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Posted on 06/18/2009 2:13:35 PM PDT by reaganaut1
The new federal report on climate change gets a withering critique from Roger Pielke Jr., who says that it misrepresents his own research and that it wrongly concludes that climate change is already responsible for an increase in damages from natural disasters. Dr. Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, asks:
[Why] is a report characterized by [White House] Science Advisor John Holdren as being the “most up-to-date, authoritative, and comprehensive” analysis relying on a secondary, non-peer source citing another non-peer reviewed source from 2000 to support a claim that a large amount of uncited and more recent peer-reviewed literature says the opposite about?
You can check out Dr. Pielke’s blog for a detailed rebuttal of how the report presents science in his area of expertise, the study of trends in natural disasters and their relation to climate change. While the new federal report (prepared by 13 agencies and the White House) paints a dire picture of climate change’s impacts, Dr. Pielke says that the authors of this new report, like those of previous reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Stern Review, cherrypick weak evidence that fits their own policy preferences. He faults all these reports for all relying on “non-peer reviewed, unsupportable studies rather than the relevant peer-reviewed literature” and for “featuring non-peer-reviewed work conducted by the authors.”
Dr. Pielke contrasts these reports’ conclusions about trends in natural disasters with the some quite different findings last year by the federal Climate Change Science Program.
(Excerpt) Read more at tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com ...
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I’m surprised the NYT would report this story.
This climate change debate is much like the evolution debate. It’s a matter of facts versus faith.
Hedging their bets for the day when the public wakes up to the fact it ain’t getting any warmer and they’ve been fed a hoax??
Me too...I am astounded that the TIMES would print this.
If you accept that scientists have become the new priests.
For MSM, and especially for NYT, Mr. Tierney is pretty fair. You can bet he’s getting lit up on the lefty blogs for publishing Roger Pielke’s heresy.
The science has been so corrupted, starting in earnest with the ham handed manipulations of Al Gore as Vice President, that it is compromised. But in this process, it has likewise destroyed the credibility of individuals and organizations who sold their reputations in exchange for either being left alone, or worse, for profit.
But like the German people under Adolf Hitler, the eventual punishment must be meted out against people based on whether they passively permitted their honor to be debased, or whether they willingly embraced the corruption, and willingly persecuted those that did not.
When the scoundrel Paul R. Ehrlich, entomologist and butterfly expert, strove to corrupt science with his efforts to force population controls by public policy, though he was eventually proven a fraud, he did not suffer for this distinction. He did not have to pay a cent for the millions or billions of dollars wasted on his perverse fantasies, nor did he spend a day in jail for advocating a perpetual worldwide infanticide of billions of lives.
This mistake of failing to prosecute should not be made again with the disproving of the vicious theory of Man Made Global Warming, aka Anthropogenic Global Warming, aka Deteriorating Atmosphere, or whatever other euphemism they wish to use.
Under no circumstances should they be permitted to just shrug their shoulders and say “It was just a theory”, any more than Nazis should have been permitted to say “It was just politics.” Because it will NOT be their theories that they are being punished for, but for both perverting science, and ruining the careers and reputations of those who disagreed with them.
Al Gore and his greedy peers should lose their ill-gotten fortunes, at a minimum. They should also court prison time for criminal fraud. James E. Hansen, at GISS, a subsidiary of NASA, should be stripped of his office, then arrested for destruction of government property, in this case the data he distorted to make his case.
Much of the government space, weather, and scientific apparatus needs to be purged of individuals who willfully participated in this scheme, and they should be barred from both government service and government contracts in the future.
You can bet there will next to no coverage beyond this after every frickin media outlet has splashed the bogus Doom and Gloom report all over the world. They really are evil mofos, these marxists.
“If you accept that scientists have become the new priests.”
When scientists become priests, Hell will freeze over.
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My perception is that the warmists are losing the argument, and that these progressively more shrill and hysterical pronouncements are symptomatic of the death spiral of this cult.
The mere fact that the NYT would give voice to Pielke’s blistering attack gives some reason for optimism.
Politically, cap and trade is in real trouble with farm state and industrial belt democrats. Inhofe has been Horatio at the Bridge on this issue - but he needs reinforcements.
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