Peer review is not part of the scientific method. In most fields, for example physics, it is a new thing, and wherever it has become a standard thing, we see stagnation. Peer review keeps out cranks, but it also keeps out the impious. It makes it safe for a science to become a religion, and for scientists to become priests of a state sponsored theocracy. Cranks have never been a …
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The science is scuttled
Nasa, as evidence that we are doomed unless we make sufficient sacrifice to Gaia and tithe to Gaia’s high priesthood, has long had on its web page Mountain Glaciers and snow cover have declined on average in both hemispheres and may disappear altogether in certain regions of the planet, such as the Himalayas, by 2030 Which web page has silently changed So was it a lie, or an error? I …
Global warming science in action
The “Air Vent†follows the money: The IPCC makes a hyperbolic claim about retreating glaciers, which claim originates from a for profit company owned by the chairman of the IPCC. Millions of dollars are then granted to this company to investigate this purported disaster, to the personal profit of the chairman of the IPCC.
Mencius and Kling agree
Mencius Moldbug has long argued that we live in a theocracy. The priesthood teach that the state deserves authority, the schools teach the official religion, and the state funds the schools and the priesthood. Now Arnold Kling gives the same analysis,
No twentieth century warming 3
Hadcrut temperatures are fraudulent, for the Climategate files reveals that no one knows how they were constructed. The Air vent attempts an honest reconstruction: Of course, this reconstruction can only be as good as the data it rests on, which we now know from the Climategate documents directory to be poor. I argue we should throw out all dubious data – which likely means we should rely on proxy indications …
The scientific method
When science becomes a priesthood, it is no longer science. Reference to authority is unscientific, indeed antiscientific, a rejection of the principles of science. One must appeal to evidence, not authority. What authority says is not scientific evidence. Independent replication is evidence. If people all over the world have made observations for the last 100 years about temperature, I can’t replicate them; but other people at the time could replicate …
How bloggers saved the world
The Air Vent tells us that China saved the world, which is true, but China saved the world because of what bloggers did. The enemy plan was to use global warming to roll back science, technology and western civilization.  Copenhagen was to have established a “world climate treaty organization†which would exercise centralized control over all the worlds economies, thereby avoiding that inconvenient embarrassment that ensues whenever socialist economies face …
What the climategate files reveal.
The killer directory in the climategate files is not the email directory, but the documents directory, for the documents directory reveals how the graphs of doom were generated. One should only employ the emails directory to illuminate what is documented in the documents directory. The Climategate files reveal that the graphs of doom are irreproducible, for Harry was unable to reproduce them, except by means at best extremely dubious, “So …
How “Science†responds to heresy
Australian Climate Madness has a revealing video. The professor refuses to address the question, then the UN goons come out to stop the questions.
Thousands of scientists endorse evidence of anthropogenic global warming
And every single one of them can be easily proven to be a fraud who should be in jail. If one endorses evidence of anthropogenic global warming, the evidence one is endorsing is the findings of the IPCC. And one of the major findings of the IPCC is Phil Jones surface temperature data. So if one endorses evidence of anthropogenic global warming, one endorses the surface temperature data – which …