“Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address the uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real benefits as well as the imagined costs of adaptation to global warming, and the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of mitigation.”
“Let pure reason, not totalitarian prejudice, hold sway once more in the groves of academe, the corridors of power and the public square!”
The emotionalization and politicization of the physical science of climate change has inspired the formation of a new international organization, The Global Climate Intelligence Group. This intellectual endeavor follows a petition from more than 500 climate specialists in the European Climate Declaration to the secretary general of the United Nations to reject the hysteria from children and others proclaiming doom.…
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Some of the more important
articles in this issue are:
Wind
turbine infrasound articles became too hot for the Sierra Club to handle
Study: No significant reduction in infrasound damage until 9+ miles
from wind turbines
Short video: RN Testifies About Apparent Local Turbine
Health Consequences
Climate and the Money Trail
Climate change: the Hoax that Costs
Us $4 Billion a Day
US Wind Developers Rush to Secure Tax Credits
Green Energy Policies (esp Wind Energy)
That Kill Bats
Study: Bats dying due to wind farms
North American bird population has dropped
by 3 billion (29%) since 1970
U.S.…
In his book (p. 178), Andrew Dessler defines adaptation as “responding to the negative impacts of climate change.” The proper definition is to anticipate and adapt to climate change, to capitalize on the positives and to mitigate the negatives.
This series on Andrew Dessler’s Introduction to Modern Climate Change has urged better and fairer treatment of the non-alarmist side of the climate debate for the author’s 3rd edition (in process).
Part I, “Suggestions for More Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Less Advocacy,” documented how this science text was an advocacy book and failed the scholarship standard of presenting opposing views fairly for consideration. Some contentious areas of debate were ignored and others caricatured. Professor Dessler is revealed to be a deep ecologist in that “when it comes to climate, change is bad.…
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