David Appell: ««It amounts to nothing more than a betrayal of trust when an «expert» tilts the data and or presentation of that data to elicit a specific reaction from non-experts, and that is what has been
happening in climate science since at least the 1980's.»
It amounts to nothing more than a betrayal of trust when an «expert» tilts the data and or presentation of that data to elicit a specific reaction from non-experts, and that is what has been
happening in climate science since at least the 1980's.
This is a familiar pattern in health reporting (is coffee good for you / bad for you etc.), but in more recent times has started
happening in climate science too.
But it's
happening in climate science.
Dogma is very appropriate for what is
happening in climate science.
Oh, goodness, dear lady, thank you very much, I needed a good laugh, the idea of
that happening in climate science is hilarious.
Here is what frequently
happens in climate science.
I was thinking about what has
happened in climate science and beyond since the dark days of 2004 when it was touch and go that M&M 2005 would even be published, and what had happened to Soon and Baliunas two years previously.
Yes, it's just sheer co-incidence that
this happened in climate science.
I expect the same will
happen in climate science.
The potential for a bias to develop into a vicious circle is obvious; whether that has
happened in climate science is a matter of debate.
A funny thing has
happened in climate science to scientific inquiry: the usual ethics of free discussion and fact - based criticism have been discarded in favor of ad hominem attacks on critics of AGW theory.
That this hasn't
happened in the climate science community is perhaps the most cause for concern
Not exact matches
Scientific research can inform policies aimed at addressing the needs of communities displaced by
climate change, something that is already
happening in the United States and around the world, according to experts at a 25 - 26 July meeting of the AAAS
Science and Human Rights Coalition.
«One of the big challenges we always face
in getting people engaged and take action on
climate change is they keep thinking this is going to
happen to someone else, somewhere else, or to someone
in the future, far away,» said Susanne Moser, an independent social
science researcher on
climate change analyzing the project's results.
The two most bizarre people
in the
climate debate have now had the most bizarre thing
happen to them and their garbage
science paper that basically become a peer reviewd smear of Dr. Susan Crockford..
The reason that this
happens is that
science isn't perfect, and someone may measure the nutrition levels of a certain type of conventional tomato, for example, compared against a different type of organic tomato, grown
in a vastly different geographic area
in vastly different soils and
climate.
To give an example, a political
science professor that I've communicated with believes that a good analogy for
climate science and the «Kyoto clique» is what
happened in totalitarian communist Russia when they accepted the theory of «Lysenkoism».
«Overplaying natural variations
in the weather as
climate change is just as much a distortion of the
science as underplaying them to claim that
climate change has stopped or is not
happening,» Dr. Pope wrote.
When I mentioned the flag you have unfurled, I meant that of the peculiar sort of
climate science denier — and
in your case, broad - spectrum environmental
science denier — who says «OK it's
happening, but it's nothing to worry about because, look, a black bear!
Unofficial
science, which is more determined by what is actually
happening with the [
climate] data, has now started to move off
in a different direction» away from fears of a man - made
climate crisis, Evans explained.
Overplaying natural variations
in the weather as
climate change is just as much a distortion of the
science as underplaying them to claim that
climate change has stopped or is not
happening.
I think Spencer is helpful by suggesting there is a much bigger story
happening in the world of
science, knowledge and cultural authority of which the
climate change incidents of this moment are just part.
Keep
in mind that war what
happens when sensibility breaks down, and while I'm not an Al Gore hater,
climate hoax believer, I do see where there is a lot of impetus to find solutions based on what we know now instead of doing what
science ideally does, which is seek further to expand our understanding with new questions and new answers.
But what
in fact appears to
happen is that the concerns at least of some of those worried about these types of actions, have led them to try and convince society by attacking the
science of the majority of
climate scientists and to use scientific arguments that on the whole are rather weak and unconvincing, and nearly always involve the cherry - picking of data.
Which is also the main problem with
climate science for every supposed horrible thing that ACC is doing all you have to do is go back
in time and there is evidence that we have had exactly the same thing
happen in the past for much longer periods of time and it didn't destroy the planet.
This is basic research at a down - to - earth level:
climate science can't make sense of what is
happening now without a better understanding of what has always
happened, and of the swings
in planetary temperatures over the past 4.5 billion years.
