Quote of the Week: ego driven science

qotw_croppedSome 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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Bill from Nevada
February 12, 2014 5:36 pm

People don’t “in good faith” start and maintain world wide terror campaigns with a dozen other people while raking in millions collectively, opining and influencing distribution of billions,
and ”deep down, not really realizing they’re fabricating fraudulent data and teaching each other how.”
That is a ludicrous as thinking they ever believed it at all.
People don’t ”sincerely believe” when they see their friends’ Hockey Stick revealed to be nothing more than flim flam knowing they themselves based their own papers on such drivel.
It’s crime. It’s willful deliberate fraud just like it was when one of them deliberately, willfully told Congress the reason there weren’t more tree bore selections is that “it’s so hard to get the equipment out to these most remote, desolate corners of the world.” I paraphrased it –
the tools?
A tree coring increment borer.
Link on the Google return shortened so it’s not a mile long.
http://goo.gl/fZftNi

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