More Climate Rhetoric from BBC
22/03/10 13:26 Filed in: Personal
I see the BBC is at it again. The heading reads “It’s still real and it’s still a problem”.
In which Lord Chris Smith is given and open slot to tell us what he thinks about the recent rather negative publicity towards the science of “Man made global warming” (to give it, its original title). He’s doing this from a position of higher authority with his PhD thesis on Coleridge and Wordsworth no doubt.
Oh, and it doesn’t quite get around to mentioning that he’s head of the “Environment Agency” which is currently trying to drum up extra cash from Government to protect waterways for people who are too stupid to purchase a house on a flood plane of a major river.
He goes on to say that, “The myth fostered by some parts of the media in recent months - that somehow the scientific evidence for climate change is deeply flawed - needs to be laid to rest, and soon”.
In other words, shut and pay your taxes slaves and stop asking tricky questions. Like, why evidence that is 100% needs to be massaged. Why previous periods of warming and cooling were marginalised from CRU (and IPCC) graphs in orders to present the “trended” model with some bite.
I could of course mention the number of actual scientific bodies who don’t agree with the AGW theory; all totally scholarly in their efforts. But that would of course fall into the trap being laid out. That we scientists on the other side of the debate have to prove and alternative theory rather than just highlight issues with the existing proposed one.
In which Lord Chris Smith is given and open slot to tell us what he thinks about the recent rather negative publicity towards the science of “Man made global warming” (to give it, its original title). He’s doing this from a position of higher authority with his PhD thesis on Coleridge and Wordsworth no doubt.
Oh, and it doesn’t quite get around to mentioning that he’s head of the “Environment Agency” which is currently trying to drum up extra cash from Government to protect waterways for people who are too stupid to purchase a house on a flood plane of a major river.
He goes on to say that, “The myth fostered by some parts of the media in recent months - that somehow the scientific evidence for climate change is deeply flawed - needs to be laid to rest, and soon”.
In other words, shut and pay your taxes slaves and stop asking tricky questions. Like, why evidence that is 100% needs to be massaged. Why previous periods of warming and cooling were marginalised from CRU (and IPCC) graphs in orders to present the “trended” model with some bite.
I could of course mention the number of actual scientific bodies who don’t agree with the AGW theory; all totally scholarly in their efforts. But that would of course fall into the trap being laid out. That we scientists on the other side of the debate have to prove and alternative theory rather than just highlight issues with the existing proposed one.