I sent you that imgur thing showing my screen running modeling software with my handwritten hello to you, the time I even bothered to make some 2D wave models and put on youtube, which I didn't follow up on ;) Or was that not you?
Anyway, how does one go about proving credentials when one is worried about being stalked by political hack trolls? I learned my lesson in undergrad that certain politically passionate people are more about the stalking and censorship than honest debate. I even got an anonymous hand-written death threat!
So no, I am not going to give links to my papers on reddit, especially not with the "skeptic" political hacks on patrol.
Seriously, they're claiming UHI is only 5% of the temperature rise in cities and AGW is the rest? That's just ridiculous! Why would anyone even say that? I have a feeling outspokenskeptic and friends only believe in the the concept of AGW, not in the science of it. By luck, their anti-idustry political views align with what anti-AGW policies require. (Which I guess makes them useful, if they weren't so transparent at times)
If in some parallel dimension, it was found that industry emissions were maintaining a stable climate that would otherwise be warming, the same people would almost certainly demand industry be cut back and the earth be allowed to naturally warm. Their prime motive is anti-industry, not saving the planet.
Maybe I'm just a science purist. I don't like people believing for the wrong reasons. I don't like people abusing science for their ulterior motives. I really, really don't like people whose policies involve letting more people die right now but not worry about it because they are poor and have dark skin and live far away. i.e. The people who are opposed to use of natural gas as a bridge fuel as renewable tech is developed.
Anyway, I doubt I convinced these political hacks even with linked articles, could you at least educate them on UHI vs AGW a little? I'd say about a 50/50 mix of urban temperature rise could be argued, but 5/95? UHI is about 2K above surroundings. That means these guys think AGW is about 40K....
Are they really that ignorant?