tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post8576646624155692306..comments2024-03-26T15:37:57.556-07:00Comments on Idiot Tracker: Judith Curry understood risk in 2007TheTrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10011829472333355911noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-41198337038884492672011-10-20T06:55:24.375-07:002011-10-20T06:55:24.375-07:00Tracker: Willie's at the big H no? To many, H ...<b>Tracker: Willie's at the big H no? To many, H is a proxy for ... well like, really smart or something. But as I type, exceptions come to mind. Please illuminate for someone who is just a guy trying to understand how the world works. </b><br /><br />Willie took a million dollars in fossil fuel money in recent years. Prior to his exciting new career on his back, he was an astrophysicist. I can't really judge if he made any great waves with that, but certainly, unlike Curry, he never produced anything of note on climate, and there is no indication he ever understood climate.TheTrackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10011829472333355911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-8304188319812427332011-10-20T06:52:03.959-07:002011-10-20T06:52:03.959-07:00"Climate change is dead. You bet on the wrong..."Climate change is dead. You bet on the wrong horse."<br /><br />And that's how deniers see it -- as a horse race, rather than as a matter of objective fact that doesn't justify or refute any political position or ideology.<br /><br />Regardless, neither the political war waged to deny the facts, which deniers are losing, nor the facts themselves, make climate change "dead." Try again.TheTrackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10011829472333355911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-17547730379069640102011-10-19T10:40:27.578-07:002011-10-19T10:40:27.578-07:00"Hard to believe someone so smart has made th..."Hard to believe someone so smart has made themselves, in four short years, so dumb"<br /><br />Um, perhaps over those 4 short years she became unconvinced about anthropogenic climate change based on the science. Like the rest of the world. Perhaps it is not she who is so dumb around here.<br /><br />Climate change is dead. You bet on the wrong horse.<br /><br />cheersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-57127613584329373982011-10-15T08:27:29.911-07:002011-10-15T08:27:29.911-07:00Tracker: Willie's at the big H no? To many, H ...Tracker: Willie's at the big H no? To many, H is a proxy for ... well like, really smart or something. But as I type, exceptions come to mind. Please illuminate for someone who is just a guy trying to understand how the world works.Fixed Carbonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06321707907871138659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-2365348925638543342011-10-15T08:09:37.612-07:002011-10-15T08:09:37.612-07:00"How did Willie Soons, a very smart guy, get ..."How did Willie Soons, a very smart guy, get so dumb so fast?"<br /><br />Did Soon ever do anything good? I hadn't heard he had a golden age.TheTrackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10011829472333355911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-33545992813929330322011-10-14T21:08:01.562-07:002011-10-14T21:08:01.562-07:00La Curry's commercial site, for the masochists...La Curry's commercial <a href="http://www.cfanclimate.com/" rel="nofollow">site</a>, for the masochists among us.Steve Bloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12943109973917998380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-75402359561797390252011-10-14T13:05:45.030-07:002011-10-14T13:05:45.030-07:00True for Willie (an astrophysicist FWIW) but not t...True for Willie (an astrophysicist FWIW) but not true for Judy (a climate scientist). Her competition in the field is the modelers, and it's them she goes after even while sort-of defending the field as a whole. This isn't just professional competition, there's a private profit motive since Judy (with hubby Peter Webster) has a climate forecasting business that uses statistical analysis rather than GCM-type models. Follow the money.Steve Bloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12943109973917998380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-84119920744227360822011-10-14T10:54:13.110-07:002011-10-14T10:54:13.110-07:00I favor the capitalist explanation: "they ge...I favor the capitalist explanation: "they get more money trashing science than they were ever able to by attempting to do science." <br /><br />John PumaJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12479974040070719985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-89189314242056048532011-10-14T10:17:37.594-07:002011-10-14T10:17:37.594-07:00How did Willie Soons, a very smart guy, get so dum...How did Willie Soons, a very smart guy, get so dumb so fast? Was the cause of Judith Curry's dumbness dive similar to that influencing Willie?Fixed Carbonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06321707907871138659noreply@blogger.com