Poor chap… He’s totally clueless to the fact that no amount of lawyerly argumentation will subvert the laws of nature. He can’t tell the difference between a physical law and a municipal law, and thinks that both can be changed by the same techniques of political maneuvering and devious persuasion.

You’ve lost before you even started, RickA. Truths are damned stubborn things. And you are a weakling when coming up against them.

Note also that he often tries to end an argument by conflating his propaganda with “opinion”. He does this in order to validate it in people’s minds with false balance. It’s an attempt to put an emphatic, face saving period on his blethers.

RickA is a talking head. An empty, self-centered, self-serving talking head. Callous, too. Sliding into craven, even.

Again with this straw man, addressed in the aforementioned thread:

“No-one is arguing that natural influences have stopped. People are arguing that there is no evidence for natural influences being able to cause a warming trend of the observed magnitude over the past 60 years or 100 years or 200 years, or even half the observed magnitude.”

https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/open-data/#comment-88769

No integrity.

But just a part – not all of it.”

How do you know? Every natural change has us cooling for 8000 years, and if we’re actually warming, then MORE THAN ALL THE WARMING is due to something else.

“That is my belief, based on how I read the evidence.”

But not the evidence of how we should have been continuing the cooling. And without any evidence that anything else is causing the warming.

Also old canards about validation have been discussed elsewhere, which he well knows but ignores for the sake of his thought stopping talking points.

https://skepticalscience.com/how-do-climate-models-work.html

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/01/is-climate-modelling-science/

http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/2010/11/validating-climate-models/

No – I was just answering a question.

Natural warming didn’t stop in 1950.

The el nino of 2015-2016 is evidence of that.

The warming from 1905 – 1945 is evidence of that.

Yes – humans are causing part of the warming.

But just a part – not all of it.

That is my belief, based on how I read the evidence.

Feel free to read the evidence yourself and reach your own conclusion – I am not stopping you.

RickA justifying his denial that humanity is likely entirely responsible for the recent warming trend @ ATTP:

“It has been warming for 20,000 years, after all.

We are in the middle of an inter-glacial.”

https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/open-data/#comment-88741

Informed that this was a nonsensical comment in light of the evidence, RickA now appears to be deflecting to a critique of the short-term projection skills of long-term climate models. Not a new strategy, even for him.

Not a shred of integrity.

I am only aware of 18 USC chapter 11 (201 – 227).”

So you don’t know what the laws are, but you DO claim to know that the president is pardoned from corruption laws….

Ever tried not pontificating when you don’t know something? Especially if you’re going to be claiming yourself a label that would imply competency.

I would need to see a validated global climate model. Then I would recognise that climate scientists understand the climate and can make long term predictions of a future climate.

So far the climate models track record is dismal.