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From the article: On air, I said that, back in 1988, when climate scientist James Hansen testified in front of the Senate, he predicted we’d see a tremendous a
by Claudus 9y ago
From the article:
On air, I said that, back in 1988, when climate scientist James Hansen testified in front of the Senate, he predicted we’d see a tremendous amount of warming. I argued it’d been more than a decade and we could now see by looking at the temperature record that he wasn’t accurate. After we got done with the program and were back in green room, getting the makeup taken off, Joe said to me, “Did you even read that testimony you’ve just talked about?” And when I told him it had been a while, he said “I’m daring you to go back and double check this.” He told me that some of Hansen’s projections were spot on. So I went back to my office and I re-read Hanson’s testimony. And Joe was correct.
Here is a transcript of the testimony, he appears to be referring to...
http://climatechange.procon.org/sourcefiles/1988_Hansen_Senate_Testimony.pdf http://climatechange.procon.org/sourcefiles/1988_Hansen_Sena...
Having read it twice, I'm not sure exactly which "predictions" he is referring to.
John Taylor, according to his Wikipedia article is "an environmental activist and policy analyst", and apparently more than happy to shill for either side.
Criticism of him from some random link on the second page of Google:
http://consultingbyrpm.com/blog/2017/04/is-jerry-taylor-doing-what-i-think-hes-doing.html http://consultingbyrpm.com/blog/2017/04/is-jerry-taylor-doin...
No matter your opinion on the topic, this guy certainly seems less than credible.
- Claudus 9y agoAnother note: The user who posted this link created his account 21 days ago, and already has 51 submissions, most related to similar topics. Unsurprising, given the details on the site linked from his profile page. http://d.hd.org http://d.hd.org My big project is OpenTRV which has the modest aim of cutting the UK's entire carbon footprint by 10% (and/or Europe'ss by 8%) at low cost by halving space heating costs especially for homes in a simple and fiddle-free way!
- DamonHD 9y agoThanks for highlighting a silly typo, now fixed!
- pavlov 9y agoWhat exactly is nefarious about reducing heating bills? OpenTRV sounds useful: http://opentrv.org.uk/what-is-opentrv/ http://opentrv.org.uk/what-is-opentrv/
- Claudus 9y agoNo idea, but I will tell you what is wrong with your response. 1. Straw man 2. Red herring
- pavlov 9y agoOk. I genuinely don't understand what you were trying to say about DamonHD's credibility. Would you explain? In your first post, you describe John Taylor as a shill. Then you segue that into a discussion of DamonHD's hardware project and posting history. The implication is clearly that you think he is a shill too.
- Rangi42 9y agohttp://imgur.com/a/JTKqT http://imgur.com/a/JTKqT
- bobwaycott 9y agoYou were asked to explain what you're implying. No straw man or red herring were created. No argument was offered. It's pretty clear the parent is trying to understand why you're throwing shade at the OP and sowing doubt about their motivations for sharing a link as a means of discrediting the article shared here.
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- roflc0ptic 9y agoThose are some pretty flimsy criticisms of this article. 1. Did you really read what you linked? Twice? Because I saw clear prediction in there. I'm also not sure which predictions he's referring to, but that's certainly not evidence of Taylor being untrustworthy. 2. Yes, John Taylor, brother of Jerry Taylor about whom this article Is written, is a climate denier. This is addressed in the article. It's weird that you're using that as evidence of Jerry Taylor's untrustworthiness. 3. The criticism in the last link you give is vapid and lazy. They don't prove any of their claims, they just assume premises that allow them to draw negative conclusions.