Climate Change: When new facts emerge, the open-minded tend to alter their views. This is what has happened to a Hungarian environmental scholar whose position on global warming has been transformed.
Until his Damascus moment, Miklos Zagoni, a physicist and environmental researcher, had been touted as his nation’s “most outspoken supporter of the Kyoto Protocol.” But then this activist saw the work of a fellow Hungarian scientist. His world was rocked. “I fell in love” with the theory, he told DailyTech.com.
Ferenc Miskolczi, an atmospheric physicist at NASA’s Langley Research Center with three decades of experience, had found that researchers have been repeating a mistake when calculating the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on temperatures. We’re not scientists, but it looks to us like Miskolczi found that the Earth does a good job of adapting and self-regulating.
As has been noted elsewhere, Miskolczi’s theory could explain why the warming that models have been predicting for decades has never materialized.
NASA’s response to the new results? It refused to publish them, reports DailyTech.com. Miskolczi quit, citing in his resignation letter a clash between his “idea of the freedom of science” and NASA’s “practice of handling new climate change related scientific results.” (Emphasis mine.)
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God forbid, of course, that scientists should keep their minds open and examine actual facts, whether to refute or to affirm them, as well as the conclusions to be derived from them. This is the scientific version of the pernicious liberal mindset that reaches a conclusion and then rebuts all factual challenges and discussion through the age-old tactic of stuffing fingers in the ears and shouting out “Nyah, nyah, nyah! I can’t hear you.” It was effective and dangerous on the kindergarten playground, and is just as effective, only more dangerous, when used in the real world. For another example of this tactic, check out Jonah Goldberg’s take-down of The New Republic book reviewer.