Add the American Association for the Advancement of, ahem, Science to the global warming/climate change cult.
Crank up the NPR propaganda machine, boys.
Anthony Watts, whose Watts Up With That blog consistently wins awards for analysis of the climate hoax’s prevarications and outright falsehoods, has a devastating critique of their latest shuck, which carries the AAAS stamp of approval:
“To ‘inform the public’ about their fearful conclusions, [the AAAS] cited 2 outdated peer-reviewed articles, written by [University of Texas biologist] Camille Parmesan, who not surprisingly was one of the 13 scientists writing the AAAS’ media release…If we peruse those papers, we find that one of those 2 cites 11 other Parmesan papers, creating a consensus where Parmesan agrees with Parmesan. Not only are the AAAS’s argument[s] very inbred, they are outdated and contradicted by more recent peer-reviewed studies.”
Back when I did science writing I was initially impressed with the triple-A S and its members, though I soon recognized that most of them were kneejerk leftist Democrats. They routinely sneered at any colleague who did research with corporate money and insisted that only the feds, who fund most of American science research, were pure and objective. As if.
I also interviewed Parmesan on her initial butterflies-moving-north-to-beat-the-heat studies which Anthony shows have been long since superceded by the work of others finding the opposite. UT nevertheless touts Parmesan as a global warming “expert.” Her principal expertise seems to be impressing the Democrat news media.
Cue the NYTimes and Wapo. Bring up the BBC’s spotlight. We’re all gonna dieeeeee.
UPDATE: The dictator’s club’s cult agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, apparently didn’t get the AAAS memo. They’re softening their drumbeat of disaster:
“The 2007 [IPCC] report was riddled with errors about Himalayan glaciers, the Amazon rain forest, African agriculture, water shortages and other matters, all of which erred in the direction of alarm….According to leaks, this time the full report is much more cautious and vague about worsening cyclones, changes in rainfall, climate-change refugees, and the overall cost of global warming.”
MORE: Well, they weren’t all that “cautious and vague” even in the face of declining temperatures. Don’t trouble them with facts.
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