Post by marchesarosa on Sept 2, 2010 20:53:12 GMT
Meltdown of the climate ‘consensus’
NEW YORK POST
By MATT PATTERSON
September 2, 2010
If this keeps up, no one’s going to trust any scientists.
The global-warming establishment took a body blow this week, as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received a stunning rebuke from a top-notch independent investigation.
For two decades, the IPCC has spearheaded efforts to convince the world’s governments that man-made carbon emissions pose a threat to the global temperature equilibrium — and to civilization itself. IPCC reports, collated from the work of hundreds of climate scientists and bureaucrats, are widely cited as evidence for the urgent need for drastic action to “save the planet.”
But the prestigious InterAcademy Council, an independent association of “the best scientists and engineers worldwide” (as the group’s own Web site puts it) formed in 2000 to give “high-quality advice to international bodies,” has finished a thorough review of IPCC practices — and found them badly wanting....
Al Gore and many other warming alarmists have insisted that “the debate is over” — that the science was “settled.” That claim is now in shreds — though the grants are still flowing, and advocates still hope Congress will pass some version of the economically ruinous “cap and trade” anti-warming bill.
The warming “scientific” community, the Climategate emails reveal, is a tight clique of like-minded scientists and bureaucrats who give each other jobs, publish each other’s papers — and conspire to shut out any point of view that threatens to derail their gravy train.
Such behavior is perhaps to be expected from politicians and government functionaries. From scientists, it’s a travesty.
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Only one year ago who would have thought to read this in the mainstream media?
In a few years I predict all the heat will have gone out of the AGW debate and you, who couldn't see it coming or didn't understand why I could, will wonder "how come that stupid ignoramus, Marchesarosa could see the fallacies when I couldn't".
It's simple. I have taken the trouble to educate myself about it through sheer intellectual enjoyment of the subject. I'm no ideologue. I love the planet as much as anyone. I detest Monopoly Captalism and gross inequality. I do not need to protect an extravagant lifestyle, I live modestly. I have not bred oodles of offspring a gross carbon footprint for posterity.
I just love sharing around what I have learned and think others will find interesting, too. And I'm not awed by the supposed "science" or the supposed "consensus" - 97% of cats prefer Wiskas etc ....... It's not that hard to get a handle on - specially the collection of the figures and the sampling of temperature data.
That's enough patting myself on the back for now.
What a day. I was banned from the BBC again today and warned never to return. I am simply amazed I lasted eight full months (same as last time in 2007). I learned an awful lot more about climate in this time. You have to in order to crack the opponents' assertions. Trouble is I have a poor memory. I forget about 80% of what I read pretty fast. Nevertheless enough of it stuck to give the BBC Science Board warmists the runaround. They will miss me.
I will not miss them. Onward and upward!
NEW YORK POST
By MATT PATTERSON
September 2, 2010
If this keeps up, no one’s going to trust any scientists.
The global-warming establishment took a body blow this week, as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received a stunning rebuke from a top-notch independent investigation.
For two decades, the IPCC has spearheaded efforts to convince the world’s governments that man-made carbon emissions pose a threat to the global temperature equilibrium — and to civilization itself. IPCC reports, collated from the work of hundreds of climate scientists and bureaucrats, are widely cited as evidence for the urgent need for drastic action to “save the planet.”
But the prestigious InterAcademy Council, an independent association of “the best scientists and engineers worldwide” (as the group’s own Web site puts it) formed in 2000 to give “high-quality advice to international bodies,” has finished a thorough review of IPCC practices — and found them badly wanting....
Al Gore and many other warming alarmists have insisted that “the debate is over” — that the science was “settled.” That claim is now in shreds — though the grants are still flowing, and advocates still hope Congress will pass some version of the economically ruinous “cap and trade” anti-warming bill.
The warming “scientific” community, the Climategate emails reveal, is a tight clique of like-minded scientists and bureaucrats who give each other jobs, publish each other’s papers — and conspire to shut out any point of view that threatens to derail their gravy train.
Such behavior is perhaps to be expected from politicians and government functionaries. From scientists, it’s a travesty.
www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/meltdown_of_the_climate_consensus_G0kWdclUvwhVr6DYH6A4uJ
0000000000000
Only one year ago who would have thought to read this in the mainstream media?
In a few years I predict all the heat will have gone out of the AGW debate and you, who couldn't see it coming or didn't understand why I could, will wonder "how come that stupid ignoramus, Marchesarosa could see the fallacies when I couldn't".
It's simple. I have taken the trouble to educate myself about it through sheer intellectual enjoyment of the subject. I'm no ideologue. I love the planet as much as anyone. I detest Monopoly Captalism and gross inequality. I do not need to protect an extravagant lifestyle, I live modestly. I have not bred oodles of offspring a gross carbon footprint for posterity.
I just love sharing around what I have learned and think others will find interesting, too. And I'm not awed by the supposed "science" or the supposed "consensus" - 97% of cats prefer Wiskas etc ....... It's not that hard to get a handle on - specially the collection of the figures and the sampling of temperature data.
That's enough patting myself on the back for now.
What a day. I was banned from the BBC again today and warned never to return. I am simply amazed I lasted eight full months (same as last time in 2007). I learned an awful lot more about climate in this time. You have to in order to crack the opponents' assertions. Trouble is I have a poor memory. I forget about 80% of what I read pretty fast. Nevertheless enough of it stuck to give the BBC Science Board warmists the runaround. They will miss me.
I will not miss them. Onward and upward!
