DOOMWATCH 2008: Comprehensive Doom List Now Available

Number Watch - the guide to wrong numbers in science, media and politics provides a helpful guide to tracking OUR SURE AND CERTAIN DOOM! with Warmlist: A complete list of things caused by global warming

It's almost up to 500 things with 100% MORE DOOM! always on the way!

Sample:

Acne,agricultural land increase, Africa devastated, African aid threatened, Africa hit hardest, air pressure changes, Alaska reshaped, allergies increase, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream ends,   amphibians breeding earlier (or not),   ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills,

Much more at the link.

I was alerted to this compilation by William M. Briggs, Statistician, who observes in Zombies no joke: global warming can cause anything,

Each of these studies claim to show a danger that might come to pass given that AGW is true. That is exactly backwards to answering the question of whether AGW is true, however. If instead these studies showed that these maladies already occurred then it might provide some evidence, however weak, to support AGW. But then again, it might also support the theory that the observed climate change is natural and expected. Few or none of these studies show what results to expect given that AGW is false (and climate change natural etc.). To be useful research both scenarios must be analyzed, else we are right to suspect the researcher has been sloppy and perhaps not a little biased toward a specific conclusion.

Given the mounting hysteria and even more rapacious profit-taking unfolding in this new ecofascist version of the 18th century's infamous South Sea Company Bubble, I think we can assume that a tide of scientific sewage and confirmation bias is the only thing that will rise significantly in our future. Pity really. We had so many other, actually important and concrete, problems to solve.

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Posted by Vanderleun at February 1, 2008 11:06 AM | TrackBack
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