Some reflections on ego as scientific desire
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Anyone wondering why, in the face of contrary evidence, alarmists (such as Matthew English) have not admitted they were wrong (about ‘the pause’ or any other issue) might find the following quote from the Climategate archive interesting.
Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) once admitted in a Climategate email that he wants the world to experience ‘climate change’, to vindicate his ego:
“As you know, I’m not political. If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.”
Source: Climatgate email http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?file=1120593115.txt
Prioritising one’s ego above the posited pain and suffering on a global scale that climate change is supposed to bring – draw your own conclusions.
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“…so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences.”
Progressive scientists are devoted to progressive science being proved right – in order to demolish political, economic, religious, and educational freedom in the name of sustainable development.
Vaclav Klaus: “I have a problem with accepting the term “sustainable development”. It is not a neutral term. It is – in my understanding – an empty, undefined and undefinable, more or less leftist ideological concept. It can’t be a good basis for a serious discussion…To speak about sustainable development suggests a debate about creating barriers or obstacles to rapid, healthy and much needed economic growth.
The term sustainable development can’t be turned into an operational concept. The exponents of this term are the prisoners of the ahistorical and anti-economic doctrine of “the limits to growth” advocated since the 1970’s by green politicians and their fellow travellers in institutions and organizations of global governance. We should be careful when using such ideologically loaded terms. To spend time arguing against the ideology of environmentalism or against the global warming doctrine is not very productive.”
wonder who made this video?
1:27 VIDEO (Animated): 10 Feb: NBC: Global Warming Heads to the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is hearing a case that tests whether the EPA can regulate greenhouse gases in power plants
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbcnews.com/54336967/
This was one of the first climategate emails I ever read. I was in state of rage for days. Here is a guy predicting that, if he’s right, billions of people will die, and hoping that it actually happens so he can be vindicated. The complete selfishness is jaw dropping.
But the very next thing I did was to try and find out if Phil Jones and his ilk were buying up property in Siberia or Scandinavia, or northern Canada, or Alaska, to provide a safe haven for themselves and their children to ride out the coming disaster. To the best of my knowledge, not a single one of the “Team” has done any such thing.
My conclusion being that not only are these people so incredibly selfish that the wish death and destruction upon humanity for their own personal vanity, but they don’t actually believe their own bull sh*t.
Fast forward to 2010 here is Phil Jones again trying to spin his way out of the heat.
And they still admit that the global surface temperature standstill continues.
Global warming continues and it’s much worse than we thought. Think about our grandchildren.
Thanks Richard,
Climate Normal period is what I meant to write; that Jones feared a hiatus longer than half a Climate Normal period, simply because the 30 years figure was somewhat fixed in the public’s mind and 15 years without any additional warming would weaken or even kill his beloved “established science”. As if such a thing exists.
Dr. Phil Jones – BBC – 13th February 2010
[Q] B – “Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming”
[A] “Yes, but only just”.
See the graphic “CRU – Global Temperature Record (March 2013, Phil Jones, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, UK)”, at http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk
another CAGW ego, Justin Gillis, tho i had to find out he was the author by doing a separate search:
10 Feb: NYT: Freezing Out the Bigger Picture
Mr. Obama’s declaration provoked head-shaking from Congressional climate deniers, and unleashed a stream of mockery on Twitter. “As soon as he mentioned ‘climate change’ it started snowing on Capitol Hill,” said a post from Patrick J. Michaels, a climate skeptic at the Cato Institute.
If the world is really warming up, how come it is so darned cold?…
Scientists refer to global warming because it is about, well, the globe. It is also about the long run. It is really not about what happened yesterday in Poughkeepsie.
The entire United States, including Alaska, covers less than 2 percent of the surface of the earth. So if the whole country somehow froze solid one January, that would not move the needle on global temperatures much at all…
This winter is not over, but so far, the most interesting fact about the Arctic blasts in the East might actually be how short they have been compared with the past.
