This year will bring a fifth “Assessment Report.” As an expert reviewer I shall try to halt further fraud. It will not be easy. The weevils are at it again. This year’s new predictions, backcast eight years to 2005, bizarrely overstate already measured warming and project the exaggerations to 2050, forecasting unrealistically rapid warming.
A senior Australian police officer specializing in organized-crime frauds tells me the pattern of fraud on the part of a handful of climate scientists may yet lead to prosecutions.
When the cell door slams on the first bad scientist, the rest will scuttle for cover. Only then will the climate scare – mankind’s strangest and costliest intellectual aberration – be truly over.
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Monckton is the poster boy of the global warming sceptics. In the article he does admit that the Earth is warming, but because it has been warming at 0.15 degrees per decade instead of the initially predicted 0.3 degrees, somehow the overwhelming majority of climate Scientists, and Scientists in general, are in a vast criminal conspiracy. It doesn't work like that. Science has been called a series of ever more accurate measurements. That is what is happening with Climatology. More data and more accurate predictions. These deniers seem to think that once a prediction for future temperatures is made, that that is it; any deviation from the initial prediction is proof of fraud.
Ahh! Probably one of those people whose sensibilities, when slighted, whose mind and thought processes, when shown to be inept, and whose desires, when thwarted, would prefer to see no end of people jailed and silenced rather than their inadequacies be revealed.
How typical of the wing-nut daily to publish anything by that guy, and to keep calling him by a title he's never actually bloody had :
The House of Lords has taken the unprecedented step of publishing a "cease and desist" letter on its website demanding that Lord Christopher Monckton, a prominent climate sceptic and the UK Independence party's head of research, should stop claiming to be a member of the upper house.
I love climbing. Alpine glaciers are retreating, and in my (hoped for) lifetime we will lose the Spanish Sierra Nevada glaciers and Kilimanjaro.
What planet do these idiots live on?
Does it ever occur to these freaks to take a glance at a thermometer or have "bad scientists" managed to make them all give false readings? Actually, locking up scientists doesn't have a great record of success either. One of the most famous is Galileo. He was locked up for his heretical conclusions, not beliefs, but others built upon his work despite facing the same risk. Scientists are funny that way. They just can't stop observing things and reaching conclusions. I do this myself.
Even if "bad scientists" queered all the thermometers it would be much more difficult to do the same to all the calenders. And I can tell you with a great deal of certainty that winter is nearly three weeks shorter, here in Minnesota, than it was 40 years ago. In fact, simple observations of weather patterns, invasive species, and shifting migration routes told me that something goofy was happening long before the term global warming was coined.
I suppose that a Lord doesn't spend much time camping and prowling around swamps and river valleys so these things wouldn't be obvious to them but the real world effects of global warming are quite obvious to anyone who actually pays attention to the natural world around them.
A senior Australian police officer specializing in organized-crime frauds tells me the pattern of fraud on the part of a handful of climate scientists may yet lead to prosecutions.
Because I always seek advice on the global climate from the police.
What is hilarious is that while Lord Monckton does not have the right to sit in the House of Lords, Christopher Haden-Guest, The 5th Baron Haden-Guest, does. And Lord Haden-Guest was also Nigel Tufnel, whose opinions on science were (as a character) as valid as Monckton's.
So.... the scientists are to be locked up.
But those who have lied and mis-led and blocked any reasonable discussion that might have lessened the impact of global warming... those who ultimately have enabled real destruction, real disruption, and real loss of life... they aren't to be held accountable for their actions?
On edit: And "expert reviewer?" Usually reviewers are, by definition, experts. That's how they get selected to be reviewers. An expert would know that.
When the cell door slams on the first bad scientist, the rest will scuttle for cover...
Yeah, those hack "scientists" and their anti-vaccine, climate & HIV denial, "creation science" & bogus "homosexuality studies"....
...Only then will the climate scare mankind’s strangest and costliest intellectual aberration be truly over.
WADDAMINNIT! Hold it! Hold one one moment! *sings* Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, hold the....
Lord Monkeybutt, methinks the above-mentioned weevils have renounced cotton, turned carnivore, crawled in your ears as you sleep & and have proceeded to eat your brain.
AND NOW, ANOTHER HORRIFYING INSTALLMENT OF THE VAULT OF WEEVIL!...
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"MMMMMMMMMM....BRRRRRRRAAAAAIIINNNSSSS!!!"
Needless to say, their hunger wasn't satiated.
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"Darn, it was just a very light snack."
You have such good ideas you should be king of the world. With a brilliant plan like jailing those who propose uncomfortable ideas, regardless of the supporting evidence, our world will be sure to live in peace and harmony forever.
"When the cell door slams on the first bad scientist, the rest will scuttle for cover."
The only place they will scuttle is out of any nation that arrests them for being scientists.
Into the welcoming arms of most of the rest of the world i might add.
Confused?
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