Some say science isn’t political... {{{snort}}}
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The referenced Quadrant article:
http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2014/01-02/fundamental-uncertainties-climate-change/
There have been discussions and publications for decades and decades on the confluence of politics and science.
Global warming as a political campaign issue is nothing new. What is different about it is the scale of its political support at its peak, spanning the world and its political societies and bodies with an ultimate push inside the dysfunctional United Nations and the leftist media outlets.
And of course a now thoroughly devalued Nobel Peace Prize for a very disturbed person by the name of Al Gore.
When these so-called ‘scientists’ ban together in secretive cabals and plot to suppress legitimate contrary scientific papers, articles by legitimate scientists who don’t subscribe to their mania, and any public voicing of difference, it isn’t hard to see how they got away with it.
With people like NASA’s Hansen, PSUs Michael Mann, and EA-CRUs Phil Jones colluding months and years on end to fake data, hide exculpatory data, and to cherry pick data it’s not hard to see how Al Gore got all the self-serving evidence he needed.
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Same goes for second hand smoke.
I’m seeing ads by the gov now that show a kid in his 20s as a quadruple amputee due to smoking.
This “oversold” BS hit me on a chairlift ride this weekend, sitting next to a Yale grad student studying “climate policy” at the Yale Forestry School. She was going on about how winter is “becoming extinct”. I’d just read that Quadrant piece. I politely said “gee I hope you’re wrong”.
Ironic that she was more than willing to burn all the fossil fuel it took her to get from New Haven to Vermont ... and then to ride a chairlift up a mountain all day.
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