EH - 81 : Agenda Science & Politics

... scientific truth is not determined by consensus.

A New Zealand geologist Gerrit J. van der Lingen calls upon geolists to step up and demonstrate with their science the consistency of the anthropogenic global warming AGW debate. As a chemist, Dr. Lenny is one of the doubters of the theory - but Dr. Lenny does not doubt that climate is changing - it always has, it always will. If it's not warming, it's cooling : gotta be doing something.

The politicizing of science in the second half of the 20th century, with the mil/ind complex control of both money and research direction, have made it tough for independent scientists to function. Bail howdts of just tenured faculty can be attributed in part to the fact that this is the only chance during the entire career of the scientist that he can actually pull the plug on mirage and turn off the holodek - the fiction that he is vested and sold on to build his career no longer requires the artificial support to maintain the lifestyle - too bad old dogs hardly ever learn new tricks. It would revive the American economy after the collapse if some of these bright old dogs started thinking of themselves as young dogs and studying up in order to learn some new skills - paper pushing is of very limited value when you are trying to find what to eat. I got mine, I don't care is a nasty personal attitude.

How time is invested and leveraged would make a good study for a young eager mind. Documenting hours at tasks and noting progress by incremental means, with benchmark time goals helps keep focus on the immediate task. When several balls are in the air simultaneously, there is lots of idle time, waiting to see what transpires. You cannot launch new tests, you cannot interfere with the existing tests and you should not broaden your fields too wide, too fast. Leverage comes about when you share your excitement with others and have them taking on sub-tasks, to find out a micro-situation to refine one of the variables.

These variables have to be held constant, according to current pc science theory. But change is continuous and not static. By defining a range and limits for the variable, you can note the effect and the influence in the extremes and use the criteria of the range as an analytic tool. Noting all the variables and their micro-effects in the specific environment, with enough repetitions to establish significance, would establish a specific library of information. Technical publications in science should be informative and reproducible by any reader, with as limited an equipment budget as possible. Universal truths will become self-evident, and political scientists will be able to use science as a guiding hand, rather than a weapon of mass destruction.