Tuesday, March 02, 2010

There's no war to fight over global warming - opinion - 02 March 2010 - New Scientist
WHAT is it like being a climate scientist at the moment? Not much fun. It's a bit like your next-door neighbour being accused of a crime and everyone in the city you live in, including yourself, being told they are under suspicion as well. Accusations about lack of integrity, deceit and bias are flying thick and fast.
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What of the research itself? One way to think of climate science is as an attempt to test the hypothesis that the warming we have observed over the past 50 years and more is caused mainly by greenhouse gases dumped into the atmosphere by humans.
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We still do not discount the possibility that the hypothesis is wrong. There are other ways in which the climate can warm over such a period of time.
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It is incumbent on those who claim that the science is flawed to bring forward a body of peer-reviewed evidence that shows the hypothesis is false. So far they have failed to do so. I don't think that it exists.
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Alan Thorpe is head of the Natural Environment Research Council, which funds much of the UK's climate science. He is a meteorologist with 30 years' research experience
Twitter / Andy Revkin [says I'm "energetic"]
One of most energetic aggregators of co2 skeptic content enjoyed my post-snow vid on "involuntary low-carbon life" http://j.mp/snowvidreview
The Jerk Quotations from QuoteGeek
Navin: The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!
Harry: Well I wish I could get so excited about nothing.
Navin: Nothing? Are you kidding?! Page 73, Johnson, Navin, R.! I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this book every day! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity, you're name in print, that makes people. I'm in print! Things are going to start happening to me now.
Moonbattery: Al Gore in Denial Over the Death of Manbearpig
Specifically, the "two mistakes" were 1. Completely making up climate data and 2. Lying about it.
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It's sad to think of Al Gore walking through one of his enormous mansions, or sulking on one of his private jets, or sobbing in the back seat of his gigantic SUV as his motorcade makes its way to another climate conference, clutching his Nobel and crying, "I'm super cereal! Nobody will listen to me but I'm cereal!"

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