The Calcification of Climate Science

National Review ^ | 11/2/2015 | Ian Tuttle

[Servant of the Cross]

According to Lord Christopher Monckton, Thomas R. Karl's much-feted paper refuting "the Pause," the inexplicable 19-year standstill in the earth's average global surface temperature, has a small problem: To disappear the warming hiatus as Karl and his co-authors purport to do, you have to repeal the laws of thermodynamics. (Not even the current president can do that.)

Karl and his colleagues, whose work appeared in the June issue of Science, "updated" previous data sets used to assess changes in surface temperatures, which supporters maintain is merely Science being self-critical and Scientific. Others - a lot of others - say different. E. Calvin Beisner rounds up criticisms at the website Watts Up With That, and quotes with approval the verdict of Georgia Tech climate scientist Judith Curry:

This short paper in Science is not adequate to explain and explore the very large changes that have been made to the NOAA data set. . . . So while I'm sure this latest analysis from NOAA will be regarded as politically useful for the Obama administration, I don't regard it as a particularly useful contribution to our scientific understanding of what is going on.

This would be an in-the-weeds scientific scuffle were it not that Karl is director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Center for Environmental Information and the study was the work of his outfit. Since even the apocalypse-minded Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has acknowledged the hiatus, NOAA's startling findings caught the eye of Lamar Smith, chairman of the House's Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the job of which is to oversee the work of NOAA and other federal scientific bodies. In mid July, the committee requested that NOAA pass along a host of data related to the study ..."

[Servant of the Cross]

There is no "Science" involved. This is all about the FEELINGS of hand-wringing liberals who deny the existence of God and seek to replace His Divine Omnipotence with mere human prideful fantasies about the weather.

[TheDon]

Dogma is settled, science takes on all challengers.

[PATRIOT1876]

“There must be a pony around here somewhere!”
~Algore and his friend the pope

[PATRIOT1876]

Message to the non-skeptics:

“Look, I've explained it over 400 times. When Man-bear-pig, Bill Nye and the pope are playing 3 Card Monte with you, the coin that they put under the one card is palmed.

See, it's not even there. There is no coin under the card. If you can get them to uncover all the cards, you'll find that the coin is not there at all. You've seen actual Scientists blow the cards off the table hundreds of times, yet you still believe Al Gore.

Also, the times when Al Gore, Bill Nye the Anti-Science Guy, Would be dictator and Anti-Free Speech despot Sheldon “Kim Jong” Whitehouse, and the pope show you what you think is your nose between their two fingers, it turns out to really be their thumb! Pry their fingers apart or look in the mirror and you will see that you still have your nose.”

AGW is a scam, a hoax, a grift to promote Socialism. It also help Algore to become rich through his Bravo Sierra talks about non-Science.

[publius911]

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