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Dr. John Robson comments on key items from the latest Climate Discussion Nexus weekly “Wednesday Wakeup” newsletter (https://climatediscussionnexus.com/ne…, starting with a petition to His Majesty Charles III, King of Canada, to stop talking nonsense on climate, a warning to Heatmap that subsidy farmers farm subsidies, Canada’s government subsidizing climate alarmist journalism, New York threatening to bankrupt a housing coop by shutting down its natural gas power plant, yet more meetings on climate and yet more accidental admissions that warmth is good, moving on to a warning to “Big Oil” that the people who want it dead want it dead, fools outnumbering rogues on the climate file, and mathematically preposterous claims of everywhere warming faster than the average, and wrapping up with another installment in our #DOEDeepDive into last summer’s “red team” climate report from the U.S. Department of Energy, about how extreme weather has always existed but we now handle it better, Roger Pielke Jr. celebrating the IPCC climate scenario elves finally tossing RCP8.5, and from the CO2Science.org archive evidence that Hayfield Tarweed really is a plant ant it really likes CO2
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Why There Are (Probably) No UFOs: “Climate Change” – Is there nothing “climate change” cannot do?
“.. The same thing happens in other weak branches of science, most infamously in parapsychology. Effects using crude measures, like weakly shuffled decks of cards, were intriguing and hopeful, and generated lots of initial excitement about ESP and the like. Better methods were quickly invented to hone in on spectacular claims. Yet the closer we looked, the weaker the effects became; like above, the goal receded into the distance. Detection remained on the edge, always on the edge.
The example you’re more familiar with is “climate change”. We recall early predictions of mass deaths, crop failures leading to famine, wars and rumors of wars, destructive swings in temperature and weather, drought-floods, snow-hurricanes, atheists professing God. Real end-of-the-world stuff. And unmistakable. Just like with UFOs, anybody ought to have been able to look out their window and witness the enormous ravages of “climate change”.
Yet after the initial excitement, the closer scientists looked the smaller the effects became. And the more the name for the “crisis” was modified to our now bland and meaning-free “climate change”. We hear, and hear routinely, claims that last month was “the hottest ever”. But these claims are highly massaged by layers of models, which produce signals almost imperceptibly above the noise. Instead of whole degrees of temperature change, which we were promised and which we ought to have seen by now, the claims are now about hundredths of a degree. Meaningless to any practical concern.
Just like with UFOs and parapsychology, the effects of “climate change” can only be seen reliably by believers. Indeed, this is why skeptics of “climate change” are called “deniers.” Not for rejecting or disputing evidence: for not believing. This, incidentally, is why people also ask you if you “believe” in “evolution.” And where that word is never or loosely defined, or the definition is allowed to equivocate. All that’s needed in these disputed fields is that you signal your willingness to believe the Expert consensus.
You do not have to understand any consensus, and few do. But you have to honor them ..” Full article ..
