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Overhead At Docksat's avatar

As a trained physicist and an aerospace/space engineer I've seen both sides of the "scientific" coin so to speak. The research and publications and then the verification and validation that a scientific idea can become something useful. Many do not make this transition.

I know first hand from my PhD days that peer review and the academic process is not a mark of correctness that the average person knows. It's just a marker, an entry in the messy discourse of scientific progress. Real progress is subjecting something to the engineering process and the audit process. All those lofty assumptions get stripped away into "how did you test that?".

So it is a constant pain seeing the pontifications of places like my home country of the UK all about Net Zero and what to do "about carbon". None of this basic science has been verified to real world standards. When I FOI'd the government and asked for any reports or procedures where the science was verified safe to apply to the public it returned with a link to the IPCC, even after detailed review.

And yet in the same country we have the 2016 Water Act that goes into detail about how you should ensure your testing equipment and procedures meet specs.

The minute you try and verify the temperature record uncertainty it all falls apart. And even if you could and the IPCC was the "authoritative source" as the UK often says (and I expect Canada too) you'd think it would be easy then to knock up a quick verification report.

I often think I should have stuck my hand in the Green trough but I probably couldn't live with myself.

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Dr Kay's avatar

At 800 ppm atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, plants thrive and life flourishes.

At 150 ppm atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, all life ceases to exist.

A year ago, the average atmospheric carbon dioxide level was 417.

Right now, it's around 412.

Even with the absurd and illogical "new math" that has been rendering children in public schools incapable of speaking or even recognizing the language of mathematics (which, btw is one of the four fundamental building blocks of wisdom and knowledge of the Universe that the Quadrivium teaches), most people are able to see that 412 is much closer to 150 than it is to 800.

If people actually used their brains and applied actual facts, they would see that we are slowly creeping closer and closer to "all life ceases to exist".

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