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Posted on 06/02/2013 12:59:40 AM PDT by neverdem
As far as I know, there are no Ph.D.s offered in the study of junk science. Maybe there should be. There are numerous instances of credentialed scientists pursuing faulty theories against evidence and common sense. Irving Langmuir's 1953 talk, "Pathological Science," is a classic compendium of examples; there is the recent case of cold fusion, with the imaginary tabletop nuclear fusion reactors still being given media credibility.
Often media attention and fawning admirers blind scientists to scientific reality. Junk science also appeals to ideologues if it provides support for their ideology. For example, those who are ideologically opposed to capitalism are welcoming to science that suggests that corporations are poisoning the food supply or polluting the water supply...
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A climate mafia protects the windfall by suppressing dissent from the global warming party line. Very few scientists are brave enough and independent enough to publicly dissent. The scientific organizations that are sensitive to government funding gleefully promote the scare story. Many climate scientists know full well that a fraud is in motion, but they have no desire to walk into a buzz saw by complaining...
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The Americanization of global warming is carried to the extreme of abandoning scientific convention and expressing temperatures in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius. In another dumbing-down move, the scientific name "greenhouse gases" is changed to "heat-trapping gases." Local climate forecasts for the 21st century are given for 6 different regions of the 48 states, a procedure relying on highly dubious manipulations of similarly dubious global climate model results...
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In 1963 Edward Lorenz wrote “Deterministic Aperiodic Flow” proving that no finite set of past states is sufficient to predict distant future states of the Navier Stokes differential equations.
The Navier Stokes differential equations describe fluid flow with changes in temperature and density, i.e. weather or climate. They are nonlinear, chaotic, with sensitive dependence on initial conditions. That nonlinearity (in the differential equation sense of non-linearity) prevents prediction.
Any policy that depends on predicting weather or climate in the distant future (say more than 7 days) is at best error, but more likely a hoax.
Couple points:
The amount of radon that can seep into homes is not necessarily "tiny." One can argue about the concentration that constitutes a real problem, but not that real problems don't sometimes exist.
Linear method of determining risk is sometimes wildly wrong. There is a good deal of evidence, though not really conclusive, that for many radioactive and chemical stressors there is actually a "hormesis effect" by which low doses have a beneficial effect. This is, of course, wildly opposite to the conventional view of "no safe dose."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis
While no doubt true, this is not the main driver of the "CO2 must be stopped" movement.
The real incentive to promote AGW is ideological. Modern society and in particular capitalism are based on abundant inexpensive energy.
A variety of ideological groups see AGW as the best way to attack and destroy capitalism and western civilization. Which is not to say they don't believe in AGW, only that the emotional driver behind their belief system is not the disinterested science they claim it is.
These few lines describe the state of public debate in America today on almost any topic involving the policy of the government and the use of taxpayer money. The suppression of honest opinion and the funding of fraud has become the norm.
Exactly so.
Anyone with a solid knowledge of combined mass, momentum, and heat transfer in fluids, plus radiation heat transfer, which are the fundamental physical phenomena at the heart of “weather”, knows that the sort of predictions often made by the CAGW crowd are complete nonsense.
Great synopsis!
Part of the dark side of the Information Age is the ease with which propaganda and disinformation can be spread. Not only can it be spread easily, but people overwhelmed by information fatigue are susceptible to it.
Benevolent people should and must demand truth--truth for its own sake. It's easy to overlook a distortion here or a white lie there, but we must demand truth, not only from others but also of ourselves.
The glaring untruths--e.g. faked "global warming" data; political scandals, cover-ups, lies, distortions; et al.--must not be allowed to be ignored. They must be kept alive. Exposure and truth must be demanded.
Restrictions on freedom of speech and the free exchange of ideas are restriction on truth and its exposure. We hear calls for restrictions of "global warming denial", blasphemy, insults to various special interest groups, "hate speech"--mob demands that speakers whose ideas are unpopular be shouted down--demands that unpopular voices be silenced. These are demands that truth not be exposed. They must not be tolerated.
Wait, the stuff I've been reading here on that topic is considered junk science? O noes! ;-)
Thanks neverdem.
I'm sooooooooo ready for the backlash against liberals to start...
Renewable energy’s reversal of fortune
Americans feeling the pain of the lefts misguided energy policies
Global Warming on Free Republic
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