WILL WARMISTS PLEASE STOP WHINING

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American Spectator:

Climate alarmists are so frustrated by their losing the debate — both in public opinion of the importance of “climate change” as an issue and in climate data itself — that their response to even the most docile of questioning is to belittle the questioner and, after saying “Trust me, I’m a scientist,” bombard readers with misuse of statistics and misleading implications.

 

The most recent example comes from Mark Buchanan, “a physicist and science writer,” who penned an obnoxious little screed for Bloomberg View attacking hedge-fund manager Cliff Asness of AQR Capital for having the temerity to write a paper questioning alarmist claims of impending climate doom. This even though Asness and his co-author, Aaron Brown, state up front “we are not challenging climate science; we are not climate scientists.”

 

If anything, Messrs. Asness and Brown are far too gentle with the warmists, for example by using a largely land-based data set that shows more warming than the satellite (troposphere) data — the latter measurements having been instituted in part due to fear of inaccuracy of land measurements for a variety of reasons.

 

Buchanan’s note is entitled “Asness Should Manage Money, Not the Planet.” Despite his patronizing tone, perhaps thinking it is he who should manage the planet, Buchanan actually agrees with most of what Asness and Brown write regarding extrapolation of data. He should have stopped there, because in his own argument Buchanan offers only misleading conclusions and mischaracterization of fact.