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by ecommerceguy 262 days ago
I'll refrain my usual snark and just link the same link from the linked article you apparently read.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JD04...

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So you're doing the same thing?

Either make a meaningful argument or stop insinuating through omission that there's a real problem here. You're not only insulting the intelligence of your readers but also, thereby, undermining your cause.

The article you linked is garbage. Its authors find (of course not controlling for multiple comparisons) an effect that looks statistically significant if you p-hack it just right, then juxtapose it with overdetermined and badly simulated South polar vortex behavior to create the false impression that these satellites are killing the planet.

The real motivation behind pieces like this is personal enmity towards Elon Musk. It could not be more obvious. These people pollute our intellectual commons and degrade whatever remains of their intellectual honesty to run tendentious pieces that let them tell their friends they're sticking it to bad rocket man.

Why are NOAA and NASA funding this stuff?

A lot of people including you were oblivious to this significant re-entry event until it appeared in the news.

So off-hand dismissals and taking this personal will not help your case.

Also, since you brought him up, where are the studies of the environmental impact of satellite launches and space debris funded by Elon Musk?

Is the argument "planet big satellite small defund NASA"? In that case I'm going with the article.

Are we going to debate him on his argument or only on his character? Shoot the messenger I guess.
I would like to see the argument, too.
What character?
ad hominem
What?