Monday, July 19, 2010
Bad man dies
Via WUWT comes word that Stephen Schneider, one of the original fraudsters of the Global Warming conspiracy and one of the hardest and most effective opponents of civilization, has ceased exhaling toxic poisonous CO2.
Some of the late-comers in this fraud are halfway forgivable. Jones and Mann came along when the 'consensus' was already established, when all the media and all the governments and all the schools and churches were already True Believers in pseudoscience. Like Dillinger, they were just going where the money was.
Schneider is unforgivable because he helped to invent the consensus in 1975, and then helped to spread the lie when it was not yet culturally inevitable.
If those founders had been doing science, even they could be forgiven. If they had observed an abnormal warming trend in 1975 and hypothesized CO2 as the cause, human nature and pride would have kept them on the same Kuhnian track for the rest of their careers, long after it was proven false. But that's not how it happened! The world was cooling in 1975, and the data showing CO2 as a lagging variable was already available in 1975. In short, there wasn't a scientific problem begging to be solved. No, they were not trying to solve a scientific problem, they were trying to solve a political problem. They were looking for a natural phenomenon that could be manipulated in a "scientific-looking" way to justify massive new controls by government. They were doing Lenin's work, not Newton's work.
It's all in this book, and it's all unforgivable.
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In the meantime, the world is a better place today.
¶ 9:58 AM
Some of the late-comers in this fraud are halfway forgivable. Jones and Mann came along when the 'consensus' was already established, when all the media and all the governments and all the schools and churches were already True Believers in pseudoscience. Like Dillinger, they were just going where the money was.
Schneider is unforgivable because he helped to invent the consensus in 1975, and then helped to spread the lie when it was not yet culturally inevitable.
If those founders had been doing science, even they could be forgiven. If they had observed an abnormal warming trend in 1975 and hypothesized CO2 as the cause, human nature and pride would have kept them on the same Kuhnian track for the rest of their careers, long after it was proven false. But that's not how it happened! The world was cooling in 1975, and the data showing CO2 as a lagging variable was already available in 1975. In short, there wasn't a scientific problem begging to be solved. No, they were not trying to solve a scientific problem, they were trying to solve a political problem. They were looking for a natural phenomenon that could be manipulated in a "scientific-looking" way to justify massive new controls by government. They were doing Lenin's work, not Newton's work.
It's all in this book, and it's all unforgivable.
= = = = =
In the meantime, the world is a better place today.
¶ 9:58 AM
