Posted on 06/25/2014 12:24:02 PM PDT by Twotone
A physics professor is so fed up with the claims made by “climate change deniers” that he has launched a “$10,000 Global Warming Skeptic Challenge.”
The challenge issued by Dr. Christopher Keating, a professor who previously taught at the University of South Dakota and the U.S. Naval Academy, according to a news release, will award prize money to anyone who uses the scientific method to prove that human activity has not been a factor leading to climate change.
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They are the ones proposing the theory. The burden of proof remains on them.
All will be told simply, “You’re wrong. The consensus has been reached. All scientists are in agreement. Next.”
Is this guy even to stupid to know it’s impossible to prove a negative , not to mention even the very premise of the question is in doubt.
What it is possible to show is that with the present level of understanding it is an undecidable question, and also it’s possible to show that many warming scenarios can make for a more (rather than less) hospitable earth. So the wise money is to stop panicking and start preparing in case the world really does get warmer.
He is the only judge.
What he is saying is: “We spent hundreds of millions building these fraudulent theories and I will pay you $10,000 if I, and I alone, say you have proven them wrong.”
I am still awaiting scientific proof that man causes global warming. This guy could start by providing his proof. Then people could pick apart his proof and then send to a 3rd pty for review. He has it backwards. His ilk needs to prove global warming exists. The burden of proof is on them. Hard to prove a negative.
An impossible threshhold to meet! "A FACTOR???"..., whether additive or subtractive, humans are on earth and, A Priori, they must be A FACTOR in whatever occurs!
“Apparently he doesn’t know that the scientific method can’t be used to prove a negative.”
But it can be used to show what actually is causing global average temperatures to rise if it is not man made.
If he really said “use the scientific method” to disprove AGW, then he is not a real scientist.
“Catch this fart in a bottle and paint it green.” said the man to the evil genie, and trumpeted loudly.
No smoking hot spot1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.
Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.
If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.
Send me my $10k in cash or gold coins please, Dr. Keating.
I’ll give him $10,000 if he can PROVE man-made climate change.
I would need at least 100,000 to divulge all my studies on this fraud! Printer paper is expensive and so is ink!
In what sense?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
The "fool" would be anyone attempting to provide such a proof. This is because human activity probably has been "a factor" leading to climate change. It is a question of degree.
The problem with this challenge is that what he suggests should be proven does not address the question of interest. The issue is whether human activity has been a leading factor in climate change. (Notice how his wording implies the prior statement.) This is the flawed assumption of those promoting the idea of AGW.
The reality is that those promoting AGW can't even prove that human activity is a significant factor in climate change.
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