Pielke Jr.: ‘Science is Not Team Sport’ – ‘The blue team response to DOE (climate report) shows that climate assessment is broken’
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: I took a look at the DK25 (Trump Admin’s DOE dissenting climate) report in my areas of expertise, as I did with the DOE CWG (85 scientists pushing back on DOE report), and I found numerous statements that were simply false — among them that World Weather Attribution was not created with litigation in mind, that NOAA”s “billion dollar disasters” (RIP) tabulation was scientifically valid, that SRES had 6 not 40 scenarios, and that RCP8.5 has not been the most commonly used scenario in research and assessment. DK25 ignored all of our research that was accurately cited by DOE CWG.
DK25 also includes a bizarre claim regarding the detection of changes in extreme weather events:2
“the absence of statistically significant trends in the historical records does not mean that changes are not occurring”3
Actually, that is exactly what the absence of detection means — don’t take it from me, take it from the IPCC, which defines a change in climate as follows:
A change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer.
The assumption here is that if you find some degree of merit in the DOE CWG then climate policy is doomed and if you instead side with DK25, then carbon dioxide regulation is on its way. Viewed from this perspective, scientific assessments are ”tactics” to be mobilized to support political action or delay.
Such a perspective turns scientific assessment into partisan politics. Scientific integrity inevitably suffers.
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Energy Sec. Chris Wright on CNN demands ‘real debate’ about climate change: We have to ‘get away from the cancel culture, Orwellian, if you don’t say the thing the approved climate church says, you’re silenced’
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