Kevin Trenberth: omkering bewijslast
The fact is that we cant account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we cant.
Dat was onthullend, want de leden van het Climategate- 'team' hadden tegenover de buitenwacht altijd krampachtig volgehouden dat de wetenschap er uit was en dat alle wetenschappers het daarover eens waren. Maar dat was natuurlijk een vergefelijk leugentje om bestwil, want anders zou onherstelbaar schade worden toegebracht aan hun messiaanse boodschap dat klimaatbeleid urgent was om die verschrikkelijke opwarming van de aarde (die maar niet wil komen) een halt toe te roepen.
Warmists: 'We can't win the game, so let's change the rules'
Willis Eschenbachs recent guest post at Watts Up With That? on the current state of Climate science should be made compulsory reading in every classroom, every university science department, every eco-charity, every environmental NGO and in every branch of government. They wont like it up em, thats for sure. ...The theory linking man-made CO2 with dangerous global warming is dead. It has been falsified. It has run smack bang into a null hypothesis. It has met its Waterloo. ...
Eschenbach wrote his post in response to a bizarre speech prepared by Dr Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), which he intended to deliver to the American Meteorological Society. ...
When Trenberths speech was pre-published on the internet it caused something of a stir, both for the way large chunks of it had been taken almost verbatim from another scientist and for its use six times of the word denier. (Thanks to some kindly advice proferred by Steve McIntyre, Trenberth has now significantly altered his speech. But not as I incorrectly reported earlier by changing his six uses of the word deniers to sceptics. That loaded word deniers he has kept, which gives you an idea of the mans zealotry. And also his foolishness: a good many in his audience at the AMS, being meteorologists rather than climate scientists tend very much to fall into the sceptic camp).
What Eschenbach focuses on, though, is Trenberths absurd demand that the null hypothesis on AGW theory be reversed. That is, instead of having to prove AGW exists, what people should now be required to prove that it doesnt exist. (!)
Will any of this happen? Its about as likely, Id say, as my winning gold in the 100 metres at the 2012 London Olympics. The reason for this is that Climate Change has long since abandoned any connection it had now with actual science. It is an ideology. A religion. A psychopathology.
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