Just for fun

The New Zealand Herald has an article in it today on the "Global Warming Hysteria". I would never expect to see this out of NZ, so it will be curious to read their op-eds in the coming days.

Some journalists were "a bit scientifically illiterate" and when scientists put out the results of their computer modelling, worst-case scenarios were usually reported.

"It was usually an envelope of figures, one which said the planet could warm 6C in the next 100 years and the other end of the envelope was perhaps 0.5C in 100 years," said Dr Auer. "And you know which one would be quoted.

"And the scientists were, I feel, in some respects, to blame because they never came forward and said ‘wait a minute, you took that out of context’."

That in turn started a rather insidious environment in which maintaining that perception of crisis drove the research funding, he said.

"Crises are what always drives the funding.

"If you think back, you have never heard anything positive that could come about from global warming ... everything is always negative, alarmist, fear, doom," he said.

He said the issue had been based on hysteria.