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    From Joe@21:1/5 to Spike on Mon Jul 14 09:15:58 2025
    On 14 Jul 2025 08:03:16 GMT
    Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> wrote:

    Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> wrote:
    RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:

    OK. What makes you know that academics 'follow the money'
    sunshine?

    Funding. Funding is critical to academic scientists. Research into ‘global warming’ doesn’t get funded, papers won’t be published, careers don’t advance.

    Apologies, that should have read “Research into ‘global warming’ that doesn’t support the narrative doesn’t get funded, papers won’t be published, careers don’t advance”.


    Don't forget, The Science Is Settled, so there need be no further
    research at all.

    --
    Joe

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Joe on Mon Jul 14 09:04:33 2025
    On 14/07/2025 in message
    <20250714091558.1966a933@jrenewsid.jretrading.com> Joe wrote:

    On 14 Jul 2025 08:03:16 GMT
    Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> wrote:

    Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> wrote:
    RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:

    OK. What makes you know that academics 'follow the money'
    sunshine?

    Funding. Funding is critical to academic scientists. Research into >>>‘global warming’ doesn’t get funded, papers won’t be published, >>>careers don’t advance.

    Apologies, that should have read “Research into ‘global warming’
    that
    doesn’t support the narrative doesn’t get funded, papers won’t be >>published, careers don’t advance”.


    Don't forget, The Science Is Settled, so there need be no further
    research at all.

    I would like to nominate you for the Nobel peace prize :-)

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.

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  • From brian@21:1/5 to aero.spike@mail.com on Mon Jul 14 11:45:07 2025
    In message <mdjru4Fnk62U1@mid.individual.net>, Spike
    <aero.spike@mail.com> writes
    Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> wrote:
    RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:

    OK. What makes you know that academics 'follow the money' sunshine?

    Funding. Funding is critical to academic scientists. Research into ‘global >> warming’ doesn’t get funded, papers won’t be published, careers don’t
    advance.

    Apologies, that should have read “Research into ‘global warming’ that >doesn’t support the narrative doesn’t get funded, papers won’t be >published, careers don’t advance”.


    The BBC today ( A small shift makes a big difference)

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74w1gyd7mko

    had a bell curve which showed that the increase in temperature extremes
    viz less cold winters and warmer summers is caused by a small increase
    in mean temperature.

    I decided to check this out and find out the mean temperature and
    standard deviation and do my own sumz and work out the probabilities for myself.

    I found this paper.

    <Https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mean-UK-Summer-Temperature-with-mean -and-standard-deviations_fig2_393125384>

    It says the mean summer temperature is 14C and the sd is 2C . On that
    basis even getting above 20C is remote. I'm guessing I've not spotted
    some sort of averaging that's reducing the fluctuation .

    However ,reading the paper further , the author shows that CO2 is not
    affecting UK temperature, even though atmospheric CO2 is going up in
    line with temperature going up "if both sets of data are increasing
    with
    time, there is bound to be a strong correlation between them" - a bit
    like lack of pirates causing it .

    What he does show is a correlation between the UK carbon emissions
    going down and the UK temperatures going up .

    He goes on to say " the decrease in UK carbon emissions is presumably associated with the rise in offshore wind power.,,,

    And the mean UK summer temperature is indeed strongly correlated with
    offshore wind generating capacity....

    extracting large amounts of energy must lead to low pressure down wind
    of the turbines. Given prevailing westerly winds
    and largely offshore wind farms, this means the creation of a
    low-pressure region in the North Sea. Could it not be that this
    low-pressure region is sucking hot air from Africa, leading to an
    increase in the mean UK summer temperature"


    Do you believe it?

    Brian

    --
    Brian Howie

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  • From Joe@21:1/5 to brian on Mon Jul 14 14:06:45 2025
    On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:45:07 +0100
    brian <nospam@b-howie.co.uk> wrote:

    In message <mdjru4Fnk62U1@mid.individual.net>, Spike
    <aero.spike@mail.com> writes
    Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> wrote:
    RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:

    OK. What makes you know that academics 'follow the money'
    sunshine?

