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To: ThunderSleeps
The second question was do you think mankind has had a significant impact on this warming. Hmm, guess you pretty much have to have answered yes to the other one, or tacitly approve of a yes there to even answer this question. The weasel word in it is "significant." Well, what is "significant"???

In scientific language, the word "significant" has a very specific meaning. It means that the probability of an observation being random rather than being a result of the specific experimental conditions is less than 5%--or, as we scientists express it, the P value is less than 0.05. (P<0.05). Scientists use many weasel words (it reflects our acknowledgement that we can be wrong), but "significant" is not one of them.

38 posted on 05/27/2014 4:37:52 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

Yet it is being expanded beyond the capability of science in the situation. We cannot conduct two worlds, a control world without anthropogenic input and an observation world with it, and make observations for both at the depth possible with modern meteorology.


39 posted on 05/27/2014 7:39:30 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: exDemMom

Except that is not the context. Significant was not used to describe the likihood, but it was used as a magnitude, so its meaning is unclear.


40 posted on 05/27/2014 9:20:45 AM PDT by Always Right
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