Man in a Shed: the wave

Saturday, December 05, 2009

Gordon resorts to bulling and is clearly wrong on the science

Gordon Brown is trying to add his own special style of magic to the #climategate scandal.

He's claiming that those who ask questions and demand evidence ( in the old pre-1997 parlance called scientists - now called Climate Change Deniers ) are flat earthers and anti-science.

He's wrong. Even the IPCC says he's wrong as they say the CRU leak is a serious issue and requires a thorough review.

The UK Met Office is getting ready to release and rework the original data, and denied rumours (remember this current govt denies everything and causally lies as other draw breath ) suggest Labour government ministers have tried to stop the scientific activity in case it provides evidence to other scientists.

Brown just shows the staggering depth of his own personal ignorance with the rant recorded in today's Daily Telegraph. He calls those who demand to see the evidence and working as "flat earthers". He's a very stupid man indeed.

What this shows is the spectacular level of ignorance of scientific method and principles in the higher levels of the Labour party and civil service and something will need to be done about the latter.

Get this into your head Brown:

"The Science is not settled" - and the CRU leak, Yamal tree scandal and hockey stick IPCC scandal show this.

The pound in your pocket

"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

“The trouble with theoretical economists is that they don't understand that when you have a deficit, you can only finance it by borrowing, and you've got to persuade people that it's worth lending money to you and that they'll get their money back... there's no way of escaping it.” Dennis Healey during the 1976 Stirling Crisis.

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.

Inflation is taxation without legislation .. Milton Friedman