25 April 2005
Antarctic Warming Story - More Junk Science!
Global warming not so hot - part II
The chief has commented here and elsewhere on the specious nature of most of the "Global Warming" propaganda that appears in the MSM. There's quite a lot of detailed information on the limited (at best!) validity of the models that predict and find alleged evidence of such warming. In addition to the the Crichton book noted in the linked previous post, as well as in the article linked for this one, the Chief also highly recommends a book titled Kicking the Sacred Cow by James P. Hogan. Hogan, who has a science background has also written a lot of libertarianish flavored science fiction. He started out accepting the MSM junk-scientific orthodoxy, but got mugged by reality along the way, and this little book does a number on a LOT of different areas of scientific orthodoxy that have SEVERE problems with contradictory (hard) evidence against them, which he does a good job of documenting.
Anyway, in this TCS post, the latest "Chicken Little"-like claims concerning evidence concerning warming in the Antarctic are thoroughly and effectively destroyed. Stuff like this is interesting, has a lot of public policy implications, and best of all - drives the envirowacko greeniacs absolutely crazy (er - crazier than they already are, that is!)
The chief has commented here and elsewhere on the specious nature of most of the "Global Warming" propaganda that appears in the MSM. There's quite a lot of detailed information on the limited (at best!) validity of the models that predict and find alleged evidence of such warming. In addition to the the Crichton book noted in the linked previous post, as well as in the article linked for this one, the Chief also highly recommends a book titled Kicking the Sacred Cow by James P. Hogan. Hogan, who has a science background has also written a lot of libertarianish flavored science fiction. He started out accepting the MSM junk-scientific orthodoxy, but got mugged by reality along the way, and this little book does a number on a LOT of different areas of scientific orthodoxy that have SEVERE problems with contradictory (hard) evidence against them, which he does a good job of documenting.
Anyway, in this TCS post, the latest "Chicken Little"-like claims concerning evidence concerning warming in the Antarctic are thoroughly and effectively destroyed. Stuff like this is interesting, has a lot of public policy implications, and best of all - drives the envirowacko greeniacs absolutely crazy (er - crazier than they already are, that is!)
