The members of RC want to portray themselves as the representatives of
the scientific climate establishment on the net.
Not exact matches
Next week's meeting is expected to propose the
establishment of a
scientific advisory panel on land and soil degradation, akin to the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, which advises the convention's sister body on climate
Climate Change, which advises the convention's sister body on
climate climate change.
With the
establishment of the
scientific consensus on
climate change, is it reasonable and sensible to ask of government officials who remain obstructive and in denial of such overwhelming
scientific data if they are perfidiously engaged in a violation of public trust and, therefore, malfeasant in office?
Recognizing that peer review procedures at some academic journals has been misused to block the publication of research that is contrary to the views of editors or influential figures in the
climate science
establishment, with the Editor's approval, consideration will be given to including material from non-peer-reviewed sources when credible and important
scientific findings not available elsewhere.
The film portrays Monckton single - handedly attacking the entire global
scientific establishment, sabotaging any possibility of
climate legislation in the USA, and thereby demolishing any possible global deal on emissions - reduction through the UNFCCC process.
The myth that until very recently we used to think that the
climate was constant is also propagated by the CRU
climate scientists, who write on their history page:» Hubert Lamb's determination and vision can only be appreciated in the context of the view, generally prevailing within the
scientific establishment in the 1960s, that the
climate for all practical purposes could be treated as constant on timescales that are of relevance to humanity and its social and economic systems.»
In the light of all this, we have at least to consider the possibility that the
scientific establishment behind the global warming issue has been drawn into the trap of seriously overstating the
climate problem... in its effort to promote the cause.
Then we had the hockey stick and
climate gate, compounded by large parts of the
scientific establishment closing ranks and saying «nothing to see here».
The «death threats to
climate scientists» meme is just another myth manufactured by a
climate establishment unable to defend its «science» by the
scientific method.
Professor Garth Paltridge, formerly a chief scientist with Australia's Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Division of Atmospheric Research, says that the behavior of certain members of the
climate science
establishment is «seriously threatening the public's perception of the professionalism of scientists in general.
He will go down in history as the hero who slew ManBearPig: the president who, unlike his pusillanimous, career - safe,
Establishment predecessors from Clinton and the Bushes to the ultimate horror that was Obama, finally had the courage, integrity and honesty to point out that the
Climate Emperor is wearing no clothes; the guy who brought to the end the greatest
scientific scandal ever; who saved Western Industrial Civilisation from the Watermelons.
If your faith in today's
scientific establishment was shaken recently by successive waves of fraud on the part of
climate scientists — from systematically suppressing evidence of global cooling, to attempting to erase the Middle Ages, to falsely claiming the Himalayan glaciers were rapidly melting — get ready for more
scientific corruption, a lot more.
Because when it comes to
climate change, science is being used in a similar talismanic fashion — and for similar ends — right across the political spectrum, and by the
scientific establishment itself.
A strategy used by
climate policy proponents to counter the strategies of the merchants of doubt (Oreskes and Conway, 2010; Schneider and Flannery, 2009) has been the
establishment of a broad international
scientific consensus with high confidence levels, strong appeals to the authority of the consensus relative to opposing viewpoints, and exposure of the motives of skeptics.
The difference is that in the
climate debate they have the tacit or explicit support of the
scientific establishment.
I took this to mean that a liberal
scientific establishment invented the idea that carbon dioxide plays a role in Earth's
climate system to support raising taxes.
Yet the
climate scientific establishment repeatedly reacts as if nothing is wrong.
We have at least to consider the possibility that the
scientific establishment behind the global warming issue has been drawn into the trap of seriously overstating the
climate problem — or, what is much the same thing, of seriously understating the uncertainties associated with the
climate problem — in its effort to promote the cause.
Exxon's about - face on
climate change earned the scorn of the
scientific establishment it had once courted.
In light of all this, we have at least to consider the possibility that the
scientific establishment behind the global warming issue has been drawn into the trap of seriously overstating the
climate problem — or, what is much the same thing, of seriously understating the uncertainties associated with the
climate problem.
These interests and the wider
establishment's political exhaustion are hidden behind the CCC's
scientific authority — a virtue in accordance with
climate change ethics.
While
climate skeptics will welcome this gust of common sense wafting in from the
Scientific American,
establishment climate alarmists will undoubtedly seek to quash the news, knowing it could affect not only the funding they depend on, but the ideologically driven political programs they seek to impose on the world.
Even within the
climate establishment, there are undoubtedly many researchers who worry that their
scientific endeavours are guided more by political requirements than by
scientific necessity.
At a more mundane level, there is little doubt that some players in the
climate research
establishment — not a lot, but enough to have severely damaged the reputation of
climate scientists in general — have stepped across the boundary of what is generally regarded as acceptable
scientific behaviour.
Among them is Judith Curry, former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who describes how she lost her faith in the alarmist
establishment at the time of the Climategate emails, when
climate scientists were caught red - handed in emails conspiring to withhold
scientific information from their peers.
I am actually something of a supporter of Obama — at least compared to his illustrious predecessor — but politicians can reasonably claim to have been misled by the
scientific establishment, which seems to have done everything possible to avoid dealing with misleading
climate information.