Talk:Garth Paltridge

Group affiliations section, the way it should be

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Group affiliations Paltridge is associated with the Lavoisier Group and speaks at their conferences. The Group organised the launch of Paltridge's book on August 11, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. Lavoisier Group president and businessman Hugh Morgan launched the book, and Paltridge responded. In a paper entitled Nine Facts about Climate Change, published by the Lavoisier Group, Paltridge stated that he was threatened with funding cuts in the 1990s by his employer, the CSIRO, if he publicly expressed his doubts about the extent of the effect of greenhouse emissions. The Natural Resources Stewardship Project, a Canadian front group tied to energy industry lobbyists, listed Paltridge as an "allied expert" between February 2007 and January 2008. In 2005 the Australian APEC Study Centre, a pro-free trade think tank that advocates against the Kyoto Protocol and other climate change mitigation measures, held a conference —sponsored by Xstrata Coal and ExxonMobil— at Parliament House entitled "Managing Climate Change: Practicalities and Realities in a post-Kyoto future". Paltridge delivered a speech at the conference, in which he stated, referring to the IPCC's scientific consensus on climate change, that "[scientific] consensus is not the sort of thing on which sensible people put their money". He also stated that the apparent convergence of the predictions of the IPCC models into a narrower range of possible temperature rise has to be taken with "a considerable grain of salt". Paltridge has also been linked to the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), an Australian conservative think-tank. In 2009 he was listed on their website as an associate, and his paper Limiting Greenhouse Warming: Is It Worth the Cost? could be downloaded from the IPA website.

acronym MEP

The acronym MEP is I think not a good idea for the Wikipedia to foster. The physics of proposed principles, such as of of maximum rate entropy production, is not well established, while the use of such an acronym suggests that "everyone knows about this established fact"; it suggests a point of view of familiarity with an old friend, when perhaps the right attitude is one of suspicion of a dodgy-looking stranger. I would like to delete the acronym MEP from its new appearance here.Chjoaygame (talk) 08:08, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Notability

Is there any reason why this person is notable?VR _talk 10:56, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Yes, there is good reason. Paltridge is the originator of a large scientific literature about a hypothesis of maximum rate of entropy production in non-equilibrium processes, and the author of at least two books. The present Wikipedia article about him has been fiercely attacked in this talk page and contracted because he does not agree with some other scientists. Apart from his scientific contribution, the ferocity of the attacks is testimony to his notability.Chjoaygame (talk) 14:33, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

notion of maximum rate of entropy production

I have weakened a new edit that intended to give greater credibility to Paltridge's proposal of maximum rate of entropy production.

My reason is that the proposal is disputed and this should be made clear. The proposal has been taken up with enthusiasm by some writers, but the disputation is on strong ground, and the proposal has no theoretical justification. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is a difficult and poorly understood subject. I suggest editors on this point examine the literature very carefully.Chjoaygame (talk) 04:34, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

BLP noticeboard

Section = 109 BLP articles labelled "Climate Change Deniers" all at once. This article was placed in a "climate change deniers" category. After discussion on WP:BLPN and WP:CFD the category was deleted. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 17:14, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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Global warming hiatus

The article Global warming hiatus explains, with sources, why this is not a real effect, but only an alleged one: it is based only on the very high value in the year 1998, plus three rookie mistakes:

• dishonest cherrypicking of data by starting in that uncharacteristically hot year,
• choosing an interval that is too short to show anything but statistical noise,
• the amateurish method of comparing the start value with the end value, instead of using the professional method of linear regression.

Avoiding any one of these rookie mistakes destroys the "hiatus". Adding "alleged" is like adding "pseudoscientific" before "homeopathy". --Hob Gadling (talk) 09:37, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Hob Gadling inserted "alleged" with the edit summary "see the linked article". I reverted with the edit summary "Poorly sourced". I apparently need to inform Hob Gadling that Wikipedia is not regarded as a good source WP:NOTRS, and that WP:BLP applies to talk pages too (so I believe that the word "dishonest" should not have been used even here). Peter Gulutzan (talk) 15:10, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

That is disingenious. I inserted a source which says it is indeed not a hiatus, reflecting consensus within climate science.

I am sorry to inform you that cherrypicking is a dishonest technique. Insofar "dishonest" was redundant, but not a BLP problem because I did not say Paltridge was dishonest. He accepted a myth, which was based on dishonesty, as true. I thought that would be obvious; I did not expect having to explain such simple concepts. --Hob Gadling (talk) 16:20, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Hob Gadling has re-inserted "alleged". Are there other editors with opinions? Peter Gulutzan (talk) 15:10, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

I inserted it with sources, taking the reason away you gave for being against "alleged". So you still have a reason for being against it? Why don't you name that reason? Why didn't you name it before? --Hob Gadling (talk) 18:24, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

"Poorly sourced" is a reason, I named it before. Are there other editors with opinions? Peter Gulutzan (talk) 15:10, 11 January 2020 (UTC)