We must abandon completely the naive faith that school automatically liberates the mind and serves the cause of human progress; in fact, we know that it may serve any cause. [It] may serve tyranny as well as truth, war as well as peace, death as well as life . . . whether it is good or evil depends, not on the laws of learning, but on the conception of life and civilization that gives it substance and direction. In the course of history, education has served every purpose and doctrine contrived by man. If it is to serve the cause of human freedom, it must be explicitly designed for that purpose.
-- George S. Counts
Fairfax is supporting the warmist fools now that Abbott is closing down the C Com etc and saving the taxpayer a bundle.
But the Bolter has included some of the stupid propaganda and delusion from some of these twits to prove it is the correct move.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_age_cries_for_warming_alarmists_it_should_hold_to_account/#commentsmore
His links also provide a good recent history of the nonsensical meanderings and illogical reasoning of these prominent numbskulls.
95% certainty? Well they would say that wouldn't they? It's their raison d'etre.
... Who ever thought it was about the science?
They're more certain we're doing it [from 90 up to 95%] but they're more certain we're only doing it half as much.
I reckon they'd sound more credible if they said they were POSITIVELY CERTAIN we were only doing it a tiny fraction as much.
They might even get a genuine 97% consensus then☺.
The Wall Street Journal said the updated report, due out on September 27, would show "the temperature rise we can expect as a result of manmade emissions of carbon dioxide is lower than the IPCC thought in 2007".
The WSJ report said the change was small but "it is significant because it points to the very real possibility that, over the next several generations, the overall effect of climate change will be positive for humankind and the planet".
Sorry SD - I meant to say a cat - as in "the cat is out of the bag"
Yes SD, it is a pig, a full grown pig
Sp, is that a pig poking its head out of the poke?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420783/Global-warming-just-HALF-said-Worlds-climate-scientists-admit-computers-got-effects-greenhouse-gases-wrong.html
Dr Tim Ball on the IPCC:
Would you even listen if you learned that :
-their research of global warming/climate change was deliberately narrowed by definition to only studying human causes.
-you cannot determine human causes if you don’t know or understand natural causes.
-the demand for political action was based on an untested hypothesis.
-the standard scientific methods and tests of the hypothesis were ignored.
-computer models were created to produce the predetermined outcome.
-all predictions made for 23 years were wrong.
-after five years they abandoned calling them predictions and opted for the term projections.
-projections were created with low, medium and high potential scenarios.
-even the low projections were greater than what actually occurred.
-their claims of increased severe weather events proved wrong.
-their claims of sea level rise were incorrect.
-the actual record since 1998 shows temperatures leveling and declining while CO2 increased.
instead of admitting their hypothesis was wrong and amending or rejecting it, as science requires, they changed the hypothesis from global warming to climate change.
-instead of admitting their claim of 90+ percent certainty that human CO2 was the cause was --wrong, they raised the claim to 95 percent certainty.
http://drtimball.com/2013/ipcc-ar5-renews-demand-governments-buy-their-climate-change-pig-in-a-poke/#sthash.GIFHXe0i.dpuf
There is a modesty about the man, unmistakably the people's hero.
More good news from our new Abbott led govt.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/new_pm_dosses_down_with_the_police/#commentsmore
Not just Abbott saving us money but Julie Bishop as well. That's why I voted Coalition well before the Labor and Green idiots in the Reps and Senate.
And funnily enough I still don't have any respect for Rudd about his supposed concern ????? for CAGW. You see I'm a bit hostile about blatant BS stories.
Bob Tisdale has a new book release coming up.
Here's a video preview. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/13/a-video-preview-of-climate-models-fail/#more-93755