I think I'll go put it on some other threads as well.
Journalism majors are seldom among the sharpest knives in the university drawer.
I highly recommend going to the source and reading the article. Truly excellent diagrams and flow charts illustrating why this isn’t science.
I was reading through the comments to this article, and a commenter named Katabasis included a link to this:
http://buythetruth.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/climate-change-and-the-death-of-science/
It’s somewhat heavy reading, but press on. It describes a movement in academia to “post-normal science” - a process that starts with a desired result and generates scientific-looking “research” to support the pre-ordained conclusion for the sake of advancing social, political or other goals. (What normal people would call “fraud” or “lying” for the sake of politics.)
About one-third of the way down, there is a section with many quotes from Mike Hulme, founding director of the Tyndall Centre, and Professor of Climate Change at the University of East Anglia (UEA). These quotes are very clear that science doesn’t support climate change. Here are just three of Mike Hulme’s statements:
“…‘self-evidently’ dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth-seeking…scientists – and politicians – must trade truth for influence. What matters about climate change is not whether we can predict the future with some desired level of certainty and accuracy.”
“The function of climate change I suggest, is not as a lower-case environmental phenomenon to be solved…It really is not about stopping climate chaos. Instead, we need to see how we can use the idea of climate change – the matrix of ecological functions, power relationships, cultural discourses and materials flows that climate change reveals – to rethink how we take forward our political, social, economic and personal projects over the decades to come.”
“It has been labelled “post-normal” science. Climate change seems to fall in this category. Disputes in post-normal science focus…on the process of science – who gets funded, who evaluates quality, who has the ear of policy…The IPCC is a classic example of a post-normal scientific activity.”
There is more, much more. I am livid.
The Global left will have to find something else to inslave the world with.