Posted on 04/23/2013 10:28:42 PM PDT by Rocky
This report positively concludes that an alleged near unanimous scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW), that “the science is settled”, is overstated. The report finds a robust, critical scientific discourse in climate related research, yet it highlights that a “consensus-building” approach to science might represent a politicised and unscientific belief in science – a belief in tension with the ethos of “normal science”. The report calls for a continuing questioning, critical, and undogmatic public debate over man-made global warming, and a clearer separation between science and policy. –Consensus and Controversy, SINTEF April 2013
By insisting on scientific consensus and the “elimination of doubt”, seeking to declare the science of AGW settled once and for all, and imbuing this putative settlement with highly normative and pejorative allegations (to question is “irresponsible, reckless and immoral”), the consensus approach clings to being (solely) “science-based”, but its position is at the same time implicitly in direct opposition to the ethos of “normal science”. It is not supported, justified or endorsed by science in its canonical expression, where science, based on thinkers such as Kant, Popper, Merton and Polanyi is seen to be constituted on continued discussion, open criticism, antidogmatism, (self)critical mindset, methodological doubt, and the organization of scepticism. –Consensus and Controversy, SINTEF April 2013
The authors of this paper recently presented their views on climate science at the Royal Academy of Belgium. No French or Belgian newspaper was willing to publish their assessment. Questioning the impact of mankind on climate change is evidently still a taboo in the French-speaking world. –István E. Markó, Alain Préat, Henri Masson and Samuel Furfari, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 14 April 2013
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http://www.sintef.no/upload/Teknologi_og_samfunn/Teknologiledelse/SINTEF%20Report%20A24071,%20Consensus%20and%20Controversy.pdf
From the introductory letter: "The report... highlights that a 'consensus-building' approach to science might represent a politicised and unscientific belief in science - a belief in tension with the ethics of 'normal science'."
Science is not done by consensus. It is not a democratic process. The science is never "settled."
See the paper at:
Well, when you have to ‘fudge’ the numbers you know it aint’ science. It’s all leftist politics designed to confiscate money through taxes.
There has been an amazing rash of articles by the AGW crowd in the past month or so, saying that new evidence shows that we are still warming, and that it is caused by man.
This in the face of the fact that CO2 has continued to build in the atmosphere, but warming has stopped for the past fifteen years.
It’s obvious to me that these AGW “scientists” are scared to death that their gravy train is at an end, and they are communicating with each other like crazy to urge one another to find some angle to argue that warming hasn’t stopped. Watts, McIntyre, et al, have been kept very busy shooting holes in all of these desperate attempts to save the day.
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