More than anything else, even the misrepresentations themselves, the collective willingness to overlook bad policy arguments unsupported (or even contradicted) by the current state of science while at the same time trumpeting the importance of scientific consensus is evidence of the comprehensive and pathological politicization of science in the policy debate over global warming. If climate scientists ever wonder why they are looked upon with suspicion among some people in society, they need look no further in their willingness to compromise their own intellectual standards in policy debate on the issue of disasters and climate change.
Follow the link for the details. Roger Pielke, Jr. directs the University of Colorado’s Center for Science and Technology Policy Research and is an associate professor of environmental studies.
The trouble with science is that it’s full of nuance and subtleties. There’s a lot of *to the best of our knowledge* and *we’re not entirely sure* and *it’s complicated.*
rabbit at November 15, 2006 06:21 PM
True; So let*s take it out of the lab and into the real world arena.
1990: California got into some very high clean air standards and this gave rise to the EV-1 Electric car.
1992: The lesees [none were sold], of the EV-1s loved their clean cars.
1993: Big Auto and Big Oil [lobby] got CA air standards rolled back. [EV-1 cars delivered no gas taxes and no shop profits for GM]
1994: EV-1s are called in off lease and crushed in GM*s Arizona compound thus killing the public launch of Electric Vehicles in North America.
1995: America developes love affair with gas-guzzeling SUVs.
2006: Mad fundamentalist Iranian has Bush and the free world over an oil barrel because EVs were stifled and all our wheeles are in one basket, running on oil. Bump in oil supply will destroy the economy.
Outside the lab science lesson:-
Don*t kill a good project in 1994, unless you can guarantee no fatal nosebleed in 2006. = TG
TG, nice pair ‘a noids you got there.
Trade you one conspiracy theory for another though. Mine’s even got pictures.
http://www.john-daly.com/stations/badwater.htm
Yup. Pretty good.
Statistics and graphs are like plasticene. They can be *shaped*. = TG