March 15, 2007 by mr_flood.

Unbelievable article today brought to our attention by Melanie Phillips in the Guardian, she says

Mike Hulme, professor in the school of environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia and the founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research — a key figure in the promulgation of climate change theory but who a short while ago warned that exaggerated forecasts of global apocalypse were in danger of destroying the case altogether — writes that scientific truth is the wrong tool to establish the, er, truth of global warming.

Self-evidently dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking, although science will gain some insights into the question if it recognises the socially contingent dimensions of a post-normal science. But to proffer such insights, scientists - and politicians - must trade (normal) truth for influence. If scientists want to remain listened to, to bear influence on policy, they must recognise the social limits of their truth seeking and reveal fully the values and beliefs they bring to their scientific activity.

What an admission! Let’s read that one again. Self-evidently dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking. Of course not. The facts don’t support it. It’s not true. So, says Hulme, let’s abolish the need to establish the facts and the truth and impose the theory on the basis of — what’s that again — ‘values and beliefs’. In other words, climate change science has got to be anti-science. It’s got to be anti-truth. It’s got to be nothing more than an ideology.

We ‘deniers’ have always suspected as much, now we have one of the crazies admitting it.  Make sure you read the whole thing.

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March 15, 2007 by mr_flood.

These last few days have been a great example as to why no one pays attention to politics, or the MSM for that matter.  Let’s look at the top stories.

Some lawyers were fired

A general thinks being gay is bad

Politicians trying their hardest to fashion irrelevant statements about Iraq

Endless blather about an election that’s not even in sight

Blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda

What’s funny is the people who write these things do so because they think the other people writing about these things think it’s important.  It’s just a great big circle jerk.

Yes, I know this post is lame, but I’m bored, so there.

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