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Monday, August 30. 2010

How the warmists blew it

From Mead on The Greening of Godzilla:



...on issues the public follows closely, the scientific consensus keeps changing.  Margarine was introduced as the healthy alternative to butter; now experts tell us that the transfats in many types of margarine are the worst things you can eat.  Should you eat no fat or the right fat?  All carbs, no carbs or good carbs? How much vitamin E should you take?  How much sun should you get?  How much fish oil should you swallow?  How should you divide your time between aerobic and non-aerobic exercise?  On these and many other subjects, expert opinion keeps changing.  Perhaps the current consensus will last; quite possibly, it won’t — but the experts can’t tell you what will happen.



Nobody trusts experts to be right, except those with no scientific education at all. Furthermore, real experts are humble about things.

Posted by The Barrister in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 15:16 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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The Army Corps of Engineers comes off as a villain in this piece. When is the last time America lost thousands of lives due to rain-induced flooding? It's been a while and the Corps of Engineers is part of why.
"The Greening of Godzilla" -- when I watched the American version of Godzilla, I found myself thinking that the Army would have been confronted by Endangered Species Act activists, demanding to protect Godzilla as the last of his kind.
#1 Geoff Brown on 2010-08-30 18:00 (Reply)
"I found myself thinking that the Army would have been confronted by Endangered Species Act activists, demanding to protect Godzilla as the last of his kind"

So I'm not the only one...

"The Army Corps of Engineers comes off as a villain in this piece. "

To a greenie they are the cause of major damage to "the environment" and untold suffering to "cute little animals" (like rats and malaria mosquitoes, but they're smart enough to not say that out loud).
#1.1 J.T. Wenting on 2010-08-31 09:01 (Reply)
"Nobody trusts experts to be right, except those with no scientific education at all."

Time for that Feynman quote again:

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
#2 JJM on 2010-08-30 21:37 (Reply)
Speaking of scientific experts:

"The number of sockeye returning from the ocean to the Fraser River this year is one of the lowest in the past 50 and follows two years of dangerously low returns. In fact, we have witnessed decades of decline for diverse sockeye populations from the Fraser Watershed, some of which are now on the brink of extinction."

- Dr David Suzuki, 25 August 2009

"As fishermen haul in massive loads of sockeye salmon, the official estimate of this summer’s near-record bounty has been upped to 30 million, the second increase in four days, deepening one of Canada’s great scientific mysteries. It is the most sockeye that have returned to British Columbia’s Fraser River in almost a century..."

- The Globe and Mail, 28 August 2010
#3 JJM on 2010-08-30 21:57 (Reply)
Howdy JJM
Dr Suzuki seems to be the Canadian version of James Hansen, PhD. They can both look at complex data and draw clearly the wrong conclusions, then extend the wrong conclusions far past the valid reach of the data, as long as the results support their agendas.
They are clearly believers in "torture the data and eventually it will confess."
#3.1 Geoff Brown on 2010-08-31 10:12 (Reply)

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