Big Climate's strange 'science' Would you trust a software
engineer to build a bridge? Comment I had to chuckle to myself
reading a letter here at The Register, recently. "David
Whitehouse - although a respected scientist - is still only one
voice and his speciality is astrophysics not climate," wrote a
reader. This is one of my greatest concerns about so called
climate science. Climate science is a very, very new field. So
new, in fact, that it has had little chance for its assertions
to be tested. For example, climate models are being developed
with very little ability to test out of sample. Furthermore, the
climate science bandwagon has come about solely because of
supposed anthropogenic climate change, which means that their
funding is intrinsically tied to climate change happening and
being man-made. A more self-interested group I could not find
anywhere, even looking at the researchers who were paid by big
tobacco companies to tell us cigarettes are safe. The scientists
who interest me in this field are