"A Disgrace to the Profession" by Mark Steyn (editor), Mark Steyn, Josh
By Mark Steyn (editor), Mark Steyn, Josh
The "hockey stick" graph of worldwide temperatures is the only so much influential icon within the global-warming debate, promoted by means of the UN's transnational weather paperwork, featured in Al Gore's Oscar-winning motion picture, utilized by governments around the globe to promote the Kyoto Accord to their voters, and proven to impressionable schoolchildren from kindergarten to graduation.
And but what it purports to "prove" is disputed and denied by means of some of the world's most outstanding scientists. during this riveting ebook, Mark Steyn has compiled the innovations of the world's scientists, of their personal phrases, on hockey-stick writer Michael E Mann, his stick and their harm to technological know-how. From Canada to Finland, Scotland to China, Belgium to New Zealand, from venerable Nobel Laureates to lively younger researchers on both sides of the talk examine the hockey inventory and the broader weather wars it helped release.
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Author of The Simple Science Of Flight - From Insects To Jumbo Jets (MIT Press, 1997) and co-author of the classic A First Course In Turbulence (MIT Press, 1972). Long before Climategate, a few principled scientists had spoken up against Mann and an IPCC that put all its eggs in his basket. As Dr Tennekes said35: We only understand ten per cent of the climate issue. That is not enough to wreck the world economy with Kyoto-like measures. Henk Tennekes is one of the most far-sighted men in his field - that’s to say, in a famous speech on climate science in 1987 he predicted the limits of our ability to predict.
The self-appointed captain of the hockey team is playing solo. 6 Dr Curry has a point. If you’re defending Michael Mann, you’re not defending science, or defending climate science, or theories on global warming or anything else. Defending Michael Mann means defending Michael Mann - and it turns out not many people are willing to go there. Mann had rested his case on an “appeal to authority” - to what eminent people say about him. I regard appeals to authority as somewhat unAmerican - but even for those of us born in lands less philosophically committed to egalitarianism they’re a bit whiffy: a cat may look at a king, as they used to say in medieval Europe.
I do, because I’m a Quebecker and I’ve been to the Gaspé dozens of times and regard it as one of my favorite places on earth. But it is not the earth. How many of us, on being assured that “the science is settled”, are aware that it’s been settled on the basis of one Québécois tree? Two years after Mann launched his suit, in one of those procedural sideshows that encrust to the sclerotic and dysfunctional US court system like barnacles on the hulk of a rusting tugboat at the bottom of the Suez Canal, came the deadline for third parties to file “amicus briefs” with the courts.