Posted: Jul 14, 2010 11:43 pm
Let's face it I could link to articles to back up what I say but:
1. Most of them are opinion pieces, just like the opinion pieces of so many who accept the case for man-made Global Warming.
2. The usual response to any scientific piece which does not accept man-made global warming is (not from everybody but it is very common) an ad-hominem attack on the scientist on the grounds of 'big oil' etc etc.
3. 'Peer-reviewed' and 'consensus' generally come up at this point.
4. Nobody changes their view.
I am not going to post any links. I have read pieces that dispute that CO2 has any more than a minor effect on world temperature, that point out that increased CO2 is a consequence of warming not a cause of it and that warming and cooling coincide with output from the sun including its impact on cloud formation. I have also read pieces that say that even if every single factory on the planet was shut down for decades it would have only a trivial effect on world temperature.
What is the truth? The truth is that predictions of next weeks weather are very uncertain and next year's climate even more so. Climate and Weather predictions more than a few days ahead have a dreadful record of accuracy. All some scientists and weather men seem to do is take a nice looking graph and extend it off into the future as if a trend, any trend, will continue for ever.
And then there is the alarmist fringe: We are all doomed, we will all be flooded many feet deep, the sky is falling, all disasters are due to global warming and it is going to get worse. This is what I call tabloid science. It smells strongly and it's getting smellier.
1. Most of them are opinion pieces, just like the opinion pieces of so many who accept the case for man-made Global Warming.
2. The usual response to any scientific piece which does not accept man-made global warming is (not from everybody but it is very common) an ad-hominem attack on the scientist on the grounds of 'big oil' etc etc.
3. 'Peer-reviewed' and 'consensus' generally come up at this point.
4. Nobody changes their view.
I am not going to post any links. I have read pieces that dispute that CO2 has any more than a minor effect on world temperature, that point out that increased CO2 is a consequence of warming not a cause of it and that warming and cooling coincide with output from the sun including its impact on cloud formation. I have also read pieces that say that even if every single factory on the planet was shut down for decades it would have only a trivial effect on world temperature.
What is the truth? The truth is that predictions of next weeks weather are very uncertain and next year's climate even more so. Climate and Weather predictions more than a few days ahead have a dreadful record of accuracy. All some scientists and weather men seem to do is take a nice looking graph and extend it off into the future as if a trend, any trend, will continue for ever.
And then there is the alarmist fringe: We are all doomed, we will all be flooded many feet deep, the sky is falling, all disasters are due to global warming and it is going to get worse. This is what I call tabloid science. It smells strongly and it's getting smellier.