Global warming - is the end near? (not what you might think) - Orange Punch

As the rest of the world awakens to the reality that slumping economies can only be devastated by bowing to global warming alarmists’ demands, the question for California is whether the powers that be will wake up before they devastate us with Draconian regulations and taxes that others are rejecting.

A good summary of some of the world’s awakening is provided here, courtesy Benny Peiser, U.K. social anthropologist who focuses on effects of environmental change and catastrophic events. Peiser is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

2007: Unusual description of the IPCC process « It’s Getting Hot In Here

It’s very intriguing to me that AEI says that the IPCC report is “poorly supported by analytical work,” as the report is a result of a four day meeting of 500 scientists debating with each other on an issue they have studied collectively for nearly ten years.

winterspeak.com: Models cannot replace brains

I liked this article on how the scientific models for cod population were bogus. A friend of mine who studied Earth and Planetary Sciences at a good university left the field because she found the models they used to be totally bogus as well (yes, these are the models used in Global Warming). I developed a computer model looking at proteomics -- it was bogus also. Obviously the risk models used by banks were similarly bogus, although the "Government will bail us out" parameter seems to be working as advertised.

This is not to knock models -- it valuable to make assumptions that are implicit, vague, and inconsistent; explicit, precise, and consistent. But models don't replace brains.