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Joanne Nova: To get politics out of science, scientists need to be more scientific, not more political

Monday, January 7th 2013, 3:09 AM EST

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Since when was science “political?” Answer: It’s not, but the institutions and bureaucrats who pretend to be scientists are. In the past, partisan scientists would at least try to hide that and keep up the dispassionate persona that marks a seeker of the truth. Now some scientists wear their bias like a badge.

How do we stop the politicisation of science? Not this way. Daniel Sarewitz argues (weakly) in Nature that we need scientists of both political sides in “expert” panels:

The US scientific community must decide if it wants to be a Democratic interest group or if it wants to reassert its value as an independent national asset. If scientists want to claim that their recommendations are independent of their political beliefs, they ought to be able to show that those recommendations have the support of scientists with conflicting beliefs. Expert panels advising the government on politically divisive issues could strengthen their authority by demonstrating political diversity. The National Academies, as well as many government agencies, already try to balance representation from the academic, non-governmental and private sectors on many science advisory panels; it would be only a small step to be equally explicit about ideological or political diversity. Such information could be given voluntarily.

Source Link: joannenova.com.au

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Seven recent papers that disprove man-made global warming from hockeyschtick.blogspot

Tuesday, October 30th 2012, 6:34 AM EDT

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Seven recent papers that disprove man-made global warming

Anthony Cox and Jo Nova

Introduction

Climate Change was described in 2007 by the soon to be, briefly, Australian prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, as the “greatest moral, economic and environmental challenge of our generation.” By Climate Change Rudd meant anthropogenic global warming, or global warming as it was originally described by Al Gore.

Government attempts to ‘solve’ global warming are framed by hyperbole and urgent policies. These policies involve the expenditure of vast amounts of money1,2 and are justified because we are told “The science is settled”3.

Science is never settled. Richard Feynman said [The Meaning of it All, 1999]:

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JOHN O'SULLIVAN JOANNE NOVA WORLD TEMPERATURES HEADLINE STORY

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John O'Sullivan: Now Australians Take Up Challenge in Debating Dodgy Greenhouse Gas Physics

Sunday, October 21st 2012, 3:23 PM EDT

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Will Jo Nova Shine Some Light on the Greenhouse Gas Debate?

Leading Aussie skeptic blogger, Jo Nova, is currently holding the second compelling debate about the validity of disputed numbers woven into the cornerstone of global warming science: the so-called greenhouse gas effect theory (GHE).

Now that even the U.S. presidential contest is a “global warming free zone” it is becoming clear that not just the political, but the scientific edifice of this junk science is collapsing. The biggest remaining obstacle is vested interest scientists who are either incapable or refuse to examine a very simple element of the GHE: the supposed “33 degrees” of measured warming that makes our planet “warmer than it would otherwise be.”

In a spirit of refreshing openness, Jo Nova has recently been leading the way on this matter. In September she hosted the superb paper by Dr Jinan Cao that questioned the applicability of the Stefan-Boltzmann equation in the formation of the “33 degrees” number.

Now Nova’s blog is running a welcome critique of ‘Slaying the Sky Dragon’ the book that first propelled discussion of the GHE center-stage. Already the comments are lively. Sadly there exists an element that prefers name-calling over civilized debate and my co-authors and colleagues who support the book are being labeled “dunderheads,” “cranks,” and “deniers.” Ok, so let’s do simple analysis even a dunderhead can fathom. Take, for instance, the claimed “33 degrees” of so-called greenhouse gas warming cited as “fact” proving the “theory.”

Source Link: johnosullivan.wordpress.com

JOANNE NOVA ANTHONY COX HEADLINE STORY

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Joanne Nova & Anthony Cox: Man Made Global Warming Disproved

Tuesday, October 2nd 2012, 5:58 AM EDT

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Figure 1 Climate Sensitivity Comparison (empirical methods versus models, for a doubling of the CO2 level).

The theory that failed

It takes only one experiment to disprove a theory. The climate models are predicting a global disaster, but the empirical evidence disagrees. The theory of catastrophic man-made global warming has been tested from many independent angles.

The heat is missing from oceans; it’s missing from the upper troposphere. The clouds are not behaving as predicted. The models can’t predict the short term, the regional, or the long term. They don’t predict the past. How could they predict the future?

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Joanne Nova in The Australian: Manne is anti-science on climate

Saturday, August 25th 2012, 8:30 AM EDT

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I’m published this weekend in The Australian (building on the post I did previously here. Manne himself popped in there to tell us “Deniers Hunt in Packs” — demonstrating his true depth of insight into the libertarian independent psyche — a group defined by it’s non-pack nature.)

Manne declares that the “Denialists are Victorious” (in The Monthly, August 2012) but his sole reasoning that the victorious are “deniers” is merely that some chosen experts tell us a disaster is coming and he feels they could not possibly be wrong. Argument from authority is a fallacy known for 2,000 years, and it is a key point, it is the disguise of the witchdoctor — “Trust me, I am the chosen one”. The one defining difference between science and religion is that the devout can argue from authority, but the scientific cannot. In science there are no Gods and there is no Bible — what matters is the evidence. The highest experts may declare the world is headed for catastrophe, but if 3,000 thermometers in ocean buoys disagree (and they do: see “Argo”), the scientist questions the opinions and goes with the observations.

