Posted by
Compassionate Conservative on Wednesday, October 07, 2009 2:33:33 PM
Another letter to the editor of the Harrisburg Patriot-News. They might even publish this one. They should, because it contains more than the usual good insights.
"A climate modeler is a person who statistically analyzes historical weather data such as temperature such as temperature to determine correlations that can be used to forecast future climatologically significant events. Environmental "watchdogs" such as Al Gore inform us that there is a "broad consensus" among "climate modelers" that human activity is causing climate change. Their pet researchers cite "empirical evidence" that they've uncovered as proof it's so.
Empirical data is data obtained in a laboratory using repeatable experiments in accordance with the scientific method. No "climate modeler" has any such evidence linking "global warming" or its newly-fashionable cousin "climate change" to human activity. I note, however, that "climate change" has replaced "global warming" as the cause du jour among environmental activists, probably because what was previously thought to be a worldwide warming a decade or so ago seems to have reversed, at least temporarily. Activists are much safer in declaring the crisis to be climate change, because since the climate is always changing, they're in no danger of contradiction.
Bear in mind that the climate models now predicting worldwide weather disasters are based on the same relationships that weather models use. Then reflect on the fact that weather forecasters using those same models frequently couldn't predict today's weather even if they happened to be reading tomorrow's newspaper. That should give you some idea why there are numerous skeptics, both in and out of the climatology business, about climatologists' prediction that the oceans will rise 20 feet by the end of the century. Most of us aren't willing to restrict economic output, negatively impacting the lives of perhaps billions of people, based on such predictions.
So when columnists like Paul Krugman talk about "climate change" as an "inconvenient truth." don't you believe it. Krugman and his leftists cohorts are just telling convenient lies."