Dr David Evans claims new climate change discovery

[Reforged]

20% of 0.7 degrees is?

Easily googled.

[Mudhammam]

I'm not inclined to think anyone who questions the scientific consensus on global warming is a crackpot. I am, inclined, however, to wonder who they're connected with. And I'm not encouraged by the fact that Dr. David Evans sits on the board of a D.C.-based conservative think-tank, since we all know who owns the conservatives when it comes to this issue.

[popeyespappy]

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabled...s+dSST.txt

So much for peaked in 1998.

[Aractus]

No one is claiming temps have peaked, popeye.

[popeyespappy]

No one?

[GrandizerII]

This should be interesting. Will take a while but can't wait for the feedback from climate scientists.

[houseofcantor]

This should be interesting. Will take a while but can't wait for the feedback from climate scientists.

I can wait. 

My response was to wait for the experts to weigh in. I'm an expert at naive mathematical theology, other than that I prefer expert opinion, to which to add my own opinion. 

[houseofcantor]

20% of 0.7 degrees is?

0.7 x 0.20 = 0.14 

F for the theologian. 

[Anomalocaris]

While his combination of qualification and position is a tiny minority amongst profession scientists, there are still quite a large number similar combinations in the absolute sense.   If I have to wake up and take notice of each one of those, I would get so little sleep I would be prepared to take creationism seriously at the end of the day.

Oh look Chuck, anyone who challenges the established scientific theory is viewed as a crackpot - think Semmelweis for example. The interesting thing about Semmelweis that people often ignore is that he didn't instruct hist students to wash their hands - they already did that. He specifically said soap and water was not good enough to remove the (invisible) cadaverous particles that he hypothesised were poisoning patients in the maternity ward, and that the medical students needed to wash their hands with a chlorinated lime solution instead!! I'll bet you don't wash your hands in chlorinated-lime, Chuck. It was around 30 years until germ theory was developed and accepted, and even then I can point you to scientific peer-review papers that urge the need for caution when assuming generalisability (applying to other medical conditions what has been 'proven only of some'). We look back on them now - and most people see a one-sided point of view that shows the scientific establishment resisting change. OF COURSE THEY RESIST CHANGE! That's what they're supposed to do. But challengers are supposed to be able to present evidence that can advance science - science only advances through falsification.

While some visionaries have been mistakenly treated as crackpots, the world would grind to a complete stop and then go off the rails while reversing if every crackpot is accorded the consideration given to visionaries.

[Minimalist]

Dr Evans says his discovery “ought to change the world”.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.