I am grateful when people take the time to comment and, yes, criticize, but I also think this writer oversells the certainty we should feel
about alarmist climate science and its conclusions.
Not exact matches
The complete failure of
climate alarmist science in just
about every field it has forced it's way into is becoming increasingly obvious and the totality of avoidable costs, individually for the poor, as well as socially, politically and economically for society that
climate alarmist science has imposed on our global and national societies is horrendous and only now is just beginning to be totaled up.
but hey,
alarmists do not need empirical data, or evidence, because it is not
about science, facts, CO2., or logic, it's not even
about the
climate, — it's all
about the money!
But bottom line as you suggest: «A skeptic should talk
about the vested career interests of [
alarmist]
climate scientists only if asked to EXPLAIN why [
alarmist]
climate science is shoddy.
A skeptic should talk
about the vested career interests of [
alarmist]
climate scientists only if asked to EXPLAIN why [
alarmist]
climate science is shoddy.
(1) undescribed «documents collected by the [committee];» (2) «documents provided by Dr. Mann...»; (3) the committee's preliminary report; (4) a May British House of Commons whitewash of Climategate; (5) a recent letter published in
Science magazine deploring
climate skepticism from 255
climate alarmists; (6) a document
about the National
Science Foundation peer review process; (7) the Department of Energy Guide to Financial Assistance; (8) information on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's peer review process; (9) information regarding the percentage of NSF proposals funded; and (10) Mann's curriculum vitae.
Moreover, as I've argued here previously, the emphasis, or hope that
science can conclusively answer the debate
about global warming almost concedes to the
alarmist / precautionary perspective that, if «
climate change is happening», then so the policies are justified.
What needs explaining is not who discovered what — the scientists or the «deniers» — but how
alarmist claims
about climate change always seem to precede the evidence, such that researchers believe the negative picture before the
science has delivered a verdict.
I've always been agnostic
about [
climate change]... I don't completely dismiss the more dire warnings but I instinctively feel that some of the claims are exaggerated... I don't accept all of the
alarmist conclusions... You can never be absolutely certain that all the
science is in.
Says the Leftist bedwetter who regards the specious
alarmist drivel of Abrahams and Nutticelli of the Guardian as absolute authority on just
about everything to do with
climate «
science»...
I don't think you do justice to the work of people like McIntyre and how their interaction with the hockey team and
alarmist blogs such as Real
Climate was instrumental in raising serious questions
about the quality of the
science underlying the dogma.
Real
climate claims to be
about presenting the
science, but they do show aplenty that they are leftwing,
alarmist, unduely friendly and credulous towards environmentalist activists and paranoid
about industry.
I wrote something like 3000 words of indignation
about climate alarmists corrupting the very definition of
science by declaring their work «settled», answering difficult scientific questions with the equivalent of voting, and telling everyone the way to be pro-
science is to listen to self - designated authorities and shut up.