The meteorologists Brandt Maxwell, of the National Weather Service in San Diego, and Robert Henson, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., have been doing some comparisons…
Winters have become so mild over the past 20 to 30 years that a blast of Arctic air feels extraordinary…
Scientists studying human perception have found that our immediate, visceral experience of the world can influence our judgments on tangentially related questions…
Fortunately, we are not stuck with human perception alone. Nowadays we have sophisticated thermometers scattered all over the place…
No matter how cold it got in Wisconsin last week, the world really is warming up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/science/freezing-out-the-bigger-picture.html?hpw&rref=science&_r=0
ipscblog: NYTScience: Freezing Out the Bigger Picture
By JUSTIN GILLIS
http://ipscblog.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/nyt-science-freezing-out-bigger-picture.html
May 2012: Climate Depot: NYT Reporter Justin Gillis Does it Again! Author of ‘Worst NYT Story on Climate Ever’ — gets even worse!
http://www.climatedepot.com/2012/05/01/nyt-reporter-justin-gillis-does-it-again-author-of-worst-nyt-story-on-climate-ever-gets-even-worse/
Didn’t you know? Science has now proven that the only infinite and eternal entity in the universe is human ego.
speaking of egos:
10 Feb: Time: Charlotte Alter: Hollande and Obama Push For Global Climate Change Pact
Newly single Hollande will visit the White House on his own
President Obama and French President Francois Hollande called for a binding global agreement to address carbon emissions Monday, and urged the rest of the world to get on board ahead of a 2015 climate conference in Paris.
In a co-written op-ed published jointly in The Washington Post and Le Monde, the two heads of state pledged to reduce carbon emissions and “expand the clean energy partnerships that create jobs and move us toward low-carbon growth,” with specific focus on helping developing countries embrace low-carbon energy as well…
The op-ed, which also highlighted economic and military alliances between the U.S. and France, was published as Hollande begins a state visit to the U.S. on Monday, the first official state visit by a French president since 1996, the BBC reports…
http://world.time.com/2014/02/10/hollande-and-obama-push-for-global-climate-change-pact/
Washington Post Op-Ed: Obama and Hollande: France and the U.S. enjoy a renewed alliance
By Barack Obama and François Hollande,
Barack Obama is president of the United States. François Hollande is president of the French Republic.
(FINALE) The challenges of our time cannot be wished away. The opportunities of our interconnected world will not simply fall into our laps. The future we seek, as always, must be earned. For more than two centuries, our two peoples have stood together for our mutual freedom. Now we are meeting our responsibilities not just to each other — but to a world that is more secure because our enduring alliance is being made new again.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama-and-hollande-france-and-the-us-enjoy-a-renewed-alliance/2014/02/09/039ffd34-91af-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_story.html
10 Feb: BBC: Hollande and Obama make joint call for climate accord
France’s robust military response to threats in Mali and the Central African Republic, its tough stance on Iran’s nuclear programme and Mr Hollande’s willingness to join the US in air strikes on Syria, have vaulted France to a leading position among Washington’s traditional allies…
He will hope the first full state visit afforded to a French president since 1996 will bolster his dismal poll ratings, says the BBC’s Christian Fraser.
Mr Hollande’s approval ratings are stuck at barely 20% and doubts persist over his ability to kick-start the French economy…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26117455
I’ve noticed that the CAGW crowd seems to revel in human suffering if they can spin it to support their point of view.
Jail is where he should be.
Jimbo says:
February 10, 2014 at 3:44 pm
“Professor Matthew England – ABC Science – 10 February 2014”
I just had a visual of Professor England all painted up, dancing around a fire..and throwing bones and stuff in it…………
Jimbo and others
On Feb. 6, WUWT had a post “Satellites show no global warming for 17 years 5 months” where in the question was asked (by Kathy) and several answers given to the 15 year issue. My response is fairly short so I’ll just paste it here, but check that post for more: ~~~~
““ The 17 year thingy: Some years ago a member of the “climate Team” expressed the view that 17 years would be indicative of a problem in the Team’s approach to modeling Earth’s atmosphere and taking its temperature.** Apparently, graduate students at several universities poured over hundreds of model runs and could find a “pause” of only about 15 years so the next logical jump was that 17 would not happen in the real world. [I can make leaps of imagination too – I don’t know what really was done in those ivory towers!]
As the 17 year pause got near, the necessary length to be a problem was reset (moving the goal posts) to 30 years or something. No one really cares about the latest statement from “the Team” because “the 17-year Pause” was stated first and boldly. It is the icon of moment and is thus the reason for titles, such as for this post, to incorporate it.
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**This used to be done under the arm (Stevenson screen) but the Team now thinks the appropriate place to check Earth’s temperature is in some deep hole where the Sun doesn’t shine. ””
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PS, today: I think Santer first stated the 17 years.
One of the reasons why I am so upset with these climate liars is this. Way back they made me so frightened that I seriously considered my future and where I would live. I thought about selling my house in the future, move to another country to get to higher ground! I feel like a fool today and thank goodness I did not act. I urge every level headed person not to act. I was not level headed then but I am now. Phil, follow me into the light.
