"Why is a report characterized by Science Advisor John Holdren as being the 'most up-to-date, authoritative, and comprehensive' analysis relying on a secondary, non-peer source citing another non-peer reviewed source from 2000 to support a claim that a large amount of uncited and more recent peer reviewed literature says the opposite about?"-- Roger Pielke, Jr., cutting out the strong, black still-beating heart of federal climate change "science" and holding it up for all to see, appropriately on Roger Pielke, Jr.'s Blog.
Which would be all well and good if it was only the beaurecrats or the boffins who were making pronouncements about climate change. But it isn't; it's divers who observe close hand the effect of coral bleaching, pacific island nations who form strategies to combat the rising tide, mountain climbers who declare that Everest will be unclimbable if the climate heats up much more.
ReplyDeleteClimate change denial is as valid as any other belief, but it can't pretend the panic is generated by government administrators. It's affected communities that are noticing. I realise that fishermen and farmers have only their experience to go by to tell you about weather patterns whereas those who say that the whole notion is phooey can see well into the horizon from their highrise.
Nonetheless, if you're going to champion rationality and reality, it's hard to imagine that someone whose livelihood is dependent upon the seasons is deluded when he expresses disquiet.
Nice try but you're still ignoring the point of the post:
ReplyDeleteIf this is real then why are they faking it?