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Want to Disprove Man-Made Climate Change? A Scientist Will Give You $10,000 if You Can
The Blaze ^ | June 25, 2014 | Liz Klimas

Posted on 06/25/2014 12:24:02 PM PDT by Twotone

A physics professor is so fed up with the claims made by “climate change deniers” that he has launched a “$10,000 Global Warming Skeptic Challenge.”

The challenge issued by Dr. Christopher Keating, a professor who previously taught at the University of South Dakota and the U.S. Naval Academy, according to a news release, will award prize money to anyone who uses the scientific method to prove that human activity has not been a factor leading to climate change.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; challenge; climatechange; climatechangefraud; globalwarming
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

” would like if the” = I would like to know if the...


41 posted on 06/25/2014 12:45:05 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Twotone

They are the ones proposing the theory. The burden of proof remains on them.


42 posted on 06/25/2014 12:45:22 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo (The more helpless the victim, the more hideous the assault.)
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To: Twotone

All will be told simply, “You’re wrong. The consensus has been reached. All scientists are in agreement. Next.”


43 posted on 06/25/2014 12:45:47 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Twotone

Is this guy even to stupid to know it’s impossible to prove a negative , not to mention even the very premise of the question is in doubt.


44 posted on 06/25/2014 12:46:22 PM PDT by billyboy15
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To: thorvaldr

What it is possible to show is that with the present level of understanding it is an undecidable question, and also it’s possible to show that many warming scenarios can make for a more (rather than less) hospitable earth. So the wise money is to stop panicking and start preparing in case the world really does get warmer.


45 posted on 06/25/2014 12:47:29 PM 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: wideawake
“We have spent hundreds of millions of dollars building our castle in the air - we'll pay you ten thousand if you can dismantle it with one blow.”

He is the only judge.

What he is saying is: “We spent hundreds of millions building these fraudulent theories and I will pay you $10,000 if I, and I alone, say you have proven them wrong.”

46 posted on 06/25/2014 12:47:53 PM PDT by detective
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To: Twotone

I am still awaiting scientific proof that man causes global warming. This guy could start by providing his proof. Then people could pick apart his proof and then send to a 3rd pty for review. He has it backwards. His ilk needs to prove global warming exists. The burden of proof is on them. Hard to prove a negative.


47 posted on 06/25/2014 12:52:28 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Twotone

48 posted on 06/25/2014 12:54:31 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Twotone
will award prize money to anyone who uses the scientific method to prove that human activity has not been a factor leading to climate change.

An impossible threshhold to meet! "A FACTOR???"..., whether additive or subtractive, humans are on earth and, A Priori, they must be A FACTOR in whatever occurs!

49 posted on 06/25/2014 12:55:33 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: thorvaldr

“Apparently he doesn’t know that the scientific method can’t be used to prove a negative.”

But it can be used to show what actually is causing global average temperatures to rise if it is not man made.


50 posted on 06/25/2014 12:55:39 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Twotone

If he really said “use the scientific method” to disprove AGW, then he is not a real scientist.


51 posted on 06/25/2014 12:58:18 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Twotone

“Catch this fart in a bottle and paint it green.” said the man to the evil genie, and trumpeted loudly.


52 posted on 06/25/2014 12:59:19 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Twotone
No smoking hot spot

1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.

Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.

If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.

Send me my $10k in cash or gold coins please, Dr. Keating.

53 posted on 06/25/2014 1:03:28 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: Twotone

I’ll give him $10,000 if he can PROVE man-made climate change.


54 posted on 06/25/2014 1:04:21 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: tumblindice

I would need at least 100,000 to divulge all my studies on this fraud! Printer paper is expensive and so is ink!


55 posted on 06/25/2014 1:05:05 PM PDT by DocJhn
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To: RIghtwardHo

In what sense?


56 posted on 06/25/2014 1:06:51 PM PDT by Borges
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To: fishtank
Yep, he's a wallbanger, someone point him in the right direction.


57 posted on 06/25/2014 1:10:00 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Twotone
Would that be the alleged climate change that's supposedly happening on Earth, or that which is happening on other planets and moons in our solar system? Let's see....what could be causing "climate change" in our SOLAR system? Hmmmmmmm...

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

58 posted on 06/25/2014 1:12:56 PM PDT by wku man (Veterans, it's up to us to save the Republic...let's roll.)
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To: TigersEye
Dr. Keating! Your ride to school is here.



59 posted on 06/25/2014 1:13:04 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: Twotone
prize money to anyone who uses the scientific method to prove that human activity has not been a factor leading to climate change.

The "fool" would be anyone attempting to provide such a proof. This is because human activity probably has been "a factor" leading to climate change. It is a question of degree.

The problem with this challenge is that what he suggests should be proven does not address the question of interest. The issue is whether human activity has been a leading factor in climate change. (Notice how his wording implies the prior statement.) This is the flawed assumption of those promoting the idea of AGW.

The reality is that those promoting AGW can't even prove that human activity is a significant factor in climate change.

60 posted on 06/25/2014 1:15:55 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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