If You Have To Ask, You Shouldn’t Act

Scientific American’s blog: “CO2 emissions rise as natural sinks slow, but how can scientists precisely track this greenhouse gas, especially in advance of a potential global treaty to reduce its emissions?”

If you don’t know the answer — and we don’t — we shouldn’t be taking dramatic, far-reaching economic actions. It ought to be that simple.

Warning Signs: The Information Deficit

The forthcoming Copenhagan UN climate conference will be reported as “news” instead of being exposed as an effort to use false science to initiate a one-world-government treaty and the creation of a market for bogus “carbon credits.”

One Last Thought on Al Gore's Journey to the Center of the Earth - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

To put into perspective how far off Gore is here, the deepest hole ever drilled is the Kola Superdeep Borehole which reached a depth of 12,261 meters — that's more than 12 kilometers, Al. That breakthrough depth was reached back in 1989 — by the Soviets. And since Al is interested in how hot such a hole might be, the temperature at that depth was reported at 356°F, slightly cooler than Gore's stellar estimation.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: How Climate Scientists Talk to Each Other on Email

...That message comes across a bit like sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming "I'M NOT LISTENING I'M NOT LISTENING". Climate science has a few remarkable human beings in it, that is for sure.

Of course, this would be just a bit of silliness, but the unnamed scientist above has a major role in international and national climate science assessments, and is undoubtedly an active peer reviewer. Do you think based on that email he is going to give my father's scientific work a fair shake? And to the extent he is representative of a broader set of individuals, climate science is a deeply troubled institution of science. Makes me glad to be a social scientist.