Comments on: Stop the climate change juggernaut! I want to get off! http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/13/stop-the-climate-change-juggernaut-i-want-to-get-off/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:17:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: jj http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/13/stop-the-climate-change-juggernaut-i-want-to-get-off/#comment-20913 jj Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:20:57 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/13/stop-the-climate-change-juggernaut-i-want-to-get-off/#comment-20913 He was a big supporter of the IPCC, which it is increasingly becoming apparent is a political, not scientific, animal. The IPCC report he constantly referenced is reported in the media as reflecting the consensus of thousands of scientists, when, as Dr. Richard Lindzen (Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at MIT) said on CNN: "The summary for policymakers has the input of about 13 of the scientists." And it should of course be never forgotten that science does not have "consensus." Science does not look for "settled": ideas. Science is a self-correcting process that constantly puts its tested hypotheses forward for others to test, criticize - and either confirm or deny. Note further, on December 20, 2007 the Senate Commitee on the Environment and Public Works issued a report that 400 scientists (400 - that'd be pretty much all of the ones at the top in the field in this country) now believe the evidence doesn't support that "consensus." Two questions: why has that Senate report gone largely unreported? Why did that Senate committee's Web site - which is very critical of the climate change "consensus" - win the National Science Foundation's 2007 Gold Mouse Award? Why, if the debate is over, did 100 scientists argue against the "consensus" just week before last (March 2 - 4) at the International Climate Science Coalition? (And - have you heatrd any reporting about it?) And the Copenhagen Consensus, a group of 36 experts including four Nobel Prize winners, just recently concluded that of 17 challenges facing the world, efforts to stop global warming should receive priority #17. Dead last. (And - did you hear any reporting about it?) What a load of %^$#@$%. He was a big supporter of the IPCC, which it is increasingly becoming apparent is a political, not scientific, animal. The IPCC report he constantly referenced is reported in the media as reflecting the consensus of thousands of scientists, when, as Dr. Richard Lindzen (Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at MIT) said on CNN: “The summary for policymakers has the input of about 13 of the scientists.”

And it should of course be never forgotten that science does not have “consensus.” Science does not look for “settled”: ideas. Science is a self-correcting process that constantly puts its tested hypotheses forward for others to test, criticize - and either confirm or deny.

Note further, on December 20, 2007 the Senate Commitee on the Environment and Public Works issued a report that 400 scientists (400 - that’d be pretty much all of the ones at the top in the field in this country) now believe the evidence doesn’t support that “consensus.” Two questions: why has that Senate report gone largely unreported? Why did that Senate committee’s Web site - which is very critical of the climate change “consensus” - win the National Science Foundation’s 2007 Gold Mouse Award?

Why, if the debate is over, did 100 scientists argue against the “consensus” just week before last (March 2 - 4) at the International Climate Science Coalition? (And - have you heatrd any reporting about it?)

And the Copenhagen Consensus, a group of 36 experts including four Nobel Prize winners, just recently concluded that of 17 challenges facing the world, efforts to stop global warming should receive priority #17. Dead last. (And - did you hear any reporting about it?)

What a load of %^$#@$%.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/13/stop-the-climate-change-juggernaut-i-want-to-get-off/#comment-20896 Ymarsakar Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:08:44 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/13/stop-the-climate-change-juggernaut-i-want-to-get-off/#comment-20896 He got tired of the cognitive dissonance that he experienced as a result of commenting here. I don't blame him. Being smart and scientific just lets him hold even more inconsistent thoughts and beliefs in his head at once. That can't be pleasant after awhile. He got tired of the cognitive dissonance that he experienced as a result of commenting here. I don’t blame him. Being smart and scientific just lets him hold even more inconsistent thoughts and beliefs in his head at once. That can’t be pleasant after awhile.

]]> By: Danny Lemieux http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/13/stop-the-climate-change-juggernaut-i-want-to-get-off/#comment-20890 Danny Lemieux Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:42:10 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/13/stop-the-climate-change-juggernaut-i-want-to-get-off/#comment-20890 Whatever happened to that one "I am a scientist" poster on this blog whom we used to torment so much that he eventually threw down his marbles and left? You know, the one that maintained that no "credible" scientist had ever refuted global warming. I think that he decided we were right-wing nincompoops for challenging his "scientific" assertions. Whatever happened to that one “I am a scientist” poster on this blog whom we used to torment so much that he eventually threw down his marbles and left? You know, the one that maintained that no “credible” scientist had ever refuted global warming. I think that he decided we were right-wing nincompoops for challenging his “scientific” assertions.

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