Sunday 21 August 2022

Call that a consensus? This is a consensus!

It looks like real scientists have just about had enough of the crap that the climate "scientists" spout.

The so called "consensus" on the anthropogenic nature of climate change, which was based on a meta-study of papers published on climate change was flawed as the vast majority of scientists who can be bothered to or are paid to, publish papers about climate change can only be bothered to or are only paid to, because they, or their patrons, feel that climate change is anthropogenic, hence it is something that man can and thus should do something about. The ‘World Climate Declaration (WCD)’ shows the consensus amongst non-climate scientists that what the climate "scientists are doing isn't real science:

Particular ire in the WCD is reserved for climate models. To believe in the outcome of a climate model is to believe what the model makers have put in. Climate models are now central to today’s climate discussion and the scientists see this as a problem. “We should free ourselves from the naïve belief in immature climate models,” says the WCD. “In future, climate research must give significantly more emphasis to empirical science.”

The WCD also points out that the "consensus" is, to a large extent, enforced by its own adherents:

The scale of the opposition to modern day ‘settled’ climate science is remarkable, given how difficult it is in academia to raise grants for any climate research that departs from the political orthodoxy. (A full list of the signatories is available here.) Another lead author of the declaration, Professor Richard Lindzen, has called the current climate narrative “absurd”, but acknowledged that trillions of dollars and the relentless propaganda from grant-dependent academics and agenda-driven journalists currently says it is not absurd.

Unfortunately, I suspect it will take more than this to change the tide of bigotry. There's none so blind as them that don't want to see.

8 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

Yup, if it gets any attention, it will be that they are climate deniers and oil industry shills.

Bayard said...

Sadly I expect that will be the case.

Mark Wadsworth said...

B, I myself am a fully paid up science- and climate denier and an unwitting shill of Big Oil.

Bayard said...

Indeed we live in a post-truth society.

Lola said...

B. Well found. May I join your 'denier' club? My qualifications include
- extreme scepticism
- total distrust of 'experts'
- ditto government (in the widest sense)
- paid up petrol head
- Oil fired Aga owner

Bayard said...

L, It's not called Denier Club as that looks like it might have something to do with stockings, but you'd be welcome in my Sceptics' Society. Patron, Euripedes, “Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”

ontheotherhand said...

Take the coldest point in the last 10,000 years as your starting point, 150 years ago. Then assume that 100% of the temperature increase since then can only be explained by human activity. Then write the models such that the sensitivity to CO2 in the algorithms produces the required results. Voila!

Computer models can do anything you want by tweaking assumptions and inputs.

Bayard said...

OTOH, then produce a bullshit infographic showing that trace quantities of CO2 reflect as much energy as comes from the sun and make up some totally unscientific crap involving "radiative forcing", "positive feedback" and clouds to explain how it's supposed to do it.