Willis Eschenbach satt og spekulerte på hvordan man tolker klimaalarmistspråket, og fant ut at han like godt kunne lage sitt eget dictionary i saken (advarsel: ikke le på dere brokk her):
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TERM DEFINITION
an expected result of global warming â?? â??We predicted warming and got a heavy snowfall insteadâ?.
anthropogenic â?? see â??human fingerprintâ?.
anthropogenic change â?? â??Itâ??s warmer than usualâ?.
anthropogenic climate change â?? â??Weather we donâ??t likeâ?.
autocorrelation â?? â??Say what? We donâ??t have to deal with thatâ?.
Bonferroni correction â?? see â??autocorrelationâ?
carbon dioxide â?? â??The secret knob that controls the climateâ?.
cause â?? â??Greenhouse gasesâ?
climate â?? â??Itâ??s warmer than usualâ?.
climate change â?? â??What â??global warmingâ?? became after we repeatedly predicted warming and got heavy snowfalls insteadâ?.
climate feedback â?? see â??natural variabilityâ?.
confounding factors â?? â??Things that we choose to ignore.â?
coupled non-linear chaotic system â?? â? y = ax + b â??
effect â?? â??dangerous anthropogenic global warmingâ?
external forces â?? see â??other factorsâ?
human fingerprint â?? â??We canâ??t explain what caused it, so it must be from people acting badlyâ?.
hundred-year flood â?? â??Any flood recurring more than one news cycle apartâ?.
Industrial Revolution â?? â??The time of the climate Eden when the temperature was exactly rightâ?.
IPCC Conference of the Parties â?? â??A recurring party attended by only the wokest of the wokeâ?.
it is well known â?? â??I believe thisâ?.
itâ??s a boundary value problem â?? â??This depends on future boundaries we canâ??t predict but weâ??ll act like we can.â?
multiproxy study â?? â??We left out the proxies that donâ??t agree with our theoryâ?.
natural climate fluctuation â?? â??We donâ??t know why it goes up and downâ?.
natural variability â?? â??We have no idea what the cause wasâ?.
naturally occurring dynamics â?? â??Something happened that we canâ??t explainâ?.
other factors â?? â??Deus ex machinaâ?.
predicted sea level rise â?? â??Run for the hills! Weâ??ll all be drowned!â?
projections â?? â??Itâ??s a forecast but we donâ??t stand behind itâ?.
proxies show â?? â??One tree in Yamal had this to sayâ?.
regime change â?? â??Cause and effect just went 180° out of phase for no reasonâ?.
renewable energy â?? â??This solution requires extensive subsidiesâ?.
requires further study â?? â??Give us more taxpayer moneyâ?.
social cost of carbon â?? â??Our analyses will completely ignore the benefits of fossil fuels and the greening of the planetâ?.
the effect of various lag times â?? â??Things that donâ??t line up can be made to line upâ?.
weather â?? â??Itâ??s colder than usualâ?.
well within expectations â?? â??Itâ??s colder than usualâ?.
Finally, we have the IPCC Likelihood Scale:
Virtually certain â?? â??All my cool scientist friends agreeâ?.
Very likely â?? â??We really hope this is trueâ?.
Likely â?? â??Two climate models out of three agreeâ?.
About as likely as not â?? â??Nobody has a clueâ?.
Unlikely â?? â??This outcome offends usâ?.
Very unlikely â?? â??We really donâ??t want you going down that pathâ?.
Exceptionally unlikely â?? â??Stephen McIntyre said it first so it canâ??t possibly be true.â?
Best to all,
w.