Bishop Hill Rossiter rocks
Jun 19, 2014 Climate: Sceptics Caleb Rossiter, the scientist blacklisted by a Washington thinktank for his temerity in asking awkward questions over global warming is interviewed by a website entitled The College Fix. This is amazing stuff.
“So there is really two big statistical questions: what caused the little warming, and what effect did the warming have on these other climate variables?” he said. “I am a pretty decent statistician, I have taught for many, many years. The data that support the headlines are very, very weak, very, very notional, and simply not logical.”
Or what about this?
"I have had students who are very strongly pro-the global warming movement in my classes, of course, because most young people have heard this already,” he said. “And when I have them actually do the study, and take apart an IPCC [International Panel on Climate Change] claim, sometimes they break into tears, and they say ‘I can’t believe this is the only class I’ve ever been in in which anyone has ever told me there is even an issue.’”
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Your Grace,
Have you seen the FT article headlined by "Nato claims Moscow funding anti-fracking groups?"
If the story proves accurate, that would ignite a firestorm.
Diogenes
"Nato claims Moscow funding anti-fracking groups?"
Please Mister Putin can I have my ship back? Well maybe sunny, but first you have to agree to put the Roubles you will find in the forward hold to good use. Remember comrade, those are strictly anti-fracking Roubles not money market anti-euro Roubles.
Sail well you make a good tracking exercise for our illustrious submariners:-)
Methinks the IPS may be regretting their decision, then again probably not.
It is interesting that a succession of his students have learnt that the AGW scare is built on quicksand. That news will be circulating quietly but surely among young people i the USA.
"Matt Ridley is the author of The Rational Optimist, a columnist for the Times (London) and a member of the House of Lords. He spoke at Ideacity in Toronto on June 18".
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/06/19/ipcc-climate-change-warming/
"I have had students who are very strongly pro-the global warming movement in my classes, of course, because most young people have heard this already,” he said. “And when I have them actually do the study, and take apart an IPCC [International Panel on Climate Change] claim, sometimes they break into tears, and they say ‘I can’t believe this is the only class I’ve ever been in in which anyone has ever told me there is even an issue.’”
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A rather good Bill Whittle video on "Gaslighting" is relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aw3df-LpbY
As my oil geologist immigrant grandpa used to say, the chickens are coming home to roost.
Rossiter, “And when I have them actually do the study, and take apart an IPCC claim, sometimes they break into tears, and they say ‘I can’t believe this is the only class I’ve ever been in in which anyone has ever told me there is even an issue.’”"
This is the saddest part of all. So many things are simultaneously apparent. The student suddenly realizes s/he's been consistently misled; betrayed, really, by prior teachers. This is the worst part of it. The offense by teachers against professional integrity and duty, and their students, in the interests of politics seems very wide-spread.
Second, there must be a sudden insecurity from the dropping out from under the student of the paradigm they have constructed for how the world works. Who, now, should they trust?
Finally, there must be some relief that they have learned a way to parse truth from falsehood. That, too, is weep-worthy.
I'm reminded of (the late) John McCarthy's observation, that, "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense." Rossiter's students have learned that lesson, in a most profound way.
John was a computer scientist and his website, The Sustainability of Human Progress is still up, and very worth browsing. His commentary is calm, reasoned, steadying, and devastating to sentimentalized alarm.
It is very upsetting when you realize that the church that you belong, to and prayed at, is built on the sands of a tidal estuary. And the tide is slowly changing.
If only we could get the likes of Wolpert to adopt this rigorous approach to statistical rigour.
I wonder if Wolpert is knowingly indulging in Lysenkoism, because his bread is buttered on that side, in which case he is unfit to advise our government, or whether he is a true believer regardless of the evidence before him, in which case he is unfit to advise our government.
"This is the saddest part of all. So many things are simultaneously apparent. The student suddenly realizes s/he's been consistently misled; betrayed, really, by prior teachers."
There is probably little hope for you if you don't come to the realization at some point in high school, that your teachers are frequently wrong in their beliefs. If you still accept everything your teachers tell you by the time you've reached university, you shouldn't be there to begin with.
From the Ecclesiastical Uncle, an old retired bureaucrat in a field only remotely related to climate with minimal qualifications and only half a mind.
Unfortunately, one swallow does not summer make.
What's the difference between Vladimir Putin and a Frack Off campaigner?
One's a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist, and the other one is President of Russia.........
Seems to me that we sceptics have in the past year realised the purely political nature of this great debate. It's powerful and corrupt special interests against the sheepul, and the bad guys will not be easily dislodged. Oh for a dozen Nigel Lawsons.
I get a similar reaction when I give a lecture on climate change to my first years.
"I didn't realise no-one ever told me!"
"Seems to me that we sceptics have in the past year realised the purely political nature of this great debate."
A lot of us skeptics have been seeing it for at least a decade.
Andrew