Posted by
Catmman on Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:27:10 AM
Why? There was very little in the way of real "science" in the report and the biases were so thick you could cut them with a knife!
The NOAA/Climate Change Science Program “Unified Synthesis Product,” which I previously noted, and upon which EPA has indicated it intends to rely to support its GHG regulations, has had its plug pulled - for now. Here’s how and why.
First, the U.S. Chamber pointed out that a preponderance of the 21 reports that had purportedly been “synthesized” had not actually been produced yet. Sure, that sequence sounds odd in the real world, but is reminiscent of the IPCC, to which the USP appealed as the authority for certain otherwise unsupported claims (though the IPCC openly admits that it, too, performs no scientific research). This is a point we also made in our comments. I’m informed that NOAA has now agreed to publish the underlying documents first and then put out their desired USP. The Chamber should have a release out soon.
Second, a series of scientists, including Roger Pielke Sr. and Jr., Pat Michaels and Chip Knappenberger, Joe D’Aleo, Fred Singer, (Anthony Watts) and many others joined my colleague Marlo Lewis and me in exposing in detail the scientifically and legally unsupportable nature of the 208-page monstrosity. Key absurdities included breakout points in the Executive Summary of “Urgency of Action,” “Irreversible Losses,” “The Future Is in Our Hands” and ‘Tipping Points” (even though nowhere else did the document actually offer a discussion of “Tipping Points” that could be summarized), as well as calls for adoption of a certain policy agenda, all in a supposedly scientific document. The rest of the product was no less skewed, and I hope CEI will post many of these comments later today for your reading pleasure.
This time around, the authors cited their own work more than 100 times, blowing a kiss to the Wegman Committee which exposed the self-affirming and incestuous climate-science community. One addition to the team was a Susan Hassol, writer of the HBO Special Too Hot Not to Handle, produced by none other than Laurie David (I don’t know if Sheryl Crow did the soundtrack). So much for balance. As Pielke Jr. revealed, Ms. Hassol appeared to simply move some of her website’s claims into this self-proclaimed official U.S. government “highly influential scientific assessment.”
So. NOAA, a government organization supposedly operating under the auspices of climate scientists, who should be practicing the "
scientific method", piled together a mass of biased opinion, biased legislative polcies, and activist suggestions; performed no actual research, and tried passing it off as real science - or as they call it, "a highly influential scientific assessment."
The cruel irony is the scientists who pulled the alarm on this (as well as people like me who put this information out there) are the ones ostracized and denigrated - NOT the frauds and new snake oil salesman trying to pull the wool over peoples eyes.
Why anyone with a hint of common sense still give these groups, organizations, personnel the time of day (at least as it pertains to this topic) blows my mind!