📖 Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter & S. Fred Singer - Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming
The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus
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Today’s book is:
Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus by Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter & S. Fred Singer
"Probably the most widely repeated claim in the debate over global warming is that 97% of scientists agree that climate change is man-made and dangerous, the authors write. This claim is not only false, but its presence in the debate is an insult to science."
With these words, the authors begin a detailed analysis of one of the most controversial topics of the day. The authors make a compelling case against claims of a scientific consensus. The purported proof of such a consensus consists of sloppy research by nonscientists, college students, and a highly partisan Australian blogger. Surveys of climate scientists, even those heavily biased in favor of climate alarmism, find extensive disagreement on the underlying science and doubts about its reliability.
The authors point to four reasons why scientists disagree about global warming: a conflict among scientists in different and often competing disciplines; fundamental scientific uncertainties concerning how the global climate responds to the human presence; failure of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to provide objective guidance to the complex science; and bias among researchers.
The authors offer a succinct summary of the real science of climate change based on their previously published comprehensive review of climate science in a volume titled Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science. They recommend that policymakers resist pressure from lobby groups to silence scientists who question the authority of the IPCC to claim to speak for climate science.
More than 50,000 copies of the first edition were sold or given away in five months to elected officials, civic and business leaders, scientists, and other opinion leaders. The response from the science community and experts on climate change has been overwhelmingly positive.
You can buy the book here (Amazon link).
This book should be required reading in all public fool system science curricula.
Some idiot president said, "Follow the science." Science is not intended to be followed. It is intended to be constantly tested, challenged, and revised. To presume that 'The Science" is some uniform set of facts and calculations, universally accepted by experts, is to display total ignorance of what science really is.
Do you know what profession DOES promote taking sides and arguing them ad infinitum? The legal profession. Have you ever noticed that the people who are most vocal about 'climate change' are not scientists? They tend to be lawyers.