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My attention has recently been drawn to the existence of a truly repellent pseudo-academic entity – the “Centre for Studies of Climate Change Denialism” at Chalmers “University” in Gothenborg, Sweden.
The political ideology of this shonky “university”, ... founded in 1829 as a kindergarten to teach poor children reading and writing. as if the hate-filled name of its “Centre for Studies in Denialism” were not a dead giveaway, the marketing blurb for the nest of vipers in the bosom of the “University” begins thus:
“With Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, as a hub, the world’s first global research network looking into climate change denial has now been established... the network will examine the ideas and interests behind climate change denial, with a particular focus on right-wing nationalism, extractive industries, and conservative think tanks...”
Notice that there is no focus at all on the real reasons why skeptics are sceptical:
Official climatology has made an elementary error of physics.
Due to that significant error of physics, official climatology imagines, incorrectly, that the direct warming caused by the greenhouse gases drives a feedback response many times greater than itself. That, in a nutshell, is the chief reason why so very much more global warming is predicted than is observed.
But there’s more. Last week I spent some time in Ireland with Michael Connolly and his son Ronan. The Connollys père et fils are two of the sharpest, liveliest intellects it has been my privilege to come across. They are so fascinated by science that they reminded me of Quintilian’s description of the Athenian historian Thucydides as semper sibi instans – always tripping over themselves in their excitement at the wonders of nature...
For five years the Connollys have been patiently working on a result so breathtakingly beautiful, so astonishing, so unexpected and so wonderful that it is the first climatological result I have come across that is worthy of the Nobel Prize in physics.
