Comments on: The science is scuttled http://blog.jim.com/global-warming/the-science-is-scuttled.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/the-science-is-scuttled.html/comment-page-1#comment-7416 jim Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:29:32 +0000 http://blog.jim.com/?p=860#comment-7416 The proper scientific approach is to look at the data and analyze it, and address everyone respectfully even if you are fairly sure that some of those involved are liars, cheats, and crooks. But it is not practical for the ordinary member of the public to decide on this basis. He has not got the time. Anthropogenic Global Warming has the characteristics of a religion and a movement. This, the public can understand. The climategate files revealed cherry picking data, ignoring inconvenient results, “adding value” to insufficiently scary data, and sexing up the graphs. This, the public can understand. That the climategate files revealed that peer review was more like theological review for doctrinal correctness agitates scientists, but to the public sounds like whining. The proper scientific approach is to look at the data and analyze it, and address everyone respectfully even if you are fairly sure that some of those involved are liars, cheats, and crooks. But it is not practical for the ordinary member of the public to decide on this basis. He has not got the time.

Anthropogenic Global Warming has the characteristics of a religion and a movement. This, the public can understand.

The climategate files revealed cherry picking data, ignoring inconvenient results, “adding value” to insufficiently scary data, and sexing up the graphs. This, the public can understand.

That the climategate files revealed that peer review was more like theological review for doctrinal correctness agitates scientists, but to the public sounds like whining.

]]> By: Occupant http://blog.jim.com/global-warming/the-science-is-scuttled.html/comment-page-1#comment-7411 Occupant Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:18:28 +0000 http://blog.jim.com/?p=860#comment-7411 In related news, Pew reports that the public ranks global warming dead last as a top policy priority: "Dealing with global warming ranks at the bottom of the public’s list of priorities; just 28% consider this a top priority, the lowest measure for any issue tested in the survey. Since 2007, when the item was first included on the priorities list, dealing with global warming has consistently ranked at or near the bottom." http://people-press.org/report/584/policy-priorities-2010. Warming is shaping up into a major vote loser. A public force fed cap-and-trade or CO2 red tape à la EPA is apt to gag and choke In related news, Pew reports that the public ranks global warming dead last as a top policy priority:

“Dealing with global warming ranks at the bottom of the public’s list of priorities; just 28% consider this a top priority, the lowest measure for any issue tested in the survey. Since 2007, when the item was first included on the priorities list, dealing with global warming has consistently ranked at or near the bottom.”

http://people-press.org/report/584/policy-priorities-2010.

Warming is shaping up into a major vote loser. A public force fed cap-and-trade or CO2 red tape à la EPA is apt to gag and choke

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