A Hat Tip to Dummocrats for picking up the story about a Congressional investigation of global warming research . I first noticed this story a short while back and commented on it here. Former blogger and fellow global warming skeptic Bryan Smith from Sanity In Mad City expressed some doubt that the hearings would do any good. Since it’s a perfect summer evening and to save my self the effort of writing anything new, I will just post my comment to his comment as a new post. Ain’t the blogging life easy
Good luck! The alarmists are already crying 'witch hunt' and 'McCarthyism' and 'funding from the oil industry'. Skeptics will not get a say in the global warming argument until we experience a long stretch of cooling, which may or may not happen any time soon. It's frustrating as hell to just have your ideas dismissed for no reason other than they don't conform to the alarmists' viewpoints, but that's just how it is. # posted by Bryan Smith: 9:01 PMI am comfortable saying that “dangerous” global warming is science fiction. Please note the global warming alarmists are no long predicting a catastrophic Planet Venus type oven of death scenario. That conjecture is so totally unsupportable they stopped making the claim. The entire movement now uses the phrase “climate change” and attempts to cherry pick aspects of change from the recent past as proof that the hydrocarbon economy is “bad” for the planet. It’s not.
You seem to be a bit more cynical than normal Bryan. I still have hope that the vast majority of working scientists are silent on the global warming debate because they have only paid passing attention to the inner details of work being done outside their immediate area of interest. Most scientists tend to simply accept published conclusions from work in unfamiliar areas. In my opinion, what needs to be done is to force them to affirm that the underlying data fully supports the conclusions.
If the government forces a public accounting about the credibility of the data collection, the statistical analysis applied and most importantly the role of computer projections in the conclusions, then there is hope that true scientists will realize how far this work deviates from acceptable methodology. I know for sure that if this type of public pressure is not brought upon this body of shoddy work the distorting influence of false prophecy will continue to cost all of us time and money. # posted by Random10: 3:05 PM
Junkscience.com has great resources for open minds. For example: Planetary Temperature and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (CO2) with the link to Climate and the Carboniferous Period. True science explains facts while fakers fast talk them away.
“One point apparently causing confusion among our readers is the relative abundance of CO2 in the atmosphere today as compared with Earth's historical levels. Most people seem surprised when we say current levels are relatively low, at least from a long-term perspective - understandable considering the constant media/activist bleat about current levels being allegedly "catastrophically high."
