Links tagged “nas”
- Climate alarmism versus integrity at National Academies of Science
"The fact that these Academies have become a servant of supranational political organizations such as IPCC shows how serious the crisis in climate science really is."
- Epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski slams COVID lockdowns, social distancing, dismisses 2nd wave fears – Rips ‘science’ funded to support government policy
Update: YouTube censors epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski for opposing lockdown
"Shutting down schools, driving the economy against the wall – there was no reason for it. The only reason that this nonsense now goes on and on, and people are inventing things like this ‘second wave’, which is going to force us to change society and never live again, is that the politicians are afraid of admitting an error."
How did we get this so wrong? Wittkowski: "Governments did not have an open discussion, including economists, biologists and epidemiologists, to hear different voices. In Britain, it was the voice of one person – Neil Ferguson – who has a history of coming up with projections that are a bit odd. The government did not convene a meeting with people who have different ideas, different projections, to discuss his projection. If it had done that, it could have seen where the fundamental flaw was in the so-called models used by Neil Ferguson. His paper was published eventually, in medRxiv. The assumption was that one per cent of all people who became infected would die. There is no justification anywhere for that."
'Science' funded to support government policyWittkowski: "They have the scientists on their side that depend on government funding. One scientist in Germany just got $500million from the government, because he always says what the government wants to hear. Scientists are in a very strange situation. They now depend on government funding, which is a trend that has developed over the past 40 years. Before that, when you were a professor at a university, you had your salary and you had your freedom. Now, the university gives you a desk and access to the library. And then you have to ask for government money and write grant applications. If you are known to criticise the government, what does that do to your chance of getting funded? It creates a huge conflict of interest." - American Meteorological Society ‘has wandered from mission to one of advocacy’ on climate change
- Ooops! Not al 31 scientific societies actually signed the AAAS ‘consensus’ letter
- Dr. Judith Curry Slams AAAS – ‘Blatant Misuse Of Scientific Authority’
- Climatologist Slams Science Orgs Pressuring Congress On Global Warming: ‘A Blatant Misuse Of Scientific Authority’
- Lord Monckton mocks AMS’ new climate statement: ‘Disinformation Statement’ calculated to provide…scientifically-outdated misrepresentation of pseudo-scientific issues’
American Meteorlogical Society Background: 'This statement provides a brief overview of why we want more money now, and why we will continue to want more money in the future. It is based on a highly-partisan selection from the scientific literature, presented as though science were based upon the ancient logical fallacy of argument from 'consensus'
- 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'
- For Shame: NAS Pres. Ralph Cicerone Turns Science Org. into political advocacy group: $6 million NAS study is used to lobby for global warming bill
