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Nobel Laureate in Physics; "Global Warming is Pseudoscience" (video - Prof Ivar Giaever)
You Tube ^ | Professor Ivar Giaever

Posted on 11/28/2018 12:58:40 PM PST by RoosterRedux

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To: RoosterRedux
I've posted his video many, many times on various threads during the past year.

Consider it the best of the best.

21 posted on 11/28/2018 2:43:59 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: RoosterRedux

He did make a (common) error when he stated the Catholic Church declared the world was flat. The professor should probably bone up on the history of cosmology.


22 posted on 11/28/2018 2:53:36 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: Jeff Chandler; RoosterRedux

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US Screwel teechurs thought up the Flat Earth theory in the mid 1930s.

They didn’t believe it, but they declared out of whole cloth the idea that others did.


23 posted on 11/28/2018 3:04:41 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: riverdawg

Is he?!

Good!

Always like him.


24 posted on 11/28/2018 3:04:55 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: SkyDancer
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Our garbage collector is eminently more qualified to be called a scientist than Bill Nye is.
25 posted on 11/28/2018 3:07:40 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

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“Studies” are the favored method of lying.
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26 posted on 11/28/2018 3:10:30 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: SkyDancer
Cornell and Ithaca are rabidly socialist and have been for a long time....Bill Nye is an entertainer, not a scientist!
The “astrophysicist, Neil Degasious Tyson is an “Carl Sagan” entertainer. (Has Sagan's speech pattern down perfectly.)

When will we correctly identify who is informing us on matters?

Science or Entertainment, that is the question!
Regards,
Bat

27 posted on 11/28/2018 3:12:13 PM PST by BatGuano
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To: editor-surveyor

In Inventing the Flat Earth (1991) Jeffrey Burton Russell argues that 19th century anti-Christians invented and spread the falsehood that educated people in the Middle Ages believed that the earth was flat. As one writer summarizes, “Russell also examined a large selection of textbooks and found those written before 1870 usually included the correct account, but most textbooks written after 1880 uncritically repeated the erroneous claims in Washington Irving, John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White. Russell concludes that Irving, Draper and White were the main writers responsible for introducing the erroneous flat-earth myth that is still with us today.”

Russell suggests that the flat-earth error was able to take such deep hold on the modern imagination because of prejudice and presentism. He specifically mentions “the Protestant prejudice against the Middle Ages for Being Catholic ... the Rationalist prejudice against Judeo-Christianity as a whole”, and “the assumption of the superiority of ‘our’ views to those of older cultures”

Russell is currently Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has also taught History and Religious Studies at Berkeley, Riverside, Harvard, New Mexico, and Notre Dame.


28 posted on 11/28/2018 3:17:33 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: BatGuano

I thought that the comparison between the two was telling.


29 posted on 11/28/2018 3:20:42 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: editor-surveyor

Bill Nye is truly a maniacal engineer.


30 posted on 11/28/2018 3:21:14 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: RoosterRedux

I’ve been saying this for decades! Do I get a Nobel?!


31 posted on 11/28/2018 3:24:26 PM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: RoosterRedux

So few people understand real science: (1) come up with a hypothesis; (2) come up with and run experiments that can prove OR disprove (falsifiability) the hypothesis; and (3) repeat. A connection between human activity, global warming, climate change, etc., whatever they’re call it this week, cannot be proven or disproven. Ergo, it is not science. This is a very short summary. The Wikipedia article isn’t bad: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method


32 posted on 11/28/2018 3:28:55 PM PST by piytar (If it was not for double standards, the Democrats and the left would have NO standards.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

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The flat Earth theory came long before 1991!

It was first taught in 1933

It was foolishly aimed at “Christians” because its invetors never read the Bible, which is rich with references to the curve of the Earth.


33 posted on 11/28/2018 3:36:50 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: SkyDancer

Yes, telling comparison, for sure.


34 posted on 11/28/2018 3:37:25 PM PST by BatGuano
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To: RoosterRedux

bump for reference


35 posted on 11/28/2018 3:47:21 PM PST by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: editor-surveyor

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3709145/posts?page=28#28


36 posted on 11/28/2018 4:28:38 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: RoosterRedux

“...who study global warming start out with a premise and then look for evidence to prove the premise is true.”

You have just described the theory that the Mann, Hansen, and Jones built their Global Warming Climate Model on: enter the result and the model generates data to support it.


37 posted on 11/28/2018 6:19:22 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: vette6387

I’ve been pondering this a bit, and reached the conclusion that plans should be formulated to build protected underground agriculture facilities.

Right now in the Netherlands they are building “high rise” facilities of this type, because they are so limited in farmland. What we should develop are the equivalent of underground high rises for plant crops and farm animals.

With artificial heat and lighting, food production would be year around, not limited to seasons.

Except for extreme environments, however, people will still live on the surface, using ultra efficient insulators like Aerogel panels for buildings, to maximize energy efficiency.


38 posted on 11/28/2018 7:31:52 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberals have become moralistic, dogmatic, sententious, self-righteous, pinch-faced prudes.)
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To: RoosterRedux; All

It’s a good video worth watching to those interested. He asks an important question - before talking about global warming being good or bad, shouldn’t we know what the optimal temperature needs to be?

After that he begins to dissect many of the points GW theorists propose, disputing even the very premise that the earth has warmed through industrialization and that CO2 isn’t a cause of warming at all.


39 posted on 11/28/2018 7:32:39 PM PST by monkeyshine
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To: Jeff Chandler

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Let’s try to get beyond your limitations.

All Bible believers are aware that the Bible teaches a spherical Earth.

Many that call themselves ‘christians’ hyave never actually read the Bible, beyond a few sound-bite verses.

Believers they are not.


40 posted on 11/28/2018 9:21:18 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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