While we see spirited defenses on Goanet of the scientific "herd mentality", ...er, "consensus", Thank God that others who have no scientific axe to grind, and have responsibility for a major economy like India, are opening their eyes to what is going on, and taking action.
India has formally announced it has lost all credibility with the IPCC, which is the UN body that is a major believer and organizer in scientific "consensus" on climate change. Jai Ho, Jairam!: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7157590/India-forms-new-climate-change-body.html Excerpt: The Indian government has established its own body to monitor the effects of global warming because it “cannot rely” on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the group headed by its own leading scientist Dr R.K Pachauri. [end of excerpt] Here is another report of how the scientific "herd mentality", ...er, "consensus" was found to be falsifying information for its own self-serving purposes. We civilians need to be very careful when scientists cite "consensus" and do not question the conventional orthodoxy, and, in fact, try to ridicule those who do. Because of unethical scientific behavior now exposed, those days of blindly relying on "consensus" seem to have come to an end for those who have to live with the effects of self-serving claims of "consensus": http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.8d6e5773c60565dfc6e882b0a8dcbf18.4e1&show_article=1 Excerpt: The Netherlands has asked the UN climate change panel to explain an inaccurate claim in a landmark 2007 report that more than half the country was below sea level, the Dutch government said Friday. According to the Dutch authorities, only 26 percent of the country is below sea level, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be asked to account for its figures, environment ministry spokesman Trimo Vallaart told AFP. The incident could cause further embarrassment for the IPCC, which recently admitted a claim in the same report that global warming could melt Himalayan glaciers by 2035 was wrong. [end of excerpt]
