{"id":2919,"date":"2010-05-23T09:26:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T13:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2010-05-23T09:26:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T13:26:55","slug":"team-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=2919","title":{"rendered":"Team B"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Last November, Georgia Tech climate researcher Judith Curry<\/a> has criticized the groupthink tendencies of a subset of the climate science community. So I’m not surprised to see her echo<\/a> this sentiment by William Happer<\/a>, a professor of physics at Princeton University, in his recent congressional testimony:<\/p>\n

Buy Prednisone Online Without Prescription We need to establish a Team B of competent scientists, charged with questioning the party line. The DoD and the CIA do this, there was a devil’s advocate (promoter fidei) for sainthood, why not the same for climate change?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/smile-gallery/ However, in her comment over at this thread<\/a>, Curry didn’t include Happer’s sentence preceding his Team B suggestion:<\/p>\n

https://rgprincipal.com/company-overview/ Global-warming alarmists have tried to silence any who question the party line of impending climate apocalypse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://plazadelencuentro.com/livros/ Now this may be a subtle distinction on my part, but I see political advocates as the leading front of global warming alarmism, not climate scientists. I’m not so sure there is a “party line” of imminent climate doom that climate scientists have bought into, notwithstanding the likes of James Hansen. (Also, it’s really more the political advocates who attempt to silence<\/a> anti-alarmists.) You could argue that climate scientists enable the political alarmism by not forcefully challenging the advocates on their claims. But if I read Curry’s endorsement of Happer’s suggestion correctly, she’s essentially saying<\/a> that this Team B would serve as a check on the groupthink within the climate science community:<\/p>\n

http://masterfacilitator.com/doodles4leaders/ Well arguably the closest thing we have to a “Team B”\u009d is the Heartland Climate Conference on Climate Change<\/a>,\u00a0<\/a>which was held last week in Chicago. The conference received almost no coverage by the MSM.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://www.secpeinvestments.com/cameroon-investment/ On that last note, it bears mentioning that previous Heartland assemblages have been covered<\/a> by the MSM. One of the hallmarks of these prior conferences was political agitprop. So I think the press this time around just assumed it was going to be another annual bashing of climate scientists and Al Gore. In that sense, I think the lack of coverage this year is more a reflection of the perspective journalists have of those prior Heartland gatherings.<\/p>\n

https://dinoeliadis.com/fractional-coo-service/ Lastly, I want to point out that Happer’s House testimony differs little from what he said<\/a> last year to the Senate, of which Bill Chameides wrote this effective rebuttal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still, however wrong Happer may be on his other points, that doesn’t make the Team B concept illegitimate. Of course, judging by those non-existent WMD’s, there’s no guarantee that a Team B (which existed in the CIA and DoD in the runnup to the Iraq War), can counteract groupthink and bad decisionmaking.<\/p>\n

Buy Carisoprodol Online UPDATE:<\/strong> Bart Verheggen has a very useful take<\/a> on why there is so much resistance to the Heartland group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lorazepam Buy Online Since Last November, Georgia Tech climate researcher Judith Curry has criticized the groupthink tendencies of a subset of the climate science community. So I’m not surprised to see her echo this sentiment by William Happer, a professor of physics at Princeton University, in his recent congressional testimony: We need to establish a Team B of… Buy Xanax Online Without Prescription Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2561],"tags":[835,1254,1677],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-climate-science","tag-climate-change","tag-judith-curry","tag-team-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}