How is the air up there …?

I personally blame runners for global warming. All that carbon dioxide they blow out as they huff and puff around the streets.

It is a climate crime of unprecedented proportions.

Talk about a carbon footprint folks!

Every atmospheric disturbance or natural disaster these days seems to be attributed to anthropogenic ( human made) global warming. And my goodness, I have smelt some atmospheric disturbances in my time!

So it was good to see the NZ Herald yesterday allow Chris de Freitas a little space to refute some of these claims. Chris is an associate professor in the School of Environment at Auckland University. Here is his article.

It takes a brave independent scientist these days to stand up to the rhetoric associated with the IPCC (Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change). Such scientists can be view as heretics and “climate change deniers”. They are not of course – they simply challenge what the current hegemonic discourse sees as the causes or drivers of climate change.

It is a sad day for science as governments interfere in research, or even worse demand certain foreordained or predestined research results.

And of course much of the rhetoric on global warming comes because of an appeal to suspect climate models (mathematically formulated) rather than an appeal to the empirical facts. By tweaking the parameters you can make the model come up with the predictions you want regardless of the empirical work done by proper scientists worldwide.