When you say “the science is settled,” you are arguing for an end to your research funding.
Oops.
This is all part of the Democrats’ war on science:
Looking forward to a new U.S. President next year, whether the Democrats or the Republicans are in power, I don’t expect a continuation of the status quo on climate science funding. The Democrats are moving away from science towards policy – who needs to spend all that funding on basic climate science research? Global climate modeling might be ‘saved’ if they think these climate models can support local impact assessments (in spite of widespread acknowledgement that they cannot). If the Republicans are elected, Ted Cruz has stated he will stop all funding support for the IPCC and UNFCCC initiatives. That said, he seems to like data and basic scientific research.
Heh.
[Update a few minutes later]
“It’s a bit complicated.”
You don’t say.
and Malcolm Turnbull’s answer is to sack the experts who are working to cut pollution and find the innovations in renewable energy that will help create the jobs of the future
Jobs like this I suppose.
From the “complicated” link:
“I’m one of those who thinks global surface temperatures did show a pause or ‘hiatus’… surface temperatures did slow a bit in the last decade, and now they’re speeding up,” he says.
A blip from El Nino is not “speeding up”.
“It it [sic] doesn’t affect the long run at all… but you shouldn’t ignore the fact that this did happen.”
This is begging the question. There is no assurance at all that the El Nino blip will not be the final peak before a sudden decline.
“It was’t [sic] specifically predicted but it was in the range of the models in terms of variability.”
I.e., it wasn’t predicted. Full stop. The models are all over the place. Just about any possible eventuality could have been said to be “in the range” of the variability. And, if they couldn’t predict that, how much confidence should we have in the claim that “it doesn’t affect the long run”?
More…
“Supercomputers, satellites, ocean buoys and a legion of remote weather stations are now handing climate scientists record amounts of data to play with.”
Of which, they are doing their best to ignore the satellites and ocean buoys, which stubbornly refuse to go along with the narrative.