Response to posting #81
Xnn: Thanks for taking the time to respond.
I've read Chapter 8.
I wonder if you'd share your understanding of how numerical values are assigned to the probabilities of the various ranges of sensitivities. For example, how is the value of 0.95 assigned to the...
Responses to posting #73
Sylas:
Thank you for taking the time to comment on my posting. I'll preface my remarks by explaining that I'm an engineer (mechanical, electrical, nuclear) with a background in research and in the successful development of statistically validated models of complex...
Earlier today, I posted on this issue and a lively discussion ensued. I'm happy to have received several responses. As I recall, each of these took issue with one or more of my posting's claims.
An administrator inadvertently deleted the thread of our conversation before this conversation...
When you say the conversation ended over two years ago, you are mistaken. There have been a number of postings in the past hour. If you close the thread, you close an existing, lively conversation. Can you reopen it?
The current situation is that my post plus a number of replies are posted on that particular thread. Can we a) reopen the thread or b) attach this thread to another one to preserve the conversation and allow for additions to it?
My post to Global Climate Change and Scientific Proof generated some disagreement so I tried to reply. This produced a message from Greg Bernhardt stating "Closing this necro'd post." This action mades it impossible for me to reply.
Is the Physics Forum into censoring views that are...
Absense of falsifiability
The basis for belief in global warming from carbon dioxide emissions is the set of models that are referenced by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its 2007 report. According to an author of this report, the climatologist Kevin...
A scientific model is an algorithm (mathematical procedure) for making inferences. An "inference" is an extrapolation from the state of a real object in an "observed state-space" to the state of the same object in an "unobserved state-space." Shannon's measure of information can be shown to be...