Michael Braithwaite

Ink-stained wretch. Was once a biologist & statistician with a PhD and all that. Tech is my day job now. Jew.

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

@muhummzy @beth_avedon They didn’t know they were kids when they were shot.
How do you explain women raped to death on Oct 7th?

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

@muhummzy @beth_avedon How do you explain the dead children on Oct 7th? Difference is Hamas policy is to murder as many Jews as possible. Israeli policy is to kill Hamas fighters not civilians.

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

@muhummzy @beth_avedon Netanyahu is a corrupt criminal leading an illegal war - not antisemitic.
Israel deliberately targets children for murder - an age old antisemitic blood libel.
Note that the second one doesn’t mean Israel hasn’t killed children, innocents die in war. But it is not Israeli policy.

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

@VerminusM My ex-wife?

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

If someone uses Dr at the beginning of their name and PhD at the end it’s a sure sign they don’t know what they’re talking about and have probably made up their PhD.
It’s one or another, for example: Dr M. Braithwaite *or* M. Braithwaite BSc, MSc, DIC, PhD.

[Dr Robert Ian Holmes PhD @1000Frolly]

The Central England surface air temperature series is the longest existing Thermometer Meteorological record in the world.
Starting in 1659, to now, This continuous 365-YEAR Thermometer Record shows NO UNUSUAL WARMING AT ALL due to our CO2 emissions;

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

@muhummzy @beth_avedon Criticism of Israel isn’t antisemitic. I criticise them all the time.
However, most of the time criticism of Israel is nothing to do with Israel. It’s just age old antisemitic ideas and slogans with the word Jews swapped for the word Zionists.

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

@muhummzy @beth_avedon It’s impossible not to associate Jews with Israel because Israel is the only Jewish state in the world and the place where all Jews are indigenous to.

Conflation is saying that there is no difference between Jews and Israelis & all Jews should be blamed for the actions of Israel

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

@bbeeeeeepp @beth_avedon Because 1948 wasn’t the first time there was a Jewish state there.

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

@jemmm85517813 Amazing. You’ve discovered something nobody else ever has. Either that or you’re stupid and just think you have. I wonder which one it is?

Could it be that basic and well
understood physics is wrong? Or could it be that you are? Let’s think…

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

@GrahamLKeegan Because that graph only goes up to the year 2000. If you had learned maths properly at the age of 7 you’d have noticed that.

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

@muhummzy @beth_avedon Good thing I didn’t say conflate then isn’t it? I said associate. A subtle but important difference.

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

@bbeeeeeepp @beth_avedon You obviously are hard of thinking.
Conflating Jews and Israel is not what I said. I said associate. It’s perfectly natural to associate Jews with the Jewish state, the place all Jews are from originally. Blaming the diaspora for Israeli policy however is not ok.

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

@robinmonotti It’s pretty simple really. They don’t teach that in schools because that’s not the reason for climate change. Excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuel is the cause of climate change.

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

My 4x great grandfather Luke Howard is sometimes called the father of meteorology because he gave us the naming system for clouds we still use.
I can tell you that we absolutely understand clouds, and anyone who thinks we don’t is a moron.

[Dr Jennine Morgan @jemmm85517813]

This is a very good point! It is impossible to model clouds, no one understands them & they are central to how Earth’s climate operates.

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

@unojen_wood Neatly ignoring the fact that the analogy is only complete if the UK had been launching rockets into civilian areas of France non-stop for decades prior to France taking such action.
And not even the UK, a militia in the UK foreign funded that the UK gov can’t or won’t deal with.

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

@MilesTrav 1) Kings and lords don’t have any political power in Europe. They’re almost entirely ceremonial 2) everything you said about your house is true of mine as well.
The only difference is that my house is older than your country, and I own it don’t have to rent it.

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

@FarmerG59620191 You really can’t be this stupid, surely? Earth is a closed system with an external heat source. Greenhouse gases trap heat in the closed matter system. It’s primary school physics, and we have measured it happening.

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

Here’s an experiment you can do at home to prove it. Take a bottle of still water and a bottle of sparkling water. Empty 1/3rd of each. Drill a hole in the cap and insert a thermometer. Make the seal airtight. Leave in sunlight for several hours. Guess which one will be hotter?

[Graham K @GrahamLKeegan]

Nobody is saying the climate doesn’t change.
Of course it changes, but CO2 is insignificant to climate.

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

This tweet demonstrates the author knows fuck all about climatology.

[George Lowrey @georgehlowrey]

The chart depicts our climate over the last 400 thousand years. Ice ages dominate, interrupted by shorter interglacial warmings. Milankovitch Cycles drive these changes. Today we enjoy the warmth of the Holocene Interglacial. The prior interglacial lasted around 13,000 years. The Holocene began around 11,700 years ago. Another ice age is approaching. Let us assume for the sake of argument that burning fossil fuels is increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and that this causes temperatures on earth to rise. Sound policy favors continued burning of fossil fuels to postpone the onset of next ice age.

[Michael Braithwaite @ExiledBusker]

Someone shouting about how they don’t understand the Anthropic principle is an excellent way to get people to become religious.
Because if you don’t understand the anthropic principle your brain is ripe for takeover by god botherers.

[Scott McDowell @ScottMcdowell27]

If something walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, smells like a duck, eats like a duck, and sleeps like a duck… it’s safe to say it’s a Duck!!

So in the same way, if our universe appears and looks to be designed why would we say ohh buts it’s not though?

Maybe it appears it looks to be intelligently designed because it actually was!!