Comments on A Few Things Ill Considered: An Easy 100,000 Dollars?

The Junkman is merely having fun by pulling chains...

2007-09-06T13:34:00.000-07:00

The Junkman is merely having fun by pulling chains!

There is also the problem of prediction which buil...

2007-08-22T09:29:00.000-07:00

There is also the problem of prediction which built into the challenge. Climate is a potentially chaotic system which makes "prediction" quite difficult.

American and Chinese leaders are betting all of mo...

2007-08-12T11:56:00.000-07:00

American and Chinese leaders are betting all of modern civilization's chips that Global Warming won't continue to happen.
They're wrong.

This is just a cheap knock off of James Randi's Mi...

2007-08-10T11:43:00.000-07:00

This is just a cheap knock off of
James Randi's Million Dollar Psychic challenge in the hope that climatology will be branded as charlatans. However in the case of Randi one need only demonstrate one phenomenon that defies rational explanation, but with the global warming and evolution challenges one has to prove a theory holds in all cases and under all conditions -- a bar which can be placed arbitrarily high. It is possible (but highly improbable) for someone with no psychic ability to win Randi's prize if they made several very lucky guesses in a row. No such possibility exists in either the evolution proof or the global warming proof contests.

The proper way to do global warming bets is to make predictions and pay whomever's prediction was closest to what actually ended up happening.

I have proof. Come on the http://www.methanemike....

2007-08-10T00:43:00.000-07:00

I have proof. Come on the http://www.methanemike.com show and I will light a match!