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Old 09-30-2013, 06:58 AM   #1114 (permalink)
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Could you or anyone else design a Boeing 787 by yourself? I didn't think so.
Well it seems that not even Boeing can design a 787, or at least one that works. Another one made a forced landing yesterday.

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No one individual can hope to match the similar professional efforts in understanding climate science...
I don't disagree with that. But if this science is going to be used to drive policies on more or less every aspect of society, sometimes counter to the views of the people who those policies may affect and have to pay for them and potentially at serious cost to others then it needs to be solid, open, testable and verifiable.

A lot of it like your example is - that is excellent. A lot of the headline grabbing scary stuff isn't but it gets a headline and then everyone forgets the "correction".

An example - the recent (yet another) "97% consensus" paper (non-science anyway IMHO) has been published, is being quoted by politicians up to and including a tweet from TPOTUS and our own minister who controls UK Energy policy. Yet the data behind it STILL hasn't been entirely released - which is contrary to the policy of the journal in which it appeared, it seems to get a free pass on that aspect.
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