White Lightning Axiom: Redux: Global Climate Change?

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Global Climate Change?

Picked this one up and Ex-Donkey. After reading this, I'm thinking that he may not have much of a future in his field:

For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero). Makes you think a bit harder about all that rhetoric on this durned planet. I'll wager he has hard science to back up his claims (as opposed to junk science), but you'll probably not see this in the main-stream.

The problem here is not that of climate change per se, but rather that of the sophisticated scientific brainwashing that has been inflicted on the public, bureaucrats and politicians alike. Governments generally choose not to receive policy advice on climate from independent scientists. Rather, they seek guidance from their own self-interested science bureaucracies and senior advisers, or from the IPCC itself. No matter how accurate it may be, cautious and politically non-correct science advice is not welcomed in Westminster, and nor is it widely reported.Still, it's a good idea to be a bit more environmentally aware, but let's not get stuck on stupid about it.