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by TomJoad
on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 11:32
#488626
Would you also like my social security number? How about the number for the tech at Turner Designs who calibrated our cyclops c6? I am not authorized to be releasing this info, it is all going to litigation. Just trying to add a dose of reality for my old pals at ZH, this same kind of nonsense is going on over at TOD. I'll cut and paste some data on determination of crude concentrations via CDOM and Dissolved Oxygen if it would make you feel any better.
Don't get me wrong I think this is a very serious event, I think bio-accumulations of primary and secondary metabolic by-products all the way up and down the food chain is the big story here. Most people in the science community are appalled by the basically unrestricted use of Corexit. The full story won't be known for years but all this Tinfoil hat Simmons crap is counterproductive. I don't know what his motive is but it certainly isn't the dissemination of facts
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by M4570D0N
on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 15:02
#489058
+1
I find the Simmons armageddon crowd to be about on the level of the fringe AGW claiming just a few years ago that Greenland's ice sheet already doomed to raise sea levels by 7 meters, that AGW caused Hurricane Katrina, that we should start eating our dogs and have chickens as pets instead (and eat them too) to cut down on GHG emissions, or (my most recent favorite) that early man hunting the wooly mammoth 15,000yrs ago started AGW. Ridiculous claims like these do nothing but impede the progression of intelligent discussion of the issue. It eats away at the credibility of the more level-headed pro-AGW crowd and serves as an affirmation to those that hold all aspects of climate science as nothing but a farce.
(And I realize there is a middle ground, but I'm sure you all get the point)