Thursday, December 06, 2007

An alarmist departs the professional climate field

A RealClimate alarmist has announced his departure from the professional climate field here.

Ok, with the whole fate of the Earth and all its creatures allegedly hinging on your work, you're leaving to work in software engineering?! Why would anyone do that?

The gist of the offered explanation appears to be this:
...in some senses, much of the main areas of climate science have now become much clearer than when I began to be interested; the obstacles to progress are now very obviously political not scientific.
Sorry, I'm just not buying it.

At some level, I suspect that this guy has begun to realize the uncomfortable truth that he's on the losing side scientifically.

I think we're currently seeing something similar from the Fitzpatricks and the Lammertinks of the Ivory-bill farce. They're keeping up a little of the brave talk publicly, but their actions don't match their words.

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