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Entry: Climate of Here Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/climate_of_here#20680 Post contents: 1) The CO2-centric model is simple and easier to play with than complicated cloud formation or solar activity models. Just assume the atmosphere is a static jar of gas, propose clever and novel corrections and model away. The fact that the predictive power of the products of the CO2-centric model is very, very weak is not that important if they can be funded and published. 2) There is no competing coherent paradigm to challenge the anthropogenic model. Saying there is more to it or that more work needs to be done is not fundable, publishable, newsworthy, persuasive or fun. The steadily growing historical proxy record of climate variability makes it pretty clear that there are powerful cycles at work that must involve something more than greenhouse concentrations. It’s just that nobody can yet explain what that something is. 3) The author is far too quick to dismiss the gale winds of the liberal zeitgeist that blow through academia. Once left-right lines have been drawn the bias against heretical thinking is overwhelming and the likelihood of non-PC speculation approaches zero. 4) The CO2–centric model is overfunded, over-hyped and incapable of delivering predictive power required for a theory that commands such near-religious loyalty. When it crashes, I wonder whether there will be retribution or just amnesia. Sent at: 2008 10 07