[Vision2020] The green hijack of the Met Office is cripplingBritain

[Joe Campbell]

What exactly are you commenting on? Do you read scientific journals?
Can you, would you be able to understand that information? Or are you
basing these judgments on reports from critics? I'll tell you that
there is just no possible way that you could have enough information
to make these kinds of judgments -- unless you have a PhD in
climatology! My guess is you read criticisms of scientific studies
(from biased sources) without reading the studies themselves. That's
what it sounds like.

Admittedly this is an area that I don't know Jack about but I'm going
to trust the actual climatologists I've talked to more than I'll trust
you! It isn't as if you or anyone else is bias-free on this issue, so
that complaint is a wash. Ultimately it is an empirical issue. And
like it or not you are not qualified to speak to this issue. Sorry!
Get a PhD and we'll talk.

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, I don't know what to tell you.  I've looked into evolution and
> what's behind it, and it made sense.  I came away from it even more
> convinced that the very underpinnings of evolution were sound.  In fact,
> I used some of the basics of natural selection and evolutionary theory
> to design a program that watches the stock market looking for stocks to
> invest in, using genetic algorithms.  I've looked at some of the actual
> facts, and came to the same conclusions.
>
> Climate science sets off my bullshit detectors, though.  Too much
> political pressure, too much reliance on the idea of conformity amidst
> the community, almost no examination of other hypotheses.  They're
> assuming their hypothesis is true, and are trying to prove it.  They
> should be assuming their hypothesis is false and should be trying to
> find holes in it.  Throw some obvious crap in the mix like trying to
> wipe out the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period in order to
> pretend that temperatures were stable until mankind fucked it up, and my
> bullshit detector explodes.
>
> The earth is warming, but it was warming even before SUVs hit the
> market.  Climate has been changing forever.  I see no reason to believe
> that mankind is behind enough of it that taking massive sweeping
> measures at this time is warranted.  Come up with some validated
> predictions, and maybe I'll give the models a closer look.  Take, say,
> 20 years to show me how close everything that is happening fits their
> models and maybe I'll stop thinking of them as a bunch of politically
> connected buffoons suffering from confirmation bias.
>
> Paul
>
> Andreas Schou wrote:
>> That's a little harsh. Sorry. Shouldn't send email at midnight.
>>
>> It's just bizarre to see someone who's normally so well-informed, and
>> a huge advocate of science, attacking literally an entire field of
>> science. Climatology's consensus around global warming is as uniform
>> and well-supported as biology's consensus around evolution. What's
>> left over is a motley collection of crank physicists, conservative
>> economists, conspiracy bloggers, geologists, and TV weathermen,
>> well-funded by the petroleum industry. They've produced an argument
>> that's superficially convincing to the myopic and managed to (since
>> the 1990s) disinform a plurality of Americans, who -- back in the
>> 1990s -- used to believe in global warming.
>>
>> I've tried to stay quiet, but the whole thing just makes me nauseous.
>>
>> --  ACS
>>
>>
>
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