A Must Have Upgrade: Climategate 2.0 Now Shipping
The politicization of science is inevitable, but it sucks when scientists delude themselves into thinking they can remain open minded in the process. A new trove of documents has been released that continues to shake the foundation of climate science. It’s a shame considering how physicists have remained open minded yet properly skeptical over the faster-than-light neutrinos.
Had the physicists fudged and biased the data to support their preconceived notions, the faster-than-light neutrinos would not have been discovered. Yet this is exactly what the climate scientists have done over the past years as they attempted to feed the demands of environmentalists and leftist politicians desperate for 100% incontrovertible proof to justify the bankruptcy of Western economies in the pursuit of a zero carbon future. Such perfection is anathema to science, which is why physicists are intrigued by the faster-than-light neutrino result. While it is very likely that this result will be overturned through the discovery of a flaw in the experimental apparatus, physicists have at least investigated the anomaly knowing that they will either make their experimental methods more bulletproof or make a discovery that overturns current theory. Either way they win.
“What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multidecadal natural fluctuation?” muses one scientist. “They’ll kill us probably.”
No, we don’t have to. We just give you enough to rope to hang yourselves with. The scandal is proof that not all science is equal, and how the efforts to compare climate psuedo-science to hard sciences like physics and biology are doomed to failure.
UPDATE: Here is a timeline of the climategate story with regular updates.
New Emails Rock the Global Warming Debate. Not exactly Rock the Casbah, but given Joe Strummer’s libertarian edge, he might approve.
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