In the real world, people are laughing and pointing fingers at the various co-Emperors» lack of clothing, but they and the mainstream
climate science folks are acting like nothing has
happened and nothing is
happening.
Scott McClellan didn't talk about
climate change
in his book, What
Happened — but we recall the press briefing on June 8, 2005, when he had to fend off a barrage of questions about
climate science and the oil industry... Continue reading →
Most people are aghast that this could have
happened; and it is only because «
climate science» exploded from a relatively tiny corner of academia into a hugely funded industry
in a matter of mere years that the perpetrators were able to get away with it for so long.
The problem I think is the assumption that is implicit
in the
climate science activist community and that is somewhat reflected
in the IPCC that models are adequate for «projecting» or «predicting» (depending on what rather irrelevant semantic nuances you want to use) what will
happen in 100 years.
I think what
happens is that because it's so difficult to quantify hypotheses
in climate science, people make chains of small tests and assign them as a group to a symbolic p with an arbitrary q that they want to prove.
Attacking
climate science and
climate policy is the most visible front of this war, but it leaves open a vulnerability:
in addition to emitting carbon dioxide, pollution from coal - fired power plants also
happens to have negative health impacts that can kill people.
---------------------------------------------------------- High - Resolution Greenland Ice Core Data Show Abrupt
Climate Change
Happens in Few Years J. P. Steffensen et al.,
Science Express, 19 June, 2008
Nova is an Australian
climate denialist and author of «The Skeptic's Handbook,» a crash course
in false
science claiming global warming isn't
happening and isn't human - caused.
Also See: Watch Now:
Climate Depot's Morano on Fox News Mocking «
Climate Astrology»: «This is now akin to the predictions of Nostradamus or the Mayan calendar» — Morano: «There is no way anyone can falsify the global warming theory now because any weather event that
happens «proves» their case... Man - made global warming has ceased to be a
science, it is now the level of your daily horoscope» — Gore [
in 2006 film] did not warn us of extreme blizzards and record cold winters coming»
I do not see people
in the field of climatology stepping up to the plate and swinging at these transparently invalid methods, although a lot has changed
in climate science since the blog started, so who knows what will
happen.
But official
climate science ignored the crucial weather balloon evidence, and other subsequent evidence that backs it up, and instead clung to their carbon dioxide theory — that just
happens to keep them
in well - paying jobs with lavish research grants, and gives great political power to their government masters.
If there is no threat of catastrophe — and as I said, prior to the hockey stick nobody had the slightest bit of luck convincing anyone that the sky was falling because global
climate today is geologically unremarkable
in every single way except that we
happen to be living
in it instead of analyzing it
in a geological record — then there is little incentive to fund the enormous amount of work being done on
climate science.
They just encourage you to use your imagination, and that is
happening way too often
in climate science.
You don't
happen to work
in the
climate science field by any chance?
Politicians will do the same, claiming they knew of no alternative opinions
in climate science & seek to not let it
happen again.
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It is no wonder 97 percent of
climate scientists and all of the national academies of
science in the world agree
climate change is real, it is
happening now, it's caused by humans, and is cause for immediate action before it is too late.»
However, the problem occurs when biases (advertent or inadvertent) overwhelm
science because of value, which has been
happening in the
climate debate.
However,
in spite of the title of the paper linking the idea that the moon landings were faked with scepticism of
climate science, just 10 of 1145 respondents either «agreed» or «strongly agreed» with the statement «The Apollo moon landings never
happened and were staged
in a Hollywood film studio».
One can suggest that this reputational - damaging conduct is
happening disproportionately
in climate science areas.
That is why making a prediction of what is going to
happen 100 years from now, or something which is so vague that it is not obvious it has occurred like «
climate Change» are not acceptable
in Science as they can not be verified.
Peaks
happen and troughs
happen,
in weather and
climate, but pointing to either as scientific proof of computer simulations is not
science.
From «completely consistent with» to «ex cathedra attribution»
in one swell foop is «consistent with» every other ex cathedra proclamation of attribution by «
climate science» to ACO2 whenever an undesirable event,
climate or otherwise,
happens anywhere
in the world.