Well, the game is not over yet, so don't count your chickens yet . . .
It is an amazing story. I fondly hope that one day this global warming alarmism is put to bed. I grant that today is not that day, but suppose that day does occur. Then, on that day, I hope that a DETAILED post mortem is conducted. How did this happen? Who was complicit in this fraud/scam/hysteria? What scientific research processes and what news reporting processes what UN governance procedures were corrupted that enabled this? What was the cost to the public? Who profited by this? Can the theft by these be recovered? At the very least, those in academic posts who strained the ethics of dispassionate pursuit of knowledge and research need to be removed from their posts and their corruption VERY PUBLICALLY exposed. Likewise those in the news media who selectively pushed these theories and hoaxes should be discredited and ostracized by the news community.
If it appears that I want blood and some careers to fall . . . then I am communicating successfully.
I would also hope that such a post mortem would expose how turning an immature science into a public issue is bad medicine. Public opinion does not determine scientific reality. Governments do not converge on scientific understanding by the process of voting and sloganeering, perhaps bolstered by Saturday Night Live skits and rants by young comedians. The general public and politicians and artists generally are NOT skilled in the practice of dispassionate science. Perhaps such a post mortem could discourage future excesses and hysterias by the media and/or politicians.
Last edited by Alsatian; 10-10-2010 at 09:59 AM.
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