Am I reading this right?
All the evidence for global warming comes from a study that has never been peer reviewed? And can't be?
And, the study essentially fitted data to a model?
All the evidence for global warming comes from a study that has never been peer reviewed? And can't be?
And, the study essentially fitted data to a model?
When talking about Global Warming we're talking about measuring a really small number over a really, really big surface area. That's a far bigger job than most people think. All the equipment has to be calibrated exactly, in sync, and distributed across the globe.
And as I said the numbers are relatively small. Global Warming asserts a 1.33 degree increase in temperature over the last Century. To put that in perspective the difference between standing on asphalt during a sunny day or standing on concrete during a sunny day is about 3 degrees (because the concrete reflects where as the asphalt absorbs)
So it's not some big conspiracy. There's probably only one set of equipment in the world capable of measuring what needs to be measured which is why there's only one dataset available. How parts of it got lost is anyone's guess but I can't imagine in was done with malicious intent or that the study based on that dataset was purposely inaccurate (or at least I don't want to imagine that)
Indeed. When you get down to it, the core of many political skeptics' arguments is: evil liberal scientists can't get real jobs so they cooked up 'climate change' to get endless government funding from honest taxpayers like you and me.
Those political organs arguing most vociferously against action on climate change oppose any kind of public funding for science that isn't obviously defense-related.
Isolated weather changes like the ones you cite happen all the time on our planet.
The whole idea is that a paper should be reproducible so that people can come along later and reproduce it. If they fail to do that then that is what letters are for. Every paper that has been peer reviewed isn’t faultless.
But what is written is very, very false.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Satellite_Temperatures.png
There's lots of other evidence that the author carefully avoids mentioning. If you're in Europe, go see some glaciers in the Alps while you still can - they won't exist for much longer.
...said the man opposed to the spread of fear, uncertainty and doubt.