Post by marchesarosa on Dec 3, 2009 20:53:03 GMT
Post Normal Science
Some of you may be aquainted with this term. It is the belief that objective science has been overtaken by morality and politics and that we are in a new era.
Well, I guess no-one disputes that science should be separate from politcs but surely the former should inform the latter?
Instead we find the luminaries and idologists of climate change embracing the belief that "ye picks yer scientist and ye takes yer choice!" Or, in Forrest Gump's immortal words, “Science is like box o’ Chocolates, ye never know what yer gonna get”.
Sadly, with the institution of the IPCC, and CRU in East Anglia which provides its data, we DO know “what we’re gonna get” because the findings are tailored to a priori conclusions. "The world is warming at an unprecedented rate, let’s go out and prove it, boys!" Or more accurately, "lets sit in our Ivory Towers and fiddle the data that comes into us from the Meteorological Bureaux round the world" who harvest the primary data from thermometers placed round their countries some of which have records dating back more than a hundred years.
In the leaked CRU data files are the computer codes which translate the “raw” thermometer data into the “adjusted” or “value-added product” which is then used to demonstrate the claim that the planet is warming.
Yes, folks, the whole global warming scam is based on nothing more than arithmetic. It’s not "rocket science” at all. You don’t need to abrogate your native wit to the ‘experts’ or the “authorities”, You can go to the raw data yourselves in the public domain and compare it with the “value added” tosh that Drs Jones and Mann have presented to the IPCC to demonstrate that the planet’s warming is “unprecendented”.
If you wish to see what the temperature trend in your own area is over the last century or so just go to the Met office data base and find a rural thermometer with a record going back a century or so. The rural thermometers should be free of most of the Urban Heat Island effect that so confuses Dr Phil and Dr Michael (and yes, this is an example of anthropogenic warming, but NOT via CO2 greenhouse gas effect). From them you can determine the ACTUAL raw temperature data - that’s IF Dr Phil’s boys haven’t already been there before you!
Here’s how it’s done with the USA’s GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Science) thermometer data base. It’s child’s play.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying that understanding the workings the world’s climate system is a doddle. Of course not. It is an incredibly complex system of interaction between many ill-understood variables over cycles of time from decades to centuries and even millenia. Almost every day I discover some new corner of the field to amaze me.
BUT the claims of “global warming” are not difficult either to understand or to check. So be emboldened and start checking the raw data yourself or go to someone who has already done it.
Some of you may be aquainted with this term. It is the belief that objective science has been overtaken by morality and politics and that we are in a new era.
Well, I guess no-one disputes that science should be separate from politcs but surely the former should inform the latter?
Instead we find the luminaries and idologists of climate change embracing the belief that "ye picks yer scientist and ye takes yer choice!" Or, in Forrest Gump's immortal words, “Science is like box o’ Chocolates, ye never know what yer gonna get”.
Sadly, with the institution of the IPCC, and CRU in East Anglia which provides its data, we DO know “what we’re gonna get” because the findings are tailored to a priori conclusions. "The world is warming at an unprecedented rate, let’s go out and prove it, boys!" Or more accurately, "lets sit in our Ivory Towers and fiddle the data that comes into us from the Meteorological Bureaux round the world" who harvest the primary data from thermometers placed round their countries some of which have records dating back more than a hundred years.
In the leaked CRU data files are the computer codes which translate the “raw” thermometer data into the “adjusted” or “value-added product” which is then used to demonstrate the claim that the planet is warming.
Yes, folks, the whole global warming scam is based on nothing more than arithmetic. It’s not "rocket science” at all. You don’t need to abrogate your native wit to the ‘experts’ or the “authorities”, You can go to the raw data yourselves in the public domain and compare it with the “value added” tosh that Drs Jones and Mann have presented to the IPCC to demonstrate that the planet’s warming is “unprecendented”.
If you wish to see what the temperature trend in your own area is over the last century or so just go to the Met office data base and find a rural thermometer with a record going back a century or so. The rural thermometers should be free of most of the Urban Heat Island effect that so confuses Dr Phil and Dr Michael (and yes, this is an example of anthropogenic warming, but NOT via CO2 greenhouse gas effect). From them you can determine the ACTUAL raw temperature data - that’s IF Dr Phil’s boys haven’t already been there before you!
Here’s how it’s done with the USA’s GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Science) thermometer data base. It’s child’s play.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying that understanding the workings the world’s climate system is a doddle. Of course not. It is an incredibly complex system of interaction between many ill-understood variables over cycles of time from decades to centuries and even millenia. Almost every day I discover some new corner of the field to amaze me.
BUT the claims of “global warming” are not difficult either to understand or to check. So be emboldened and start checking the raw data yourself or go to someone who has already done it.