What better project for a Sunday morning than reviewing “global warming” proxies?
Because science is settled by consensus!
(Contemporary data here.)
5 Replies to “The Sound Of Settled Science”
People want simple answers to complex scientific questions. Good science doesn’t care. The eco-hysterics will have long moved on to their next causes for panic by the time science has improved climate change knowledge to the point where plausible actions, if any, are warranted.
The Spotted Owl (through the Endangered Species Act) was used as grounds to litigate the USNW public forests to cease all harvest of old-growth forests on the hypothesis of old growth being necessary for their habitat. The conservation theologists (oops, I mean biologists) initially only surveyed old growth for “proof”. Good science would later dictate that in order to test that hypothesis you would need to survey second growth forests. What followed was knowledge that certain attributes of older second growth forests indeed could provide habitat for the Spotted Owl. By then it was irrelevant as the public forests which previously supported about 200 forest dependent communities had become de-facto parks.
It’s looking more and more like Al Gore has left the building.
There is ‘science’ and there is ‘good science’ and there is ‘political science’.
Great links; thanks. Great consensus, too: a statistical Tower of Babel with monkey wrenches flying off the side. Don’t know where to begin- and I’d only make a fool of myself anyway- so instead of taking an Al Gore-like flying leap at a conclusion, I’ll take the suggestion implicit in the above post and go have a beer. Good conservative; you know.
What ever became of GLOBAL COOLING and the NEW ICE AGE we were suppost to be having in the 1970s
People want simple answers to complex scientific questions. Good science doesn’t care. The eco-hysterics will have long moved on to their next causes for panic by the time science has improved climate change knowledge to the point where plausible actions, if any, are warranted.
The Spotted Owl (through the Endangered Species Act) was used as grounds to litigate the USNW public forests to cease all harvest of old-growth forests on the hypothesis of old growth being necessary for their habitat. The conservation theologists (oops, I mean biologists) initially only surveyed old growth for “proof”. Good science would later dictate that in order to test that hypothesis you would need to survey second growth forests. What followed was knowledge that certain attributes of older second growth forests indeed could provide habitat for the Spotted Owl. By then it was irrelevant as the public forests which previously supported about 200 forest dependent communities had become de-facto parks.
It’s looking more and more like Al Gore has left the building.
There is ‘science’ and there is ‘good science’ and there is ‘political science’.
Great links; thanks. Great consensus, too: a statistical Tower of Babel with monkey wrenches flying off the side. Don’t know where to begin- and I’d only make a fool of myself anyway- so instead of taking an Al Gore-like flying leap at a conclusion, I’ll take the suggestion implicit in the above post and go have a beer. Good conservative; you know.
What ever became of GLOBAL COOLING and the NEW ICE AGE we were suppost to be having in the 1970s