CERES team
On April 11, 2022, CERES team-leader, Dr. Willie Soon’s gave a presentation in Washington D.C., “The Weaponization of Science: Politics, Vilification, and the Climate Debate”. The slides for the talk can be downloaded from https://tinyurl.com/49sbxhru.
Here are 7 short clips taken from the talk describing each of the main topics he covered. The clips are as follows:
- Is Dr. Willie Soon in the pay of the fossil fuel industry? (9:28 minutes)
- Why Greenpeace is looking for a piece of your green (6:10 minutes)
- Why “97% consensus on climate change” claims are wrong (3:29 minutes)
- Are the UN’s IPCC climate reports scientifically objective? (6:52 minutes)
- The “hockey stick” debate: Was there a Medieval Warm Period? (9:21 minutes)
- How much of a role does the Sun play in climate change? (3:33 minutes)
- Are “fact checks” checking facts or checking narratives? (2:47 minutes)
We think that these clips answer many of the commonly asked questions about both (1) the politicization of climate science and (2) the causes of climate change. Please feel free to subscribe to our new YouTube channel, share any of the above videos you think are interesting, or even share this post linking to all of them.
For convenience, we have embedded all 7 clips below:
1. Is Dr. Willie Soon in the pay of the fossil fuel industry?
2. Why Greenpeace is looking for a piece of your green
3. Why “97% consensus on climate change” claims are wrong
4. Are the UN’s IPCC climate reports scientifically objective?
5. The “hockey stick” debate: Was there a Medieval Warm Period?
6. How much of a role does the Sun play in climate change?
7. Are “fact checks” checking facts or checking narratives?
Below is a playlist showing all 7 clips in order:
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Dr Willie Soon is the CERES team-leader?
Wow! Who knew?
Well not me obviously 🙂
A different CERES:
Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES)https://www.ceres-science.com/
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Leave these tricks to alarmists.
“Are fact checks checking facts or checking narratives”?
They are narrative compliance checks
Hmm: obviously that will fail the checks!
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase found in the work of the Roman poet Juvenal … and “Who will watch the watchmen?”.
Slightly o/t but funny
“It is unclear why Ms Truss has moved so rapidly to embrace fracking”
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/why-liz-truss-s-big-fracking-plan-will-not-cut-energy-bills-b2162778.html
Really?
Sounds like Obama telling Palin that we can’t drill ourselves out of the energy crisis.
Then we did just that.
QED-
Climate scientists are becoming climate activists as governments fail to heed warnings (msn.com)
When the lights go out their funding also needs to be turned off. No lights means no CO2 which means in turn no need of climate scientists (activists). Good riddance.
Expect to face the same fierce resistance that those who pointed out that no more research was needed because “climate science was settled”! Isn’t it a bit odd that Warmunistas always resist obvious logical conclusions so much? Hmmmmm!
Careful, we are getting on the wrong side of Ayn Rand.
CERN may soon discover the energy reality.
Sorry, not enough energy to keep it up and running.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/07/cern_draws_up_shutdown_plans/?td=rt-3a
“Are becoming”?
Government funded climate scientists are little different than the educated clergy of yore who provided the “science” of the day of the king’s right to rule by divine providence. By providing “credibility” to the ruler’s mandates they get to share in the plunder of the peasants.
It’s worth watching the whole presentation, Soon is informative, funny and insightful. He needs to be out there more, as he can deliver a message that cuts through with every generation.
In Iain McGilchrist’s magnum opus, The Matter With Things, there is a chapter on institutional science.
McGilchrist also points out that institutional science has a very poor claim to the truth. It’s very bad for society that an institution, which is very dodgy when it comes to the truth, has the ability to smack down folks who point out when it’s wrong.
*my addition
The warning is great “Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels.”
“Greenpeace is one of the most influential and best known environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Many people regard them as a compassionate organization that is chiefly concerned about protecting the environment and “doing the right thing.””
Many people?
Many
peoplebrain dead dronesSadly, Greenpeace hasn’t been a compassionate organization chiefly concerned about protecting the environment and doing the right thing for years
That’s why I left them a long time ago.
From video 3: “Nobody doubts that…”
Nobody?
Interviewer in debate sequence takes sides despite her ability to detect sketchiness.
Above referring to interview 1. Later, interview 3, Lindzen vs Hadi. One CO2 chart displayed, another not displayed. Interesting.
Hadi, the Canadian, seems reasonable. Expresses opinion without dismissing facts.Hadi says the problem is ocean acidification, and atmospheric CO2 not important. Lindzen wouldn’t touch acidification. Now I notice the moderator is on Lindzen’s side. Odd switch vs my expectation.
I got the names wrong, Hadi = Hadid. I think I’m watching a “debate” between two people on the same side. Both guys are saying the same things.
“Already beyond peak oil”?
I remember reading “The Oil Drum” in 2008. They had me fooled. The comments section was buzzing with the near-term demise of the Saudi economy. Fourteen years later…
I also read “Calculated Risk”, which converted itself from economic to political during Trump-Clinton. Not sure where it is now.
Likewise “Mish Global Economic Trend analysis”. Went hard left political from explicitly libertarian.
Mish is a climate skeptic IMV. He deals in realities, not BS. If he is politically Left, it is not detectable. He is particularly skeptical about hard Left economic policies.
Anyone interested: https://mishtalk.com/economics/china-is-not-rebalancing-its-flawed-dependence-on-huge-exports-continues
For example…
Science is the search for the truth, so you really can’t “weaponize” science. You can however corrupt anything such that truth (i.e. science) no longer exits within it.
Or your can misrepresent dogma as being science. It is the dogma that is being ‘weaponized’ by calling it science and saying that it is “settled.”
When I watched the first video, I had to laugh at the disclaimer.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – Government is even in the name.
So we are supposed to believe in government approved sources for all information instead of independant sources.
Isn’t that special.
Orwell’s book 1984 was a cautionary tale, not a guidebook.
Progressives haven’t just weaponized science – they do it with literally everything they touch – every move, every utterance is an attack.
FBI, DOJ, etc
I’ve been going to my mailbox every day for many many years. Alas, no check in there from BIG OIL.
Did I miss a signup or something?
If you want a check from Big Oil, buy the ETF DRLL. The biggest holding is Exxon.
Not saying it is a great winner but it is provided by Strive.com with the premise that ESG has no place in the investing world.