Control of climate research funding was a critical part of the machinations of Maurice Strong and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Climate Change Debacle: A Product Of Ignoring Failure And Negative Results

By Dr. Tim Ball
Thursday, December 30, 2010

There are two sides to every story. The Chinese express it as Yin and Yang represented by a symbol.

Yin is black and Yang white, but the dots indicate nothing is purely one or the other. Many react with cultural bias by assuming white is good and black is bad.

The idea of balance is possibly one of the greatest victims of political correctness. It has distorted climate science, because they only considered one side and refused to follow the scientific method.

This requires you to have a theory, which you try to disprove. If it’s disproved you must then consider the null hypothesis. In the case of the anthropogenic warming hypothesis (AGW) they set out to prove that human CO2 was causing warming and climate change. They claim they proved it, but did so by restricting focus and manipulating data and computer programs. The null hypothesis was not allowed. Normally, they would find that human CO2 was not the cause and then ask the question, if not CO2 then what? It was a question aggressively asked of skeptics and the obvious simple answer was the sun. It’s why there was an active campaign to discredit the sun as the explanation. A major confusion is that the null hypothesis is considered a negative, possibly because the word null can mean zero. In the scientific context it means if it isn’t this, then it is something else.

Political correctness and the blind drift toward equalization or elimination of differences have prevented identifying successes or failures

Political correctness and the blind drift toward equalization or elimination of differences have prevented identifying successes or failures. It appeared in the schools when children were no longer allowed to fail. What was overlooked in all this was the function of identifying and promoting differing skills and abilities. I explained to a student who thought because he failed my course, he was a failure. All it meant was that he was not a climatologist. He might be the best in the world in some other area and that is what he should pursue. The concept of testing, passing and failing has become so distorted that reasonable discussion is almost impossible.

Several years ago, I participated in a debate at a Canadian High School on the motion that “School leaving exams are unnecessary.â€