“LOT of win”? Are we talking in code??? 🙂

CIB? CIP?

Thanks, Harvson3 for taking up the challenge. Much appreciated!

I just want you to know that I work in finance and do not drive fancy cars. We have a 2011 Ford Edge and a 2001 Toyota Camry with 183k miles on it, the darn thing just does not want to die. Aiming to keep it to give to son who turns 16 next month.
I only drive fancy cars (like a Benz) when I get paid for it lol 😉
I am the true frugal guy.
Global warming is real, I know this much.
Mars on!

Sigh. Facts are global temps have barely budged in over a decade (in stark contrast to the hysterical alarmist AGW predictions and “scientific” models).

Citations please! Show me the predictions and show me the data. I see this.

There is record ice pack in the Antarctic – how come nary a mention in media?

Yes, there is record sea ice in Antarctica. There are falling amounts of land ice, which is much less subject to cyclical and seasonal variations. I encourage you to explore the difference – it’s an interesting story.

We know the Hockey Stick graph was a fabricated cynical lie.

We do? What evidence do we have for this?

Finally, the same data and “scientists” (who can’t correctly predict the weather for next week), were predicting an Ice Age 20 years ago. Now we are to believe their (broken) climate models (that have been wrong for a decade) will accurately predict temps a century from now?

Yes, back in the 1970s there was much greater uncertainty about long-term trends. There were a range of papers. Here’s a review of those papers on what a range of predictions there were. If you read through that paper, however, you’ll see that while some papers predicted cooling, the majority still predicted warming.

When we do science, we learn, and we revise our previous beliefs.

That’s nothing. Medical science used to recommend HRT – hormone replacement therapy – for post-menopausal women up until the early 2000s. A long-term panel study – the WHI, if you’d like to look it up – was stopped early because of convincing evidence that HRT was killing women. It’s no longer a widespread recommendation for women. We learned, then we adjust, then we learn some more, and we adjust. That’s how science works.

It would be laughable if it weren’t such a contempously pathetic money grab by “scientists” who’d otherwise be flipping burgers.

Hahahaha! Good one! I have friends who work in finance or as consultants or run their own businesses and have since college. I have friends who work in academia as professors after years of work to get PhDs. Guess which group drives fancy cars?

Every year my graduate institution hosts campus visits from Goldman Sachs and the like; they need quants to build models on Wall Street for far more lucrative purposes; stay in academia can’t pay nearly as much.

Given the lack of appreciation here over Lori Fenton’s work on sand dunes on Mars, I’m done with this thread now. M-A-R-S, Mars, bitches!

This post is a LOT of win.

Sigh. Facts are global temps have barely budged in over a decade (in stark contrast to the hysterical alarmist AGW predictions and “scientific” models).

There is record ice pack in the Antarctic – how come nary a mention in media?

We know the Hockey Stick graph was a fabricated cynical lie.

Finally, the same data and “scientists” (who can’t correctly predict the weather for next week), were predicting an Ice Age 20 years ago. Now we are to believe their (broken) climate models (that have been wrong for a decade) will accurately predict temps a century from now?

It would be laughable if it weren’t such a contempously pathetic money grab by “scientists” who’d otherwise be flipping burgers.

Its really easy to skip blogging for a day, then it becomes two, then before you know it, a few days have gone by. Everyone deserves a break for a few days.

I am not sure. His wife was also blogging at travelwhimsy.com. She recently resurfaced but not Jimmy. Very nice couple indeed, I met them in Chicago I think.

You know, things happen in life and blogs get way down in priority list. I can’t believe I am still here!
It’s been a nice ride.

I am going to keep going until I go back to Greece for two weeks in mid December. Then quarter-end & year end work will hit me hard. And tax season. I did it last year but…who knows. I take a day at a time.