tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post848950415125974654..comments2024-03-22T11:55:50.335+13:00Comments on Not PC: Warmist-in-chief Salinger a 'stranger to truth' [updated]Peter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-71543368067875561922009-10-21T10:17:18.254+13:002009-10-21T10:17:18.254+13:00On the other thread on General Debate, Brian raise...On the other thread on <i>General Debate</i>, Brian raised the <i>black-swan</i>, which is generally what physicists called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law" rel="nofollow">Power-Law</a> (fat-tailed probability distributions). Power-law is pervasive in almost everything in life (eg - economics, social science) apart from its well established observational facts of it being taking place in physical science. PC objected to the definition given by Brian. I am with Brian on this.<br /><br />Black-swan exists and its problems could be traced back to reasoning via <i>induction</i>. This is the problem with inductions as it only seek to generalize from what it has been observed and not what hasn't been seen. This problem of induction has been highlighted by Taleb (author of "Black-Swan") in recent years.<br /><br />On the point with Jim Salinger, I think that NIWA was justified in firing him, because he was working at NIWA but doing the Greenpeace's campaign on their behalf while a NIWA employee. If he wanted to do that, then he should have resigned and joined Greenpeace. I think that the reason he was doing a dual role like that (one official & one non-official) was to make him appear authoritative to the public. If Dr. Salinger speaks on danger of AGW (in agreement with Greenpeace), then no one is going to challenge him, since he was a <b>NIWA Scientist</b>. Compare that to Dr. Chris de Freitas, whenever he makes a public comment (such as a HZ Herald Column, or TV interview), he is always being attacked (by Greenpeace & warmists) as being a denier, but Chris does more research work compared to Salinger, which he was more of a management guy at NIWA rather than a science guy.Falafulu Fisinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-15857110014666433602009-10-21T09:48:56.155+13:002009-10-21T09:48:56.155+13:00Good story PC.
When he was suspended/sacked I sen...Good story PC.<br /><br />When he was suspended/sacked I sent an email of support to his employer.<br /><br />I said basically hang in there, you'll get flak from the liberal media and be accused of crimes against humanity but you'll win and you've done the right thing.<br /><br />Salinger was like Comical Ali, Iraq's Information Minister.gregsternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-58888429307083557612009-10-21T09:01:42.725+13:002009-10-21T09:01:42.725+13:00I see the prick wants $50,000 of our money for hur...I see the prick wants $50,000 of our money for hurt feelings, plus a whole lot more.Richard McGrathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11485082980018421590noreply@blogger.com