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Climate Data Re-examined (updated)
An anonymous reader writes "An important paper that re-examines historical climate data was published on 28 October in the respected journal Energy & Environment. (The paper is also available here.) According to an article in Canada's National Post, the paper shows that a "pillar of the Kyoto Accord is based on false calculations, incorrect data and an overtly biased selection of climate records." (USA Today also has a story.) This paper will undoubtedly be controversial and should stir a vigourous data review." Update: 11/05 14:54 GMT by T : newyhouse points out a similarly contrarian 2001 Economist article by Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist .
You mean to tell me a glacier that has been receding since the end of the last Ice Age is still receding? Oh, dear.
This is not my sandwich.
Many environmentalists are not the wealthy type because they are closet slackers. They decry everyone else's prosperity and want to shut the people that work down out of jealously. Their beef with the United States is the culture of consumption, the notion of of consumer capitalism. Even if it were environmentally 0 impact, they would have issues with it. Environmentalists want to impose their severe religion on everyone and so their science must be taken with as much a grain of salt as would science from RJ Reynolds. Environmentalists just hate people too much for people to trust their advice.
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For the past decade tree huggers and eco liberals have managed to stiffle scientific debate on climate. They have tried to foist their own wierd view of a peasant future onto an unwilling world through the Kyoto treaty. They found ready allies in the Eurocrats and others in the "international community" who would benefit from a hobbled U.S. economy. I am glad to see that the coersion that is the Kyoto treaty is failing and that there is a return to a healthy scientific discussion of these important matters.
an ill wind that blows no good
I know. We should all follow the US model of corporations becoming entrenched in the decision-making bodies of government. ;-)