    Funding. Funding is critical to academic scientists. Research into
    ‘global warming’ doesn’t get funded, papers won’t be published,
    careers don’t advance.

    Apologies, that should have read “Research into ‘global warming’ that >doesn’t support the narrative doesn’t get funded, papers won’t be >published, careers don’t advance”.


    The BBC today ( A small shift makes a big difference)

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74w1gyd7mko

    had a bell curve which showed that the increase in temperature
    extremes viz less cold winters and warmer summers is caused by a
    small increase in mean temperature.

    I decided to check this out and find out the mean temperature and
    standard deviation and do my own sumz and work out the probabilities
    for myself.

    I found this paper.

    <Https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mean-UK-Summer-Temperature-with-mean -and-standard-deviations_fig2_393125384>

    It says the mean summer temperature is 14C and the sd is 2C . On
    that basis even getting above 20C is remote. I'm guessing I've not
    spotted some sort of averaging that's reducing the fluctuation .

    However ,reading the paper further , the author shows that CO2 is not affecting UK temperature, even though atmospheric CO2 is going up in
    line with temperature going up "if both sets of data are increasing
    with
    time, there is bound to be a strong correlation between them" - a
    bit like lack of pirates causing it .

    What he does show is a correlation between the UK carbon emissions
    going down and the UK temperatures going up .

    He goes on to say " the decrease in UK carbon emissions is presumably associated with the rise in offshore wind power.,,,

    And the mean UK summer temperature is indeed strongly correlated with offshore wind generating capacity....

    extracting large amounts of energy must lead to low pressure down
    wind of the turbines. Given prevailing westerly winds
    and largely offshore wind farms, this means the creation of a
    low-pressure region in the North Sea. Could it not be that this
    low-pressure region is sucking hot air from Africa, leading to an
    increase in the mean UK summer temperature"


    Do you believe it?

    It was shown long ago that weather is chaotic. How many Quantum Weather Butterflies equals one wind turbine?

    --
    Joe

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to brian on Tue Jul 15 07:54:32 2025
    brian <nospam@b-howie.co.uk> wrote:
    In message <mdjru4Fnk62U1@mid.individual.net>, Spike
    <aero.spike@mail.com> writes
    Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> wrote:
    RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:

    OK. What makes you know that academics 'follow the money' sunshine?

    Funding. Funding is critical to academic scientists. Research into ‘global
    warming’ doesn’t get funded, papers won’t be published, careers don’t
    advance.

    Apologies, that should have read “Research into ‘global warming’ that >> doesn’t support the narrative doesn’t get funded, papers won’t be
    published, careers don’t advance”.

    The BBC today ( A small shift makes a big difference)

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74w1gyd7mko

    had a bell curve which showed that the increase in temperature extremes
    viz less cold winters and warmer summers is caused by a small increase
    in mean temperature.

    I just love those carefully-constructed graphs that have no measurements on
    the axes. They can be used to prove anything. For example, I’m sure the AGW-propagandist BBC will say this is an example of how things are going to
    get worse, but of course it could also be an example of there being nothing worth spending £trillions on.

    I decided to check this out and find out the mean temperature and
    standard deviation and do my own sumz and work out the probabilities for myself.

    I found this paper.

    <Https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mean-UK-Summer-Temperature-with-mean -and-standard-deviations_fig2_393125384>

    It says the mean summer temperature is 14C and the sd is 2C . On that
    basis even getting above 20C is remote. I'm guessing I've not spotted
    some sort of averaging that's reducing the fluctuation .

    However ,reading the paper further , the author shows that CO2 is not affecting UK temperature, even though atmospheric CO2 is going up in
    line with temperature going up "if both sets of data are increasing
    with
    time, there is bound to be a strong correlation between them" - a bit
    like lack of pirates causing it .

    What he does show is a correlation between the UK carbon emissions
    going down and the UK temperatures going up .

    I’ve tried three different browsers, and get messages such as “Heavy traffic from your IP address” to “click on the box below to continue” but there isn’t a box…

    But yes, 3sd above the mean is pushing things to the outer limits.

