Comments on: Nailing the coffin lid shut on warmist alarmism http://blog.jim.com/global-warming/nailing-the-coffin-lid-shut-on-warmist-alarmism.html Liberty in an unfree world Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:11:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jim http://blog.jim.com/global-warming/nailing-the-coffin-lid-shut-on-warmist-alarmism.html/comment-page-1#comment-4963 jim Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:00:35 +0000 http://blog.jim.com/?p=714#comment-4963 Remedying the hockey stick will just result in the warmist alarmists “moving on”. We have to remedy the corruption of science, which is something that Steve McIntyre feels is not his job. He feels, quite correctly, that confrontation is apt to undermine the truth. Thus just as Darwin needed his bulldog to taunt those who put theology ahead of evidence, Steve McIntyre needs a bulldog. Let Steve McIntyre play Darwin against Gaean theology, someone else needs to play Huxley against Gaean theology Remedying the hockey stick will just result in the warmist alarmists “moving on”. We have to remedy the corruption of science, which is something that Steve McIntyre feels is not his job. He feels, quite correctly, that confrontation is apt to undermine the truth. Thus just as Darwin needed his bulldog to taunt those who put theology ahead of evidence, Steve McIntyre needs a bulldog. Let Steve McIntyre play Darwin against Gaean theology, someone else needs to play Huxley against Gaean theology

]]> By: Bill http://blog.jim.com/global-warming/nailing-the-coffin-lid-shut-on-warmist-alarmism.html/comment-page-1#comment-4942 Bill Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:22:14 +0000 http://blog.jim.com/?p=714#comment-4942 McIntyre needs to write a book. A book about (only) the hockey stick literature. A book at roughly the intellectual level of "More Guns, Less Crime" or maybe a little bit more mathematically sophisticated. It would also be helpful if some sociologist of science (or maybe philosopher of science) would write a similar book about the conduct of the Hockey Team. He has done all the real work; he just needs to write it up. It is pretty difficult to communicate to sophisticated but ignorant people what, exactly, is going on in that literature. When I have spent the time to do so, I am met with disbelief: with the view that I must be exaggerating. A tome to point them to would be really useful. Saying, read McIntyre's blog for the last 5 years is not useful. McIntyre needs to write a book. A book about (only) the hockey stick literature. A book at roughly the intellectual level of “More Guns, Less Crime” or maybe a little bit more mathematically sophisticated. It would also be helpful if some sociologist of science (or maybe philosopher of science) would write a similar book about the conduct of the Hockey Team.

He has done all the real work; he just needs to write it up.

It is pretty difficult to communicate to sophisticated but ignorant people what, exactly, is going on in that literature. When I have spent the time to do so, I am met with disbelief: with the view that I must be exaggerating. A tome to point them to would be really useful. Saying, read McIntyre’s blog for the last 5 years is not useful.

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