Quote Of The Week #13 « Watts Up With That?

...NASA GISS model E written on some of the worst FORTRAN coding ever seen is a challenge to even get running. NASA GISTEMP is even worse. Yet our government has legislation under consideration significantly based on model output that Jim Hansen started. His 1988 speech to Congress was entirely based on model scenarios.

Thoughts on Consensus & Settled Science - Guy Midkiff  - Washington, Missouri

Fiendishly, our pop-culture uses peer pressure to intimidate the un-believers. We are called polluters, heretics, and uneducated. How could we not “know” that global warming exists? We must have been dropped on our heads at a young age.

Ironically, I do believe that global warming does exist, though…just as global cooling exists. The earth does not have a thermometer. You can’t set the perfect temperature. Our temperature has fluctuated wildly over millions of years. Was George Bush the reason for 15 degree warming oceans, 2 million years ago? Unless you are Michael Moore, your answer is probably no.

Should we do everything possible to be good stewards of the environment? Of course we must and America has improved greatly over the last 50 years. Our air should be clean and water pure. But that should have nothing to do with actual science and how scientific “facts” are derived.

Incandescent Bulbs Return to the Cutting Edge - NYTimes.com

SANTA ROSA, Calif. — When Congress passed a new energy law two years ago, obituaries were written for the incandescent light bulb. The law set tough efficiency standards, due to take effect in 2012, that no traditional incandescent bulb on the market could meet, and a century-old technology that helped create the modern world seemed to be doomed.

But as it turns out, the obituaries were premature.