Global Climate Change: the smarter you are, the less it makes sense

Maybe this is why the religion of climate change is so popular in Hollywood:

The conventional explanation for controversy over climate change emphasizes impediments to public understanding: limited popular knowledge of science, the inability of ordinary citizens to assess technical information, and the resulting widespread use of unreliable cognitive heuristics to assess risk. A large survey of U.S. adults (N = 1540) found little support for this account. On the whole, the most scientifically literate and numerate subjects were slightly less likely, not more, to see climate change as a serious threat than the least scientifically literate and numerate ones.

The More You Know…!

Of course the Know-Nothings in Hollywood embrace it! They gave Al Gore an Oscar; it's gotta be true! Even if Climate Change has become the "Dead Parrot Sketch" of American politics.

Smart people, on the other hand, have well-honed bullshit detectors.

Da Tech Guy nails it:

The whole Climate change business was and is all about a way to funnel tax revenues to a select group of people who would politically reward those who conned the people into doing it while attending lush conferences with well stocked bars and willing young ladies at expensive resorts. Have you ever wondered why they just didn't video conference if they were so concerned about the emissions instead of burning all that jet fuel?

Now I know there are those of you among my readership who cling to the fallacious notion that CO₂ emissions are Evil On Steroids. You'll jump in any minute now to cite evidence "proving" that without draconian reductions in greenhouse gas emissions we are all Doomed.

Except now there is Actual Science which says otherwise. Back in the Eocene Epoch when the atmosphere was mostly CO₂ the assumption was that temperatures were uniformly high, even at the North and South Poles.

But wait, the science doesn't bear that prediction out.

"Our study shows that previous estimates of temperatures during the early Eocene were likely overestimated, especially at higher latitudes near the poles."

Sure things were hotter then. But, and this is important, they were not nearly as hot as the computer models predicted. And yes, those are the very same computer models being used to scare the luddites among us into believing in Globull Warming.

Oops.

Want more proof the Climate Change guys are all wet? Since 1998 the global surface temperature hasn't increased one iota. Not one. 2011 is on course to be even cooler. Yet, if the models are to hold any water at all average temperatures need to suddenly jump by at least 2° C by 2025, and by more than 5° C shortly thereafter.

The Real World data now coming in makes that possibility extremely unlikely.

Beating the dead parrot of Climate Change is the new Finagle's Creed: Science is Truth, don't be misled by facts.

Me? I like facts.

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