By H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.
In normal circumstances, we must welcome the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) engaging in an honest assessment of the state of the climate, with the effects of greenhouse gases on it and what potential impacts could realistically.
Unfortunately, on the basis of the NAS’s decision of the decision of the NAS to produce such a report, the short time he has given to form a committee and produce an supposedly complementary assessment covering 16 years of research, and the composition of the committee itself, we can probably conclude that it was only a political exercise. An effort to undermine the recent report from the Ministry of Energy and derail the decision of the American environmental protection agency to cancel its conclusion of endangerment.
Indeed, the NAS report completely ignores fundamental science, never seriously considering the causes of current climate change, or if human actions provoke a climate disaster.
The language of the proposal, the composition of the committee and the speed at which it was produced did not instill that it would be an evaluation without bias and balanced “, and that was not the case. The report of the NAS stipulates:”[t]The study will develop conclusions that describe supporting evidence. An objective examination would have been more neutral.
According to the NAS, the members of the committee producing the report “contain the expertise required to respond to its task and if the views of individual members are adequately balanced so that the committee as a whole can objectively attack its charges.”
However, there was little expertise in climate science itself, and no balance at all. Instead, the vast major part of the members demonstrate through their writings and their public declarations according to which they are predisposed to link the increase in atmospheric CO2 to a claimed catastrophic climate change.
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Let’s start with the chairman of the committee. The NAS has avoided the choice of an eminent physicist, like the members of the NAS, Richard Lindzen, will be happier, or Steve Koonin, to chair the committee. Rather, he named Shirley Mr. Tilghman, professor of molecular biology, to assess climate change. Although Tilghman can be qualified to assess the potential phenotypic and genetic impacts of climate change on biological organizations, it lacks specialized knowledge concerning the causes of climate change, either continuous changes in the present, or climate change in the past.
Of course, the choice was not accidental. Tilghman was firmly showed in the community of consensual sciences who believe that humans cause dangerous climate change.
“I do not need to tell this public that during the last 50 years, we have experienced an unprecedented increase in CO2 levels in the environment, which has led to an increase in the world level of the 17 cm sea, and an increase in temperature on land and in the oceans,” said Tilghman in a 2015 conference at the Royal College of Physicians of Londres, “lays the foundations of scientific progress in the 21st century”.
She then triggered the state of the climate state through a wide range of features indicating: “[t]The impact of these changes in the atmosphere is large -scale and threatens human health and well -being in many ways, thanks to more extreme fluctuations in weather conditions, a decrease in air and water quality, a decrease in agriculture productivity, damage to fragile ecosystems – coral reefs in oceans and arctic habitats And finally the loss of coastal cages. ».
How is a person that real world data can be so wrong about the current state of agricultural productivity – its improvement due to climate change – the absence of measurable changes in extreme weather conditions, and the absence of a discernible climate impact on coral reefs and coastal cities to be at the head of this committee, unless the objective of promoting a predetermined conclusion?
The other members of the committee are not better.
David T. Allen, Ph.D., Susan Anenberg, Ph.D., Michele Barry, MD, Charles T. Driscoll, Jr., Ph.D., Chris T. Hendrickson, Ph.D., Marika Holland, Ph.D., George M. Hornberger, admiral rear David W. Titley, USN (Retred Activist organizations or centers and centers and centers and centers and centers and centers University departments have specifically founded by assuming that humans cause dangerous climate change, the effects of which must be detected or teased both to allocate repairs and develop responses.
These centers and groups have received millions of dollars from subsidies, contracts and donations placed on the assumption that climate change is dangerous and must be interrupted according to solutions or policies developed by their centers or organizations. If climate change does not produce or seriously threaten the catastrophic consequences, their respective reputation and their livelihood would be discredited and funded.
As such, it was not surprising that the report they would have written in the incredibly short time of only a few days after being confirmed in their position even missed a breath of objectivity.
The NAS report has not dealt with weaknesses admitted in climate models, biases inherent in temperature measurements at ground level, or recognize that climate change, and all the policies implemented to mitigate it, have and will continue to result in unforeseen costs and consequences.
Instead, the report, as for the modeling of the climate itself, was nothing more than another exercise in gigo, garbage, garbage, in search of progressive or liberal political ends.
NAS has become a highly politicized organization and, therefore, its relationships should be considered extremely skeptically.
This is bad for the continuation of knowledge, confidence in science and for contemporary policy because it is difficult to shape solid public policies based on a precise understanding of the state of the world when the views presented are explicitly motivated by the progressive political agenda of the enlargement of government power.
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., ([email protected])) is the director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute, a non -partisan non -profit research organization.
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