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  Recent Global Cooling Controversy

  by metatron in

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  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/global-cooling-arctic-ice-caps-grows-60-global-warming-predictions.html.

  climate change is a legitimate concern - especially as it affects poor nations.

  however, the subject has been twisted by greedy global elites resulting in disappointments (if you wish to call them that!

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  besty

  @metatron

  The field of climate prediction is undergoing a sort of self destruction - because of over confident predictions that turn sour in public view, as the BBC screen capture suggests

  Did you read the full story at the BBC website, or did you rely on the Daily Fail bitesize screen capture?

  The BBC article makes clear that the headline grabbing 2013 claim was an outlier and that most other Artic Ice forecasting teams were seeing 2030 and out being a more realistic timeline.

  I'd be interested in your thoughts on the scientific integrity of the Daily Mail article as found at http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/09/climate-change-arctic-sea-ice-delusions
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  Recent Global Cooling Controversy

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/global-cooling-arctic-ice-caps-grows-60-global-warming-predictions.html.

  climate change is a legitimate concern - especially as it affects poor nations.

  however, the subject has been twisted by greedy global elites resulting in disappointments (if you wish to call them that!

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  @mP

  Where did cofty get that chart from ? I would be interested in reading the remaining material. Anyone can draw a chart and attach a title, not that im claiming cofty would, but it would be great to see what they said "exactly". Stuff like what the causes or problem is according to them.

  http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/article - original source survey

  http://thecontributor.com/why-climate-deniers-have-no-scientific-credibility-one-pie-chart - survey author commentary on his paper

  His summary:

  "Scientists do not disagree about human-caused global warming. It is the ruling paradigm of climate science, in the same way that plate tectonics is the ruling paradigm of geology. We know that continents move. We know that the earth is warming and that human emissions of greenhouse gases are the primary cause. These are known facts about which virtually all publishing scientists agree."

  Human caused global warming/climate change is as much a fact as gravity, evolution and the sun being the centre of the solar system. Any alternative view is anti-science and likely ideology-driven.
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  What is new about the Candace Conti trial

  by smiddy in

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  2. child-abuse

  whats new in the latest developments.

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  What is new about the Candace Conti trial

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  whats new in the latest developments.

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  What specifically did you hear RayPublisher?
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  Recent Global Cooling Controversy

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/global-cooling-arctic-ice-caps-grows-60-global-warming-predictions.html.

  climate change is a legitimate concern - especially as it affects poor nations.

  however, the subject has been twisted by greedy global elites resulting in disappointments (if you wish to call them that!

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  off topic comment mP - start a new thread.
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  Recent Global Cooling Controversy

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/global-cooling-arctic-ice-caps-grows-60-global-warming-predictions.html.

  climate change is a legitimate concern - especially as it affects poor nations.

  however, the subject has been twisted by greedy global elites resulting in disappointments (if you wish to call them that!

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  besty

  Lets recap.

  97% of climate scientists are sure with a high degree of confidence that recent climate change is directly caused and can only be explained by human activity. Nobody is claiming that climate didn't change before for natural reasons.

  Any 'controversy' exists within the details of climate processes eg what is the precise role of El Nino, what is the precise role of cloud cover, what is the precise role of deep ocean warming and ocean acidification.

  The Daily Mail has an agenda. We all know that. Right? This article is a classic example of cherry picking. Lets take 1 data point - in this case Artic ice cover (ignoring ice depth and ice age) - and lets take 1 year of data - 2012. Lets use 1 scientist - Judith Curry - whose views have been widely discredited to the point of embarassment by other climate scientists - and lets make a headline called GLOBAL COOLING CONTROVERSY. Pathetic.

  If you want to side with the 3% of climate scientists who do not accept the mainstream viewpoint, then first you should explain why you are better qualified than the 97% to take such a position.

  Or just be open about your anti-science ideology like the Daily Mail is - then at least the rest of know where we stand. Don't insult us by dressing it up as science -please.
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  Nov 2013 KM Question Box. Head coverings on Doorstep bible studies

  by BroMac in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  should a female publisher wear a headcovering if she is accompanied by a male publisher at a door step bible study?

  when a female publisher conducts a regular ,scheduled bible study and a male kingdom publisher is present, she should wear a head covering.(1cor.

  11:3-10)the july 15, 2002 issue of the watchtower, page 27, explains: this is a pre arranged session of teaching where the one conducting the study actually presides.

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  Dec 2013 KM Question Box. How do I explain my new headwear to my doorstep study on a hot day?
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  Well, 'really'? - Watchtower Study Articles 15 July 2013

  by JWB in

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  2. beliefs

  - watchtower study articles 15 july 2013. .

  as most people will know, the watchtower magazine is the principle publication used by the watch tower society (wts) to teach its own brand of religious doctrine to those known as jehovah's witnesses (jws).

  why is the 15 july 2013 watchtower so important?

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  bttt - worth another read...
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  Circuit Accounts Servants Confesses how the SCAM WORKS!!

  by JT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yes, i too have wondered how an assembly that is held in a fully paid for assembly hall, with no food service, could possibly have $10,000 in expenses.

  i suppose the bethel speakers have transportation expenses - maybe $1000 or so.

  as for rent on the assembly hall, well you have already paid for it once, why pay again?

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  " due to the donatations coming in before this Assembly we have a surplus of £26k"

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  " So for this 2 day Assembly so far"

  are two separate statements and are not connected.

  They have commited to giving away £13k so "this assembly weekend" immediatelys starts in the red by 13k. Add in assembly costs, CO costs etc and then take away donations "this weekend" and voila - £5k deficit for the brothers to shell out for.

  All the old sisters can hear is a respectable man in a suit asking for a deficit to be taken care off.
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  Big JW Changes in The Netherlands (Holland)

  by DeWandelaar in

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  news reached me a couple of days ago of some big changes in the netherlands for jehovah's witnesses.

  a letter from the branch office was read in all congregations so it can easily be verified by lurkers and faders who are still visiting the congregations.. big changes:.

  - they are going to sell one of the two assembly halls.

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  I think it is pretty difficult for a charity to hide assets with a straight face.

  The fallout from being accused or found guilty of that could be a death blow.