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Posted on 04/18/2013 10:57:16 AM PDT by Twotone
Barely a day after the Washington State Senate voted to fund a study that would explore ways to enforce tougher greenhouse gas emission standards, a respected academic spent nearly two hours presenting scientific evidence suggesting the assumptions on which that legislation was based were wrong.
Dr. Don Easterbrook, a professor emeritus of geology at Western Washington University, on Tuesday told the Senate’s Energy, Environment and Telecommunications Committee he was relying on an old maxim in science: “In God we trust; everyone else bring data.”
“Well, I’m bringing data,” he said. “You’ll hear very few opinions from me. When I’m finished, you won’t be asking what my opinions are.”
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It is indeed excellent. Excellent charts & graphs. Only thing he should have added would have been samples listings of the current cooked data from NASA et. al, compared to the previous cooked data . . . . and finally compared to the original data.He mentioned the Climategate emails/FORTRAN programs only tangentially. I recognize that he had a limited amount of time scheduled for his presentation - but in fact (if only in hindsight, but IMHO it was predictable) questions about why the data he presented differed from the cooked data the committee Democrats wanted to rely on took a lot of his time and he should have prepared a presentation on that issue.
The reality is, of course, that journalism is inherently biased in favor of the virtue and importance of journalism. Which, as you could infer from Theodore Roosevelt’s “Man in the Arena” speech, directly correlates into criticism of those who try to actually get things done. Throw in Adam Smith’s warning about monopolyPeople of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.and the fact that the AP newswire has been a continuous virtual meeting of all major journalism outlets for over a century and a half, and you have an explanation of why journalism is left-wing propaganda. It’s not that journalism is in the pocket of the Democratic Party, it’s that the Democratic Party is in the pocket of AP journalism.
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