It's odd. I'm trying to imagine how trbixler, a long time well respected member here, could cause such a raucous so as to make Iceskater/Radiant create a disrespectful thread about him. As long as trbixler doesn't insult my mother, he could call me just about anything and I'd still like him.
As for sigurdur, I can have arguments with him and go away thinking to myself "Sigurdur is an decent honorable man", and totally forget about our disagreement 5 minutes earlier.
To be honest I did not open one post from last year related to Iceskater/Radiant's OCD on this subject until today. I wondered how I ever got myself into it to begin with. As near as I can tell, it was this post:
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After a few back and forth exchanges, I used the analogy of wrapping a dead body (was meant to be a joke) to raise its temperature in reference to Iceskater saying the cooling of the hot iron is slowed, to which I replied it does NOT increase T, which is 100% correct. Iceskater than twisted and flipped and flopped until he changed the goal posts.
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I referred to Dr. Roy Spencer's cartoon experiment in this post, which was NOT Iceskater's original argument:
solarcycle24com.proboards.com/post/79055/threadHe latched onto that and the games really began.
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then I gave some real world experience examples here, taken from working in the manufacturing business for 30 years:
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Lots of back and forth, but then it came to the thread that Sigurdur created, after it was noted Iceskater deleted his posts
www.solarcycle24com.proboards.com/post/79581/thread and an entire thread because he felt bad wanting to rip Icefisher's head off and we were picking on him. Uh huh.
solarcycle24com.proboards.com/thread/1917/back-radiationOk, so that's where I wanted to test Iceskater's hypothesis, and no personal offense again Iceskater, but your methods and uncalibrated equipment for your "experiments" are still a joke. How you could ever have the cojones to post that in Roy Spencer's blog is beyond comprehension.
By starting with the following post
www.solarcycle24com.proboards.com/post/79550/thread and subsequent tests, anyone can see Iceskater desperately trying to eek out something from my calibrated thermocouples (contact probes), so I simply did what he instructed. I already knew what the results would be, but humored him anyway. Do this, try that.....nothing worked as he said it would. Why? Because placing a microwaved Hot Pocket on a room temperature granite plate will not make it warmer.
It then transcended into worthless hyperbole at which point he finally snookered me with the wrapping insulation around a heated ball, which definitely was not his original argument, but I let my emotions take over and sure enough the balls surface got warmer. It took 5 seconds for me to figure out I'd just made myself the fool for taking the bait.
The rest is history.
Iceskater, reviewing your posts (not including the ones you deleted), it surely is not trbixler with the problem. It is you. May I suggest you take a sabbatical like I did and reflect on how your emotions have overtaken reasonable discourse. We are not morons, c.unts or whatever else you called us, and trbixler is a decent person.
We're always told this is simple high school physics, yet nobody can point to a real world laboratory grade experiment proving the enhanced greenhouse effect exists. Instead we get silly CO2-in-jar carnival tricks done by cons calling themselves "scientists".
BTW, recall the video I linked to Dr. John Christy from the documentary
'The Great Global Warming Swindle' saying the atmosphere is not warming per AGW GH "theory", and a real "head scratcher". By shear coincidence (literally), he just published a new paper confirming it again, also noting what many, including myself, have been saying for years; the surface is warming faster than the troposphere. In it he also in polite professional semantics, basically calls out Ben Santer and others like him dishonest scumbags (that's what I would have called them).
Nope, no hot spot.
www.pas.rochester.edu/~douglass/papers/07-Douglass-Christy-EnE-2.pdf