    He goes on to say " the decrease in UK carbon emissions is presumably associated with the rise in offshore wind power.,,,

    And the mean UK summer temperature is indeed strongly correlated with offshore wind generating capacity....

    extracting large amounts of energy must lead to low pressure down wind
    of the turbines. Given prevailing westerly winds
    and largely offshore wind farms, this means the creation of a
    low-pressure region in the North Sea. Could it not be that this
    low-pressure region is sucking hot air from Africa, leading to an
    increase in the mean UK summer temperature"

    Do you believe it?

    You’re probably aware of the fundamental limits of extracting energy from wind turbines, known as the Betz limit. This is due to the slower-moving
    air behind the turbine affecting the incoming air.

    So, one could speculate that a mass of air building up behind a North Sea
    wind farm would lead to a high-pressure area. Air circulates round these in
    a clockwise direction, and so could drag warm air from Europe over the UK, leading to elevated temperatures here…;-)

    --
    Spike

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  • From Joe@21:1/5 to RJH on Wed Jul 16 17:57:06 2025
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:45:49 -0000 (UTC)
    RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:



    That wasn't my question. Which was related to skills and
    understanding, and the need for both to understand climate science.

    So you believe, based on evidence, that climate scientists such as
    those listed in the link above don't understand what they're looking
    at, and writing and talking about. They are informed by blind faith
    ('climate emergency', etc.) and any science they purport is made up.
    They have rudimentary skills and effectively no understanding. Is
    that what you mean by 'in awe'?

    If you don't like those scientists, I have others:

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/1900-scientists-say-climate-change-not-caused-co2-real-environment-movement-was

    And your PhD academics, and others in this thread, do understand
    climate science, but it's not clear to me what knowledge they have
    above the very basic skills and knowledge of climate scientists. How
    for example does having a PhD help, if (as you appear to be saying)
    all that is needed is basic data and a calculator? Basic data and a calculator climate scientists seem to be unaware of.

    You and others do seem to suggest elsewhere that you have strong
    evidence, that you can't reveal, that links most climate scientists
    to career chasing, greed, and fraud.

    https://brownstone.org/articles/sciences-turn-towards-darkness/

    To me, this all looks like a conspiracy theory.

    Which generally means it's likely to be correct, from the experience of
    the last decade or so.

    *When* (if?) the 'climate change' gurus can say what climate changes
    *will* occur in a number of broad regions of the planet and *get* *it*
    *right*, I will start to pay attention to them. When a hypothesis is
    shown to give reasonably accurate *predictions*, then it is a candidate
    for consideration as a theory, not until then. I'm sure you know that
    saying something like 'the science is settled' tells you more about the
    person saying it than what they are selling.

    It's no good pointing to changes of climate after they have occurred,
    and saying 'see, we were right' unless they had actually predicted those
    exact changes in those places *in* *advance*. A model is particularly
    useless if it cannot even predict the known past, and we know that no
    approved climate model can, because decades ago we saw documentaries
    which showed CO2 rises *lagging* temperature rises, not leading them.
    That's what the tree rings and the ice cores showed then, do they show something different now?

    Have a look at this, and see if you can say why you wouldn't publish it
    in a scientific journal for the 'real experts' to throw mud at:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/covid-19-lab-leak-origin-most-likely-matt-ridley/

    It's published here in the Telegraph because none of the well-known
    journals would touch it. If you were looking into the origins of Covid,
    would you want to read this and follow up some of the references, not necessarily to believe every word, but to at least think about it?
    Because you wouldn't have been allowed to do so by the usual suspects.

    Try this: it's a bit hard to follow for somebody not in this line of
    business but the gist of it is obvious:

    https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

    You do need to look at 'alternative media'. Not necessarily to believe everything you read, but to follow up some of the references, most of
    which are unimpeachable (?) government data. Nobody in their right mind believes the BBC any more, but the Guardian and the Telegraph are not necessarily much more truthful. Believe nothing, but read ideas and
    evaluate them in the light of your own certain knowledge and
    experience. E.g. do you believe Epstein had no clients? Look at the
    definite lies you *know* you were told ('safe and effective') and think
    about other things the same people said. And so on...

    --
    Joe

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