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Nobel Laureate Ivar Giaever – Global Warming Revisited (2015)

1 points by ash 7y ago

eesmith 7y ago
Wikipedia gives some context at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Giaever#Global_warming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Giaever#Global_warming . > "nothing in science is incontrovertible" Except for all those scientists who use "incontrovertible." Eg, a quick Google Scholar search for "incontrovertible physics" finds: - https://www.nature.com/articles/453866a https://www.nature.com/articles/453866a using the phrase "They also both observed the incontrovertible signature for Anderson localization..." - https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Laser-Physics%3A-Quantum-Controversy-in-Action-Lamb-Schleich/0a460adbf03f997640fe50fbc76d21e7e55a956b https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Laser-Physics%3A-Quant... with "In particular, thestriking experimental demonstration of interference be-tween two condensates and the time evolution of a condensate provide incontrovertible evidence for BEC." A search of Science Magazine finds articles like - https://stke.sciencemag.org/content/2006/366/re17 https://stke.sciencemag.org/content/2006/366/re17 "Advancements in techniques for empirically measuring single cells and in corresponding theoretical methods have enabled the rigorous design and interpretation of experiments that provide incontrovertible proof that there are important endogenous sources of stochasticity that drive biological processes at the scale of individual organisms." - https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/294/294ra106 https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/294/294ra106 (full text available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6731024/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6731024/ ) "Moreover, seeing exactly the same DNA base pair mutated recurrently across patients has been taken as incontrovertible proof that the mutation must be under functional selection for contributing to tumor fitness (3)." > "Second: the “measured” average temperature increase in 100 years or so, is 0.8 Kelvin." The current average anomaly is 0.8 K. Relative to 1915 (100 years before 2015) it's risen 1.1 K. https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/ https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/ . > "Forth: the maximum average temperature ever measured was in 1998, 17 years ago" The average anomaly in 1998 was 0.62 K, and that statement no longer holds. Same source.

1 points by ash 7y ago

Wikipedia gives some context at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Giaever#Global_warming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Giaever#Global_warming . > "nothing in science is incontrovertible" Except for all those scientists who use "incontrovertible." Eg, a quick Google Scholar search for "incontrovertible physics" finds: - https://www.nature.com/articles/453866a https://www.nature.com/articles/453866a using the phrase "They also both observed the incontrovertible signature for Anderson localization..." - https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Laser-Physics%3A-Quantum-Controversy-in-Action-Lamb-Schleich/0a460adbf03f997640fe50fbc76d21e7e55a956b https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Laser-Physics%3A-Quant... with "In particular, thestriking experimental demonstration of interference be-tween two condensates and the time evolution of a condensate provide incontrovertible evidence for BEC." A search of Science Magazine finds articles like - https://stke.sciencemag.org/content/2006/366/re17 https://stke.sciencemag.org/content/2006/366/re17 "Advancements in techniques for empirically measuring single cells and in corresponding theoretical methods have enabled the rigorous design and interpretation of experiments that provide incontrovertible proof that there are important endogenous sources of stochasticity that drive biological processes at the scale of individual organisms." - https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/294/294ra106 https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/294/294ra106 (full text available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6731024/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6731024/ ) "Moreover, seeing exactly the same DNA base pair mutated recurrently across patients has been taken as incontrovertible proof that the mutation must be under functional selection for contributing to tumor fitness (3)." > "Second: the “measured” average temperature increase in 100 years or so, is 0.8 Kelvin." The current average anomaly is 0.8 K. Relative to 1915 (100 years before 2015) it's risen 1.1 K. https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/ https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/ . > "Forth: the maximum average temperature ever measured was in 1998, 17 years ago" The average anomaly in 1998 was 0.62 K, and that statement no longer holds. Same source.