Climate Alarmists Everywhere Celebrate Advocacy Over Science in New NCA
Gee, I wish I’d had $7.9 billion to play with over the last three years! But I didn’t. In very rough terms, that’s over 7,500 times what the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation has spent (none of it from taxes).
This was one of the first things that came to my mind when I saw that the U.S. Global Change Research Program (GCRP), a federal interdepartmental effort, has just released its fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA)—after spending $7.9 billion since its last NCA in 2014.
The NCA is a 477-page behemoth that hardly anyone will ever read in its entirety and far fewer will understand. That hasn’t kept the mainstream media from touting its “findings” as gospel truth that demands immediate and drastic response from everybody and his dog.
USA Today shouted, “ Humans to blame for global warming, massive federal government report says .” The Washington Post ’s three dependable climate alarmist reporters Chris Mooney, Juliet Eilperin, and Brady Dennis churned out “ Trump administration releases report finding ‘no convincing alternative explanation’ for climate change .” And Lisa Friedman’s report in the New York Times was headlined “ U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials .” (Never mind that the NCA was essentially finished before Trump was elected and was entirely the product of Obama appointees.)
You’d have thought something interesting had happened.
But none of this is interesting. None of it is new. It’s what the GCRP has been saying for years.
What would I have done if I’d had even, say, 1 percent of the GCRP’s budget? The $79 million would have been enough to employ 79 researchers for three years at $333K apiece per year.
At that price, I suspect I’d have been able to bring together a team that would have followed one of the basic canons of science: deal with all the evidence, not just what supports your hypothesis (or your agenda) .
That’s definitely not what the GCRP did.
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E. Calvin Beisner is a biblical scholar with no knowledge of any climate science who works for the fossil fuel industry as a propagandist.
Bravo!
This was an experiment: to see if anyone noticed the "references" of the author. I don't know how to interpret my results.
Two interpretations:
- After two days, only one person noticed,
- 100% of responders noticed!
I guess maybe the data are not significant!
Is this the same guy that once said environmentalism is the biggest threat to western civilization? Talk about a bias and utter lack of credibility.