Climate Policy

[Jester]

No. My understanding of a logical progression of reasoning, and dispassionate application of scientific method and principles. I think Dr. Dyson's criticism of Dr. Hansen is not his science, but his obvious idealism and politics which calls his objectivity into question.

Okay. And if Hansen's results were some weird outlier, and he was wandering around hawking a ridiculous theory with paper-thin evidence, I'd say that'd be a perfectly good deduction: his idealism has tainted his reasoning.

Except, what he's saying is not unusual. It's dead in the mainstream of his discipline. It's what pretty much every major scientific organization and journal has supported. It's what the overwhelming majority of scientists, both inside and outside of his field, agree with.

This does not make him automatically right. But it does mean it's not possible to just toss him in with the crazies and cranks. What he is saying is backed up not only by his research, but the research of the whole climate field. Maybe he's too loud about it, and exudes too much certainty to accurately reflect the persistent difficulties in climate modelling. But the gist of what he's saying is scientific consensus. Are you really okay with calling that "politics", but then throwing " attack the argument not the person" in my face when you throw Steven Milloy into the mix?

-Jester