Glaciergate – should the public trust scientists? What about Darwinism?
Occasionally polls are taken and results published, and we find which groups in society are perceived to be the most trustworthy, according to society. The findings usually show something like: we trust doctors and firemen, but lawyers, used-car salesman, real estate agents and politicians, are, um, not very trustworthy. Well, something like that anyhow.
Well, what about scientists?
UN climate panel blunders again over Himalayan glaciers is yet another mainstream-published piece that adds to the recent torrent of credibility claims about the previously-called global warming saga. Look at the opening shots from the Times article, and consider whether terrible damage that is being done to the credibility of science and/or scientists.
The chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Rajendra Pachauri’s Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), based in New Delhi, was awarded up to £310,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the lion’s share of a £2.5m EU grant funded by European taxpayers.
It means that EU taxpayers are funding research into a scientific claim about glaciers that any ice researcher should immediately recognise as bogus. The revelation comes just a week after The Sunday Times highlighted serious scientific flaws in the IPCC’s 2007 benchmark report on the likely impacts of global warming.
Ouch!
I think that anything that shakes Man’s faith in anything that isn’t Jesus, can only be good. I see a real connection between “scientists” claims that Climate Change is settled, and Evolution is proved. These are both false statements, but pronounced from on high in the hallowed halls of false religion, science. It wasn’t always this way. Good science doesn’t have to be in conflict with the Gospel, but sinful men have twisted it that way.