Reply to: Einstein was right (again)

[NigelJK]

ut don't have a million other Earths at different time-periods we can observe (yet, anyway).

I realise that to some Creationist this is heteritcal but even Wiki has heard of
digging into the ground.

[pjclarke]

Scots role in gravitational waves discovery - BBC News

And Weegie Uni played a central role including designing and building the mirrors

University of Glasgow - University news - Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein's prediction

[d000hg]

I think we are all a little too sceptical.
Admittedly there's way too much 'spin' on this 'story'. The real story is that they've proved it and had it peer-reviewed. Unlike the gazillion 'predictions' from the climate lobby.

Imagine trying to work in cosmology or phsyics if we could only see our solar system. That's the issue climatology has, we're dealing with things that take decades/centuries/longer but don't have a million other Earths at different time-periods we can observe (yet, anyway).

It's like predicting how a star will end, and then having to sit and watch the sun to find out.

[scooterscot]

Ahem

It is inevitable on these occasions that talk turns to Nobel Prizes. No-one is in any doubt that Thursday's announcement deserves one; the debate, as ever, is over who should receive it. Obvious candidates include the American Kip Thorne, the Scotsman Ron Drever and the German-born Rai Weiss himself. They are regarded as the fathers of LIGO

[NigelJK]

Volcanoes by all accounts, and we still have them.

[LondonManc]

What were the warm periods of the Jurassic Period down to, diplodocus farts and sweaty brontosaurs?

[pjclarke]

Er-hem.

Admittedly there's way too much 'spin' on this 'story'. The real story is that they've proved it and had it peer-reviewed. Unlike the gazillion 'predictions' from the climate lobby.

But I agree, the science behind this announcement is mindboggling; I wrote this elsewhere

"About a billion years ago two black holes spiralled into each other, sending out gravity waves. Here on Earth, these minute ripples in spacetime were detected for the first time by two of the most sensitive instruments on the planet; detectors consisting of lasers, miles-long vacuum tubes and 40kg mirrors of ultrapure glass.

Thus confirming Einstein.Again.

This opens up the intriguing possibility of a 'gravity telescope' probably orbiting the Earth. As the early universe was transparent to gravitational waves, we may be able to 'see' all the way back to the Big Bang - the origin of the Universe and everything in it.

I love Physics, me."

[NigelJK]

And what was the cause last time?

The words 'peer reviewed' appeared somewhere in my original post.

Isn't it odd that perhaps the greatest scientific announcement of the age gets hijacked by the ecoReligion?

[DimPrawn]

So let me get this straight - 100% of recent warming is from manmade activity - then a further 10% on top of that ???? is also due to man made activity.....

Can you explain how that works?

10% due to and it's obvious.

[original PM]

You seem a little hoarse today.

Gavin Schmidt of NASA attributes 110% of the recent warming to manmade activity.



IPCC attribution statements redux: A response to Judith Curry « RealClimate

So let me get this straight - 100% of recent warming is from manmade activity - then a further 10% on top of that ???? is also due to man made activity.....

Can you explain how that works?

[pjclarke]

not even I would dispute the rise in temperature (and most of those you've linked to are not predictive, they're analytical), what I dispute is
1. that it's all human
2. that the end of the world is neigh.

If they can find fossils on Antarctica then they were from a previous inter-glacial period.

You seem a little hoarse today.

Gavin Schmidt of NASA attributes 110% of the recent warming to manmade activity.



IPCC attribution statements redux: A response to Judith Curry « RealClimate

[SlipTheJab]

not even I would dispute the rise in temperature (and most of those you've linked to are not predictive, they're analytical), what I dispute is
1. that it's all human
2. that the end of the world is neigh.

If they can find fossils on Antarctica then they were from a previous inter-glacial period.

Quite right, horses have got nothing to do with it!

[NigelJK]

not even I would dispute the rise in temperature (and most of those you've linked to are not predictive, they're analytical), what I dispute is
1. that it's all human
2. that the end of the world is neigh.

If they can find fossils on Antarctica then they were from a previous inter-glacial period.

[pjclarke]

I think we are all a little too sceptical.
Admittedly there's way too much 'spin' on this 'story'. The real story is that they've proved it and had it peer-reviewed. Unlike the gazillion 'predictions' from the climate lobby.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZL7DozUsAoL-LO.jpg

[NigelJK]

I think we are all a little too sceptical.
Admittedly there's way too much 'spin' on this 'story'. The real story is that they've proved it and had it peer-reviewed. Unlike the gazillion 'predictions' from the climate lobby.