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2011-11-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Global warming much less serious than thought - new science

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Posted by Beavis 2011-11-25 09:17|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 And the idiots still don't get it that the whold modeling paradigm is fatally flawed for this kind of work regardless of what the precious models show.

The data collection from proxy tree rings to current parking lots, to the various forcings and "calibrations" for solar activity, urban heat islands etc. are at best guesses and at worst deliberate attempts to insure the desired results.

BS, MS & Phd.

Posted by AlanC 2011-11-25 09:51|| 2011-11-25 09:51|| Front Page Top

#2 it's not science - it's religion and grant-whoring

Posted by Frank G 2011-11-25 10:04|| 2011-11-25 10:04|| Front Page Top

#3 A story appeared this a.m. in the local newspaper that cited a $4.5 grant being awarded to a professor at the local university to study the effect of climate change on ants.

Forbes had an article posted on 11/23 which summed it up: Three themes are emerging from the newly released emails: (1) prominent scientists central to the global warming debate are taking measures to conceal rather than disseminate underlying data and discussions; (2) these scientists view global warming as a political cause rather than a balanced scientific inquiry and (3) many of these scientists frankly admit to each other that much of the science is weak and dependent on deliberate manipulation of facts and data.

Some university professors/researchers and universities buy into the global warming meme (despite it being bad science) because it funnels research money into the university; promotions and rewards are based on this grant money more than anything else (such as community service or teaching). There is considerable pressure to obtain these monies. These federal monies also count more than private sector research dollars in the evaluation of the research capability of the university. Why? I dont know but that is the scheme of things. All the mandates and requirements of the federal government follow this research money such as OSHA, EPA, diversity hiring and requirements, etc. It is not surprising that tuition rates have increased something like four times or more the rate of inflation. Tuition increased 107% at the local university over the past decade. This or greater numbers is most likely the trend across the country. The university becomes a microcosm or mirror image of the federal government.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-11-25 11:12|| 2011-11-25 11:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Someone released another batch of emails between climate change "scientists". Lots of cover-ups, strategy, excommunications of those scientists not willing to support "the cause", etc..

Oh, and don't forget about placing temperature monitoring stations right next to airport runways.

I suspect now what we'll see is a lot of sudden "realizations" that these kind of things are skewing the results, suddenly finding lost historical data, realizations that there are missing effects in the models, etc..

Until the rats have managed to back their sorry a$$es off the stage and scampered back to the sewer where they will try to figure out how to salvage their careers.

Posted by gorb 2011-11-25 11:54|| 2011-11-25 11:54|| Front Page Top

#5 ...why worry about salvaging careers in the university? Come on. The universities support and defend the Marxist that push their bankrupt trash long after the Wall fell. It's like keeping people on who rationalized the 'benefits' of slavery well after the turn of the 20th Century. There is no intellectual integrity. They sold out a long time ago.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-11-25 12:04|| 2011-11-25 12:04|| Front Page Top

#6 People that's how science works. There's a theory mit a consensus. Then, some young turks go after it---to make a rep.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-11-25 13:10|| 2011-11-25 13:10|| Front Page Top

#7 That is the theme that stands out in those emails. Again and again it is, "the cause" this and "the cause" that.

A conspiracy of true believers in "the cause" should be of concern, because whatever "the cause" is, is so offensive or repulsive that they cannot be honest in advocating it.

In such cases, "the cause" invariably means hurting, stealing, and killing to the point of genocide. "The cause" is things like the Wannsee Conference.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-25 13:45|| 2011-11-25 13:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Merry Christmas and a Happy Ending Al, wherever you are.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2011-11-25 14:13|| 2011-11-25 14:13|| Front Page Top

#9 > It's like keeping people on who rationalized the 'benefits' of slavery well after the turn of the 20th Century.

Look at the timing of Marx's ideas for leeching off peoples work and the end of slavery. Marxism is just a disguised continuation of slavery, as shown by the communist's "work camps"...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-11-25 20:18|| 2011-11-25 20:18|| Front Page Top

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