Re: OT: interesting global warming quote found elsewhwere

On Aug 7, 12:49 pm, JosephKK <quiettechb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:37:15 -0500, Kris Krieger <m...@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

JosephKK <quiettechb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:7faj94hd4ma4lu068trs38nrhvh2ebba33@xxxxxxx:

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:34:45 -0500, Kris Krieger <m...@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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I believe in climate variability.  I have seen too much personally and
the long well verified track record is too much to ignore.

I specifically do not believe in AGW.  I have seen to much hating back
and forth and various accusations of wealth mongering (both plus and
minus) and far too little checkable data, techniques, openness to
inquiry, etc to trust either side any more.

You are looking in the wrong place.

The IPCC reports review the peer-reviewed scientific literature. They
don't have an axe to grind - there are claims that their grant funding
depends them coming up with the "right" answer but in fact the IPCC
members are at the top of their profession and pretty much
invulnerable, and their job is just pulling other peoples published
research together and presenting it as a more or less unified whole.

The joke about the grant-funding claim is that - in reality - anybody
who could come up with scientificly respectable non-anthropogenic
alternative explanation for current global warming would get enormous
media interest, loads of funding and an enormous career impulse. If
there was an alternative explanation to be found there would be hordes
of scientist out there exploiting it.

Think about the buckball bandwaggon, or the huge interest in cold
fusion ...

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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