I only mention this, because you and some other warmists pretend that if only we just do the right thing and «believe» in AGW, everything will be all right --- when the truth is that a country like ours stands to lose its prosperity, our children's futures and our standard of living for the foreseeable future --- all on the strength of the scientific conclusions that your AGW scientists have so little confidence in, that they're afraid to have them scrutinised and
questioned by other scientists.
Not exact matches
We, as poets and
scientists alike, are invited to explore and research, experiment and doubt, and
question and sing in the laboratory of His Kingdom, moved
by the Love which moves the sun and the
other stars.
In
other words, science
by definition has boundaries, and when they speak as
scientists, people simply can not address the
question of whether or not anything exists outside of nature.
That is they are quality checked
by other experts and social
scientists - which means the research
questions, design and findings will be of the highest standards and quality.
«The bias is just so extreme»
Others seriously
questioned whether the world's community of climate
scientists is caught in a cyclone of self - promotion, driven
by the pressure to validate past findings and to receive federal grants.
The repercussions of the findings, which were published Thursday in Science, could make it harder to hold warming to limits set during recent United Nations climate negotiations — but they're being received cautiously
by other climate
scientists, with
questions raised over the results of the analysis.
Questions posed decades ago
by Carl Woese, his mentor at the University of Illinois, and
other scientists — such as how the essential unit of life, the cell, came into being — are still unanswered.
I'm always struck
by the fact that the image of the
scientist is as a lone person wearing a lab jacket in the lab
by themselves for hours, whereas my sense is that maybe the single most important thing for a
scientist, aside from being able to think of good
questions, is figuring out good people to work with and enjoying the process of inventing ideas together with
other people.
Heiko Woith and colleagues at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences say
scientists must determine whether the link between the animal behavior and the earthquake is based on clearly defined rules (such as the animal's distance from earthquakes of a certain magnitude), whether the animal behavior has ever been observed and not followed
by an earthquake, whether there is a statistical testing hypothesis in place to examine the evidence, and whether the animal population is a healthy, among
other questions.
It would measure progress
by counting, among
other things, the percentage of news articles that raise
questions about climate science and the number of radio talk show appearances
by scientists questioning the prevailing views.
Other frequent what - if
questioning by scientists concerns specific causes and effects in their work activities.
I've been greatly concerned about this for quite some time, as public statements made
by other scientists suggested that our work would really get to the bottom of a number of
questions.
The climate
scientist Simon Donner, who joined Gleick in signing a recent letter to The Wall Street Journal rebutting an op - ed article
by other scientists questioning the seriousness of global warming, weighed in on the downside of lowering ethical thresholds in the name of a worthy mission:
The trigger was an e-mail chain maintained
by Benny J. Peiser, a British social
scientist who sends out daily summaries of research
questioning dangerous human - caused global warming and international climate treaties, along with
other subjects.
The open
question I have is what has the IPCC or
other climate science body publicly done to counteract the falsity about the «science» and about the IPCC itself, and working climate
scientists, as expressed
by John Howard and
others?
These and many
other fascinating
questions will be discussed
by the participant
scientists.
The e-mails were written
by the «A-team» — members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — and raise
questions if the work of
other respected
scientists may have been disregarded or hampered
by a climate change orthodoxy (or «climate oligarchy») that does not value, indeed may discourage, informed debate and dissent.
That's the
question raised
by a $ 10 million lawsuit lawsuit filed
by Stanford engineering professor Mark Z. Jacobson accusing
other scientists of defamation for critiquing his scientific work in favor of «renewal energy.»
When asked
by the U.K. Daily Mail whether the NASA
scientists behind the data regretted not mentioning the crucial fact that the margin of error was greater than the alleged temperature difference between
other years and 2014, they reportedly stopped responding to
questions.
The idea of there being
scientists on the one hand, opposed
by irrational sceptics on the
other has been established so concretely that few editors, peer - reviewers or journalists even bother to ask
questions about the content of the consensus, much less about how it is contradicted
by the substance of climate sceptics» arguments.
However, the accuracy of this method is under
question by the NOAA
scientists performing the measurement (Scharoo 2004) as well as
others (Mörner 2003, Wunsch 2006).
Choice 1: How much money do we want to spend today on reducing carbon dioxide emission without having a reasonable idea of: a) how much climate will change under business as usual, b) what the impacts of those changes will be, c) the cost of those impacts, d) how much it will cost to significantly change the future, e) whether that cost will exceed the benefits of reducing climate change, f) whether we can trust the
scientists charged with developing answers to these
questions, who have abandoned the ethic of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, with all the doubts, caveats, ifs, ands and buts; and who instead seek lots of publicity
by telling scary stories, making simplified dramatic statements and making little mention of their doubts, g) whether
other countries will negate our efforts, h) the meaning of the word hubris, when we think we are wise enough to predict what society will need a half - century or more in the future?
Some
scientists question the reliability of the observations, whereas
others, who accept them as reliable, suggest that the correlation may be caused
by other physical phenomena with decadal periods or
by a response to volcanic activity or El Niño.
This
question is designed to expose that those politicians who refuse to reduce their government's ghg on the basis that they are not
scientists can not ethically justify non-action on climate change on this basis because once they are put on notice
by respected scientific organizations that ghg from their government jurisdiction are harming
others, they have a duty to prevent dangerous behavior or establish credible scientific evidence that the alleged dangerous behavior is safe.
The answer to those
questions is rooted in the angst and zeitgeist
by earth -
scientists and enviro - activists (often indistinguishable from each
other) over industry and the fossil fuels that drive it.
The events of 911 and its official (almost exclusively government) story, on the
other hand, have undergone nowhere near the same amount of scrutiny
by mainstream
scientists and engineers, which leaves a large number of important
questions unanswered.
A second
questions, which is one I had decided to ask you personally already before the remarkable statement you made to the Guardian is: Do you believe that once a paper is published all the data and methods used in reaching the conclusions stated in the paper should be available for scrutiny
by other scientists, or even members of the public?
One common
question should be, as inquiries and investigations occur, is whether the «science» was legitimate and merely used
by others for their own purposes or whether some
scientists themselves were involved directly and cooperatively in creating the scenarios desired
by partisan
others in analogy to the supposedly independent, outside, accounting firms that vetted Enron.
And the larger
question is, why do no
others corroborate his accusation that skeptic
scientists were paid to lie to the public
by fossil fuel interests about the global warming issue?
Global warming «skeptics» —
scientists and
others who
question whether the scientific debate is truly settled and ask for real data to support the claims of the alarmists — are frequently attacked in the press,
by politicians (including President Barack Obama), and on countless blogs and Web sites.
The scientific method was thwarted
by creating a hypothesis and instead of allowing
other scientists to disprove it the IPCC was set up to prove it and attacked those who dared to
question.
The reason for this
question is to encourage
other scientists who are wavering, to inform themselves better on whether they should sit tight with blinkers on, to shut up for the good of their future careers or to start the ball rolling
by calling out the many instances of scientific abuse that Steve is able to run off at about one a fortnight.
In June the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics carried a paper
by James Hansen and
others clarifying the
question of what is dangerous human - induced climate change.1 Hansen is widely recognised as the world's most eminent climate
scientist.
Thus, the real
question is what is the interest and purpose behind it, which people are pursuing, who are spreading the rumor, here and elsewhere, that Lennart Bengtsson was threatened
by other scientists?
Christakis is one of scores of contributors to an annual exercise in which Edge, run
by literary agent and author John Brockman, poses a
question to
scientists, technology gurus, philosophers, and
other thinkers.