Posts by Farmer Green
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Sacha,
That’s fine. Farmer Green was once a theist.
However , the science of climate is far from being exhaustive, and the reliable observations too few to make definitive statements about trends. Sometime after 2025 we may know( and it is greatly to be hoped) that the gradual warming since the end of the LIA continues unabated, it being presently masked by the current cool phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.(since 1999)Talking of observations , anyone here care to tell of their experiences during the previous cool phase of the PDO from 1946 -1975?
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Emma Hart,
Uh huh. Oh dear. Just refute the first statement: a Nobel prize awaits you.
I'm sure that Michael Kelly will welcome your correction. -
Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Stewart,
A science education will suffice but is not as necessary as an openness to science and the scientific method. So probably early childhood education is where the emphasis should be. It's hard to beat literacy.
Farmer Green did not study agriculture as such during his kindy years , rather Botany, Chemistry and Mathematics. -
Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Sacha,
Aah . A sceptic. :-)
Michael Kelly - Prince Philip Professor of Technology, University of Cambridge, and visiting professor at the MacDiamid Institute V.U.W. -
Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Stewart,
Swimming between Orini and P.N, but the occasional capsize of the Javelin in the Manawatu estuary produces no ill effects.
Toxic? Hardly. Pristine? No way.
Distance from source is a factor but flow rate according to seasonal and climatic cycles is a much larger effect . -
Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Russell Brown,
If you are in no doubt then I am assured that you are indeed not a scientist.
In an effort to encourage you to embrace uncertainty, and to take your rightful place as an unabashed sceptic in all matters, I submit extracts from recent letters to a NZ weekly , written by a very respected scientist :-"The globally averaged surface temperature peaked in 1998, and has been on a slight downward trend since then. If recent history has any lesson, it is that this trend will not change until 2025, and maybe even later if the current low solar activity persists.
Although Arctic sea ice is at a recent minimum, Antarctic sea ice is at a recent maximum. This is at a time when CO2 emissions continue to rise faster than ever; proof that man-made CO2 is at best weakly coupled to the climate."
And in a further letter he wrote:-
". . . there is a significant challenge to the strength of the AGW hypothesis appearing in the mainstream scientific literature in recent months, in favour of the role of the sun."Farmer Green has been keeping abreast of the emerging science and finds nothing to dispute in either of these excerpts.
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Ye Gods ! Plaudits ?
Farmer Green insists that he does little more than farm the way both his grandfathers did, with the advantage that he can understand the science which has elucidated that which was once known as husbandry. -
Definitely not an average farmer : well below average stocking rate ; almost no fertiliser use for 25 years ; well above average profitability; possibly educationally advantaged ; anything but a collectivist.
But still working (playing) 12 hour days , 7 days a week , 52 weeks a year. -
Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to BenWilson,
Sorry I don’t get it. Would you like me to post the coliforms cfu/g?. I could probably find them : we sometimes do them as part of our quarterly monitoring of discharges.
Anyway please let me in on the joke. -
Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Russell Brown,
I'd be happy to do that , but it is quite a big effort , which you could easily make yourself . It would involve discovering the present state of climate science, considering all sides of the arguments , and arriving at the only justifiable conclusion. All the science is available ; open minds are hard to find.