Science is a leaky vessel in the age of climate
By Dr. Jay Lehr |October 24th, 2021|Climate, Science|6 Comments
A lot of people just look at data and say, “Well, this is the data” and that is what they believe. But data in the modern age is a leaky vessel. There is such competition to produce innovative, provocative research that scientists are manipulating their data so they can get funding, prestige, peer approval, and career advancement. That is the big irony of the Information Age. We are awash in information, but we are drowning in lies.
For example, NASA reported 2014 as “the hottest year on record”. This “fact” was repeated for years. Except, once you dig through the actual data it turns out that NASA is only about 35 percent confident of this declaration. In fact, NASA has developed a proclivity for calling each new year “the hottest on record”. Buried in the assessments (and mostly non-reported) is that NASA has less than 50 percent confidence in their dire reports on world climate.
So why does NASA make such misleading statements? It would seem that scientists seeking fame, fortune, and social status are pushing the data to say what the people who provide them funding want it to say. Nobody seems to notice that even if these ominous assessments were correct, the difference between one hot year and another is so tiny as to be insignificant and within the margin of error.
https://www.cfact.org/2021/10/24/science-is-a-leaky-vessel-in-the-age-of-climate/
