The referenced Quadrant article:
http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2014/01-02/fundamental-uncertainties-climate-change/
Thanks for the quadrant link!
Excellent articles, thanks for posting them and thanks for the thread.
What a depressing article (the Quadrant article, particularly).
Not depressing because, it is true, the hoax is unravelling (and that is GOOD) but depressing because there not just good people and good scientists who have allowed themselves to be taken in by this, but science in general.
There was a time when science was respected, and real scientists were perceived as having principles based on truth and reality. Whether true or not, the perception was there. And, after all, it wasn’t just perception. To make great inventions and discoveries, you generally have to see things factually. We used to have people inventing light bulbs and penicillin or discovering DNA. Now we have people inventing Facebook.
Now, like the article where the guy says his first reaction and focus won’t necessarily be the results of the science but a cynical “So, who funds you?”, scientists have been brought to the level of integrity of politicians, and that isn’t a good thing.
Sadly, too, there are many otherwise good people who went along with this because they trusted and believed in the science and the scientists. And those people contributed to the harm caused. They gave the political movements behind this de facto respectability.
In the end, the whole mess was about power and money. We may have avoided driving over that cliff and granting our rights and livelihoods lock, stock and barrel to Greenpeace and their ilk. The liberals overplayed their hand, like Chirac and his statement when he thought he was in a safe place to speak his mind about the AGW movement being the “First step towards global governance”.
Normally, we might sarcastically say “Gee, you say that like it is a GOOD thing...” when in actuality, he DID mean it as a good thing.
They bared their teeth a little too early, and in the end, we might just escape them.