As part of their press to have their wild claims of man-caused global warming accepted as factual science, the scheming alarmists often cited a statistic that 97% of the world’s top climate scientists support their fairy tale. Now a group of elite scientists and others are on the record disputing those claims, and in numbers that would also challenge those who throw out that 97% consensus figure.
With the alarmists allowing for only three percent of the scientific community to be in opposition to their claims, the three hundred would conversely commit the global warming crowd to a minimum of 9,700 accredited experts in support of their claims, if every scientist in opposition signed the letter. Are they prepared with names and endorsements to substantiate those assertions?
The three hundred scientist signatories included 25 climate or atmospheric scientists, 23 geologists, 18 meteorologists, 51 engineers, 74 physicists, 20 chemists and 12 economists. One is a Nobel Prize winning physicist and two are astronauts. These experts sent a letter to Texas Republican Congressman Lamar Smith on Thursday, and to his House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. In it they warned that NOAA may have violated federal law when they rewrote history and climate science by altering global temperature data.
They did so in what appears to have been a deliberate effort to eliminate the actual information which showed there had been no warming at all for a minimum of fifteen years. The facts were proving to be problematic for the Obama regime and the UN in advance of the UN COP21 climate summit in Paris. Not only did they eliminate the troublesome pause, they doubled down, providing the basis for the globalist arguments that the first fifteen years of the 21st century were the warmest on record.
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Great Discussion of the Future with Steve Jurvetson. Lots of Medical / genetic engineering.
IQ and life outcomes chart
Archaeologists uncover 10,000 year old massacre
These stories of 10,000 year old massacres pretty much kill of that myth of the noble savage that liberals like to espouse, as they lay the blame for all the world’s problems at the feet of modern western civilization.
The left’s own war on science
How much longer can the liberal left survive in the face of growing scientific evidence that many of its core beliefs are false? I’m thinking in particular of the conviction that all human beings are born with the same capacities, particularly the capacity for good, and that all mankind’s sins can be laid at the door of the capitalist societies of the West. . . .
One such Charles Darwin figure is the American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon. He has devoted his life to studying the Yanomamö, indigenous people of the Amazonian rain forest on the Brazilian-Venezuelan border, and his conclusions directly challenge the myth of the noble savage. ‘Real Indians sweat, they smell bad, they take hallucinogenic drugs, they belch after they eat, they covet and at times steal their neighbour’s wife, they fornicate, and they make war,’ Chagnon told a Brazilian journalist. His view of the Yanomamö people is summed up by the title he gave to his masterwork on the subject: The Fierce People. . . .
In 2000, in a book called Darkness in El Dorado, the journalist Patrick Tierney accused Chagnon and his collaborator James Neel of fomenting wars among rival tribes, aiding and abetting illegal gold miners, deliberately infecting the Yanomamö with measles and paying subjects to kill each other. Shockingly, these charges were taken at face value and widely reported in liberal publications like the New Yorker and the New York Times. . . .
Chagnon has now been exonerated and resumed his career.
Dreger has not abandoned her own liberal convictions. She believes the search for scientific truth and social justice go hand in hand and ends her book with an plea to academic colleagues to defend freedom of thought. But her title, Galileo’s Middle Finger, suggests the progressive left may not survive these clashes with heretical scientists.
Peer-Reviewed Survey Finds Majority Of Scientists Skeptical Of Global Warming Crisis
Don’t look now, but maybe a scientific consensus exists concerning global warming after all. Only 36 percent of geoscientists and engineers believe that humans are creating a global warming crisis, according to a survey reported in the peer-reviewed Organization Studies. By contrast, a strong majority of the 1,077 respondents believe that nature is the primary cause of recent global warming and/or that future global warming will not be a very serious problem.
The survey results show geoscientists (also known as earth scientists) and engineers hold similar views as meteorologists. Two recent surveys of meteorologists (summarized here and here) revealed similar skepticism of alarmist global warming claims.
According to the newly published survey of geoscientists and engineers, merely 36 percent of respondents fit the “Comply with Kyoto” model. The scientists in this group “express the strong belief that climate change is happening, that it is not a normal cycle of nature, and humans are the main or central cause.”
