Friday, January 11, 2019

The New York Times: Writing About Climate Science as If They Really Understood It


From the front page of today's New York Times:



But at the same time, Harald Yndestad, professor emeritus NTNU, with research specialties in artificial intelligence, climate and marine variability, writes:

As I have written before, the climate is an extremely complex phenomenon and I doubt there are more than 10 people who understand it fully. The problem is we don't know who the 10 people are, and it would take years of focused study to figure out who they are. You certainly can't trust governments about this or groups they finance, they have much too much incentive to distort in favor of government intervention even in areas where it is obvious it makes no sense. For an example, see: Dear Fellow Health Club Member, Please Leave Me the Hell Alone: An economic analysis of the water "shortage".

-RW 




8 comments:

  1. Whenever I hear people harping about "climate change", I automatically presume that what they really want to see is "people control". In other words, the ability for government to control what others do that some people don't like (such as drive a car, or eat red meat, or use air conditioning).

    I don't believe the earth is so fragile as to think that every element of human progress is somehow a negative for the environment.

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    1. That's exactly it. People control. All one has to do is pay very close attention to what they do and don't do and the details of laws, treaties, and agreements. When doing so it rapidly becomes apparent they can't believe their own "theories" for if they did their behavior would be different.

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  2. No human understands the climate FULLY. I doubt even Zeus understands climate fully.

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    1. Exactly. I would argue at this time (this might change in the future) there aren't 10 people who understand it really well. The complexities are enormous.

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  3. All these "Warmists" who live in urban heat islands should get out in the country more often and see how insignificant man's works are to an ecosystem that's 4.5 billion years old.

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    1. Yes get a new reality. Until you are an expert weighing in about climate and the solar minimum and any updated Methane projections on a planetary scale coupled to volcanic activity analysis I cant give you the time of day!

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  4. Note how there is never any serious discussion about the benefits of global warming (accepting for the moment that it is happening). Warmer oceans implies cheaper transportation, by opening up previously frozen shipping routes, thereby reducing the costs of everyday goods. A warmer planet means more food-growing possibilities. More people die from extreme cold than extreme heat. Etc.

    No, apparently there are only costs.

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  5. Global warming will save the rain forest. What do we build greenhouses for anyway.

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