Global Warming Frozen In Bad Data
December 11, 2008 / 3:44 pm • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierFrom the Washington Times:
Environmental extremists and global warming alarmists are in denial and running for cover. Their rationale for continuing a lost cause is that weather events in the short term are not necessarily related to long-term climatic trends. But these are the same people who screamed at us each year that ordinary weather events such as high temperatures or hurricanes were undeniable evidence of imminent doom.
Now that global warming is over, politicians are finally ready to enact dubious solutions to a non-existent problem. In Britain, Parliament is intrepidly forging ahead with a bold new plan to cool the climate, even as London experienced its first October snowfall since 1934 and Ireland went through the coldest October in the last 70 years.
This is an absurd spectacle. Our advanced civilization is being systematically mismanaged by technologically illiterate lawyers responding to political pressures from irrational fanatics. Would someone please tell these people it is impossible to overturn the laws of thermodynamics?
We cannot improve our economy by artificially forcing people to use expensive, unreliable and inefficient energy sources.
From the U.S. Senate committee on Environment:
“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” – Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.
“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” – Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”
Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” – UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.
“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” – Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.
“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC “are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” – Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” – U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.
“Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.” – . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.
“After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri’s asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it’s hard to remain quiet.” – Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society’s Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.
“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?” – Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.
“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp…Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.” – Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee.
“Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.” – Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.
“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” – Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.
The problem with this nonsense is that people will believe nothing and therefore everything in the future. Everybody is lying, therefore there is no objective truth.
Climate scientists risk losing all credibility. Science in general will be a victim. Just as the Catholic church lost believers over their collusion with abominable sinning caused loss of faith generally in religious institutions.
H/T High Plains Blogger, my friend from Twitter
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6 Responses to “Global Warming Frozen In Bad Data”
December 11 2008 / 5:52 pm
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“Would someone please tell these people it is impossible to overturn the laws of thermodynamics?”
If they really were interested in science, this never would have happened.
December 11 2008 / 10:41 pm
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Someone I know told me with a perfectly straight face that our unseasonably cold weather was because of “all that global warming.”
December 11 2008 / 11:54 pm
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Global warming enthusiasts have their minds made up. They are opposed to economic growth. This is the most convenient tool for anti-capitalists ever invented.
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December 12 2008 / 10:58 am
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If we find out that mankind’s contribution to global warming is insignificant or that global warming is a myth, it will be because the theory didn’t stand up to the empirical evidence.
This isn’t a failure of science; this is how science is supposed to work. In fact, we have a name for this: the scientific method. The beauty of science is that it is the only method of generating knowledge that allows for the inevitability that we will be wrong about some things and provides a mechanism for finding a better answer.
December 12 2008 / 11:48 am
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Matt,
The only problem is when billions, nay, trillions of dollars are spent on bad policy based on shoddy science.
I’m all for the scientific method, when it’s actually used. The scientists who have been so sure of themselves and their theories have demonstrated an utter lack of dispassionate rationality and a huge amount of religious zeal.
When you tell people that the world is going to succumb to plagues, war, famine, crime, hurricanes, and generalized disaster like some religious nutter proclaiming the end is nigh, you better damn well be right.