The Anti-Engineering Crowd | Real Science

An engineer looks at this picture and sees stress fractures in a thick piece of ice. A polar scientist with global warming on his mind, might see CO2. There is no evidence of melt in this picture. None, zip, nada, nil. The idea that this clean, smooth crack is due to melt is ludicrous.

Another example is the idea of “ice sheet collapse” where the Greenland Ice Sheet slides off into the ocean. Again, we know that the ice sheet over Greenland has depressed the land underneath by several thousand feet. There are also mountains underneath the ice. Ice can not slide out of a 3,000 foot deep bowl. Again, the idea is ludicrous.

The idea that winter storms and snow extent are increasing due to “excess heat” defies any rational thought. Yet the idea is bandied around effortlessly by some in the climate science community.

The fact that GCMs do not verify would cause an engineer to be concerned. Yet some climate scientists march forwards with the blinders on. Because the anti-engineering crowd doesn’t believe there are consequences for being wrong.

We need both scientists and engineers. Scientists are the dreamers. Engineers are the boring, practical people. Any government daft enough to accede policy decisions to scientists will get exactly what they deserve.

Extreme Climate Reporting | Real Science

The press is complicit in convincing people that the climate is changing. Disaster stories sell.

More On GISTEMP Differences | Real Science

Reader “Amino” put together this video, showing how GISS has diverged over the last decade from other data sources.

The North Pole Disappears | Real Science

Note that the South Pole receives more solar energy during the year than the North Pole, because the earth is closest to the Sun during the Southern Hemisphere summer.