The Science is NOT Settled

Update 1:

The Stormtroopers are at it again - GetUp! turns to ShutUp!

 

Steve Hunter is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator and lives in Buderim Queensland.

Andy Semple

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[SignedIn]

1.

LoL so now asking for accuracy in the debate is akin to a call to shut up?
Or are you trying to silence GetUp?

[Anton]

2.

The science is settled.

There is no way the insignificant contribution of carbon dioxide to global warming could be detected against the backdrop of the overwhelming and highly variable contribution of water vapour.

The debate is about another tax, for no reason other than the transfer of wealth from citizens to the government.

[SignedIn]

3.

LoL
Oh yes ... because all the scientists who say AGW is real are part of a conspiracy?
LoL

[Michael Sutcliffe]

4.

This scientist says that's the case:

Garth Paltridge is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University and Emeritus Professor and Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Oceans Studies (IASOS), University of Tasmania. In his career, he worked as an
atmospheric physicist, predominantly with CSIRO and briefly with NOAA , and has published more than 100 books and scientific papers. He published “The Climate Caper: Facts and Fallacies of Global Warming“ in 2009.

We hear that Julia Gillard is happy to have the CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian Academy of Science on her side while making her arguments for a carbon tax. Well of course she is. She and her predecessors bought them. And bought them good. Over the last couple of years her Department of Climate Change (the DCC) gave them $27 million in the form of research grants. That pays a fair swag of the salaries of the CSIRO and Bureau climate scientists who make up the majority of all employed climate scientists in Australia.

University climate researchers, while relatively few in number, are vocal enough to be heard in many public forums. Julia has bought them too with another $5.5 million from the same source… Among other things it can be put towards such niceties as business-class travel to the many international workshops and conferences that are part of the climate-change industry.

The bottom line is that virtually all climate research in Australia is funded from one source – namely, the government department which has the specific task of selling to the public the idea that something drastic and expensive has to be done to the structure of society in the name of mitigating climate change. And if you think that government agencies shouldn’t be in the game of social engineering, then you are way behind the times. Over the last two years more than $100 million was distributed by the DCC for exactly that purpose.

So there can be no doubt that climate-research grant recipients know perfectly well that scepticism concerning the climate-change story does very little for their careers. One therefore wonders a bit about the much-vaunted consensus of the global warming establishment regarding climatic doom.

[Andy]

5.

Johnson, Educate yourself

http://www.stopgillardscarbontax.com/2011/07/carbon-dioxide-and-the-politics-of-the-carbon-tax.html

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