Is it just climate-change deniers doing the cherry-picking data dance?

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Monday, 25 January 2010 16:46

Opinion and Analysis

It must be so easy being a climate change believer.  After all, based on the antics of the IPCC, you never have to do any real science; never actually have to travel to far-off places to collect data.  All you need do is wait for unverified data to roll in from “scientific publications”, and then scour through it seeking whatever snippets can be twisted to your purpose, without ever checking its veracity.


I read with interest today's article from iTWire colleage David Heath titled “Are climate change deniers cherry-picking data?” and the announcement of the imminent arrival of leading climate-change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton.

Lord Monckton’s visit comes mere days after the latest IPCC scandal - called “Glaciergate” - which was based on dodgy data that the IPCC included in its Nobel-prize winning report without a scintilla of verification - see this UK Telegraph newspaper report for ever more shocking developments in the Glaciergate scandal showing allegations of self serving, sloppy and politically influenced pseudo science emanating from the Chairmanship of the IPCC!

Thus this tour, which is being sponsored by local semi-retired engineers John Smeed and Case Smit, is very timely indeed, and will see Monckton present lectures in many parts of Australia over a 13-day period commencing in Sydney on Australia Day.

David goes on to question some of Lord Monckton’s reasoning for his climate-change scepticism, and adds in a few of his own thoughts on the issue, essentially denying Monckton's denials. How wonderfully circular - without so much as even a nod to the fact the Climategate scandal continues erupting!

However, it is clear that there is much murkiness behind government-paid scientists claiming "global catastrophe", which, as always, needs immediate additional government funding to continue studying - and needs a massive new global tax to solve.

Unfortunately, a massive new global tax doesn’t solve anyone’s problems, except those of corrupt bankers and incompetent politicians who seek to profit from it at the expense of everyone else, while conditioning the population to ever more government handouts and control. It truly is an outrageous scandal.

As David notes, either way, we need a more reasoned debate - but this time from the increasingly discredited climate-change believers who refuse to listen to climate-change sceptics, insisting instead that they are deniers and shouting them down while refusing debate. So much for reasoned scientific inquiry and discussion!

Sure, it's easy to stir up an incompetent, lazy and power-hungry political class with cherry-picked data, but such activities are neither ethical nor moral. The true sceptical protagonists are left to do all the hard work while these believing antagonists ride the coat-tails of government largesse and undeserved Nobel prizes.