Related: The fundamentals of The Scientific Method established in the early 19th century.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Climate scientists discover The Scientific Method: Admit 'Open science is necessary'
An "Opinion and Comment" featured in the May 2012 edition of Nature Climate Change admits and urges that "open science" "allowing others to scrutinize the analyses" is "necessary" and that "only open and transparent research using the best mathematical and computational methods can provide the intellectual foundation for significant policies that address climate change."
Related: The fundamentals of The Scientific Method established in the early 19th century.
Related: The fundamentals of The Scientific Method established in the early 19th century.
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When scientists start talking about "the scientific method", as if there were a sacred text everyone must abide by, then you should know that scientific competence (including the supposed necessity and sufficiency of peer-review, to establish what is "good science", and what is not) has already been lost all around. Any "experts" are already supposed to KNOW the scientific method, in all its forms.
ReplyDeleteClimate science has failed--it adopted false theories and pushed them as authoritative, suborned all of our institutions, and has produced a generation of proudful know-nothings calling themselves experts. It is not the climate that is out of control, nor even the incompetent climate science, but the political situation, which takes the climate science as sound and settled. Even 97% of the so-called skeptics think there is such a thing as a "greenhouse effect", of increasing global temperature with increasing carbon dioxide, and they are just as incompetent in this belief as those who take that belief to alarmist, politically tyrannous, levels.
Climate science does not need "open debate". It needs to kick out the incompetents; it needs to be investigated by non-climate scientists, competent physicists who already know there is no global-warming "greenhouse effect". My Venus/Earth comparison is the definitive evidence for the fundamental correction of climate science, and that should be the front-page news around the world, if the scientific community were competent. And the political juggernaut, based as it is upon false science, must first be stopped, as soon as possible, so that dispassionate, truth-seeking science can be re-established.
Hi Harry,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you - the "greenhouse effect" is a fallacy. It is however, so ingrained that challenging it is an upward battle.
This is interesting and relevant ...
ReplyDeleteAn internal study by the U.S. EPA completed by Dr. Alan Carlin and John Davidson concluded the IPCC was wrong about global warming. One statement in the executive summary stated that a 2009 paper found that the crucial assumption in the Greenhouse Climate Models (GCM) used by the IPCC concerning a strong positive feedback from water vapor is not supported by empirical evidence and that the feedback is actually negative. Water vapor in the atmosphere causes a cooling effect, not a warming one. Carbon dioxide also causes a slight cooling effect but it so small it could never be measured by man's instrumentation.
EPA tried to bury the report. An email from Al McGartland, Office Director of EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), to Dr. Alan Carlin, Senior Operations Research Analyst at NCEE, forbade him from speaking to anyone outside NCEE on endangerment issues. In a March 17 email from McGartland to Carlin, stated that he will not forward Carlin’s study. “The time for such discussion of fundamental issues has passed for this round. The administrator (Lisa Jackson) and the administration have decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision. …. I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office.” A second email from McGartland stated “I don’t want you to spend any additional EPA time on climate change.”
McGartland’s emails demonstrate that he was rejecting Dr. Carlin’s study because its conclusions ran counter to the EPA’s current position. Yet this study had its basis in three prior reports by Carlin (two in 2007 and one in 2008) that were accepted. Another government cover-up, just what the United States does not need.
Eliminate this regulation immediately. This is a scientific tragedy.