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Want to Disprove Man-Made Climate Change? A Scientist Will Give You $10,000 if You Can
The Blaze ^ | June 25, 2014 | Liz Klimas

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; challenge; climatechange; climatechangefraud; globalwarming
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"Keating...wrote on his blog that he would be the final judge of any entries and would provide his comments “on why any entry fails to prove the point.”
1 posted on 06/25/2014 12:24:02 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Why feed a fool?


2 posted on 06/25/2014 12:26:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Twotone

Also he’s engaging in the usual fraud of elastic terminology.

Why take the bait, anybody. Though he might be hooted at in independent commentary.


3 posted on 06/25/2014 12:27:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Twotone

I see so the default position on the subject is that it’s true despite the fact that there’s no scientific evidence to support the theory. And, oh BTW, we should destroy our economy based on that default position?


4 posted on 06/25/2014 12:28:06 PM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: Twotone

How do you prove a negative?


5 posted on 06/25/2014 12:28:37 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: Twotone

As Charlie Rangel would say, “Chump change”. Is this all the fool is willing to lose? Why don’t he PUT SOME MONEY where his big mouth is. Ten grand isn’t worth anybody’s time.


6 posted on 06/25/2014 12:29:03 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Feed the wacko enrviromentalists to the starving polar bears.)
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To: Twotone

Ever heard of the mini-ice age? The climate changes... even before the SUV.

Where do I pick up my check?


7 posted on 06/25/2014 12:29:10 PM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Twotone

A “scientist” wants people to prove a negative? Didn’t he encounter a course in logic somewhere in his science education?


8 posted on 06/25/2014 12:29:13 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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A physics professor High Priest in the Cult of Global Warmism is so fed up with the claims
9 posted on 06/25/2014 12:29:13 PM PDT by SIDENET
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To: oldbrowser

That’s what atheists argue.


10 posted on 06/25/2014 12:29:16 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: Twotone
It's a very common fool's wager.

Offer someone a sum that sounds large, but which is far less money than it would cost to do the comprehensive research work.

He is saying: "We have spent hundreds of millions of dollars building our castle in the air - we'll pay you ten thousand if you can dismantle it with one blow."

11 posted on 06/25/2014 12:30:32 PM PDT by wideawake
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I would think it would be as hard to disprove it as it is to prove it. Climate changes. It’s done so throughout this planet’s history. It may well be changing now. But how much of that is the natural course of events and how much is due to man? I don’t know how you can quantify one over the other.


12 posted on 06/25/2014 12:30:46 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Twotone

Please contact me here so I can tell you where to send my check.

13 posted on 06/25/2014 12:31:06 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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God is doing it. If he can’t disprove God then pay up ahole.


14 posted on 06/25/2014 12:31:27 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Twotone

LOL. How do you prove to a religious zealot that he worships a false god?


15 posted on 06/25/2014 12:31:39 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Twotone

OLD 3-way incandesce light bulb, hold hand about 1 foot away, turn bulb on low, then medium, then high. Can a difference be felt?

From “Watch Mr. Wizard”.


16 posted on 06/25/2014 12:32:30 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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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.

Playing word games. Everything that physically happens in the world is a factor. The butterfly in the Amazon analogy.

He is very safe making the bet but it still proves nothing.

17 posted on 06/25/2014 12:32:39 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: DoodleDawg

Nobody has definitively traced out “sensitivity mechanisms.” Nobody knows if the world is primed for negative feedback, positive feedback, or just to jolly well barge on doing what it wants to do, when it wants to do it, no matter who tries to help or hinder.


18 posted on 06/25/2014 12:33:02 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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But a win would be big and worth millions in the court of public opinion.

Conservative blog sites would have a great time. It could easily sink the AGW ship.

19 posted on 06/25/2014 12:33:16 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Twotone

Dr. Keating must have a book coming out. “Look at me, everybody, look at me!”


20 posted on 06/25/2014 12:33:36 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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