather is great in a particular area (or particular places) at a particular time (or over a particular time period) has absolutely zero relevance with regards to climate change, in the same way that there are people whose financial situation remains relatively the same (or even improves) as the financial situation for the vast majority worsens.
The absolute fact of the matter is that the planet as a whole is warming up directly as a result of human activity, and the rate of warming is unprecedented in the history of the planet. The particulars of it, however, are still far from certain, and climate scientists are working their butts off to make better and better predictions. I mean, if you went to a doctor, and that doctor told you to modify your diet or you're going to have a heart attack, stroke, become diabetic, etc., but that doctor couldn't tell you exactly when it would happen or how bad it would be, and you know people who eat far worse than you do and are just fine, would you say the doctor is full of it? 'Cause that's exactly what you are doing with regards to what the climate scientists are saying.
Exactly!!, and if DonaldB has actually studied meteorology as he claims he would have known the difference between climate and weather.
I suspect him occasionally watching the weather channel somewhere on pay TV is the meteorology study he refers to.
The glaciers of galacer bay in alaska had a mass receiding / melting phase 250 years ago well before the modern industrialization of humans 🤔🙄 how do i know ,well my last yacht i built is currently sailing around the world so im tracking its progress via satilite and resurching data and history along the way 😊 please do tell me if "aries" is stationary or not eg: celestial navigation, and as always no one even mentions the magnetic reversal (variation) and the rotating enomolies of the planets and the sun 😎 i wonder why 🤔thats right they are getting paid to do research that has nothing to do with anything. my comercial yacht i built had licences as a research and education vessel . I am a qualified ships captain and an offshore and ocean sailing master / instructor . i teach coastal and ocean meteorology and ocean ography ,coastal and celestial navigation, i have logged 70,000 nm and lived on my comercial yachts for 20 years in the "real world" not in an office 🤪i also hold a amature radio operators lic and worked for apple as a systems designer in the 80s, there is more but im not bragging yet 😁
heres my data sheet , 2 days since cutting the lawn 😎
hey Danno explain "lapse rates" and the importance in any weather or climate measuring or predicting situation and why its not used widly at all.
Explain why?
I am sure you are capable of googling it just like anyone else.
do you think id post a question that chatgbt, google or even wikipedia could answer 😎
