If Climate Change Is Real, Why Do Scientists Fudge Data?
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Posted 01/02/2015 05:31 PM ET
We've thought for a few years
now that the environmental bogeyman most likely to emerge as the global
warming scare continues to lose traction is the question of ocean
acidification. The enviro-left will not be caught without a new monster
to slay in its relentless campaign against capitalism and the free
market, and ocean acidification looks to it like a winner.
The claim is that the acidity level of the ocean is being pushed too high due to the use of fossil fuels. (Sounds familiar, no?)
"The introduction of massive amounts of CO2 into the seas is altering water chemistry and affecting the life cycles of many marine organisms, particularly those at the lower end of the food chain," says National Geographic's website.
"Unless humans are able to control and eventually eliminate our fossil fuel emissions, ocean organisms will find themselves under increasing pressure to adapt to their habitat's changing chemistry or perish."
Oceanacidification.net says more acidic oceans "has the potential to disrupt other ocean ecosystems, fisheries, habitats, and even entire oceanic food chains."
So of course the enviro-left is going to whop the public with this mallet just as it has with the empty global warming fright campaign. Anything to downshift Western market economies.
And of course the enviro-left is going to cheat. That's the charge against Richard A. Feely, a senior scientist with the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It seems his chart supposedly showing the rising danger of ocean acidification is this issue's equivalent of the tortured global warming hockey stick. According to climate blogger Anthony Watts, "Feely's work is based on computer models that don't line up with real-world data."
What's more, Feely has reportedly threatened a scientific colleague who wanted to see the real-world data points behind the chart, telling him he would "not last long" in his career if he continues to question the "motives or quality of" Feely and his colleague's science and continues to press for the data.
Mike Wallace, the University of New Mexico hydrologist working on a nanogeosciences doctorate who wants to see the data, told Watts that Feely's response "eclipses even the so-called climategate event."
That's not the sort of conduct we want from our scientists, but, given how so many have sold out to left-wing politics, it's certainly the conduct we've come to expect from them.
The claim is that the acidity level of the ocean is being pushed too high due to the use of fossil fuels. (Sounds familiar, no?)
"The introduction of massive amounts of CO2 into the seas is altering water chemistry and affecting the life cycles of many marine organisms, particularly those at the lower end of the food chain," says National Geographic's website.
"Unless humans are able to control and eventually eliminate our fossil fuel emissions, ocean organisms will find themselves under increasing pressure to adapt to their habitat's changing chemistry or perish."
Oceanacidification.net says more acidic oceans "has the potential to disrupt other ocean ecosystems, fisheries, habitats, and even entire oceanic food chains."
So of course the enviro-left is going to whop the public with this mallet just as it has with the empty global warming fright campaign. Anything to downshift Western market economies.
And of course the enviro-left is going to cheat. That's the charge against Richard A. Feely, a senior scientist with the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It seems his chart supposedly showing the rising danger of ocean acidification is this issue's equivalent of the tortured global warming hockey stick. According to climate blogger Anthony Watts, "Feely's work is based on computer models that don't line up with real-world data."
What's more, Feely has reportedly threatened a scientific colleague who wanted to see the real-world data points behind the chart, telling him he would "not last long" in his career if he continues to question the "motives or quality of" Feely and his colleague's science and continues to press for the data.
Mike Wallace, the University of New Mexico hydrologist working on a nanogeosciences doctorate who wants to see the data, told Watts that Feely's response "eclipses even the so-called climategate event."
That's not the sort of conduct we want from our scientists, but, given how so many have sold out to left-wing politics, it's certainly the conduct we've come to expect from them.
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