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Dec102014
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Kevin Anderson, Prof of Energy & Climate Change in Manchester and recently Director of the Tyndall Centre, can be seen being questioned by The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee in the video posted below. Fun to watch.
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...Kevin Anderson, Prof of Energy & Climate Change in Manchester and recently Director of the Tyndall Centre...
I read that initially as DICTATOR of the Tyndall Centre. Freudian, or what...?
Back in the days before the academics ran politics and we cared about our ability to export goods and earn foreign exchange ... before climategate before the decline of science into drivel new age post modern non-science.
This committee was called the committee of science and engineering.
In light of the evidence that British engineering created the greatest power on earth at the time in the British Empire and that all "science" has given us is idiots we saw in Climategate.
I suggest we have this committee renamed "Committee for engineering and technology".
I tried to watch it… I honestly did. But the utter, utter drivel that poured out of their mouths – particularly “Prof.” K. Anderson and his monstrously HUGE assumptions based upon next to no evidence whatsoever – weakened my resolve, and I turned off after milord Ridley’s second question.
On Youtube, if you eschew the products of the Evil Empire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hJ0JyGMA-ak#t=16
In the meantime - I'm taking bets on how long the Beeb can hold out before linking the current 'weather bomb' to climate change...
My money's on the Six O'Clock News....
(PS. Any wind turbines fallen over yet..?)
A YouTube link which jumps to Matt Ridley's question to Kevin Anderson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ0JyGMA-ak&feature=youtu.be&t=21m2s
It was the maniacal gleam in Andersons eyes that both amused and scared at the same time. The body language from the committee members was very interesting.
His "verbal emissions" reminded me of Doctor Strangelove. A man to be avoided and whose recommendations and opinions should be consigned to file 13 post haste. If he has any, his acolytes should be guided to a de-programming facility as soon as possible before they are irretrievably damaged.
[snip - OTT]
Mr Anderson came across as a very strange person indeed. Why was he so obsessed with air conditioning? His rant about cancer specialists etc was completely silly, there is no comparison between consulting a cancer specialist and a climate scientist. The cancer specialist will know about his subject in detail but the climate scientist cannot have the same depth of knowledge as the secrets of how the world climate works are known to nobody. The people either side of him came across as ignorant, arrogant nobodies (IMHO). Matt Ridley's question about why they thought world temperatures would rise 4 degrees in the next 35 years when they have risen only half of one degree in the last 35 years had them completely floored, hence the ranting. I find it very sad that taxpayers money is being used to pay this Anderson fellow to continue with his idiotic studies and worries about air conditioning.
Ther eis one line f question I would have liked to have seen developed.
There was a bit of back and forth about whether we are witnessing already weather events caused by AGW. One of the panel, (from the Climate Change Commision or something?) told the Committee that instead of being "caused by" these events, like recent floods were simply "consistent with", which he claimed is different of some distinction.
However, given this was a hearing about the intergrity of the energy infrastructure under climate change and the panelists were trying to convince the Committee that we needed to plan for worse this and worse that and bigger this and bigger that, or even more frequent this and more frequent that, I was surprised MAtt Ridley in aprticular did apply the following logic and question:
If, as claimed by the witnesses to the Committee, recent extreme weather events are "consistent with" events to be expected under future AGW, can we not dispense with all this prediction nonsense completely and consider how resilient our infrastructure is to these actual known events? After all, if these very events are "consistent with" what we can expect, we should dispense with questionable prediction and prognostication and test against what we know.
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