Cooling the Air

Vizigoth sends along this article from the Wall Street Journal, in which some scientists who actually follow the scientific method publicly beat some AGW fanatics over the head with facts -- which I admit is much like clubbing baby seals in its level of challenge, but is nonetheless fun to watch. To wit:

Trenberth et al. tell us that the managements of major national academies of science have said that "the science is clear, the world is heating up and humans are primarily responsible." Apparently every generation of humanity needs to relearn that Mother Nature tells us what the science is, not authoritarian academy bureaucrats or computer models.

One reason to be on guard, as we explained in our original op-ed, is that motives other than objective science are at work in much of the scientific establishment. All of us are members of major academies and scientific societies, but we urge Journal readers not to depend on pompous academy pronouncements—on what we say—but to follow the motto of the Royal Society of Great Britain, one of the oldest learned societies in the world: nullius in verba—take nobody's word for it.

Hear! Hear!

My motto is this: "Take academicians with a grain of salt." I learned that in college -- by observation.


(Article backdoor if you hit a paywall: Google "Concerned Scientists Reply on Global Warming")

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Hat-tip to Vizigoth