The social activists (_NOT_ “scientists”) at first tried to drop “anthropomorphic” from the AGW claim on the grounds that all increases in global temperature are human caused, no matter what else may have caused the increases. Then they tried to change the claim to “climate change”, and still leave off the “anthropomorphic”, on the grounds that all changes are caused by humans.
That’s just the political side.
The AGW crowd has tried to proclaim “The Science Is Settled!”(c)
However:
The scientific method is the first “open source” protocol, and the most unforgiving, that I know of. In order for a science claim to be made, it has to be backed up with full disclosure of everything involved so that someone who wants to check the work or replicate the experiment can do so. Everything, including actual numbers used from the weather recording stations, has to be released to be verified and used. Everything done with the data, including spreadsheets and computer programs (if not commercially availible, and those have to be identified along with the type of processor in the computer) have to be released, to the general public. The people making the initial claims have to be ready and able to defend why they did this, why they left out that, etc, even if the people asking are their worst enemies. (People in the know have described defending a scientific paper as a “blood sport”.) People disputing the claims are also subject to the full disclosure requirement.
The AGW supporters have not defended their work in an open forum. They refuse to release their work. The little those investigating their claims have been able to discover has a very high error content. AGW claims are questionable at best, possibly outright fraud. AGW claims utterly unsupported. They should be ignored until the supporters adhere to the scientific methodology.
