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The main purpose of this channel is to explain in simple terms the conclusions of scientific research, and correct some of the unsourced crap we get fed on the Internet.
Most of the videos debunk creationist and religious claims. Every year the coveted "Golden Crocoduck" is awarded to the most outrageous piece of bullshit spouted in pursuit of the creationist cause, and most of the debunking videos feature Golden Crocoduck nominees. Voting is in October and is open to everyone, so join the thousands who now regularly vote for their favorite mendacious preacher. There are two main playlists. The "Made Easy" series explains how we got here, from the Big Bang to the human migration out of Africa. The Climate Change series explains how greenhouse gases work, looks at alternative theories to climate change, and debunks the huge number of urban myths that are zipping round the Internet.
UPDATE: Anthony Watts has published my rebuttal to Christopher Monckton in full on wattsupwiththat [http://wattsupwiththat.com/20
Most of the videos debunk creationist and religious claims. Every year the coveted "Golden Crocoduck" is awarded to the most outrageous piece of bullshit spouted in pursuit of the creationist cause, and most of the debunking videos feature Golden Crocoduck nominees. Voting is in October and is open to everyone, so join the thousands who now regularly vote for their favorite mendacious preacher. There are two main playlists. The "Made Easy" series explains how we got here, from the Big Bang to the human migration out of Africa. The Climate Change series explains how greenhouse gases work, looks at alternative theories to climate change, and debunks the huge number of urban myths that are zipping round the Internet.
UPDATE: Anthony Watts has published my rebuttal to Christopher Monckton in full on wattsupwiththat [http://wattsupwiththat.com/20
About Me:
POSTING: Anyone is free to post on the fora, and ALL views are welcome. You won't find that on most fundamentalist channels, but I have nothing to fear from open discussion or criticism. However, my tolerance has been abused by people whose sole object is to disrupt the channel, so reluctantly I have now had to ban three people from participating. Just so you can't say you weren't warned, here are my criteria for banning:
1) Advertisements. My channel is not a free billboard.
2) Plagiarism. If you copy and paste someone else's work, don't pretend that the writing is yours. Put it in quotation marks and give the author credit. Hard to believe, but the fundamentalists who have done this cannot understand when I explain that what they are doing is deceitful and intellectually shallow. If you understand so little, don't just cheat and copy from someone else. Learn some facts, then use your own arguments. 3) Spam. I know it's fun to disrupt the fora by copying and pasting huge chunks of text again and again. Going back over a point you made earlier is fine, but mindlessly spamming the same post repeatedly will no longer be tolerated.
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Semi-retired to sunny Australia, but still working.
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And yet when (you think) they are saying something that supports your premeditated conclusions, you suddenly decide they're reliable? So much so that you don't pause to check whether they really are agreeing with you?
Your confirmation bias is so painfully glaring it's no longer funny.
This is because warming causes more ice to melt, and more water to evaporate at low altitudes. Where is the vapour going to go? Up of course. More clouds form than in a lower-CO2 atmosphere, and when this extra water condenses and rains on or near the peaks of the Himalayas, it's more likely to freeze, because it's still very high up.
Warming also tends to affect low altitudes far more than high altitudes. This stands to reason, as the increased CO2 is blocking heat as it radiates from the ground, and pushing it back downwards, so very little of the extra heat is likely to rise all that far. So it will still be very, very cold up there.
Okay?
It also discusses the net amount of ice worldwide, excluding the polar caps. You need to keep in mind that the amount lost in some places might be offset by gains in others. Given that the Himalayas have a tendency to be quite high up (they're mountains, you know), there's a fair chance of them staying icy, and even of gaining ice during a warming phase.
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"Sorry but havstomer is a compete retard." - - - Oh, I'm the retard, am I? You can't put up a URL correctly. Your spelling and punctuation are comical. (The correct spelling is 'genius', for the record.) And your sources are all non-scientific. So let's have a show of hands, who's the retard?
I am preparing a video on this, so I'll explain why this 'No loss of ice in 10 years'is not what the paper in question is saying.
Potholer54 won't let me say it here on his channel, but I have every right to say whatever I want about Mockton on MY channel. It's my own ideas, not copyright infringement, and I totally agree that violating privacy is NOT freedom of speech (and that's where I disagree with Julian Assange's conflating of the two). I am not entitled to whatever info that person possesses that they do not want released, but I have absolutely every single right to make up whatever I want from my own ideas about them (and you're next) on my own webpage or YT channel.
Sorry but havstomer is a compete retard.
politifact[dot]com/truth-o-met
If you can find it, try watching David Attenborough's recent documentary series for the BBC, called Frozen Planet. He visits both polar regions, and finds enormous decline in ice levels.