{"id":340705,"date":"2024-08-26T08:57:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T06:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=340705"},"modified":"2024-08-26T08:57:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T06:57:37","slug":"what-lies-beneath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=340705","title":{"rendered":"What Lies Beneath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"340707\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=340707\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0p-1-90414932-extinction-rebellion-symbol.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0,p-1-90414932-extinction-rebellion-symbol\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0p-1-90414932-extinction-rebellion-symbol.jpg?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0p-1-90414932-extinction-rebellion-symbol.jpg?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-340707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0p-1-90414932-extinction-rebellion-symbol.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0p-1-90414932-extinction-rebellion-symbol.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0p-1-90414932-extinction-rebellion-symbol.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0p-1-90414932-extinction-rebellion-symbol.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0p-1-90414932-extinction-rebellion-symbol.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/cliscep.com\/2024\/08\/25\/what-lies-beneath\/\">Climate Scepticism <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cliscep.com\/author\/johnridgway4\/\">John Ridgway<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A common accusation levelled at so-called climate change \u2018deniers\u2019 is that their position is profoundly anti-science. It is therefore more than germane to point out that an anti-science sentiment lies behind the belief that climate change poses an existential risk to mankind. Ironically, activists such as Greta Thunberg, who say we must \u2018listen to the scientists\u2019 and prepare for Hot House Earth, are promoting a belief that is advocated by experts who will tell you that you should&nbsp;<strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;listen to the scientists. They say this because they believe that the scientific method has led to a consensus that underplays the climate change risks. The scientific method, it is claimed, is inherently overcautious. Furthermore, there is said to be a tendency for important fringe ideas to be marginalised by a dominant orthodoxy. Yes, the same dominance that may have driven out scientists who were climate change sceptics is also driving out those who believe in climate Armageddon. The former was a good thing, we are told, but the latter is a very bad thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You either respect the scientific method and accept the scientific consensus, or you don\u2019t. It isn\u2019t good enough that climate change \u2018deniers\u2019 be castigated for being anti-science when an anti-science position is also taken by activists espousing extreme alarm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The \u2018expert\u2019 case for ignoring the scientists<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To illustrate how belief in the existential nature of climate change risk presupposes a rejection of mainstream climate science, I bring to your attention a 2018&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.wixstatic.com\/ugd\/148cb0_a0d7c18a1bf64e698a9c8c8f18a42889.pdf\">document<\/a>&nbsp;that is typical of the climate alarm canon. It is titled&nbsp;<em>\u2018What Lies Beneath<\/em>\u2019 and carries the subtitle, \u2018<em>The Understatement of Existential Climate Risk<\/em>\u2019. It is written by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthroughonline.org.au\/\">Breakthrough \u2013 National Centre for Climate Restoration<\/a>, a high-profile think tank based in Melbourne, Australia. To add to the report\u2019s intended gravitas, a foreword has been supplied by the much-acclaimed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cliscep.com\/2022\/07\/20\/interview-with-an-icon\/\">Hans Joachim Schellnhuber<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 the gentleman responsible for persuading the World\u2019s governments to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cliscep.com\/2023\/12\/16\/the-limitations-of-limits\/\">arbitrarily<\/a>&nbsp;accept 1.5 deg C as the dangerous limit for global warming. So whilst the thinking outlined in&nbsp;<em>What Lies Beneath<\/em>&nbsp;may be overtly anti-scientific, it has to be appreciated that its logic is shared by Schellnhuber, and hence is one that lies at the heart of the policies that are emerging annually from the various COPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without having to delve into the body of the document, it is revealing enough to note the message conveyed by Schellnhuber\u2019s foreword. He starts with a firm endorsement of the&nbsp;<em>Breakthrough<\/em>&nbsp;report:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>What Lies Beneath<\/em>&nbsp;is an important report. It does not deliver new facts and figures, but instead provides a new perspective on the existential risks associated with anthropogenic global warming.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And is that because it was written by climate scientists who are best qualified to comment on climate change risk? No, on the contrary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the critical overview of well-informed intellectuals who sit outside the climate science community which has developed over the last fifty years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schellnhuber thinks the fact that neither of the authors is a qualified climate science expert is a good thing because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[<em>Climate<\/em>] Experts tend to establish a peer world-view which becomes ever more rigid and focussed. Yet the critical insights regarding the issue in question may lurk at the fringes, as this report suggests.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having called for more attention to be paid to the those who are not domain experts (because they are presumed better at rooting out what lurks in the fringes) he goes on to take a swipe at the IPCC itself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After delivering five fully-fledged assessment reports, it is hardly surprising that a trend towards \u201cerring on the side of least drama\u201d has emerged.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems odd that anyone could claim that a drift to \u201cleast drama\u201d would be an unsurprising result of gaining more knowledge, but Schellnhuber has a couple of reasons why he thinks this should be so. The first is a supposed preoccupation with determining likelihoods. Or, as he puts it, the IPCC has a \u2018Probability Obsession\u2019. He goes on to explain that the discipline of statistics cannot apply to the climate change problem because we are dealing with a complex, non-linear system and there is no precedent for the situation we currently find ourselves in. This, combined with the fact that we cannot perform repeated, planetary-scale experiments, obviates a statistical approach \u2014 at least in Schellnhuber\u2019s fringe opinion. As he puts it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, climate scientists are not trying to treat the Earth like a roulette wheel, yet the statistical approach keeps on creeping into the assessments. How many times did the thermohaline circulation collapse under comparable conditions in the planetary past? How often did the Pacific enter a permanent El Ni\u00f1o state in the Holocene? And so on.