Links tagged “cicerone”
- Prof. Judith Curry: ‘This statement is worse than the previous AMS statement, and much worse than the statement by the Royal Society’
Curry: 'Does this group of people inspire my confidence in making an assessment of climate change? In a word, NO...I suspect that there will be a lot of AMS members that are unhappy with this statement...Consensus statements get parroted without any actual intellectual examination. In this case, what is the point of the AMS statement. Apparently, to 'inform the public' on this controversial issue by appealing to the 'authority' of the society'
- Climatologist Dr. Pielke Sr. on ‘Contradictory Statements By The American Meterological Society’ – Comments On The New Statement
'It is clear that the new AMS Statement Climate Change is more advocacy by the leadership of the Society, than a balanced presentation of this subject. When evidence contradicts their advocacy role, they conveniently just ignore it'
- ‘Science these days is a monopsony. There is only one paying customer: the State. Scientists increasingly produce the results their political paymasters want rather than seeking after truth’
- Climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke Sr.: The Politicalization of U.S. National Academies — NAS endorses the photo contest showing how ‘your community is lowering greenhouse gas emissions’
'The failure of [NAS] to serve as an honest broker for independent, objective advice on climate issues that affect people's lives worldwide is abundanatly clear'
- Backing away from climate alarm? NAS Pres. Ralph Cicerone says ‘we don’t have that kind of evidence’ to claim we are ‘going to fry’ from AGW
John Humphrys to Cicerone: 'You don't sound - if I can use this word - apocalyptic. You're not saying 'If we don't do these things...we're going to fry, in a few years': Ralph Cicerone: Well, there are people who are saying those things'
Humphrys: 'But not you'
Cicerone: 'No. I don't think it's useful, I don't think it gets us anywhere, and we don't have that kind of evidence'
- CU – Sea Level Rise Has Dropped In Half Since 2005: ‘From 1992-2004, sea level rose at 3.55 mm/year, according to U. of Colorado. From 2005 to 2012, the same data set shows 1.81 mm/year’
'If sea level continues to rise at the current rate, we will see sixteen centimeters of sea level rise by the end of the century, which is perhaps one tenth of what the experts are claiming this week. Government funded global warming research is propaganda. It has nothing to do with science'
- National Academy of Sciences loses the plot on sea level claims: ‘ The report was unmitigated nonsense…While this is a comedy, it is also a tragedy’
'It is a measure of how blinded and blinkered the climate science establishment has become. It is a tragedy because in an uncertain time, science should be our pole star, the one fixed thing in a spinning sky ... but instead, it has become a joke, and that is a tragedy indeed'
- Garth Paltridge: Science Held Hostage: ‘Climate science has transformed itself from a research backwater a few decades ago into one of the greatest public-good scientific cash cows ever devised’
'The livelihood of most climate scientists is now dependent on government grants. It is not a situation conducive to sceptical outlook and balanced advice'
- UK Royal Society Funding: ‘A closer look at the most recent set of accounts for 2010/11 show just how reliant the Society has become on government funding’
'So government funding amounts to 67% of total income. Similar amounts have been fixed for a 5 year period to allow Society to plan ahead properly. It is also worth noting the income generated from commercial activities, such as investment income & publications. The Royal Society still claim to be 'an independent scientific academy'. Andrew Montford, however, describes it as 'being something more akin to a government department'...a very well paid one'
- The Royal Society that serves The Government does not serve The People: ‘Since 2005, the number of employees earning more than £60000 pa has jumped from three to 10’
