posted on February 18, 2007 03:19:03 AM new
You can read the whole thing at: http://tinyurl.com/35jes3
Bad Research, Worse Reporting on Global Warming
Friday, February 09, 2007
By Dennis Byrne
In trying to prove that the Bush administration is throttling research into global warming, the Union of Concerned Scientists rolled out some breathtakingly bad science.
The group unveiled a supposedly scientific survey of more than 1,600 federal climate scientists as evidence that the administration was engaged in \"wide-ranging political interference in research related to global warming.\"
\"The new evidence shows that political interference in climate science is no longer a series of isolated incidents but a system-wide epidemic,\" Dr. Francesca Grifo, director of the UCS Scientific Integrity Program, said in a statement. \"Tailoring scientific fact for political purposes has become a problem across many federal science agencies.\"
Grifo obviously doesn\'t appreciate the irony when he trots out a poll that is so flawed that it is manifest evidence of exaggeration, incompetence or dishonesty on his group\'s part.
You don\'t have to be a social scientist to understand that the survey was deceptive, for example, when it lumped into the same category scientists who said they actually experienced the alleged tampering and scientists who simply \"perceived\" that it happened to someone else. For example, the group\'s press release said \"Forty-three percent of respondents reported they had perceived or personally experienced changes or edits during review of their work that changed the meaning of their scientific findings.\" But turn to the study\'s appendix, and you\'ll find that only 15 percent of the respondents said that they had actually experienced such interference.
posted on February 18, 2007 12:46:19 PM new
Ralph Nader assumed almost God like status with the whackos in a similar way. He had 2 VW Beetles subjected to very bad crashes. 1 of them caught fire. He then started his anti VW Beetle crusade because 50% of Beetles in severe accidents explode.
posted on February 18, 2007 02:34:42 PM new
Colin, this report isn't about research on global warming..didn't you read it?
[ edited by profe51 on Feb 18, 2007 07:04 PM ]
posted on February 18, 2007 04:10:11 PM new
Didn't WHO read it?
My post was addressing NADER'S scientific conclusion.
"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
posted on February 18, 2007 09:43:37 PM new
Heads in the sand. It's coming; it's here; it's real; our grandchildren will suffer in many ways from the warming humanity has caused.
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