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schellnhuber says that, instead of bothering with probabilities and statistics, it is sufficient to address the possibilities and base one\u2019s risk assessment on that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So calculating probabilities makes little sense in the most critical instances\u2026Rather we should identify&nbsp;<em>possibilities<\/em>, that is, potential developments in the planetary makeup that are consistent with the initial and boundary conditions, the processes and the drivers we know.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, a climate scientist would tell you that consistency with initial and boundary conditions is a necessary but far from sufficient restriction upon which the reality of a risk can be established. But then Schellnhuber would say that\u2019s just them being too \u2018rigid and focussed\u2019; focused, that is, upon what can be expected rather than what cannot be ruled out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll not say too much about this other than to point out that risk is a function of likelihood and impact, and so if one is to turn one\u2019s back on the calculation of likelihood, one is no longer doing risk assessment; one is simply putting all your eggs in the precautionary principle basket. It\u2019s undiluted uncertainty aversion and, as such, it represents a retreat from the rationality that comes with the scientific desire to quantify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schellnhuber then moves on to what he calls the \u2018Devil\u2019s Advocate Reward\u2019. This is a strange one, because he seems to be criticising the scientific method itself for its insistence that all claims be well-evidenced:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the magnificent tradition of the Enlightenment, which shattered so many myths of the ancient regimes, scientists are trained to be sceptical about every proposition which cannot be directly verified by empirical evidence or derived from first principles (such as the invariability of the speed of light). So, if a researcher comes up with an entirely new thought, experts tend to reflexively dismiss it as \u201cspeculative\u201d, which is effectively a death warrant in the academic world. Whereas those who criticize the idea will be applauded, rewarded and promoted!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, it is absolutely essential that new ideas be robustly challenged, particularly if acceptance of them leads one down the road towards something like Net Zero. That\u2019s the beauty of the scientific method; speculations are important but they are only the starting point. But this is not where Schellnhuber\u2019s sympathies lie:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026out-of-the-box thinking is vital given the unprecedented climate risks which now confront human civilisation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the contrary, a preference for well-evidenced thinking is vital when confronted with decision-making under uncertainty. Undeterred, however, Schellnhuber finishes with an unqualified call for more alarmism from the fringes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore it is all the more important to listen to non-mainstream voices who do understand the issues and are less hesitant to cry wolf.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reading this reminds me of what&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cliscep.com\/2023\/10\/28\/its-that-man-again\/\">Roger Hallam<\/a>, the slightly unhinged co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, said recently, just before he was thrown into jail for his particular version of wolf-crying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rapid heating and extreme events of the last year demonstrate that overall predictions of institutionalised climate science were less accurate than the conclusions of generalist scholars and leading climate activists, who better saw the frightening signals through the noise produced from siloes, hierarchies, and privilege.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their methods may be very different, but Hallam and Schellnhuber are very much on the same page in believing that the scientists are getting it wrong and that the people who truly understand the risk are the \u2018generalist scholars and leading climate activists\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Enough said<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could go through the body of the report and demonstrate how it does indeed say what Schellnhuber says it does. But I won\u2019t bother. Suffice it to say that any report that receives the endorsement of someone holding Schellnhuber\u2019s views is bound to read more like a manifesto for Extinction Rebellion than it does a sober, scientific appraisal of climate change risks. Besides which, the very first \u2018well-informed intellectual\u2019 that the report chooses to cite is none other than Naomi Oreskes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 2013 study by Prof. Naomi Oreskes and fellow researchers examined a number of past predictions made by climate scientists. They found that scientists have been \u201cconservative in their projections of the impacts of climate change\u201d and that \u201cat least some of the key attributes of global warming from increased atmospheric greenhouse gases have been under-predicted, particularly in IPCC assessments of the physical science\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a surprising claim, to say the least, given the catalogue of failed predictions of disappeared glaciers, ice caps, coastal cities and polar bears that have floodlit the path taken by the climate righteous. Besides which, Oreskes, you may recall, has made a big thing of scientists being too averse to making Type I errors. To her mind, they are setting the bar for statistical significance far too high. This from someone who, in the process,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cliscep.com\/2023\/09\/05\/debunking-oreskes\/\">demonstrated that she didn\u2019t even understand<\/a>&nbsp;what statistical significance meant. To be precise, she seems to believe that the probability of observing data, given the null hypothesis, is equivalent to the probability of the hypothesis being true, having observed the data \u2013 a gaffe known as the fallacy of the transposed conditional. So much for the well-informed intellectual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For these reasons, I am content to leave it here, allowing my readers (if they are so inclined) to pick through the report for themselves. But if you get to the end thinking, \u201cI\u2019ll never get that time back again\u201d, then don\u2019t tell me I didn\u2019t warn you. All you are likely to discover is that what lies beneath isn\u2019t the scientifically sound revelation you might have been hoping for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common accusation levelled at so-called climate change \u2018deniers\u2019 is that their position is profoundly anti-science. 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