FT interview transcript: [Alarmist] Steven Chu

FT: On the climate threat, do you think there is legitimate concern now about the fact that some of the science, even if it’s not flawed, it’s been misrepresented, which has undermined the case in many people’s eyes.

SC: First, the main findings of IPC over the years, have they been seriously cast in doubt? No. I think that if one research group didn’t understand some tree ring data and they chose to admit part of that data. In all honesty they should have thrown out the whole data set. But science has a wonderful way of self-correcting on things like that.
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FT: But as a distinguished scientist yourself, don’t you think that the IPCC crossed the line between scientific research and advocacy?

SC: I don’t think so. My impression about watching them working is that it is one of the things where they have been held up to a very high standard.

FT: In the last three months.

SC: No, since the beginning. Since report number one. Their reports get reviewed. Lots of people are asked to take shots at this in a very serious way that I think is all right because what they’re saying is so important. It has economic consequences worldwide. They should be able to say that this is serious science and take a somewhat conservative view. If you look at the climate sceptics, I would have to say honestly, what standard are they being held to? It’s very asymmetric. They get to say anything they want. In the end, the core of science is deeply self checking.
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The public polls go up and down on this, with Climategate and all these other things. But if you step back and dispassionately look at it, this is a little wart on the overall amount of information. It’s a little bump. There are all the other things that have been done and all the other indicators of what the temperature has been doing.

Quote of the Day: Ross Garnaut | Australian Climate Madness

Speaking of the Coalition's climate policy:

"I did not take seriously the possibility that it would become part of the Australian policy discussion - I thought that debates over the Government taking huge decisions about the resource allocation ended with the fall of the Soviet Union."

"To think that regulation, decisions by bureaucrats and governments to reach the right conclusions is, I think, delusional."

CEI at CPAC 2010 | CEI

Saturday, February 20th 3:30 pm
Saving Freedom from the Hoax of Global Warming
Marriott Ballroom
Panel includes Chris Horner and Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Cuba Implements Program to Fight Effects of Climate Change | Cuba News Headlines. Cuban Daily News

Cuba began to implement a comprehensive program to face the consequences of climate change, mainly regarding the mitigation and adaptation to its negative effects caused by the developed world’s consumerism.