Sunday, May 01, 2011

Western snowpack and precipitation trends versus modeling «
Models are king, data is an annoyance.
- Bishop Hill blog - Climate data quality improvement
As if there weren't enough problems with climate data already, the latest bright idea from CAGW subscribers is to use opinion polls to measure climate change. I kid you not...
American Thinker: Adventures in the Climate Trade
Global warming, now called climate change, is a big industry with academic and commercial branches. One way or another the government provides the money to keep it in business. The academic side supports thousands of scientific workers churning out some good science larded with lots of junk science. The commercial side is busy turning out tank cars filled with corn ethanol and covering the landscape with windmills. Nobody would be doing any of this without government subsidies and mandates. A recent example of how the geniuses in Washington direct policy is the loaning of hundreds of millions to electric car companies like Tesla. Tesla is the stock that everyone is going to be trying to short when they aren't trying to short First Solar.
Ehrlich 1969 : DDT Has Knocked Ten Years Off The Life Of Everyone Born Since 1945 | Real Science

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