1.7 BILLION DOLLARS are funding the false myth that human activity in industrial societies is a danger to life on Earth. The Wall Street Journal’s online OpinionJournal posts the truth that money and political motives have corrupted climate science research.
Climate of Fear: In fact, those who make the most outlandish claims of alarm are actually demonstrating skepticism of the very science they say supports them. It isn't just that the alarmists are trumpeting model results that we know must be wrong. It is that they are trumpeting catastrophes that couldn't happen even if the models were right as justifying costly policies to try to prevent global warming.Harvard Physicist Lubos Motl illustrates an example of the politicization of academic research at his own prestigious institution of higher education.
Alarm rather than genuine scientific curiosity, it appears, is essential to maintaining funding. And only the most senior scientists today can stand up against this alarmist gale, and defy the iron triangle of climate scientists, advocates and policymakers. - M. Lindzen is Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT.
Harvard Energy Initiative: On Monday, we had a faculty lunch meeting at the Faculty Club and one of the topics was the so-called "Harvard energy initiative". A short story is that a large amount of money was given to something described by these three words - and up to 10 new faculty positions are expected to be created - except that no one knows what "Harvard energy initiative" means and what people should be hired.Millions of grant dollars to create 10 academic incomes which will create and teach zero science. The misrepresentation of computer programming and consensus building as science must be denounced and expunged from our Universities, and the people that need to clean up academic research are scientists who value the true scientific advancement of knowledge.
So one of the rather well-known Earth and Planetary Scientists at Harvard decided to meet with the physics department and to ask for ideas what "Harvard energy initiative" could mean. I know what "high energy physics" means - we study physics of high-energy particles to determine the architecture of matter at very short distances - but what is "energy science"? When Feynman was reviewing the physics textbook that had the answer "Energy makes it go" to all questions "What makes it go?", he noticed that if the book had said "Wakalixes make it go", the children would have learned exactly the same amount of science, namely zero.
