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More scientists answering the common question ‘why is climate science so politicized?’ Well, policy is political; leading climate science voices have for years openly promoted policy as much as they have tried, without success, to make their substantive case. Theirs is an approach that — particularly with the language they often employ — betrays an ideology, a worldview and reasonable cause to question what drives them and their pronouncements at odds with the evidence (as I’ve detailed, to the puzzlement of ‘social scientists’).
From that Telegraph piece:
In one paper Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said the only way to reduce global emissions enough, while allowing the poor nations to continue to grow, is to halt economic growth in the rich world over the next twenty years.
You remember the Tyndall Centre, of ‘planned recession’-memo fame?
‘It won’t cost anything!’ ‘Solutions are on the shelf!’ ‘When will the rationing start already?! Er…’
Meanwhile, the UN further politicizes its own efforts to maintain the fiction of setteld science, barring journalist Phelim McAleer from attending the Cancun talks. He got too much attention last year in Copenhagen asking the questions apparently prohibited by the media’s omerta. Who knows, he might ask about recent candid admissions like those cited in the Telegraph, or here.
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Peppermint Tea| 11.29.10 @ 3:56PM
I've always wondered a similar thing--why can we discuss climate science without the politics? Well, not if you are George Taylor, OSU climatologist, or any of a number of "deniers."
Karl Popper said that in order for a science to be real, it must have a test that can disprove it, or "proving the null hypothesis," as is required by statistics. Unfortunately, there is no such test for CO2 induced global warming. Not upper atmosphere warming. Not past climate history. Not a single test. Then they challenge deniers to disprove their hypothesis. That is like disproving the man in the moon.
So they rely on politics, smear, canning editors, falsifying data, destroying raw data, media, jests, claiming special privilege, trading in CO2 futures, labeling opponents as flat-earthers, etc. For the honest in heart, even if you knew nothing of the science, you would know who is acting like they are selling a hoax.
Marc Jeric| 11.29.10 @ 5:13PM
This conspiracy by government-paid drones (mostly rejects of orivate enterprise) is now 40 years old. It started in the 1970's with the global cooling scam; it continued in the 1990's with the global warming hoax; it transformed itself into the climate change flimflam in the 2000's; and now parades as the cap & trade power grab. Well- whatever works, right? Nationalize, socialize, communize - with us in charge!