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Physicist Offers $30,000 Reward To Anyone Who Can Disprove Climate Change
CBS News Local DC ^ | July 3, 2014

Posted on 07/03/2014 4:29:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Physics professor and climate change expert Dr. Christopher Keating is offering a $30,000 reward to anyone who can disprove that man-made climate change is real.

Keating, a professor of two decades at the University of South Dakota and U.S. Naval Academy, has challenged climate change skeptics to prove that man-made global warming is not real. Keating is prepared to offer $30,000 of his own money for the “Global Warming Skeptic Challenge,” which has an application deadline of July 31.

“I have heard global warming skeptics make all sorts of statements about how the science doesn’t support claims of man-made climate change,” Keating announced on his blog. “I have found all of those statements to be empty and without any kind of supporting evidence. I have, in turn, stated that it is not possible for the skeptics to prove their claims. And, I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is.”

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KEYWORDS: climategate; hoax; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A physicist knows you can’t prove a negative. It’s a trap!

You can’t prove a negative so it must be true. Same for Santa and the Easter Bunny.


61 posted on 07/03/2014 9:51:16 AM PDT by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

trick question - the climate does indeed change - winter, spring, summer and fall, just to name a few changes


62 posted on 07/03/2014 10:17:46 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (am in the process of not complying)
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To: Lou L

That is clearly global warming. Just 6 months ago the temp was in the low 30s.


63 posted on 07/03/2014 10:21:53 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Taliban, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Physicist Offers $30,000 Reward To Anyone Who Can Disprove Climate Change

My minimum charge for proving a negative is $200,000. Let me know when you raise the money.

I'll offer $100 to the first person to prove that CO2 is a pollutant.

I'll offer $200 to the first person who can prove that increased global atmospheric temperatures never preceded an increase in atmospheric CO2 levels.

I'll offer $300 to the first person who can identify all the variables necessary to computer model global climate change.

I’ll offer $1,000 to the first person who can prove that mankind can accurately measure and apply the variables’ data to the model.

I’ll offer a $1.50 to the first person who has the courage to identify that perfect global atmospheric temperature expected by taxing carbon.

64 posted on 07/03/2014 11:15:28 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Physics professor and climate change expert Dr. Christopher Keating

After reading this, I am thinking a money offer may be necessary to prove this man is a physics professor. Perhaps he is a physics professor in the same fashion Obama was a constitution law professor. Lots of wiggle room.

Anyone involved in science understands that only facts determine science, not consensus. The consensus of a perception can determine politics but science is not so malleable.

The Essence Of Science In 61 Seconds

65 posted on 07/03/2014 11:31:57 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How do you prove a negative?


66 posted on 07/03/2014 12:00:25 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s a sucker bet. You can’t disprove climate change because it’s been changing constantly since God set the whole thing spinning, and it won’t be stopping.


67 posted on 07/03/2014 12:41:44 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Lou L
You're right, there MUST be global warming happening.

Like clock work....happens every dang year!!

68 posted on 07/03/2014 12:49:37 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That is the basic problem with AGW theory. You can’t falsify predictions of a future event.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality. — Karl Popper

CC


69 posted on 07/03/2014 6:26:57 PM PDT by Captain Compassion
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