Ray G writes:
Donna Laframboise has a post up on the upcoming Royal Society-sponsored meeting with 2,500 attendees expected. the topic is climate change. Donna holds up the ridicule the list of attendees, singers, bureaucrats, song writers, PR professionals. The list is short on physicists, chemists, statisticians and, of course, she supports her conclusions with facts. The RS deserves the attention that your megaphone provides.
happy to help Ray
The Royal Society’s Blatherfest
A “major international conference” will begin on Monday in London. It’s being hosted by the Royal Society, the oldest science academy in the world and previously the most prestigious.
But over the past decade the Royal Society has abandoned its longstanding neutrality and become a political lobby group.
The depths to which this formerly esteemed body organization has now sunk may be seen on the website for this conference. A number of official blog posts appear there, including one written by the event’s co-chair, Mark Stafford-Smith. It declares:
our science tells us that the Earth has entered the ‘Anthropocene’, a geological era in which human impacts are now as important in driving how the planet operates as geological and astronomical forces have been in past eras. [backup link]
But this is nonsense. As I observed last August, a scientific body called the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) is responsible for naming geological eras. It has made no such determination that a new one has begun.
This strange claim can be traced back to informal musings a decade ago by atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen. He is not a geologist. He’s doesn’t belong to the ICS. He has no more authority to announce the beginning of a new geological era than I do.
more here:
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2012/03/24/the-royal-societys-blatherfest/
It’s the era of the PR crowd and the infinite repetition of the Big Lie.
it’s the water….
…stop drinking the water
I vote for Stultusocene
They could save themselves a bunch of time if they’d let mostly physicists, statisticians, geostaticians, geologists, biologists, glaciologists, astrophysicists and other high-caliber people attend.
On the other hand, what fun would it be for many of these people trying to figure out what the above-mentioned professionals are saying; or what it means? Can’t have a proper party with plenty of those party-poopers pompously parading around.
The good folks at The Resilient Earth dismantled the silly notion of the Anthropocene:
http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/brave-new-epoch
This Mr. Paul Crutzen is the inventor and proponent for launching thousands of sulfur
loaded ROCKETS each year into the atmosphere for achieving a sulfurization of the
atmosphere, because (1) sulfurization would be beneficial for the climate and (2) to
offset the missing sulfur component in emissions from coal fired power plants……
The festival is in good company……
JS
Society of mutual admiration …
… a little bit like Mensa and the Bilderberg Group …
OT Good call on “Letters, I get letters”
Good judgement makes this place “the best”.
I nominate the Clownopocene Era. And unfortunately, we appear to be only several decades into it.
Am I crazy enough to believe that this conference will be the one were a significant number of Fellows of the Royal Society say enough is enough with this crap and simply resign? That the “cognitive dissonance” will be so strong that even they cannot fail to notice it?
It seems so out of kilter with the real state of the world that even learned scientists will start to realise that this is a religious festival on the End of the World.
Religious revival has three parts:
1. conviction of sin and fear of apocalypse which is the inevitable result of our sinful ways
2. a sincere need for repentance through abstention of sinful acts and commitment to the ultimate reality and his appointed messengers.
3. Absolution through apology and public confession, payment of restitution and affirmation of a changed life.
Do I really need to spell out the parallels?
I think the leadership of the Royal Society are in for a shock when they see the responses from the membership unless they dial down the rhetoric to near zero.
I hope they turn it up to 11. Then the fallout will be glorious.
So the Royal Society has moved from being a scientific institute to a populist science organisation, through psuedo-science lobby all the way to being on par with astrologers and sooth sayers.
Well done Sir Paul Nurse….
The conference will provide a platform for scientists to communicate the latest research on the state of the planet: sea level rise, ice sheet stability, food prices, financial stability.
I think I will quickly knock off a paper on how AGW is causing ice sheet instability and financial instability. I’m sure to get a guest speaker invite.
Note the use of “our science…” as opposed to “the science..” in the quote above.
Does this suggest the Royal Sycophants club at least now accept that their nonsense arguments are exclusively predicated on their parochial interpretation of the science?
Or to put it more bluntly: Orwellian truth inversion
There is a reason geological eras are based on stratigraphy – because profound changes in flora & fauna are seen in the stratigraphic record at era boundaries. The reason the ICS isnt calling for a new “anthropocene” era is that there is no evidence for it in the stratigraphic record.
