Manufacturing(?) consensus | Climate Etc.

Goodwin makes a strong argument that the IPCC is a manufactured consensus that has been reached by intent. As such, Lehrer argued in 1975 that such a consensus is conspiratorial and irrelevant to our intellectual concern.

- Bishop Hill blog - A mezzo-soprano on climate science

Before starting her singing career, Rice had been a climatologist and described her experiences thus:

I was amazed really by the inadequacy of what we had, because we're talking about climate change which is over tens of thousands of years as opposed to the twenty years of data that we had. So in a way we were putting out a lot of ideas and not really having concrete scientific research to support it, and I suppose at that point I did lose a little bit of my spark, thinking well I could propose an idea and I could probably draft a thesis that would support it and yet I wouldn't really convince myself necessarily.

River Mysteriously Disappears in Costa Rica - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Chalk this up to the new theory that links global warming to plate tectonics, as it’s obvious that global warming is at play here:

Queensland floods and Russian heatwave will be used to justify 'climate change' policies - Telegraph

The sort of disasters Sir John had in mind included last year’s Russian heatwave, the floods in Pakistan and Queensland and the current drought in East Africa, all of which climate zealots have rushed to blame on global warming. But Sir John, who is a professor in “applied population biology”, may not be aware that each of these examples has been shown by scientific studies not to be evidence of “climate change”.