Even the Pope sides with Futurecurrents

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  1. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    Are you off your meds again?

    He has 6 fucking degrees with a PHD from Stanford. Your overload has a BS degree. I wonder who is more qualified to create models. Dr. Evans worked for the Australian Greenhouse Office and was the lead modeller and programmer for FullCAM. And you think that he is not qualified. Bullshit! All you overlord does it regurgitate other peoples work. Your overlord is basically a journalist.

    The Australian government didn't call your overlord to create the model. They called this guy.

    Dr David Evans earned six degrees related to modeling and applied mathematics over ten years, including a PhD from Stanford University.

    Couple of excerpts from his resume:

    Private Mathematics Research, 1990 – Writing a book on Fourier Analysis, introducing a geometrical approach to Fourier analysis. It grew out of a PhD thesis, but covers new territory in transforms, calculus, the number system, and multivariable polynomials.

    Australian Greenhouse Office and Department of Climate Change, 1999 – 2005, 2008 – 2010 Modeller and lead programmer for FullCAM, a carbon accounting model for estimating and predicting all biomass, litter and soil carbon pools in forest and agricultural systems. FullCAM is the program used by the Australian Government to calculate the carbon in Australia’s biosphere for the Kyoto Protocol, and to calculate carbon credits under the carbon tax legislation. FullCAM models individual plots, estates of plots, and spatial arrays of plots connected to spatial information such as rainfall, temperature, soil type, farming practices, and satellite images of clearing and revegetation. 250k+ lines of code, commercial-quality Windows GUI app written in C/C++.
     
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  2. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    'Bill Gates just releases super-secret climate science equation that explains how the world can lower carbon dioxide emissions "down to zero." Science points out formula didn't do that when it was discovered 14 years ago...'

    Bill Gates 'Discovers' 14-Year-Old Formula on Climate Change
    http://www.livescience.com/53861-bill-gates-climate-formula-not-new.html

    Bill Gates just released a climate science equation that explains how the world can lower carbon dioxide emissions "down to zero," according to the 2016 edition the annual letter he and his wife, Melinda, published. This letter went online on Monday (Feb. 22).

    Problem is, the equation isn't exactly new. It's widely known in the climate science community as the Kaya identity, and was reviewed in the scientific literature in 2002 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

    But instead of grilling Gates about the origins of the formula, climate scientists are glad he's talking about it, said Michael Mann, a distinguished professor[​IMG] of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University.

    "My guess is that he had seen this somewhere in the past, and sort of forgot where it came from," Mann said. "And thought that maybe he had come up with it. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt."

    The genesis of Gates' equation might remain a mystery for now — the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation didn't return Live Science's requests for comment. But no matter where the equation came from, it can help scientists keep tabs on carbon dioxide emissions, Mann said.

    The Kaya identity explains the factors involved in carbon dioxide output, but it's not a "magical formula," Mann said. "It's a way of breaking our carbon emissions into a number of factors, each of which we can try to focus on separately."


    (More at above url including Gates handwritten formula)

    Hint: The formula implies we need to kill everyone on the face of the earth to have zero CO2 emissions.
     
    #1052     Feb 27, 2016
  3. Yeah, he's a paid-for whore for the fossil fuel industry and is not a climatologist. He knows shit about climate. He does however know how to fish for petro dollars.

    Try NOAA and NASA and virtually every science organization on earth and all it's climate scientists. You deluded ignorant conservative moron.
     
    #1053     Feb 27, 2016
  4. Favourite climate myths by David Evans

    Below are many of the climate myths used by David Evans plus how often each myth has been used.

    https://www.skepticalscience.com/David_Evans_arg.htm


    David Evans
    Credentials
    • Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
    • M.S. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University.
    • M.S. Statistics, Stanford University.
    • M.A. Applied Mathematics, University Of Sydney.
    • B.E. Electrical Engineering, University Of Sydney, Sydney Australia, University Medal (1983).
    • B.Sc. Applied Mathematics and Physics, University Of Sydney.
    Source:[1]

    According to his bio, Evans claims to be a “Rocket Scientist,” and one article describes him as a “Top Rocket Scientist.” While Evans's background does show that he has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, there is no evidence that he was ever employed as a rocket scientist.