Australia build several de-salination plants in preparation for permanent drought, then they got hit with Biblical floods. Australia has always been a land of extremes with several climate zones.
???
10 Feb: BBC: Paul Hudson Blog: UK flooding put in context
The level of coverage in the media of the resulting flooding across the UK has been virtually unprecedented in the last few weeks…
COMMENT by albanaich:
Perhaps more interesting is the unprecedented snowfall in the Scottish Highlands. . . . which has barely been reported.
The amount of snow it such that it may form a permanent snow cap this year, so while the rain drowns Southern England Scotland goes into glacier formation.
Thats the top of the buried Ski lift…
http://ski.visitscotland.com/conditions/nevis/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/posts/UK-flooding-put-in-context
Santer’s 17
Look here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/11/15/a-big-picture-look-at-earths-temperature-santer-17-update/
Jimbo
One of the reasons why I am so upset with these climate liars is this. Way back they made me so frightened that I seriously considered my future and where I would live. …
The risk we are entering a new mini ice age contributed to our family decision to move to the Fraser Coast in Australia – 25 degrees south of the Equator, right on the Southern fringe of the tropics.
IMO alarmists are doing a huge disservice to the world, their sloppy science is causing a massive waste of resources, resources which might be sorely missed if the sun enters a deep quiet period.
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20060825/53143686.html
Gunga Din says: @ur momisugly February 10, 2014 at 3:06 pm
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We’re so used hearing “climate change” used to cover that “global warming” isn’t happening I’m not sure what he meant.
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Actually I think we can be quite sure what he meant since the United Nations had defined the term.
Zeke, thanks for bringing up Vaclav Klaus.
See:
“Czech Republic: President Says Freedom is Endangered, Not Climate” (Dr. Václav Klaus, August 3, 2007), at http://www.klaus.cz/clanky/1546
“Climate Change: The Dangerous Faith” (Sydney speech) (Dr. Václav Klaus, 21 September 2011), at http://www.klaus.cz/clanky/2928
I live at sea level, I have no fossil fuel interests (except I use them), I burn charcoal to cook my food, fuel oil from the power station provides my electricity, I get power outages during the week, sometimes no water (booster station no electricity), sometimes no fuel for my car for days and I could go on. What I want is for those concerned low carbon chaps to trade places with me. They will be low carbon and I can live.
Here is Phil Jones, the fixer, “speculating on correcting SST’s to correct the 1940’s warming blip”
http://di2.nu/foia/1254108338.txt
They keep working on this until they get it perfect.
more from Phil on correcting “the climate”
http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?file=0953.txt&search=1940s
“The risk we are entering a new mini ice age contributed to our family decision to move to the Fraser Coast in Australia – 25 degrees south of the Equator, right on the Southern fringe of the tropics.”
I would never want to live farther north than Texas – and even here, it’s been a damned cold winter! Probably another ice storm in the morning.
(I grew up in Phoenix, give me the warm desert any time!!!)
Eric Worrall thank you for sharing. These people are actually criminals. They are causing a massive amount of disturbance for others while minimizing theirs. Look at Suzuki, Phil Jones, Big Ears Princess Charles, et al. They don’t want inconvenience but they want the rest of us to be inconvenienced. They assume they must be smarter and sharper than the rest of us. They are wrong, they happen to have low ethics, high hypocrisy and sometimes the luck of birth. “DO AS WE SAY, AND NOT AS WE DO.”
11 Feb: Andrew Bolt Blog: Matthew England’s strange excuse for only now admitting to the warming Pause
Reader Nick has since asked England to explain this change of mind since he attacked sceptic Nick Minchin on (ABC’s) Q&A just two years ago…England has now given a bizarre reply:
“In terms of my comments on Q&A, I stand by them. The key thing is that back then, the observations had not departed from the model projection range. In the past year or two, 2012 average and also 2013, that’s no longer the case. Hence why we did this study. I hope you find the paper interesting, and sorry again for the delays in sending it.”…
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/matthew_englands_strange_excuse_for_only_now_admitting_to_the_warming_pause/
Retributive justice, would in my twisted opinion, call for these persons to be stripped of all their wealth and then of their carbon.
Sadly an example must be set.
The crime of inciting a mob to violence is as old as humanity.
Actions speak loudly, we have experienced an extended period of fear mongering, attempted scapegoating of any sceptical voices and a constant lecturing and hectoring from persons wearing their lust for power nakedly.
It is human nature, the cycle moves on and some will get what they wished for others.
How sad.
Whats that German word…