Climate Science In Denial

Wall Street Journal ^ | 04/22/2010 | Richard Lindzen

[MissesBush]

In mid-November of 2009 there appeared a file on the Internet containing thousands of emails and other documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain. How this file got into the public domain is still uncertain, but the emails, whose authenticity is no longer in question, provided a view into the world of climate research that was revealing and even startling.

In what has come to be known as "climategate," one could see unambiguous evidence of the unethical suppression of information and opposing viewpoints, and even data manipulation. The Climatic Research Unit is hardly an obscure outpost; it supplies many of the authors for the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Moreover, the emails showed ample collusion with other prominent researchers in the United States and elsewhere.

One might have thought the revelations would discredit the allegedly settled science underlying currently proposed global warming policy, and, indeed, the revelations may have played some role in the failure of last December's Copenhagen climate conference to agree on new carbon emissions limits. But with the political momentum behind policy proposals and billions in research funding at stake, the impact of the emails appears to have been small.

The general approach of the official scientific community (at least in the United States and the United Kingdom) has been to see whether people will bother to look at the files in detail (for the most part they have not), and to wait until time diffuses the initial impressions in order to reassert the original message of a climate catastrophe that must be fought with a huge measure of carbon control.

[tpmintx]

Global Warming/Climate Science is indistinguishable from religion. Both are based on beliefs in data which cannot be objectively proven.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I found the complete article here:

Climategate and The Crisis Of Climate Alarmism

[agere_contra]

Professor Richard Lindzen is that rare thing: an honest climate scientist who can still get published.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[MrB]

It’s actually self-worship on the part of the leftist enviros.

They think of themselves as “good people” because they want to save the erf,
and of course, you can’t leave out the moral superiority they feel over those who don’t care about the erf.

So, this topic goes much deeper than whether the erf is indeed warming and what is causing it.

You’re messing with the way people feel about themselves,
and they aren’t going to give that up over anything as simple
as “proven fraud” or data that runs counter to their assertions.

[rogue yam]

Thanks!

[Wildbill22]

I think they are just waco.

Like General Jack D. Ripper, the insane SAC base commander who sent an all out attack on the USSR because of his imagined fluoridation of our water (Dr. Strangelove), I think the envirowaco’s have left the realm of the sane and the real.

Best summed up as “THE SKY IS FALLING!!!”, their leap of faith requires adherence to so many false premises that I can’t post them all here, as well as a tin foil hat along with assorted psychotropic medications.

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

Bump it up! :)
http://discussions.orlandosentinel.com/20/orlnews/os-northland-earth-day-20100420/10