‘Passage To Juneau: A Sea and Its Meaning’ by Jonathan Raban

The narrative is from the author as he sails along the coast from Seattle to Juneau describing interesting historical events and the fortunes, or misfortunes, of the indigenous as they suffer exploitation at the hands of big corporations.

‘Passage To Juneau: A Sea and Its Meaning’ by Jonathan Raban

The narrative is from the author as he sails along the coast from Seattle to Juneau describing interesting historical events and the fortunes, or misfortunes, of the indigenous as they suffer exploitation at the hands of big corporations.

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I’ll add Harland to the endless stack…

But really must get Republican Brain under my belt between now and Christmas. No further excuses will be acceptable 🙂

Greenland’s melting ice sheet – in pictures

Change your information sources RickA and learn how to parse with honesty.

RickA

…don’t believe we actually know how much of the warming is due to humans (although my guess is 50/50). So I reject the label denier when it is put on me.

Well you best get used to wearing that label ‘denier’ because once again you demonstrate that you own it.

Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to humans

Indeed a case can be made for the human component in elevated temperatures being >100% could be made when the effects of aerosol cooling is taken into account.

RickA, you have been told this time and again, now stop being a stubborn Republican Brain. Have you read that book BTW, you should but I doubt you will—too much cognitive dissonance.

Coping with the nuances of contradictory ideas or experiences is mentally stressful. It requires energy and effort to sit with those seemingly opposite things that all seem true. Festinger argued that some people would inevitably resolve dissonance by blindly believing whatever they wanted to believe.

That last sentence sure covers you. Source Wiki.

Thanks for the pointer to The Way of a Ship which got my memory banks going by having read similar in the 1970s (when I was into sailing [1] – my wife gets the wobbles on the Gosport ferry besides with a rapidly expanding family—from bachelor to married with four in a little over two years—my time was taken up elsewhere, so that fell by the wayside.

I had read another about windjammers rounding The Horn, may still have it, I’ll have a look.

If you are fascinated by sail as I am ISTR you were into O’Brian (shame that Weir only got one movie out of all those books) then this book is a must:

Seamanship in the Age of Sail: An Account of Shiphandling of the Sailing Man-O-War, 1600-1860 by John Harland. This is a later edition than my copy.

[1] Sailing mostly dinghies but occasionally a 55 ft timber hulled Bermuda rigged beauty called Merlin (used by FAA from Hornet), with a tiller. She and her sister ship Maribou (used by the salties at Vernon), similar hull but ketch rigged with a steering wheel. Hauling on that tiller one night from St Peter Port, Guernsey (had fun with a big cruiser we had to berth alongside having been delayed by adventures on the way) to Cherbourg in a Force 8 and thunderstorm was interesting.

The ‘sailor’ of the big cruiser with two thumping great diesels in its engine room had fouled mooring lines on entry, could not get his winches to work or his radar and nav’ kit. Noticing the ‘Blue Duster’ at our stern he asked if anybody knew anything about hydraulics. Being familiar with hydraulic systems of various aircraft types I volunteered figuring I could work it out. So he gave me a guided tour, stepping over the young lovelies sun bathing on the foredeck. It was dead simple, the mangled excuse for a split pin had fallen out of a cotter pin connecting a governor linkage to the gearbox. Went aboard Merlin and with a few tools and a suitable split pin fixed it. Meanwhile one of the others was cutting the prop free and the radar/nav’ problem turned out to be finger trouble. We were ‘in like Flynn’.

This was seven years ago, before the five warmest years on record by a considerable margin. Before a spate of high temperature records have been set in countries around the world. Before Australia’s crippling heat and bushfires, before even more mass coral reef bleaching, before Europe’s 40 plus-degree heatwaves, before some of the most powerful hurricanes and typhoons on record. Indeed, 2013 was at the end of the illusory ‘hiatus’ that deniers were ranting on and on about until 2014, 2015 and especially 2016 obliterated it. This little meme has since disappeared from their playbooks.

Pretty much says it all. This is indeed profoundly alarming. As a result of three searing summers in a row, trees are dying en masse in parts of Europe. Symptoms of rapid warming are manifesting themselves everywhere.

I admit that the climate changes and that the globe is warming. However, I think the warming is partly natural and partly due to humans, and don’t believe we actually know how much of the warming is due to humans (although my guess is 50/50). So I reject the label denier when it is put on me.

You deny the entire body of scientific evidence which indicates that climate sensitivity is ~3K without presenting a single scrap of valid supporting evidence for your lukewarm counter-claim. This is denialism. You also incessantly advocate for nuclear as a solution despite the industry’s own club, the WNA, stating that at best – at best – no more than 25% of global electricity generation can come from nuclear by mid-century. When made aware of this fact recently, you explicitly dismissed it. That is denialism. So, you are a denier.

I am certainly not a climate alarmist, although I see a lot of climate alarmism here.

Please cite a few examples.

So I guess that puts me in the middle.

That is an egregious attempt to drag the Overton window in your direction. It is also a lie. You are not in the middle. You are a denier from way off to the right. The scientific consensus is in the middle and you deny a key finding upheld by this consensus – that ECS is most likely ~3K. Remember Ricky, science deals in probability, so pretending that because we do not yet have observational data we can know nothing is a childish evasion deserving all the contempt it routinely recieves here.

So many lies.

Lying by omission, Ricky:

It is extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together. The best estimate of the human-induced contribution to warming is similar to the observed warming over this period.

Read it until you understand it, then apologise to the forum for misrepresenting the IPCC AR5 wg1 attribution statement, which actually says that all observed warming is caused by us.

For someone claiming to have read all the IPCC reports your understanding of what they say is abysmal. Perhaps you lied about having read them. Either that or you are deliberately lying by omission (selective quotation) in order to misrepresent their findings.

As I just said:

Until you or Nic Lewis or anybody really provides a single shred of evidence for this baseless assertion, it is mouse farts.

Evidence-based science concludes with high certainty that human activity is responsible for all modern warming.

You have absolutely nothing except political bias and lies.