$100,000 Offered to Prove Global Warming: Can You Save Al Gore?

News Busters ^ | August 7, 2007 | Noel Sheppard

[steveyp]

Statistical rejection or failure to reject the hypothesis. Presumably their is detail in the fine print w/r to the confidence level.

[norwaypinesavage]

It was 95 degrees out today. That’s all the DBM needs to prove global warming.

[P-40]

Presumably their is detail in the fine print w/r to the confidence level.

The IPCC claims a 90% probability that the Earth is warming but I forget their probability that a 'significant' portion of that is due to mankind. In any case, I assume the prize if offered for more than a 90% chance. :)

[SuperSonic]

Thanks for the link, hat tip the tag line !

You're welcome!

And check out this page from .... gasp! .... our own EPA:
Air Quality and Emissions – Progress Continues in 2006

[SuperSonic]

From the TimesOnline:

Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[DungeonMaster]

What a joke, it is already proven in the minds of Al’s disciples.

[Sloth]

These sorts of challenges seem stupid to me. If whoever issues them gets to decide what constitutes “proof”, then obviously it will never be met.

[IrishMike]

You can show global warming exists ?

[Nathan Zachary]

"It is really hot here and has been for the past week.....I attribute the heat to the current season of summer."

That would be climate change. Global warming alarmists reject 3 of the 4 seasons are natural phenomena, they are caused by man. It should cold years round at the north and south poles, warm, steady temperatures year round near the equator, and progressively cooler the more north or south you get from it, but steady year round temperatures.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

I'm here to collect my money.

[Sloth]

Warming, probably. Anthropogenic warming, definitely not. What difference does that make? The challenge is still stupid.

[Vanbasten]

This is an interesting idea. I think the money is safe.

[colorado tanker]

the first person to prove, in a scientific manner

You mean "consensus" isn't enough, he wants scientific proof???

That's just not fair. :-))

[Ender Wiggin]

btt

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[fella]

If I had the money, I would offer $1 million to anyone who could show a peer-reviewed computer model that correctly predicts the climate of the past century

How about just for the next 30 days?

[cogitator]

From the actual contest rules:

"Entrants acknowledge that the concepts and terms mentioned and referred to in the UGWC hypotheses are inherently and necessarily vague, and involve subjective judgment. JunkScience.com reserves the exclusive right to determine the meaning and application of such concepts and terms in order to facilitate the purpose of the contest."

In other words, we reserve the right to "move the goalposts" if an entry comes too close to actually making us pay out. Or, alternatively: we can define the terms such that no one can possibly win, allowing us at the end of the contest to state that nobody won, and therefore allowing us to say that what we said had to be disproven wasn't disproven, so we must be right!

Sorry, Mr. Milloy, your contest is not fair.

If Milloy really wanted this to be fair, he'd have much better designed criteria for the determination of a successful "proof". As it stands, it's merely a publicity ploy, and a rather poorly-constructed one. Feel free to send my comments to him, anybody.

[IrishMike]

Thanks for doing the research.

[TC Rider]

aren’t those balanced by cold showers?

So horny teenaged boys are responsible for global cooling?