Art Raiche, former Chief Research Scientist of the CSIRO, says the
organisation’s fear-mongering over climate change can’t be trusted:
Sadly, over the last decade, CSIRO has transformed
itself from a once-respected research institute into a highly
centralised, government enterprise (oxymoron?), replete with
intersecting layers of expensive management, focused on continual
reorganisation. Scientific independence has been lost…
For this reason CSIRO no longer attracts top young scientists
except as an employer of last resort… It employs a much higher
percentage of second and third rate people than was the case two
decades ago. In short, much of CSIRO can now be regarded as a
sheltered workshop.
As an example, consider the Garnaut Report, possibly the longest
economic suicide note in Australia’s history. It is based on the dire
predictions of CSIRO’ s modelling programs. Consider the assessment
from Prof Freeman Dyson of the Institute of Advanced Study at
Princeton, one of the world’s most eminent physicists on these general
circulation models upon which CSIRO’s predictions are based:
“...The real world is muddy and messy and full of
things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist
to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to
put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in
the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up
believing their own models.”
In fact, more than 30,000 US scientists also have a jaundiced view
of these climate modelling programs and have petitioned the US
government against actions to mitigate CO2 emissions? See http://www.petitionproject.org/
But CSIRO ignores these reservations and continues its role in
hopes that they prove that organisation’s relevance by scaring the
populace.
