Saturday, December 05, 2009

Scientists Behaving Badly
A corrupt cabal of global warming alarmists are exposed by a massive document leak.
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...even before Climategate, the campaign was beginning to resemble a Broadway musical that had run too long, with sagging box office and declining enthusiasm from a dwindling audience. Someone needs to break the bad news to the players that it's closing time for the climate horror show.
Global warming: Forget the climate sceptics, the real experts are scared - Science and Health Blog - Mirror.co.uk
[Alarmist Vicky Pope] Only when human activity is included in the models is the rise in temperature explained.
Does COP15 want us to recall the tiger cages of Saigon?
The Parliamentary Ombudsman Hans Gammeltoft-Hansen for more information on police mass detention during the climate summit, writes politiken.dk.

 It happens after the police have shown the 37 cages to house up to 346 demonstrators in an earlier processing plant. The Ombudsman has oversight of detention.
George F. Will - The last chance for Earth -- until the next one - washingtonpost.com
Some climate scientists compound their delusions of intellectual adequacy with messiah complexes. They seem to suppose themselves a small clerisy entrusted with the most urgent truth ever discovered. On it, and hence on them, the planet's fate depends. So some of them consider it virtuous to embroider facts, exaggerate certitudes, suppress inconvenient data, and manipulate the peer-review process to suppress scholarly dissent and, above all, to declare that the debate is over.

Consider the sociology of science, the push and pull of interests, incentives, appetites and passions. Governments' attempts to manipulate Earth's temperature now comprise one of the world's largest industries. Tens of billions of dollars are being dispensed, as by the U.S. Energy Department, which has suddenly become, in effect, a huge venture capital operation, speculating in green technologies. Political, commercial, academic and journalistic prestige and advancement can be contingent on not disrupting the (postulated) consensus that is propelling the gigantic and fabulously lucrative industry of combating global warming.

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