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The models are most certainly not not derived from past data. Climatic models are solutions to mathematical equations which have a physical basis. The models get better as our understanding of the physics gets better, and more components can be included. It isn't like they are fitting the past data...

Chris-As to your first point you do seem to be saying the data presented is not worthy of consideration, I would point out that the trend for the last 16 years is down. Second, I am not saying AGW folks represent everyone else, just themselves, I recognize they are a subset of the whole population. ...

How does one know that the structure between the elipticals is a spiral?

How do you know its "all moving inwards?" It's all moving outwards. This is very obvious in any animated images, as from SOHO. The only plasma that falls back onto the Sun is what is trapped in tightly closed magnetic fields, which are very close to the surface at the scale of this image....

From the Florida State University guest blog on the Climate Audit Website a graph showing than hurricanes and cyclones have not followed the predictions of the AGW folks over the last three years... Aside from the fact that three years of weather data is statistically insignificant in terms of unde...

How do you know its "all moving inwards?"

From the Florida State University guest blog on the Climate Audit Website a graph showing than hurricanes and cyclones have not followed the predictions of the AGW folks over the last three years. http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/global_running_ace.jpg The article: http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~m...

There are so many outstanding APODs it is hard. But one really capures my imagination 2008 September 20-A Darkened Sky , a multi image total eclipse stitched together perfectly. It looks very much like plasma is going into the poles and plasma/solar wind is emanating from all of the rest of the surf...

About Blacklight Power- I spoke with Rooseveldt County Electric Cooperative's General Manager today. He said: 1. They signed a licencing agreement with BLP. 2. They will not dicuss the terms of the contract or timelines, no big surprise. 3. They are waiting for BLP to finish development of the conti...

I almost said a fraud of Maddof's proportions!

About Blacklight Power- after reading as much as I could about the company their proposals and theory, I'm still fascinated, hopeful and unconvinced. I am unqualified to analyze anything beyond undergraduate basic physics and unfortunately can only spot disagreements with standard model and Mills th...

Dear Fatcitymax- the fact is we work on all of these things simultaniously. There is a synergistic effect as new observations ripple out across all fields and we move forward on all fronts. NASA is some of the best money ever spent. Pure science has proven its value over and over.

Gents, I have learned something tonight that has the potential to solve many problems. Of course I thought of you first. If this pans out, and it does look promising, it will change the world. A Dr Randell Mills (Franklin and Marshal Chem Magna Cum Laude, Harvard Med, MIT EE) has rewritten the physi...

Aristarchusinexile-How ironic, in your short history of human depradation you seem to have forgotten the most prolific murderers of all human history, the communists.

StACase: Sorry, As I recall the blurb said:Superior 95%, Huron 80% and Erie 65%. Nothing about the other two.

I agree with Chris (it hurts) science and math are doing poorly in the US. We're trying to improve in Texas and its still not near good enough.

Chris- OK so you concede an increase twice what you stated there was no evidence for. You logic is still flawed, e.g. before satellite measurement, radience can only be estimated and is presumably unreliable. You still only have 40 years of data, insufficient I would think to exclude all other data....

My curiousity has been stimulated though .. are there any scientific measurements of the sun increasing its heat ouput in the past decade or two? There is no such evidence. Measuring solar irradiance is difficult, and can only be done accurately from space. There have been a half dozen satellites c...

Aristarchusinexile-you must be joking about being complimented about being called a communist, maybe a live-and-let-live-free-spirited-idealist but not a communist you must not have seen their work. Being called a communist is at least as flattering as being called an Imperialist or Free Enterprise...

The reality of the situation is human nature is to resist change. Human behavior will not change until the present behavior becomes more agonizing than the concept of the change. People will exhibit their bias to a situation based on their comfort level, I would like to see one of our AGW skeptics ...

But I digress. You are kidding your self if you think gas prices are down because of demand and will stay that way. I don't think that at all. I fully expect gas prices to get back up where they were last year, or even higher. Indeed, I hope they do. I think gas prices around $10 gallon would be he...

Aristarchusinexile: That photo is only proof that you own alot of luggage.

Actually I'm kidding you. I was referencing the two hundred year debate between catastrophists and uniformitarians in the sciences. We are now in the middle of a financial catastrophy that is far from over, that couldn't happen according to uniformitarian sellers of financial paper. Their advice, ho...

PS I drive a prius 50-52 mpg and comfortable, not for CO@ emmissions but for the economy. Well that's a bit silly of you. It's been pretty clearly shown that a Prius will typically never pay for itself based on fuel cost savings. Chris, I hate to say this but you are a uniformitarian. I am making a...

This is just depressing. I go away for a little while and BMAONE23, Chris, and Dr. Skeptic are at it again. So now we have Anthropogenic Amphibian Fungus. I know I didn't infect any frogs. I encourage the little peepers in my creek. The only problem is they've been absent on spring evenings (its spr...

The current models do a pretty good job of describing the trend over the last couple hundred years, which is why there is confidence in their ability to predict the future. The models do not describe the trend of the last couple hundred years, the data from the last couple hundred years was used to...