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Old 06-17-2008, 04:46 PM   #64
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Originally Posted by SoCalCoug View Post
Tell you what, Indy. You're obviously the most gifted statistician and expert on predictive climate models around. Since none of the rest of us can really hope to respond to you, since your intelligence level is so much higher than ours, why don't you enlighten us by giving a detailed criticism of the methods and conclusions of one of the more comprehensive scientific reports on global climate change:

http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/index.htm

With your education and experience, I'm sure you can enlighten the rest of us.
Not speaking for Indy, but my question or observation is how can we find out what is reliable in what seems to be a virgin scientific endeavor.

And although critics may not be sounding off correctly or accurately, there is some truth to the observation Indy makes about a community accepting finding what it finds. It probably doesn't explain away their findings, but there are margins of error and the philosophies of science do discuss bias of the community.
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