Last weekend, a record number of nonscientists marched in an attempt to equate environmental religion with hard scientific fact. They repeatedly mentioned that “95 percent of scientists agree” about man-caused global warming. Fortunately, real science is not determined by consensus, no matter how broad, and scientific debate is never over.
Climatologists have been compromised by research grants, tenure and peer encouragement to publish theories, models and extrapolations and to ignore actual evidence. Dramatic climate change has occurred throughout earth’s 4-billion-year history. Even the last 500 years has seen significant shifts in temperature, rainfall, snowpack, ocean salinity and vegetation, none of which can be attributed to an enlarged carbon output.
In reality, the temperature rise being touted is in the range of hundredths of a degree, well below the error limit of thermocouples, and essentiality meaningless.