This is just one more case of the corruption of science for political gain.
Science has lost all credibility with the public & rightly so as long as these hijinx continue.
When people hear something about the latest “study” of any kind, the first thought that comes to their mind is “well, what political point of view is this trying to push?” not , “I trust this because a scientist says it”. A sad commentary on our modern society. Even sadder in that legitimate non-politicized science will not be recognized by the masses & society will receive diminished benefits from these works as a result.
[SNIP: You posted this exact same comment on another thread. It is certainly off-topic for this one. We do not look kindly on thread-bombing. -REP]
I agree that this is a mere blatherfest, but look at the list of sponsors as long as your arm: http://www.planetunderpressure2012.net/commercial_supporters.asp Makes you want to weep.
These people are wielding great chunks of the public purse; they’re expert at it. We sceptics, even though we’re winning the scientific argument, are not in the same league as these professional moneygrubbing windbags. They’ll spin this scam out for decades, curse their black hearts.
Note the use of “our science…” as opposed to “the science..” in the quote above.
Is this a hint that the RS at least now accept that their silly announcements on CAGW are predicated on an entirely parochial* interpretation of the science?
* read: Orwellian truth-inverted reality
I’ve heard 97% of scientists agree we’ve entered the ‘Anthropocene’. /sarc
Latitude says @March 24, 2012 at 4:10 pm
it’s the water….
…stop drinking the water
Yeah, drinkScotch, like wot I’m doin’ … hic ;-*
Among the speakers and panelists we have
Richard Black – Panel discussion: Innovative solutions for a planet under pressure – Moderator: Richard Black, BBC
The digital age and tipping points in social networks: opportunities for planetary stewardship
Chaired by Andrew Revkin and Richard Black
Convenors: Owen Gaffney, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme; Andrew Revkin, New York Times and Pace University; Richard Black, BBC; Amy Luers, Skoll Global Threats Fund; Martin Rice, Earth System Science Partnership
From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street the digital revolution has allowed social movements to spread like wildfire. Digital technology and our increasing global interconnectivity are powerful forces for change. This session will explore the potential of digital technology and social networks for transforming society, managing global risks and turning global citizens into planetary stewards.
“We’ll get the anthropocene declared somehow, even if we have to redefine what stratigraphy is.”
Perhaps the IPCC should be the marker for the beginning of the corruptocene.
Attendees should remain calm at all times as thinking about skeptics could bring on psychogenic hyperventilation syndrome resulting in excessive exhalation of carbon dioxide. The resulting lack of CO2 in the blood will increase the alkalinity of the blood causing the blood vessels to the brain to constrict resulting in lightheadedness and difficulty in thinking clearly. :o}
Good lord. A bunch of peacocks.
more here:
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2012/03/24/the-royal-societys-blatherfest/
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Damn right there is more here.
The Planet Under Pressure Conference started today. The home page is here:
http://www.planetunderpressure2012.net/index.asp
This conference is intended to promote the idea of global governance and encourage the Rio Conference this summer to move in that direction. Go to the website and check out the sponsors, the presenters, the sessions. Government entities like NASA, CSIRO, The MET Office are sponsoring a conference that is intended to undermine the sovereignty of the governments that they are part of.
Go to the site. Click on each tab.
Hey! I was calling the Age of Now the “Technozoic” twenty years ago!! Much better name than “Anthropocene” which is merely a silly little time period like the Pleistocene, not a Huge and Significant era like the Cainozoic. Cainozoic means “New Life”…while the dashing and zippy “Technozoic” means “something akin to “Android Life”. It will have a fossil record, trust me. Cross-stratified automotive pseudomorphs, showing signs of both natural and anthropogenic compaction, not that we can tell the difference. Sound familiar? Layers of strange three-bladed giant fans, with no apparent safety guards…ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny? What, oh what, could have been the evolutionary offshoot that caused them to lose their guard after fleeing the sweaty desktop? It must have been at the nacellular level. How could a mere chemist expound on such matters? Easy! He misused the Convention of Stratigraphic Nomenclature, because he could!
This only proves that I am way ahead of my time, not that anybody really cares. Now the Rawl Sauce-atty wants to get in on the glory. Members of the Me-Me generation, spouting the me-me.
Oh never mind. A momentary lapse.