tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10536145.post8579711384381607076..comments2023-10-08T09:01:17.216-07:00Comments on The Murgatroyd Blog: The Corruption of Science, Climate Change and the NCAStephen Murgatroydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407855028282306596noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10536145.post-21218082399609205192014-05-20T04:36:41.994-07:002014-05-20T04:36:41.994-07:00I still find it hard to accept that the community ...I still find it hard to accept that the community of scientists adhering to the IPCC prognostications are part of gigantic green/left/environmentalist conspiracy that ‘good’ scientists such as the Pielkes have revealed. This difficulty is increased by the revelations of right-wing/pro-business & Wall Street activities to spread disinformation in the way that you accuse the IPPC-believers of doing, albeit with corporate rather than government connivance. By and large, the influence of corporate power over governments is far greater than that of any ‘green’ lobbies, so it is odd that governments as well as large numbers of scientists can adhere to a conspiratorial ‘green’ agenda.<br /><br />You have long pointed out the hazards of modelling the future, but surely the current 3% ever-upward growth rate of global GDP (doubling every 23.3 years; in China 8% - 8,75 years) on a finite and arguable ‘full’ planet, can only be a ‘crash course’ as resource depletion, pollution, land use, deforestation, species diversity loss, etc. keep pace? Climate change notwithstanding, it is hardly ‘good science’ to overlook the relationship between exponential growth of human impact on the planet and the need to make its geometric curve into the sinusoidal ‘S’ curves of growth and decline that describe the self-regulating natural world. The global population ‘S’ curve seems to be in train now but even with the levelling off of human population by 2100 the likelihood of another 3 billion people using earth’s diminishing resources should be a top priority for scientists of all persuasions.oldroydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09053801558450807408noreply@blogger.com