AAAS’s Selective Outrage

The Science and Environmental Policy Project had an interesting take on the AAAS board’s statement in the July 2nd edition of its weekly newsletter, The Week That Was:

The AAAS board expresses laudable goals: to bring civility, transparency, and open discussion on scientific issues. The question is, will it enforce such goals on its signature publication Science? This would require a major change in editorial policy. If so, we should expect a public statement that the magazine is accepting competent articles from researchers who question the IPCC. The new policy would announce that those submitting articles must submit their data and computer source code so that other researchers can replicate the results. Any truncation of data must be carefully explained; otherwise, the article will not be published, or, if published, publicly retracted. The fawning review of the recent book by Oreskes and Conway who smeared distinguished scientists without presenting evidence would be publicly retracted with apologies. The rebuttal by Fred Singer, the only one of the scientists still alive, which was rejected due to claimed lack of space, would be published.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Study says it takes 8 years to break-even on electric car ownership

This study noted in the Wall Street Journal finds the time period to break-even on costs for an electric vehicle compared to a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle is 8 years. Add to this the cost of a new $10,000 battery pack, which requires replacement every 8-10 years, and the break-even point becomes infinity. What is the resale value of an 8 year old electric vehicle that needs a new battery?

Landsea, the IPCC & the Union of Concerned Scientists « NoFrakkingConsensus

Let me just repeat those two last points: At the same time that he was leading the American Association for the Advancement of Science, McCarthy became the head of a notoriously activist body.

Wow. When I began researching the global warming debate two years ago I had no idea how far my opinion of scientists was going to plummet.