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Re: Greenland's Melting Ice Nears a Tipping Point
Seems like a fine institution to me.
[h=3]Sierra Nevada Field Campus - San Francisco State University[/h]
[url]https://sierra.sfsu.edu/
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San Francisco State University's Sierra Nevada Field Campus is dedicated to promoting an understanding and appreciation of the biological diversity, ...
What is not fine is you ducking Steele's important and well-sourced points to engage in cowardly ad hominem. I hoped for better.
lol
The Sierra Nevada Field Campus is, in their own words, a "nature camp for adults."
This summer, Mr (not Dr) Steele is teaching a class on birdsongs. The Campus is also teaching classes on watercolor painting and "Copperplate Calligraphy Illuminated by the Sierra."
They don't do climate research. He does not do climate research. He basically maintained a small eco preserve. Running that center, to put it mildly, does not in any way establish his credentials in the field of climate science.
(Finding out what the Field Campus actually is took me about 2 minutes. Maybe you should have done the same, before proclaiming that running it makes him an expert in an unrelated field.)
The process by which he became a climate change denier also trashes his credibility (when it comes to climate science, not his work at the Nature Camp For Adults). He basically looked at the max daily temps for one station (Tahoe), saw it wasn't changing much, and decided that climate change was all a result of ENSOs. To put it mildly, that sounds rather delusional, since we can remove the impact of ENSOs and still see temperatures rising. And, of course, it is wholly unscientific to measure global temperatures by looking at the thermometer in your backyard.
As usual, deniers will cling to anyone who can claim to be a "scientist" to bolster their views -- even when their scientific training (e.g. degrees in biology, work experience in ornithology) have very little to do with climate science. Any port in a storm....
Seems like a fine institution to me.
[h=3]Sierra Nevada Field Campus - San Francisco State University[/h]
[url]https://sierra.sfsu.edu/
[/URL]
San Francisco State University's Sierra Nevada Field Campus is dedicated to promoting an understanding and appreciation of the biological diversity, ...
What is not fine is you ducking Steele's important and well-sourced points to engage in cowardly ad hominem. I hoped for better.