I have long thought that the smarter someone becomes, the more disconnected they become with real life. Folks that have PhD’s are at the pinnacle of this. Why use common sense when you can hide behinds the mask of ‘I am really smart and it doesn’t matter two hoots what you think’ idea.
PhD’s may have lots of knowledge, but they tend to be a little short in the ‘real world’. They have the social skills of a Cave Man!
Talking to one is rather like banging your head against a brick wall. They will hit you with theories and more math than the average person can handle, and espouse some idiot idea that only a mother could love.
I have no problem with experts in any field, but PhD’s just seem to be unreasonable. They are locked into some subject that no one with an ounce of sense could care about. The only string theory I buy into is that if you put string in a draw (or wires) they manage to get tangled up.
I have a particular love for PhD’s that just ignore science. Why let fact get in the way of theory? Alas the ‘Flat Earth’ idea has been debunked. It is a shame, I found the Flat Earth concept quite interesting. I also was a fan of the Earth being the center of the universe. With the earth being the center of activity and life, the internet folks could have added .Mars .Jupiter, and even .Pluto to the lofty word of Top Level Domains.
Of course it has become clear that the Earth is not the center of the universe, when the UFO’S come all of our web site names will change uww.smallsolarsystem. smallbluegreenplanet.earth.yahoo.com. UWW obviously standing for Universe Wide Web!
The good news is that the aliens have yet to implement this naming convention.
So, on a more important subject than the possibility of having to rename our web sites, lets talk about Global Warming.
One mans science is another mans BUNK. I have to admit that I am a fan of data. Playing with data is right up there with the very best Lego Bricks. By using the bricks in the right order, you can create almost anything. You can get a PhD in Lego, I think they call it Statistics. Given a set of bricks, you can prove that White ones are better than Red ones. PhD’s can predict such unlikely facts as how amputees might vote. Lose a right leg, you are republican, a left leg, a democrat.
Obviously I am joking. But it rings true. You give a data set to a person that has absolutely no real world sense, tell them the desired result, and voila!
Without doubt my absolute favorite of the week came from a Pudding head DoughBall (PhD), quite how this numbskull even manages to pull his pants up everyday is beyond me.
That data set says..
The graph you just looked at comes with the warning… Dr. Not Quite With It, points out that that the data is bunk. When viewed in a larger context the data set being used is just junk! Dr Not Quite With Reality, questions us poor mortals.
The PhD points out that we are all screwed up.
Note that it is calibrated in ‘tenths of a degree Celsius, and even that tiny amount of warming started long before the late 20th century. The horizontal line is totally arbitrary, just a visual trick. The whole graph would be a horizontal line if it were calibrated in whole degrees— Thus showing ZERO warming.
Using this same stupid logic it would be easy to prove that the price of gasoline has not changed in the last 100 years. If we set the price per gallon at lets say $100 we will get the same flat line. We of course know that this would not be reflective of the real world, but what the hell to PhD’s know about the real world?
I like to call out stupid when I see it. And this is patently stupid!
I won’t bother to name Dr. Stupid,because there are so many of them.
Simon Barrett
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You could ask climate researchers how they assembled the data and why it is displayed that way but instead you chose to use your “common sense” and ended up being a fool.
There are plenty of smart, wise people with PhDs. There are plenty of dumb, integrity-free people with PhDs. There are plenty of smart, wise people without PhDs. There are plenty of dumb, integrity-free people without PhDs.
As for the surface temp record, the best and most useful analysis I’ve yet seen is Foster & Rahmstorf (2011) in the well-respected Geophysical Research Letters. Summary and discussion (with one of the authors) are here: http://tamino.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/the-real-global-warming-signal/
F&R take five temp records and strip out signals of solar variation, aerosols, and ENSO to see what’s left. What’s left is a clear and strong trend up, up, up.
So simion, if your claim is correct, how can you explain the tangible chaanges in thw ecosystems? I am referring to Arctic Ice melt, glacier melt, specie movement, seasonal changes, ocean acidification (due to Co2 gas being absorbed by the ocean waters), extreme weather events that is beyond the norm.
These are occurring so much qyucker than “natural” and due to warming causded by increase Greenhouse gas. We are approaching 400 ppm of Co2, NOT SEEN FOR HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS. Paleoclimatic records have reflected that Co2 rises so does warming (basic physics and chemistry…one does not need to hold a PhD to understand the science).
Jeremy, I was not the numbskull that came up with the idea. I merely wrote a response to a completely idiotic article by a guy that has a PhD and probably cannot cross the road without help.
It does not take a PhD to figure out that the world is changing. Unfortunately we are living in a political world. It is hard to determine Shill from Real.
The world is full of well paid shills. They used to just stick to amusement parks and lure people to play games that were not winnable. Today they have PhD’s and feed us crap!
Dr. Richard Muller and his team, noted scientists and skeptic, verified weather records and determined the planet is indeed warming.
Unfortunately, “doubters” and “debaters” ( paid smear trolls) on the internet are preventing any action on this crisis of our own making. We have literally wasted decades in this senseless exchange. This only has benefitted the merchants that market and profit from these dirty, toxic fuels. With these monies they have controlled the political system and public policy.
Jeremy
“Dr. Richard Muller and his team, noted scientists and skeptic, verified weather records and determined the planet is indeed warming. ..“doubters” and “debaters” ( paid smear trolls) on the internet are preventing any action on this crisis of our own making ”
That’s right, he verified what the deniers have been saying for years now, and he did not claim that it was anthropogenic. I’m a denier troll yet I agree with Muller. However you imply that global warming is anthropogenic.
How did you make that conclusion even though Muller could not?
Wow, you must be pretty good at this science stuff.
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