Besoeker

Fine. Why not solicit the views of say, Camera or maybe the Latin American Association? Or maybe the Morris Ring.
Put another way, if you wanted relevant advice on how to care for your bougainvilleas you generally wouldn't call a plumber.

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Originally Posted by mkpdavies as it proves he is intelligent

It proves (or maybe not) that he is a senior member of the IEEE.

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Originally Posted by mkpdavies and his opinion should be respected.

Shouldn't everyone's?

mkpdavies

Yep even Al Gore's.

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Besoeker

I said respected, not accepted of course.

Clippo

Britannist wrote:-
(my bold emphasis)

No, on 2 counts.
1. If you had read carefully my sequence of quotations that I posted in #31, & repeated in post #54, you will see clearly that my first sentence, in my first post on the ‘personal announcement thread, clearly and unequivocally sincerely congratulated rjt getting his degree. This is clearly before any alleged, ( to use one of your favourite words), negative remarks by me.
2. I asked you to provide direct evidence that I have denigrated his degree (post #53). Since you have not done that, (hardly surprising since to my recollection I haven’t), the latter part of the bolded quote above is therefore a ‘slander’. I will accept your apology if you can bear to make it.

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You think wrongly. I suggest you contact, for example, moderator C_Steam, (who has infinitely more authority than you here).
I suggest him because I’m fairly certain he knows nothing about ‘your’ rules ( acting as Mr Big again )

Rjt wrote:-
I am indeed sorry for your medical condition (and unlike comments made about my qualifications, I will believe you of it unconditionally). However, I repeat that my comments were sincerely meant, for the reasons I gave.

It may be that you cannot afford a word processing package which has spelling & grammar checker in, like MS Word, (which I try to use for all but the shortest posts). However, there are free word processing packages available to download from the Internet – I believe one such is OpenOffice (.org).

I don’t take a dim view of life’s experiences – on the contrary I appreciate the rich and varied ones I have had in my own life. Furthermore, I have never claimed that I know best about either everything or even GW here.
What I do claim is, based on my experiences of life, is that the ‘best’ person doesn’t always get the reward. Presentation & ‘spin’ have become, regrettably, more important than ‘quality’. That’s life I’m afraid.

Britannist

The word 'slander' cannot be used regarding something in writing - I think the word you are looking for is libel.

Britannist

Clippop: What I actually wrote is that you made mean remarks about the degree of the poster who you are referring to.

And you did write mean remarks about the new degree of the poster: you claimed his degree was not as suited as yours to discussion of climate change matters. This is not a nice comment to write to someone who has just been awarded a degree after years of hard work in studying. It is also a mean remark to make just before Christmas in the season of goodwill.

I do wish you would stop going about the spelling or qualifications of the poster you disagree with on this subject - I notice that you do not appear to criticise the degree or spelling of those who you agree with on this subject. When people agree with you on this issue, you do not even mention their spelling or qualifications.

Britannist

I thought that you took the view that you are in charge of this section of the forum.

Britannist

I referred to unspoken rules and not official rules.

It is clearly obvious for all who have manners that it is rude to make negative comments about the qualifications of another on a public forum and it is also 'not the done thing' to bring up the matter of the spelling of another poster on a public forum.

Clippo: Are you the sort of person who tells someone else to put out their cigarette by any chance?

Britannist

.....Funny .

Clippo

Now that the silly season has subsided,......

Gimlet wrote (post # 4):-

You are mistaken in accepting this conclusion.

A comprehensive study of attempts to estimate climate sensitivity can be found here:-
Climate sensitivity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Interestingly, Climateprediction.net did one of those similations like the SETI project – using idle-time in participating home computers and came up with a range of less than 2° C to more than 11 °C, - however, the most reliable simulations suggested a figure of 3 deg C. i.e. supporting the IPCC. Worryingly, only very few predicted less than 2 deg C.
(see also the footnote)

So, interested to see how came to his conclusion, I noticed this at the tail end of the pdf. :-

‘Scuse me, I need to nip out to check if the Moon is in it’s correct position …..

Footnote:-
A global warming of about 5 deg C or above is widely regarded as being catastrophic – comparable to average temperatures estimated to be responsible for the last two Mass Extinctions. A rise to about 3 deg C is considered very dangerous because of the risk of unstoppable positive feedbacks like methane hydrate releases.