The latest IPCC report exposes the faith-based initiative that is climate “science”:
In just about any realm of human study, being this dramatically wrong would cause the authors of the errors to be dismissed as unreliable, and perhaps as quacks. But in the world of environmental fearmongering, a spectacularly false prediction is no obstacle. There is no “wrong” in climate activism, there is only the message, which must be pushed continuously without regard for contrary evidence or honest scientific skepticism. Unsettling facts must not get in the way of “settled science.”
Fortunately, I think a lot of people are no longer falling for the scam.
I’m very much fascinated by the latest post by Steve McIntyre,
http://climateaudit.org/2013/11/20/behind-the-sks-curtain/
There he details various discussions by Robert Way (an author of a current pro-AGW study and one that a number of skeptics – Mosher, Lucia, McIntyre himself for instance – seem to think is pretty solid), in various comments on the leaked Skeptical Science secret forum. In that secret society, this author (a) fights with other members, insisting that McIntyre is usually right on the stats and they are dead wrong, (b) that Mann and others are doing a tremendous disservice to climate science by furiously defending work known to be bad, (c) that the point of science is finding out the truth, not doing the agit-prop that he sees other forum members supporting. There’s a lot there.
And Robert Way himself comments on the post a few times. I think he is pretty upset that his heretical comments have been made public.
C&W is just so much shuffling of chairs on the deck before the waters flood the lower decks. The hull is breached, and there is nothing any of them can do about it.
But, still some interesting inside views where is sausage is made. Thanks for pointing it out.