a lot of people still believe in consensus and settled science. so many people agree with the idea of global warming and the power of CO2 that ordinary observers would be crazy not to also agree, right? if there was something not quite right then the adults in the room would sound the alarm, right? unfortunately climate science shows many of the same hallmarks of the global economic problems. crazy schemes are accepted even though they go against past best practises. new methods are accepted because they give results that are required to keep up the charade. there are a lot of smart people looking after the money markets and yet bullshit happened that should have been stopped before it caused as much damage as it did. the same discrepancies are present in CAGW and the adults in the room are ignoring them. McIntyre only got involved because the numbers and the methods seemed fishy. his reasonable questions have been ignored, much to the detriment of climate science.
anyway, here is an article talking about it. What Financial Meltdowns Teach Us About the IPCC « NoFrakkingConsensus
anyway, here is an article talking about it. What Financial Meltdowns Teach Us About the IPCC « NoFrakkingConsensus
When I describe the weird world of climate science to people who are strangers to that world I know it sounds fantastical. Yeah, right I imagine them thinking behind their polite smiles. Surely it cant be that bad. Surely theres a reasonable explanation.
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World is Michael Lewis latest book on the global financial train wreck. Brimming with sharp observations and fabulous turns of phrase, it examines recent financial shenanigans in Iceland, Greece, and Ireland among other places.
I experienced a shock of recognition while reading those case studies. People were doing bizarre things that they and all of those around them should have known would lead to tears. Yet almost everyone bought in. Normal rules were jettisoned. Ordinary morality was abandoned. Disbelief was suspended. The few souls who tried to sound the alarm were ignored, ridiculed, demoted, or fired.
In other words, the behaviour Ive spent the past three years writing about isnt unique to climate science. The same pattern is horrifyingly evident elsewhere. Its as though our IQs have all dropped sharply in recent years. Its as though we have no standards anymore.