Poirot: just answer Loudmouth's questions, you don't need scientists to help you, as the data are in the public domain.

Tim Curtin/Tom Tiddler, re Markowitz & Shariff ... methinks you protest too much.

Just to be sure:

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2012/05/17/tim-curtins-incompetence-with/

And hoodathunk? You say to Bernard J you "have studied no science since your Year 10 in 1955".

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/03/18/tim-curtin-thread/

Appears not to have studies stats either:

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/tc-and-dw/

To make matters worse:

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/big-difference/

The comments sum Tim-Tom up perfectly.

bonmot, as I expected when you have no answers you resort to ad homs. The criticisms of me at Closed Mind and Deltoid could find only one error, which I freely admitted, and duly explained. The Table in question was a minor part of the whole paper and its SI, and no point of substance was found by any of the creeps at those Blogs. While the paper you think was so brilliant did not have a single constructive comment - its authors' day jobs are probably as advertising executives.

Bonmot,

At last, somebody who might give a straight answer !

Here are some simple questions, Bonmot:

* average world temperature has risen by 0.9 degrees in the past century - yes ? no ? true ? false ?

* sea-levels have risen by around two inches in the last century - yes ? no ?

* average world temperatures haven't risen by anything much in the last fourteen years. yes ? no ?

And if governments do nothing, anywhere, what is the rate of increase in all of these ?

And if governments DO do something ?

I'm just asking. I hope that's all right.

Cheers,

Joe :)

Ah yes, the old 'ad-hom' canard trotted out by Mr Curtin-Tiddler.

Actually, Tim-Tom, I just call it a bit of fact checking.

Btw, I know it's early days but have you found any refutation to M&S?

I mean by real behaviourists, or psychologists even - not the 'wannabes' like cohers, or you for that matter.

Joe, I've already answered your questions in another thread - but hey, I could be wrong :)

Going out to dinner now but watch this space :(