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| Barack Obama: An American Portrait (Photo credit: tsevis) |
… [A]t bottom this is not a scientific issue. That is to say, the issue is not climate change but climate change alarmism, and the hugely damaging policies that are advocated, and in some cases put in place, in its name. And alarmism is a feature not of the physical world, which is what climate scientists study, but of human behaviour; the province, in other words, of economists, historians, sociologists, psychologists and — dare I say it — politicians. -- Nigel LawsonWho is this denier Nigel Lawson, and why hasn't he been stopped??
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| Judith Curry (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The role of scientists should not be to develop political will to act by hiding or simplifying the uncertainties, either explicitly or implicitly, behind a negotiated consensus. -- Judith CurryNor should it be to eke out a steady stream of Twitter invectives and inanities. The gravitas of one particular climate scientist/advocate is, as a result, lighter than air.
Fascinating reading from the author of the Hockey Stick Illusion.With the replication of the hockey stick in tatters, reasonable people might have expected some sort of pause in the political momentum. Seasoned observers of the climate scene, however, will be unsurprised to hear that global warming eminences grises like Sir John Houghton and Michael Mann continued to cite the Wahl and Amman papers despite the CC paper being in publishing limbo and the GRL paper being apparently dead and buried. The Wahl and Amman press release was not withdrawn either.Events soon took another surprising turn….
