"Give me more money!" Scientists say.

Vincent J. Curtis

14 Mar 23

RE: Floods, droughts worsen with warming. AP story by Isabella O’Malley.  The Hamilton Spectator 14 Mar 23.

You don’t have to be a scientist to see through the nonsense in this story; all it takes is logical thinking.

Let’s start with the claim that floods and droughts are worsening with global warming.  As Steve Milloy of Junkscience.com has been pointing out, NASA-NOAA’s own satellites show that the global average temperature is the same today as it was eight years and five months ago; so there is no warming.  Hence, what the workers claim to be seeing isn’t due to global warming.

The second point is that what the workers claim their satellites are allegedly telling them are, in fact, inferences the workers are making themselves.  The satellites provide data, and the workers interpret that data.  That things are allegedly getting worse is inferred by comparison of recent data with past data; but since this program is only twenty years old, the workers lack the more serious perspective of a hundred years or more of data.  With only 20 years, they can’t tell the difference between an irreversible trend and a cycle; and after hundreds of thousands of years, everything is a cycle.

Finally, the conclusion that the worsening of flooding and droughts is due to “the burning of fossil fuels” is obviously far-fetched and unscientific.  The leap from “the burning of fossil fuels” to anthropogenic global warming is itself a hypothesis in dire want of proof – let that be realized.  It should be read as a plea for next year’s research grant.

The workers cast incense upon the altar of climate change, and, having demonstrated their loyalty, earnestly expect that they be given more grant money.

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