Source Link: joannenova.com.au

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MUST SEE YOUTUBE: Joanne Nova's Most Convincing Speech Yet (September 2011)

Thursday, July 12th 2012, 6:57 AM EDT

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Joanne Nova's Most Convincing Speech Yet

Uploaded by mmattjanet on Sep 24, 2011

At the Perth Election Now! rally on 18 September 2011.

H/T Twitter - ChairmanAl

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MUST SEE YOUTUBE: Joanne Nova: The Earth is Round & Polar Bears Are Doing Just Fine

Sunday, April 22nd 2012, 7:32 AM EDT

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Joanne Nova-The Earth is Round & Polar Bears Are Doing Just Fine

Published on Apr 19, 2012 by FinancialSurvivalNet

FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents:

Joanne "Jo" Nova has made a career of fighting a never ending war against propaganda, media manipulation, and ignorance. Jo is the ultimate climate change skeptic, and she's even written a book about it. From Australia, where she resides, her message resonates around the world; stand up, think for yourself, and stop letting the government think for you. This message, along with many others, is in her book Septic's Handbook, which has hit 200,000 copies. Jo is trying to get people to understand there's a lot more to widely held popular beliefs; thus, we all need to question them on a regular basis.

VOSTOK ICE CORE GRAPH JOANNE NOVA CO2 LEVEL WORLD TEMPERATURES A GRAPH TO DEBUNK AGW REPLY TO ARTICLE VINCENT GRAY

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Joanne Nova: Vincent Gray: Vostok Ice Core Graphs: The 800 Year Lag – Graphed

Tuesday, April 10th 2012, 6:08 AM EDT

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The following articles are from the joannenova.com.au and a recent Newsletter from Vincent Gray, the data used compliments the recent reply to the BBC & Nature article from Piers Corbyn, “Dishonest, Delusional & Dangerous”.

Carbon follows temperature in the Vostok Ice Cores In the 1990′s the classic Vostok ice core graph showed temperature and carbon in lock step moving at the same time. It made sense to worry that carbon dioxide did influence temperature. But by 2003 new data came in and it was clear that carbon lagged behind temperature. The link was back to front. Temperatures appear to control carbon, and while it’s possible that carbon also influences temperature these ice cores don’t show much evidence of that. After temperatures rise, on average it takes 800 years before carbon starts to move. The extraordinary thing is that the lag is well accepted by climatologists, yet virtually unknown outside these circles. The fact that temperature leads is not controversial. It’s relevance is debated.

It’s impossible to see a lag of centuries on a graph that covers half a million years so I have regraphed the data from the original sources, here and here, and scaled the graphs out so that the lag is visible to the naked eye. What follows is the complete set from 420,000 years to 5,000 years before the present.

•NOTE 1: What really matters here are the turning points, not the absolute levels.
•NOTE 2: The carbon data is unfortunately far less detailed than the temperature data.
Beware of making conclusions about turning points
or lags when only one single point may be involved.
•NOTE 3: The graph which illustrates the lag the best, and also has the most carbon data
is 150,000-100,000 years ago.

Source Link: joannenova.com.au

MARC MORANO HEARTLANDGATE JAMES DELINGPOLE UPDATED HEADLINE STORY JOANNE NOVA STATEMENT FAKEGATE

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Marc Morano: Heartland Inst. Responds: Warmist Touted Climate Skeptic Document 'a total fake' -- Others documents may have been 'altered': Updated by James Delingpole & Jo Nova

Thursday, February 16th 2012, 1:40 AM EST

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One document, titled 'Confidential Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy,' is a total fake...It was not written by anyone associated with The Heartland Institute. It does not express Heartland's goals, plans, or tactics. It contains several obvious and gross misstatements of fact'

By Marc Morano – Climate Depot

Reprinted with Permission: (Also see source link for extensive Round Up of reactions to Heartland document controversy)

Heartland Institute Responds to Stolen and Fake Documents

FEBRUARY 15, 2012 – The following statement from The Heartland Institute – a free-market think tank – may be used for attribution. For more information, contact Communications Director Jim Lakely at jlakely@heartland.org

Yesterday afternoon, two advocacy groups posted online several documents they claimed were The Heartland Institute's 2012 budget, fundraising, and strategy plans. Some of these documents were stolen from Heartland, at least one is a fake, and some may have been altered.

The stolen documents appear to have been written by Heartland's president for a board meeting that took place on January 17. He was traveling at the time this story broke yesterday afternoon and still has not had the opportunity to read them all to see if they were altered. Therefore, the authenticity of those documents has not been confirmed.

Updated below by James Delingpole & Jo Nova

Source Link: ClimateDepot