APR 6, 2014  

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BAH!

The prognosis on the climate isn't good - but I’m fed up with the alarmist way of presenting it. Those environmental scientists (they all ride under the science banner) are under the burden of producing results for their scientific degrees and professional recognition, and - I dare to say - many of them are just users of the powerful statistical software producing nice colorful graphs. Many of them - I dare to say - don’t have professional responsibility, not to mention social conscience.

Take a look on the graph below. How could someone with any social responsibility release a graph like that to a general public without explaining all the "ifs" built into the hypothesis? The "ifs" holding for the next thirty-six years? Here, of course, I assume that the authors of the graph do understand the software they are using. And more importantly, do authors understand that there are people who make social decisions, like politicians, based on a graph like this one? Or, maybe, the graph is made just for BAH (The festival of Bad Ad Hoc hypotheses).

Besides, scaring politicians and social workers with the apocalyptic scenarios isn’t a smart way to help them to do their job.

 

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