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Scott Simmons

@sjsimmons

Husband, father, educator, photographer. I love backpacking, hiking, cycling, trail running, wildlife, the environment, geology, music, and a good book.

Florida Katılım Kasım 2008
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Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki
Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki@MatthewWielicki·
As a former academic, it is physically painful to watch the "Gold Standard" of scientific publishing turn into a rubber-stamp factory for narrative-driven garbage. A recent paper published by Springer Nature on CO2 "toxicity" is the perfect case study in why institutional science is losing all credibility. The paper claims that rising atmospheric CO2 is on the verge of poisoning human blood and causing a "toxic threat" within decades. It sounds scary... until you apply five minutes of basic biological and historical literacy. 1. The Evolutionary Reality Check Mammals evolved roughly 225 million years ago. During that era, atmospheric CO2 wasn't just "high"—it was astronomical, estimated at 2,000 to 4,000 ppm. That is nearly 10X higher than current levels. If the human (mammalian) blood-gas exchange system were as fragile as these authors claim, our entire lineage would have been extinguished in the Triassic. We are the descendants of organisms that thrived in high CO2. 2. The Military "Living Laboratory" We don't have to guess how humans react to high CO2. The U.S. Navy and NASA have decades of data. Submariners routinely live and work in environments with CO2 levels maintained between 2,000 and 5,000 ppm for months at a time. If the "science" in this paper were remotely accurate, every nuclear sub crew in history would have been neurologically incapacitated. They aren't. They perform highly complex technical tasks at CO2 levels the authors of this paper would find "apocalyptic." 3. The Peer Review Scandal How does a paper that ignores the fossil record and existing physiological data get past the "gatekeepers"? When "Science" ignores the laws of biology and decades of human data to push a scary headline, it is no longer science... it is ideology. This is why the public is tuning out. When you trade your intellectual honesty for a "fashionable" conclusion, you don't just lose the argument; you lose the trust of the people. The "reproducibility crisis" was just the beginning; we are now facing a full-blown crisis of basic competence. When prestigious publishers like Springer Nature swap rigorous physiological data for "fashionable" alarmism, they aren't just publishing bad papers... they are actively dismantling the public's trust in the scientific method itself. Academia is burning its own house down, and until there is a reckoning with this institutional rot, nobody should blame the public for looking elsewhere for the truth. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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Scott Simmons
Scott Simmons@sjsimmons·
@4RealClimate @MatthewWielicki You failed again to identify a single thing I got wrong. Use your words and identify one thing I got wrong and give me an evidence-based correction, or admit to being an ignorant troll. If you can't do either, I'll just block you, moron.
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CD Marshall
CD Marshall@4RealClimate·
@sjsimmons @MatthewWielicki Henry’s Law governs the equilibrium concentration of unreacted CO₂(aq) at the air–sea interface at constant temperature (which is about 1% of total ocean carbon). That's it. Moron.
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CD Marshall
CD Marshall@4RealClimate·
@sjsimmons @MatthewWielicki Competent scientists use the Revelle factor, not Henry’s Law. The Revelle factor governs the entire carbonate system. That’s why the ocean resists CO2 uptake and why pH doesn’t respond like a lab experiment. Average ocean surface 1%> atmospheric CO2 = ~0.1% increase in DIC.
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Scott Simmons
Scott Simmons@sjsimmons·
@_ClimateCraze Deniers think that because a drought was bad in the past, climate change can't affect droughts. They're essentially just morons governed by their politics.
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John Shewchuk
John Shewchuk@_ClimateCraze·
Those who complain about today's droughts forget about past droughts -- when it was easier to walk across the river where there were no bridges.
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Scott Simmons
Scott Simmons@sjsimmons·
@4RealClimate @MatthewWielicki You're just a lying moron. Henry's Law states that the amount of gas dissolved in a liquid is proportional to the partial pressure of the gas above the liquid, at constant temperature. That of course applies to the oceans. Go troll someone else, moron.
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CD Marshall
CD Marshall@4RealClimate·
@sjsimmons @MatthewWielicki You can't even admit that HL does not apply to oceans directly. My point was about the scope of Henry’s Law, not whether oceans outgas. You reframed the conversation in your first comment, and you’ve been arguing with your own reframing ever since.
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Scott Simmons
Scott Simmons@sjsimmons·
@4RealClimate @MatthewWielicki You have yet to point out a single thing I got wrong, moron. Try to do something useful with your tiny brain instead of trolling people saying factual things.
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Scott Simmons
Scott Simmons@sjsimmons·
@4RealClimate @MatthewWielicki You're an uneducated moron who can't read worth shit. Read what I wrote and name one thing that's wrong with it. You can't; you're an idiot.
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CD Marshall
CD Marshall@4RealClimate·
@sjsimmons @MatthewWielicki I have an education. The subject was oceans. You claimed HL doesn't always show outgassing from oceans. I corrected you by saying HL has nothing at all to do w/oceans directly, it's a formula. YOU didn't say HL didn't apply directly to oceans...I did. 😂
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Scott Simmons
Scott Simmons@sjsimmons·
@4RealClimate @MatthewWielicki You little moron, we are not discussing whether or not Henry's Law is a formula. We're discussing your moronic claim that I was wrong to say that Henry's Law doesn't say the oceans always outgas CO2. Learn to use your brain.
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CD Marshall
CD Marshall@4RealClimate·
@sjsimmons @MatthewWielicki "If" you were educated you'd have said, "Yes I agree with you HL does not apply directly to oceans it's a formula. So what was your point? But instead, YOU argue like a child.
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Scott Simmons
Scott Simmons@sjsimmons·
@4RealClimate @MatthewWielicki You made the moronic claim that I said something wrong that needed correction. Yet you refuse to identify what I said that was wrong. You're just an argumentative moron. Get an education.
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CD Marshall
CD Marshall@4RealClimate·
@sjsimmons @MatthewWielicki Now this is what I miss the most about you. When you insert your own claims as if it belongs to the other person and then fight them on your own claim as if they other person said it. Is that pathological?
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CD Marshall
CD Marshall@4RealClimate·
@sjsimmons @MatthewWielicki You said Henry's Law doesn't say Oceans always outgas, I said it says nothing at all about oceans...It's a formula. Henry's law cannot decide out/in gassing period. That was the point. 😜
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CD Marshall
CD Marshall@4RealClimate·
@sjsimmons @MatthewWielicki Good scientific rebuttal well I'm convinced (that you're an idiot). So you agree that the partial pressure of Henry's law is not enough to determine outgassing? Glad we had this conversation.
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CD Marshall
CD Marshall@4RealClimate·
@sjsimmons @MatthewWielicki 1/This is the science: We still can’t directly measure total ocean CO₂ outgassing or absorption. The numbers you see in the Global Carbon Budget come from models stitched together with sparse buoy, ship, and satellite data.
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