Both sides of the argument need to be more transparent and not
make alarmist statements.
Finding: Several members of the Panel were unsuited to be panellists, having strong connections to UEA or having a tendency to
make alarmist statements on the impact of manmade global warming.
Not exact matches
The real blowback against Hansen has a lot more to do with the
alarmist and scientifically unsupportable
statements he
makes in his op - eds at the WP and NYT.
The central idea of the article is a vicious feedback loop: Scientists
make meaningless or ambiguous
statements = > Advocates and media translate
statements into
alarmist declarations = > Politicians respond to alarm by feeding scientists more money = > [a larger number of scientists and pseudo --RSB- Scientists
make meaningless or ambiguous [or false]
statements...
But what he unwittingly reveals to any sensible numerical perspective is the ambiguity of the IPCC's
statement, and the
alarmist's tendency to
make stuff up when the science doesn't do what he wants it to do.
It looks like at this rate the level of ignorance will move in a suitably satisfactory direction where soon any necessary
alarmist statement can be
made about polar bears.
Whatever their reasons, many if not most leading
alarmist scientists, like Jones, preferred the approach
made notorious by the late Stephen Schneider to get public support: «We have to offer up scary scenarios,
make simplified, dramatic
statements, and
make little mention of any doubts we might have.»
When someone
makes a rational
statement «
alarmists» tend to twist it into something else, isn't that right Jimmy D?
The Iron Triangle (and, the Iron Rice Bowl) described by Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D., is as follows: «Scientists
make meaningless or ambiguous
statements... Advocates and media translate
statements into
alarmist declarations... Politicians respond to alarm by feeding scientists more money.»
This
statement made it through the review process — and passed muster — even though it was
alarmist --» could react drastically».