"Thomas Lee Elifritz" <crackpots@everywhere.net> wrote in message
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Tim K. wrote:

He was making the same point as I, although in a far less technical way.

There is nothing technical in any of your arguments. You are an
absolutist. The counterarguments to your idiot claims I have seen thus
far, are

Pretty much written by you.

almost elegant in their simplicity, approaching the level of

natural beauty. All you do is claim superior knowledge to everyone in
soft science domains (environmentalism, biology, ecology)

What is a "soft science" exactly?  If I design a study of vegetation (and I
have) and I use a fully random design and non-parametric statistics to test
hypotheses, and write a mathematical model to explain the variation in
species composition along an environmental gradient, what exactly is "soft
science" about it?  And what would you consider "technical"?

of which we as
a species and a civilization know almost nothing about, in global scale,
certainly on cosmic scale.

There's that ego again - if *you* don't understand it, "we as  a species and
a civilization know almost nothing".  Have you met Twonky?

I wasn't aware that real estate increased. Isn't that why they call it
real? It's a metric, one of many, including damage to vegetation,
uninsured costs of evacuation, beach erosion (loss of real estate :),
etc. I didn't claim it to be an all encompassing super metric, that only
exists in your absolutist trivial perspective on reality.

If you really believe that one can use estimations of damage to property
(estimations, dimwit), that is, if you believe that it's valid to use a
*relative measure* to do an *absolute comparison* of the intensity of any
storm over another through many years - you need more help than you're
liable to find here.

Even more disturbing is that you are using initial estimations - before
hardly any checks had been cut or any bills for repairs had been submitted.
That is, you are using an estimation of an estimation, to do an absolute
comparison.
And you yak about soft science.  Indeed.  Nearly flaccid in your case.