[Andre Jute[_2_]]

Ben C wrote:

In an ideal world, make all the data and source code public and fund
skeptic and non-skeptic research equally, and both a lot less. Throwing
too much money at the problem has made it worse.

The original sin here was the establishment of a government bureau to
handle climate change under a mandate that presumed climate change
before it was founded. The IPCC consists of bureaucrats. You ever hear
of bureaucrats who didn't find whatever human failing they were
constituted to find? It would be entirely unnatural for bureaucrats to
work themselves out of a job.

A temporary commission to investigate and report would have discovered
what the scientists reported in the first IPCC report: no manmade
global warming, no CO2 links. A temporary commission would have
reported and that would have been the end of it, no further action
required. But a permanent, publicly funded body must find something to
do.

In spite of all the fuss, we're not really cutting CO2 and probably
won't-- and certainly not by enough if the alarmists are right-- so,
provided the world hasn't ended for a completely different reason, we'll
get to see what happens.

I'm not encouraged by recent history to have any faith that anyone
will remember either the global warming scare or the monstrous cost.
As an exhibit, let me ask you a question: do you personally remember
the global freezing scare of the seventies? There was even a best-
selling book, recommending that we artificially warm the oceans to
alleviate the coming Ice Age. Imagine the unintended effects of that
if there were to be any kind of global warming, or just some sunspot
activity. It was quite as mindless as global warming, but now no one
except me remembers.

So far the closest thing to an actual experiment is the one we've been
doing on ourselves for the last century. If you're right about the
isotopes, it looks like the CO2 has gone up because of human activity.
If McKitrick and McIntyre are right about the temperature record, the
only consequence of that seems to have been a growth spurt of some
bristlecone pines, and maybe half a dozen trees in Siberia.

Those clowns Jones, Mann and Briffa spent their entire careers
seaching for *precisely* those six unsuitable trees that can be
manipulated to show a hockey stick graph! We should give them some
award for mindless persistence in the cause of their religion.

If this entire global warming affair hadn't cost so much and damaged
the reputation of all science so much, it would have been funny in a
bizarre sort of way. Richard Condon, who wrote a novel presenting
Prohibition as a plot by some rich men to get richer, should be alive
today! Mind you, Tom Sharpe is alive and working and this farce is
right up his street too.

Andre Jute
Not everything in materials is dreamt of in Timoshenko