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The EU's reputation as a model of environmental responsibility may soon be history. The European Commission wants to forgo ambitious climate protection goals and pave the way for fracking -- jeopardizing Germany's touted energy revolution in the process.
Australia who has embraced the carbon taxes and other climate measures is changing it mind. Their Chief Scientist in Atmospheric research has come to the conclusion that global warming has been hyped
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—or, what is much the same thing, of seriously understating the uncertainties associated with the climate problem—in its effort to promote the cause. It is a particularly nasty trap in the context of science, because it risks destroying, perhaps for centuries to come, the unique and hard-won reputation for honesty which is the basis of society’s respect for scientific endeavour. Trading reputational capital for short-term political gain isn’t the most sensible way of going about things.
The trap was set in the late 1970s or thereabouts when the environmental movement first realised that doing something about global warming would play to quite a number of its social agendas. At much the same time, it became accepted wisdom around the corridors of power that government-funded scientists (that is, most scientists) should be required to obtain a goodly fraction of their funds and salaries from external sources—external anyway to their own particular organisation.
Virtually all scientists directly involved in climate prediction are aware of the enormous uncertainties associated with their product. How is it that they can place hands over hearts and swear that human emissions of carbon dioxide are wrecking the planet?
[ Update: Another Prominent Scientist Dissents! Fmr. NASA Scientist Dr. Les Woodcock ‘Laughs’ at Global Warming – ‘Global warming is nonsense’ Top Prof. Declares – Asserts ‘professional…
Kung Wu say, man who read woman like book, prefer braille!
A new study by researchers at the University of Texas, Austin found that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is collapsing due to geothermal heat not global warming.
Kung Wu say, man who read woman like book, prefer braille!
You were quicker with the link than I was, KW. So here's another one, from a guy who was subsequently fired from his association with a lefty think tank for writing the heresy linked below:
I assume the reason kcshocker hasn't responded -- not that he has much to say other than to complain about oil money, as if the warmists didn't get their grant money from somewhere, too -- is that he's busy in a fellowship meeting at the Church of Algore.
Whaaaat!?!? The ice is not only NOT melting but setting a record high for area mass with 2.1 million more square miles than is normal!?!!?! You mean I have been lied to!?!?
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