Pell not of Vatican faith on climate

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An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change
Nigel Calder, former editor of New Scientist, says the orthodoxy must be challengedWhen politicians and journalists declare that the science of global warming is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works. We were treated to another dose of it recently when the experts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the Summary for Policymakers that puts the political spin on an unfinished scientific dossier on climate change due for publication in a few months’ time. They declared that most of the rise in temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to man-made greenhouse gases.

The small print explains “very likely” as meaning that the experts who made the judgment felt 90% sure about it. Older readers may recall a press conference at Harwell in 1958 when Sir John Cockcroft, Britain’s top nuclear physicist, said he was 90% certain that his lads had achieved controlled nuclear fusion. It turned out that he was wrong. More positively, a 10% uncertainty in any theory is a wide open breach for any latterday Galileo or Einstein to storm through with a better idea. That is how science really works.

Twenty years ago, climate research became politicised in favour of one particular hypothesis, which redefined the subject as the study of the effect of greenhouse gases. As a result, the rebellious spirits essential for innovative and trustworthy science are greeted with impediments to their research careers. And while the media usually find mavericks at least entertaining, in this case they often imagine that anyone who doubts the hypothesis of man-made global warming must be in the pay of the oil companies. As a result, some key discoveries in climate research go almost unreported.

timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1363818.ece

Actually, it was more like 40 years ago.

They recently released a memo from the Nixon library from 1969 in which it was stated that NYC would be 10 feet under water by the year 2000 … and the temp would be up by 7 degrees … etc.

I’ll copy and paste the other post I made here:

Gotta read this.

So, the Environmentalists were unanimous in their belief … religion, anyone? … that carbon dioxide would put NYC underwater by 2000 and raise temperatures by 7 degrees.

By the year 2000 …

… how real has this been???

This article is an absolute must read.

Global warming definitely going to cause total world chaos in 30 years … without question.

articles.nydailynews.com/2010-07-02/news/27068918_1_nixon-presidential-library-global-warming-carbon-dioxide

Excerpt:

Declassified documents show Nixon warned of global warning 30 years ago
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, July 02, 2010
YORBA LINDA, Calif. - Documents released Friday by the Nixon Presidential Library show members of President Richard Nixon’s inner circle discussing the possibilities of global warming more than 30 years ago.

Adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan, notable as a Democrat in the administration, urged the administration to initiate a worldwide system of monitoring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, decades before the issue of global warming came to the public’s attention.

There is widespread agreement that carbon dioxide content will rise 25 percent by 2000, Moynihan wrote in a** September 1969 memo**.

**“This could increase the average temperature near the earth’s surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit,” he wrote. "This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet.

Goodbye New York.** Goodbye Washington, for that matter."

Moynihan was Nixon’s counselor for urban affairs from January 1969 - when Nixon began his presidency - to December 1970. He later served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations before New York voters elected him to the Senate.

Moynihan advised Nixon to monitor carbon dioxide levels in 1969 memo. (Duprey/News)

Moynihan received a response in a January 26, 1970 memo from Hubert Heffner, deputy director of the administration’s Office of Science and Technology. Heffner acknowledged that atmospheric temperature rise was an issue that should be looked at.

“The more I get into this, the more I find two classes of doom-sayers, with, of course, the silent majority in between,” he wrote. “One group says we will turn into snow-tripping mastodons because of the atmospheric dust and the other says we will have to grow gills to survive the increased ocean level due to the temperature rise.”

Heffner wrote that he would ask the Environmental Science Services Administration to look further into the issue.

Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency and had an interest in the environment. In one memo, Moynihan noted his approval of the first Earth Day, to be held April 22, 1970.

“Clearly this is an opportunity to get the President usefully and positively involved with a large student movement,” he wrote to John Ehrlichman, Nixon’s adviser on domestic affairs.

Moynihan’s memo was among 100,000 documents released Friday.

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Actually, it was more like 40 years ago.

