Back to episode — Episode 2533 CWSA 07/11/24
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ke the easiest thing you could look up in the world, doesn't it? The most important thing is climate change. So there's a gazillion documents and science about climate change. The most important thing we need to know about climate change is are the predictions correct, right? Would you agree? It's the biggest problem if it's true, and the biggest issue within it is can we predict it so that we kno…
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So we can't even be sure conclusively that we have more or less ice. I mean just think about that. And then what about the polar bears? The polar bears of course would be at risk if the ice melted. But you know what happened? We came up with some polar bear conservation laws and polar bears are starting to come back. What about the Great Barrier Reef? That there was going to be bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and then when the coral all dies that would cause some ripple effect and the oceans would be in bad shape. Did that happen? Yeah, it happened for years. The Great Barrier Reef was getting worse and worse and worse and worse until about three years ago and then it reversed. Why? Why did it reverse? How could it? And the answer is well maybe we don't know much about Great Barrier Reefs. So we don't have conclusive evidence that anything has ever happened in climate for 30 years. Probably no real evidence. There are claims but nothing credible.
And that so it comes down to temperature. So they bring it down to but we did tell you that as CO2 went up, which it did, that temperature would go up. And sure enough temperature's up, CO2 is up. Bing, proved it. To which I say, did it? Because the recent studies show that you can't tell if the temperature went up because the heat islands got closer to the thermometers and you don't know how much that would have affected it. But you know it affected it, right? And do you think they could have ever measured it anyway? That's not a thing humans can do. We can't measure the temperature of the Earth. That's sort of the Dilbert filter. If you've never worked in a big entity where you tried to gather data you wouldn't know that it never works. This is something I can't even communicate. You have to live it. Sometimes you say to yourself well Scott, lots of times the data is good. No it isn't. No it isn't. No, the data is never good in the real world. The data is never good. That's just the quality of the world. It does not apply to climate science. Climate scien
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ce isn't the first place that data became good. No, it's just like everything else. It's a bunch of human beings. And if they can't measure it they lie. That's what used to be my job. If I couldn't measure something it was my job explicitly — I'm not making this up — to lie about it. Because we couldn't do things without data and we had to show our analysis because you needed to get approved for t…
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