Paul Michaelis

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  Paul signed the petition | about 1 year ago

  No More Dolphins Swimming in Las Vegas
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  Paul signed the petition | over 2 years ago

  Condemn the Killing of Dr. George Tiller
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  Paul commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  Global Warming Deniers, Delayers Gather for Unreality Check

  Emily and Dirk:
  The issue is not if the earth is warming or not, the issue is whether it is caused by mankind or by nature. And I choose to say the satellite self destructed since the observational part can't arrive in orbit without the rocket...it is not self-sufficient.
  Hand waving, emotional outbursts against people wanting facts and outright  accusations do not make for scientific endeavour. Incidentally, Galileo was persecuted because he believed in the Copernican Theory contrary to consensus  propagated by the "learned theologians" who held it was wrong and immoral.
  To Dirk, I say this.....Do you have any evidence that this hasn't happen before? The fact that the ice field breaks up no more indicates the warming of the entire earth than the current bad winters in Europe indicate the arrival of another ice age
  . For your "hundreds" of items of evidence, I offer this: From 1500 BC to 550 BC the temperature of the earth rose significantly, peaking at about 1100 BC, about the time of the Hebrew Exodus from Egypt. From 900 AD to 1335 AD there was another warming cycle which included the Viking explorations of Greenland followed immediately by the Little Ice Age from 1340 AD to 1845 AD when the average temperature dropped 0.7 degree. Please explain these variations based upon CO2 emissions. I'm sorry, you are allowing observations of local issues to dominate your thinking. Local anomalies have always been part and parcel of the earth's climate and current sensationalism of the details, once again, doesn't make for science. Most of your points involve "low level" evidence (your desciption) that cannot support scientific theory which by necessity requires withstanding the exaination by peers. Those peers include skeptics, not individuals who stand to profit either from research grants or Cap and Trade revenue.
  

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  Paul commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  Global Warming Deniers, Delayers Gather for Unreality Check

  Why is it that when some one disputes human caused "global warming" hysteria by pointing out the fallicy of consensus science they are attacked by personal inuendo instead of by the facts? As a scientist who has run some of the so-called computer models; using them as a basis for prediction is misguided. The models can't reconstruct past weather patterns let alone predict into the future. Too much of this hysteria has taken on the aspects of a religion where "faith" in the idea is more important than developing the facts.
  Gore's movie showed polar bears in the summer and claimed that it was evidence of ice meltback in winter time. Just recently the evidence of ice cap recession was determined to be a satellite error. The satellite intended to measure co2 levels inconveniently self destructed so the "warming" community is forced to resort to the code of personal destruction until such time theat they can find more supporting evidence. Too bad the sun chose to remain in a sunspot minima and cause global cooling thus throwing ice on their theoretical warming cycle.