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Dr. Tim Ball Saddles up and rides his charger through the climate alarm religion's heartland 

5/30/2016

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A Major Malaise of Climatology is Pervasive in Science

This is an excellent piece, you should read the whole thing.
Dr. Tim Ball Saddles up and rides his charger through the climate alarm religions heartland 

A Major Malaise of Climatology is Pervasive in Science

This is an excellent piece, you should read the whole thing.

"Scientists lost the scientific script somewhere in the 20th century. The major loss involved the fact that correlation is not cause and effect. It was lost for several reasons:

Failure to know or consistently apply scientific methods;
Lack of ethics as the end justifies the means;
Methods and process are not taught or emphasized;
People are more willing to bypass or ignore everything for funding;
Too many are willing to subjugate or exploit research for a political agenda;
Achieving results to advance a career is more important;
A person gets caught up in Groupthink as they go along to get along;
and scientists are unwilling to look to themselves to stop the rot.

All of these reasons were on display in the leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU)."

While reading this keep in mind the findings of Dr. John Ioannidis:

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

And do not forget that while scientific models can be useful to scientists, they are not science, they are only sciencey. It is the scientific method, combined with humility, which produces useful science. Or as Dr. Ball said,

"In the current situation the decision is obvious – look to yourselves. It is scientists who, for a variety of reasons all of them unacceptable, abandoned the rigors science demands. As Thomas Huxley said,

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly whatever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

The enemy, as always, is within, but so is the solution."

Climate science is like a ship holed and flooding. The hole in climate science is moral, and unless those within the science move smartly to correct the problem, and remove all those true believers from climates science, it seems likely it will simply be sunk, and abandoned as a pseudo-science. Perhaps in the distant future it could be reanimated, but likely it would require a different name. Once this goes, the fraud known, it will be a pariah for decades. Just as the boy who cried wolf was not believed again, so will the True Believers of climate science not be believed again.

Eric Hoffer analyzed the problem here:

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
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