And Yet It Cools
Well, it’s Day One in the post-warmalist world. Waking up, looking around. There’s a delightful nip in the air. They’re denying it and explaining it away like crazy, plus skewering messengers. Memeorandum’s got the squirmy vitriolic roundup. “Trick” to “hide the decline,” just scientific buzzwords … “can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty” so much give-and-take, a glimpse behind the curtain at the scientific process … “Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. Very tempted” and “until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor” … Good Lord, man, they’re only human!
It’s true what they say about the scientific process. No, not that “hide the decline” is obviously just something highly technical that dolts like us can’t understand. How openness benefits all. In fact … and this hasn’t been tested or peer reviewed or anything like that … but I have a hypothesis about how the reprehensible act of illegally revealing how full of it warmalist zealots are may in fact have had a dramatic effect on the environment. Anthropogenic cooling, if you will. Like a big bucket of cold water just got thrown on the whole thing. Consider this. It was unseasonably warm in Boston yesterday. This morning, cold out. Brrrr …
Ha ha, just kidding. But as much fun as that would be, that would be an exercise in the medieval scientific method, as illustrated by the witch-duck deductive process. You remember …
Getting warmer and colder, eon to eon, millenium to millenium, century to century, decade to decade, is more or less what the planet has been doing for, roughly, 4.5 billion years now, during which time shorelines have advanced and receded on a fairly constant basis. Having noticed that, the very human anthropocentric, not to mentioned 20th-century chronocentric reaction was to zero in, geologically speaking, on the last 1000th of a second or so of that process. Make that the second-to-last 1000th of a second or so (with tricks employed to hide declines).
It wasn’t going to hold up indefinitely. Over in Copenhagen, at the big warmalist confab, the big talk even before this inconvenient news broke was how to explain the decade-long warming stall. Der Spiegel. The storyline they had hit on was, Clearly the processes are complex, the models insufficiently sophisticated, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t flat … excuse me, I mean … isn’t warming. Even the Hadley CRU, for all its mastery of the scientific process, in the end hadn’t figured out a way to deny it, though others still do:
… a few scientists simply refuse to believe the British calculations. “Warming has continued in the last few years,” says Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). However, Rahmstorf is more or less alone in his view. Hamburg Max Planck Institute scientist Jochem Marotzke, on the other hand, says: “I hardly know any colleagues who would deny that it hasn’t gotten warmer in recent years.”
I wish they’d tell the public, or at least stop using double negatives, so I can stop having dumb debates with my lefty pals about it.
No little irony, BTW, that the other big news in orthodoxy debunkment yesterday was that Galileo’s fingers had been located and will go on display. (See one of them at the link, in a chalice like a holy relic. Unclear whether those digits are the ones he flipped at the pope, though without doubt among those the pope twisted.) So four centuries later, we’ve doubled back, to where the scientific orthodoxy is running Star Chambers, branding rivals as heretics, trying like Urban VIII to put a thumb on publishing scales, and basically sticking its head in the sand. Here’s a portrait of Galileo, to get that frightful image of the poor old guy’s finger out of your head. I like this one, with that sheesh, can you believe what I have to deal with look on his face.
Yeah, I can believe it. They’re all only human after all. The problem now, which Galileo would entirely get, is how to get not only the establishment scientists but the pols to catch up with the science. Quick, before they re-engineer our economy back into the middle ages with that bizarre scheme of double-reverse robber baronry they’re working on.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:27 am Comments (5) on Saturday, November 21, 2009
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November 21st, 2009 at 12:21 pm
[...] Jules Crittenden: “Trick” to “hide the decline,” just scientific buzzwords … “can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty” so much give-and-take, a glimpse behind the curtain at the scientific process … “Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. Very tempted” and “until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor” … Good Lord, man, they’re only human! [...]
November 21st, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Do you honestly think they’re going to let go of their lucrative double-reverse robber baronry without a fight?
As for the relics, I can see the True Believers a century hence, kissing the reliquary that holds bits of Al Gore.
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Did I just think I commented here?
Did I comment here and got nuked?
??
Inquiring mind wants to know.
Eppure si rinfresca
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:36 am
If you mean when you commented advising missile strikes on someone’s home with map, address, photo … you got nuked. No can do.
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:43 am
Looking forward to reading the massive exposé from the 11 “fact-checkers” AP will assign to ClimateGate.