Josh writes:
We are all very excited about the IPCC Summary for Policymakers coming tomorrow, Friday 27th September, but today we can reveal an exclusive pre-press conference handy crib sheet to all your questions. Yes, all of them.
Thanks to all those who asked 5 questions – here are the 5 answers…
H/t Judith Curry’s post here and liberally borrowed from Lord M’s post at Watts Up With That
Josh
Argumentum ad BovineExcrementium
Duster says: Pretty sure it would an “argumentum ad lalalala” I’m pretty certain there’s no real Latin for that.
“Argumentum ad aures surdas”
Veni, Vidi, Conquunter.
I came, I saw, I cooked.
Is what I am trying very hard to say. 8^D
David Ball says:
September 26, 2013 at 11:40 am
Veni, vidi, cocto.
My question: How many shades of gray literature did you use?
Best.Mods.Ever.
Thank you.
milodonharlani says:
September 26, 2013 at 11:47 am
Hey, thanks. I was gettin’ there. Having a pretty rough day over here. lol
On a slightly more serious note….Judith Curry writes, the questions she would put at the top of her list are…
How have you responded to the IAC recommendations? If you have not yet implemented the IAC’s recommendations, then why not?
http://reviewipcc.interacademycouncil.net/ReportNewsRelease.html
I once questioned my oldest daughter why she was taking Latin. Silly me! I did not realize at the time it would be so important in the debate of climate. 😉
philjourdan says:
September 26, 2013 at 11:53 am
The names of logical fallacies are certainly a relevant study, even if the entire Latin lingo isn’t.
IPCC report: Britain could cool if Gulf Stream slows
Britain’s climate could get cooler over the next 80 years, a major UN report on global warming is to suggest.
By Richard Gray, and Nick Collins, in Stockholm
26 Sep 2013
For the first time the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due to give a clear prediction of how global warming will affect currents in the Atlantic Ocean.
It will say that the circulation of warm and cold water in the Atlantic, which includes the Gulf Stream, will weaken by between 20 and 44 per cent by the end of the century.
Scientists claim that such a slowdown in the Gulf Stream, which gives Britain its mild climate, will have a major impact on the UK, causing cooling of around 1 degree C and disrupting weather patterns.
The Gulf Stream carries warm water from the equator to the west coast of Britain, making the country’s climate warmer than it otherwise would.
Here’s the hilarious bit :
“Scientists warn that the resulting cooling would mask the impacts of global warming on the country, but will also play havoc with the country’s weather.”
So “cooling” will mask the “warming”! Who would have thought!
And now it’s cooling that “will play havoc” with Britain’s weather! And no, you are not dreaming and I am not making this up. Check it out for yourselves. These guys are in real trouble.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/10337064/IPCC-report-Britain-could-cool-if-Gulf-Stream-slows.html
Lord Leach of Fairford says at September 26, 2013 at 9:51 am….
Surely: Argumentum a sui interest (grammar pedant)
And also for all Party Political Broadcasts.
But seriously; Google Translate sorts the Latin.
It’s the thought about the nature and causes of error that is of value.
M Courtney says:
September 26, 2013 at 12:19 pm
Google Translate doesn’t work all that well for English to Latin. It will if you understand how Latin works, though.
Loved the Nobble prize
DaveE.
Meanwhile the report has not been released yet and Jeff Masters has a post out saying the report is Authoritative and Conservative and is the MOST rigorous and important report in history. Oh and also that the oil companies have an extremely well funded campaign against the science.
Mick says: September 26, 2013 at 11:53 am
Yes, it was at top of my list, too … and on Sep. 23, during the “opening” session (before they went so “transparently” behind closed doors), Pachauri’s pontifications included yet another porkie! See:
IPCC’s AR5: Pontifications from planet Stocker, Pachauri & Steiner
Tee Wee writes: “the EPA and the White House) will be deadly serious about the IPCC report.”
Well, mate, your country and mine (Britain) will catch on eventually, but we have to wait our place in the queue. Australia is first to twig it, abolishing its Ministry of Global Warming Scare Stories. Canada next. Germany, the green vote having bombed, will shortly starve the windmill-and-solar industry of the subsidies weighing down the real economy. China and Russia, which never shared the GW delusion, will be worried that their energy and solar panel industries can no longer screw the West. Question is this, mate: Is your US government stupider and slower than mine? Sorry mate. The British government is the stupidest. We’ll win.
To your national credit, though, you have Michael Mann. When it’s all over I suggest that you organize a Public Subscription to erect a statue of him. Caption: “Never in the field of human con-tricks was so much screwed from so many, thanks to you.”
There is medium confidence that I will buy Josh’s 2014 calendar.
Where’s Lord Monckton when you need him.
I’m sure he would fix all your bad attempts at Latin in seconds. 🙂
Dilectissime Josh,
Gavisus sum, ut semper, de cartoon tua. Quae dicis de IPCC vera sunt.
And, GREAT WORK for Bob Tisdale’s new book’s cover!
Vale,
Janice
(no, I do not know Latin — I have letters written by C. S. Lewis to Don Giovanni Calabria (:))
And here they are!
IPCC’s Top Seven — doing…. research!
Sasha, “The Gulf Stream carries warm water from the equator to the west coast of Britain” The Gulf Stream also carries celebrities from the USA to far flung vacation spots.
” Bob Tisdale says:September 26, 2013 at 7:39 am
And for your viewing pleasure, I’ll have another video uploaded to YouTube tomorrow morning that will reveal a very curious relationship in the warming rates of model outputs. Very curious indeed! You’ll be able to watch it here at WUWT. ”
You tease! Spill it now! I’m going to go nuts wondering all night now.
If you add a new Latin argument, put down the rough translation for us. That way when we do the translation via google, we’ll sort of know what we’re doing. We might even learn something 🙂 Thanks.