I’ve long argued that Climate Change is ideologically based. The Left see doom and gloom with
Pittwater 6 meters under and
Tuvalu residents about to be flooded out of their homeland.
Personally, I don’t subscribe to the doom and gloom scenario. I’ve lived through a host of such theories from our friends on the Left and my “
Bullshit” meter soars whenever I hear or read their claims.
The debate is laced with so many percentage figures, stats on temperatures of land and sea, graphs and maps of what would happen if…that the mind has problems sorting out hard scientific evidence from ideology. It has become difficult for the layman to argue or form a reasonable opinion.
As part of the campaign to frighten us non-scientists in believing that we should accept everything at face value. those members of what I term the
Church of the Latter Day Alarmists, introduced
Modelling.
Basically,if you enter all the data into a computer it will predict the future. Remember when spreadsheets come into play – similar type of software. Set up a spreadsheet for your business planning and see what happens when you enter another staff member in the expenses column…try two extra staff…look at what happens to your bottom line….make a decision.
Back to Climate Change. Enter all the data and see what happens to sea levels….agriculture…the environment. Play with it…add another degree rise and then see what happens….add two…add six….watch sea levels rise. Turn it into a frightening pic of Pittwater where residents can track their street and house and see it is under water. Send it to the local council where you just know they paid-up members of the
Church of the Latter Day Alarmists and let them start panicking the residents.
The science doesn’t seem to matter anymore – just use the modelling to bring them into our church.
A couple of problems here. Do we trust the data entry.
Lies, damn lies and Statistics is still relevant years after Mark Twain first said it and whenever I read a stat I like to know the agenda of the person making the claim.
Computer modelling is all about maths, not science. The climate will go it’s own way without help or hindrance from us puny humans. Sure, it will most probably warm up for a bit and then go cold again as it has for millions of years. While this happens it is prudent for us to look for alternative energy and to clean up our act but in the meantime we shouldn’t let the maths panic us.
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