They recently released a memo from the Nixon library from 1969 in which it was stated that NYC would be 10 feet under water by the year 2000 … and the temp would be up by 7 degrees … etc.

I’ll copy and paste the other post I made here:

Gotta read this.

So, the Environmentalists were unanimous in their belief … religion, anyone? … that carbon dioxide would put NYC underwater by 2000 and raise temperatures by 7 degrees.

By the year 2000 …

… how real has this been???

This article is an absolute must read.

Global warming definitely going to cause total world chaos in 30 years … without question.

articles.nydailynews.com/2010-07-02/news/27068918_1_nixon-presidential-library-global-warming-carbon-dioxide

Excerpt:

Declassified documents show Nixon warned of global warning 30 years ago
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, July 02, 2010
YORBA LINDA, Calif. - Documents released Friday by the Nixon Presidential Library show members of President Richard Nixon’s inner circle discussing the possibilities of global warming more than 30 years ago.

Adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan, notable as a Democrat in the administration, urged the administration to initiate a worldwide system of monitoring carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, decades before the issue of global warming came to the public’s attention.

There is widespread agreement that carbon dioxide content will rise 25 percent by 2000, Moynihan wrote in a** September 1969 memo**.

**“This could increase the average temperature near the earth’s surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit,” he wrote. "This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet.

Goodbye New York.** Goodbye Washington, for that matter."

Moynihan was Nixon’s counselor for urban affairs from January 1969 - when Nixon began his presidency - to December 1970. He later served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations before New York voters elected him to the Senate.

Moynihan advised Nixon to monitor carbon dioxide levels in 1969 memo. (Duprey/News)

Moynihan received a response in a January 26, 1970 memo from Hubert Heffner, deputy director of the administration’s Office of Science and Technology. Heffner acknowledged that atmospheric temperature rise was an issue that should be looked at.

“The more I get into this, the more I find two classes of doom-sayers, with, of course, the silent majority in between,” he wrote. “One group says we will turn into snow-tripping mastodons because of the atmospheric dust and the other says we will have to grow gills to survive the increased ocean level due to the temperature rise.”

Heffner wrote that he would ask the Environmental Science Services Administration to look further into the issue.

Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency and had an interest in the environment. In one memo, Moynihan noted his approval of the first Earth Day, to be held April 22, 1970.

“Clearly this is an opportunity to get the President usefully and positively involved with a large student movement,” he wrote to John Ehrlichman, Nixon’s adviser on domestic affairs.

Moynihan’s memo was among 100,000 documents released Friday.

RELATED VIDEO

**When you read that story about the release from the Nixon papers, it becomes very apparent that the entire basis for the formation of the EPA was based on totally bogus grounds … the science was then and still is absolutely and utterly false.

Based on that memo, the EPA should be disbanded immediately … if possible, even retroactively by 40 years!

The EPA is built on a foundation of falsehoods and false beliefs.

Here we have forecasts … the same as the forecasts they are making today … and they were totally wrong with the same forecasts that they are making today.

Remember the constant refrain about “tipping points”? Two decades ago … didn’t happen.

And we have been laboring under the EPA’s nonsense and pointless burdens for nearly half a century.**

 

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**When you read that story about the release from the Nixon papers, it becomes very apparent that the entire basis for the formation of the EPA was based on totally bogus grounds … the science was then and still is absolutely and utterly false.

Based on that memo, the EPA should be disbanded immediately … if possible, even retroactively by 40 years!

The EPA is built on a foundation of falsehoods and false beliefs.

Here we have forecasts … the same as the forecasts they are making today … and they were totally wrong with the same forecasts that they are making today.

Remember the constant refrain about “tipping points”? Two decades ago … didn’t happen.

And we have been laboring under the EPA’s nonsense and pointless burdens for nearly half a century.**

 

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The EPA is built on a foundation of falsehoods and false beliefs.

IOW, politics. And politics never solved a scientific problem.