    When DeSmogBlog contacted Evans regarding his claim of being a rocket scientist, Evans replied that “In US academic and industry parlance, 'rocket scientist' means anyone who has completed a PhD in one of the hard sciences at one of the topUS institutions.”

    Evans also claims to be “building a word processor for Windows.” DeSmogBlog contacted Microsoft and they have confirmed that he does not work for them.

    Background
    Evans is an editor for the Australian edition of GoldNerds, a company that sells information about gold companies to investors. He also does private mathematics research. [1]

    David Evans gained media attention after an article he wrote titled, “No smoking hot spot,” which was published in The Australian in June, 2008. The article claims that climate change is not caused by C02 emissions because there is no evidence of “a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics.” [2]

    Evans's claim has been thoroughly debunked by Tim Lambert, a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales. [3]

    From 1999 to 2006, Evans worked for the Australian Greenhouse Office designing a carbon accounting system that is used by the Australian Government to calculate its land-use carbon accounts for the Kyoto Protocol.

    While Evans says in “My Life With the AGO and Other Observations” that “[he] know a heck of a lot about modeling and computers,” he states clearly that he is “not a climate modeler.”

    Stance on Climate Change
    “The evidence supporting the idea that CO2 emissions were the main cause of global warming reversed itself from 1995 to 2006, causing Evans to move from being a warmist to a skeptic.” [4]

    Key Quotes
    “If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming…” [5]

    “I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector.” [2]

    Key Deeds
    March 8-10, 2009


    Evans made a presentation titled “Carbon Dioxide Not Responsible for 20th Century Warming” at the Heartland Institute's2009 International Conference on Climate Change. [6]

    Affiliations



      • Australian Climate Science Coalition (ACSC) — Scientific Advisor. [7]



      • Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) — “Team Member” at UN climate conference in Bali. [8]



      • The Lavoisier Group — Contributor.



      • The Ludwig von Mises Institute — Contributor.



      • The Australian Greenhouse Office — Consultant. [2]
    Publications
    According to his resume, Evans has not published any peer-reviewed research papers on the subject of climate change.

    Evans published one paper in 1987, but it was unrelated to climate change.


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    Cliffs; this guy is an unqualified fraud fishing for petro dollars and only ignorant deluded conservative wingnuts like wedidtodtoo and snoopdoggy consider his opinion valid.

    whack a mole.....whack!!!
     
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  5. Snarkhund

    Snarkhund

    Incredible. My God.

    They don't just hand out degrees in electrical engineering at Stanford. The only discipline in all of academia that is more difficult to earn a degree in is chemical engineering (ugh all that organic chemistry).
     
    #1055     Feb 27, 2016
  6. Yes, "my God", as in "my God how can someone be so stupid as to think this guy is qualified. Don't they know he has NO published climate research papers? Don't they know this guy is an obvious joke and is wrong about nearly everything that he says about AGW?"


    but then we remember that you are a right wing idiot and it all makes sense.
     
    #1056     Feb 27, 2016
  7. Snarkhund

    Snarkhund

    You must have some heavy duty education if that guy looks unqualified to you.

    What discipline are your degrees in? Where did you earn them? I'm prepared to be impressed.
     
    #1057     Feb 27, 2016
  8. jem

    jem

    by your definition, you, every politician and your entire squad of agw nutter scientists are not qualified to say man made co2 causes warming because they have not published any peer reviewed papers saying man made co2 causes warming.

    (or if you are lucky perhaps, they have some very old ones which spoke of models, which have now failed.)



     
    #1058     Feb 27, 2016
  9. You must be an idiot to not understand that he is NOT a climatologist. You must also ask your car mechanic to do your brain surgery.

    And yet you ignore organizations like NOAA and NASA. Why? Because you are an idiot conservative. Is there any other kind?
     
    #1059     Feb 27, 2016
  10. Snarkhund

    Snarkhund

    So, you haven't earned any degree?

    That might explain the extremely sketchy "science" you cite and it certainly explains the bitterness you exhibit towards those who *are* educated.

    I suspect you aren't qualified at much except duct work etc. I further suspect that much of the content you post is just material cut from some GWS site and pasted here on ET.

    Math + Engineering + Statistics degrees makes someone vastly qualified to produce models in almost any discipline. No degree makes someone totally unqualified to speak about any of it.
     
    #1060     Feb 27, 2016