The authors of the survey report, however, note that the overwhelming majority of scientists fall within four other models, each of which is skeptical of alarmist global warming claims.
The survey finds that 24 percent of the scientist respondents fit the “Nature Is Overwhelming” model. “In their diagnostic framing, they believe that changes to the climate are natural, normal cycles of the Earth.” Moreover, “they strongly disagree that climate change poses any significant public risk and see no impact on their personal lives.”
Wine Tasting is Junk Science, and machines can’t do tastes
“But the step we haven’t got to is how that raw chemical information can be crunched together and converted into something that reflects someone’s emotional response. That might be something we can never achieve.”
From this article:
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/23/wine-tasting-junk-science-analysis
No Islands have been lost to rising sea levels
At the same time, ‘no islands have been lost, the majority have enlarged, and there has been a 7.3 percent increase in net island area over the past century.’
pacificpolicy.org/2015/05/so-far-most-atolls-winning-the-sea-level-rise-battle/
Scientists Claim Zapping Brains with Magnets Can Treat Belief in God
Genetic Pacification Theory
The theory has some problems — questionable early data, Italy as a counter example, and the timing of the decrease in violence. Follow the link below for a good discussion below the article.
In this newly published paper, two anthropologists, Peter Frost and Henry Harpending, argue that the last thousand years have seen a radical change in the legitimacy of personal violence. Previously, every man had the right to settle personal disputes as he saw fit, even to the point of killing, and it was only the threat of retaliation from the victim’s kinsmen that kept violence in check. This situation began to change in the 11th century throughout Western Europe with a growing consensus that the wicked should be punished so that the good may live in peace. Courts imposed the death penalty more and more often and, by the late Middle Ages, were condemning to death between 0.5 and 1.0% of all men of each generation, with perhaps just as many offenders dying at the scene of the crime or in prison while awaiting trial. Meanwhile, the homicide rate plummeted from the 14th century to the 20th, decreasing forty-fold. The pool of violent men dried up until most murders occurred under conditions of jealousy, intoxication, or extreme stress.
The immediate causes were legal and cultural: harsher punishment and a shift in popular attitudes toward the violent male—who went from hero to zero. This new social environment, however, also tended to favor the survival and reproduction of individuals who would less easily resort to violence on their own initiative.
Nobel Winner to Obama on Global Warming: ‘Mr. President, You’re Wrong’
1% not 0.1% — differences in human DNA
“Instead of 99.9% identical, maybe we’re only 99% (alike),” said J. Craig Venter, an author of the study — and the person whose DNA was analyzed for it.
Several previous studies have argued for lowering the 99.9% estimate. Venter says this new analysis “proves the point.”
The new work, in the latest issue of PLoS Biology, marks the first time a scientific journal has presented the entire DNA makeup, or human genome, of an individual. However, James D. Watson — co-discoverer of DNA’s molecular structure — received his own personal DNA map from scientists a few months ago. And the genomes for both him and Venter are already posted on scientific websites.
Venter is president of the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md., which does genetics research. He and scientists at his institute and elsewhere collaborated on the work that produced his genetic map.
The order of building blocks along a strand of DNA encodes genetic information, somewhat like the way a sequence of letters creates a sentence. Particular sequences form genes. Landmark studies published in 2001 indicated that the DNA of any two people is about 99.9% alike. The new paper suggests estimates of 99.5% to just 99%, Venter said.
The Venter paper joins several others published over the past three to four years that indicate an estimate of around 99%, said Richard Gibbs, a DNA expert at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston who didn’t participate in Venter’s study.
The studies produce the lower figure because they uncovered chunks of DNA that differ among people, whereas previous studies focused on differences in individual building blocks.
The 99% figure is close to what scientists have often estimated for the similarity between humans and chimps. But the human-chimp similarity drops to more like 95% when the more recently discovered kinds of DNA variation are considered, Venter said.
usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-09-03-dna-differences_N.htm
Bernie: Terrorism caused by Climate Change
Genghis Han killed so many people, that it was actually good for the environment, new study claims
(W) Genghis Khan was the first “Green” leader in history because he checked so many privileges out of existence that it stopped climate change dead in its tracks.
www.zmescience.com/ecology/genghis-khan-environment-26052014/