On Jan 18, 12:44*pm, Tom Gardner wrote:
On Jan 18, 11:10*am, delboy wrote:
*I am a trained

and qualified scientist in a different field, so I am used to
evaluating data. I think I can spot dodgy and biased data being used
for political purposes when I see it.

History is littered with with eminent scientists (in one field)
making pronouncements about a different field, and falling
flat on their faces.

History is also littered with quaint and misguided groups and
individuals who have held all sorts of strange beliefs which have
later been proved to be mistaken. There was a large group of people
(and still are I understand) who believed the earth was flat and
produced scientific avidence to prove it. A large number of people,
surported by the church believed the sun orbited the earth, King
Canute believed he could order the tide to stop coming in. The
scientific community at one time believed that you could tell if a
woman was a witch by throwing her into water. All these views are now
considered crazy. The modern equivalent is of course the climate
scientists who ignore the fact that this planet has been heating up
and cooling down for millions of years without our help, and also seem
unable to understand that all life is carbon and there is no way to
get rid of it. I have just realised that these scientists are crazy
earlier than most, everyone else will of course catch up if the Mayan
End of the World does not get them.
Breaking news, our climate is driven by the sun, which we now know
does not orbit the earth, quite how the climatic scientist propose to
fit a switch on something 93 million miles away defeats me, but I
suppose it keeps them in work, good job to have, one where you can
never suceed.