It seems that all of the weather we've
been experiencing over the past few months is all our fault. So says
a report from US and UK researchers. (No link available at the
moment.) So says a news report on ABC's World News this
evening.
Supposedly the report says all
of the extreme weather we've been experiencing the past year is due
directly to human generated greenhouse gases and that no other
explanation is probable. Despite reams of data to the contrary,
they're sticking to the predictions of disastrous sea level rise,
massive killer hurricanes by the hundreds, and a whole host of other
calamities that will be brought on by AGW. They have presented no
further data, projections, or evidence that what they're claiming is
true.
Really?
It looks like these folks have fallen under sway of the Correlation
Fallacy, ignoring the myriad of forces that affect weather (even the
most rabid climate scientist admits they can't possibly know a
majority of the factors that affect climate). So how is it that these
scientists can state with absolute certainty that the only possible
cause is human activity?
It's
simple: they're nuts. What's worse is that they're lying to
themselves.
At
this point I am highly skeptical of anyone who says they know
“without a shadow of doubt” that we are the end-all and be-all in
climate change. Our atmosphere is such a chaotic system that anyone
who says they can predict with high accuracy what the climate will be
like next year, let alone 30 or 100 years from now, is a quack.
Unless they have a climate model whose algorithm takes into account
every factor that affects climate then all they're doing is gazing
into a crystal ball, and a cracked one at that.
This
isn't science. This is politics, period.