Wow, that Shark is flying now

“I don’t want to pick on Al Gore,” Don J. Easterbrook, an emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University, told hundreds of experts at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. “But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data.” nyt

Plenty of bloggers have known for a long time that algore is lying.

Now the New York Times is on the case.

Combined with Mark Hulme’s rather startling admission that science is a mere appliance,

This is the wrong question to ask of science. Self-evidently dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking, although science will gain some insights into the question if it recognises the socially contingent dimensions of a post-normal science. But to proffer such insights, scientists - and politicians - must trade (normal) truth for influence. If scientists want to remain listened to, to bear influence on policy, they must recognise the social limits of their truth seeking and reveal fully the values and beliefs they bring to their scientific activity. the guardian emphasis (and staggered astonishment) added

it becomes pretty clear that the wheels are falling off the great Global Warming bandwagon.

Now, I wonder if Harper will get this?

Of course Harper is engaged in “post-normal politics” in which truth is entirely secondary to the pursuit of the votes of the ignorant. Which is going to cost Canadians 2 billion and counting dollars as Steve paints himself green.

(HT SDA where the spin might not be quite the same.)

Update: Go read Orson Scott Card again via SDA which is doing brilliant work on the climate file. One can only hope that the Tories are reading this rather than handing out another hundred million for green paint.

Written by jay on March 15th, 2007 with no comments.
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