Author: Michael Egnor
“Hide the Decline”: the Music Video
It’s going viral. Very funny. link
Climategate: a Word of Advice to the Scientists
Australian journalist Andrew Bolt has a succinct bit of advice to scientists about the ClimateGate scandal: Climategate: a word of advice to the scientists The tide is turning. and fast. There will soon be an accounting – and the mood and the money for it. The reputation of science – and of many scientists – will be damaged severely. Until now those scientists who knew the science behind global warming theory was weak or flawed largely kept their doubts to themselves, out of fear or other forms of self-interest. I’ve had the emails from some confessing to just that. But self-interest should dictate they now make a stand. They need to show, for their own sake and for the sake Read More ›
Chris Mooney Turns a Climate “Trick”
Science journalist and global warming alarmist Chris Mooney is many things. From his own lavish blog bio at Discover Magazine:
At Least The ClimateGate Scientists Didn’t Admit Going to Church
The silence of the ‘pro-science’ blogsphere on the ClimateGate scandal is remarkable.For years, readers of Pharyngula, Panda’s Thumb, Neurologica, WhyEvolutionIsTrue, Denialism, Respectful Insolence, and other militantly ‘pro-science’ blogs have been treated to rants about the need to protect the integrity of science from frauds and ideologically motivated practitioners. Of course, ‘protection of the integrity of science’ in the faux ‘pro-science’ blogsphere has generally meant suppression of skeptics who question so-called ‘consensus science’ on Darwinism and on Anthropogenic Global Warming. ‘Protection of science’ has more often that not entailed personal invective, recourse to ‘consensus’, advocacy of professional destruction of skeptics, deference to scientific authorities, censorship, and judicial coercion. The ClimateGate e-mails and data sets obtained from the Climate Research Unit in Read More ›
‘Consensus Science’ is to Science as Money-Laundering is to Finance.
Christopher Monckton has a good essay on Pajamas Media on the growing ClimateGate scandal, in which hacked e-mails and data reveal that the leading scientists in the global-warming alarmist community faked and destroyed data and took measures to prevent other scientists from examining or critiquing their work. Monkton is the chief policy advisor to the England’s Science and Public Policy Institute, and served as Margaret Thatcher’s policy advisor from 1982 to 1986. He has been a vocal advocate for integrity in science and a harsh critic of global warming alarmism. Monckton: