Here's a basic scientific investigation checklist. How many of these criteria does the AGW theory meet?
1. Verify and characterize your measurement system. Be sure that it has sufficient repeatability and accuracy to reliably detect effects that are important to your argument.
2. Capture and preserve your raw data. Make it available to everyone.
3. Perform your analysis. Preserve all details of your analytical methods, including all assumptions.
4. Give all of the above to everyone who has an interest your findings. Encourage them to pore over the data looking for errors. Encourage them to re-do your analysis. Encourage them to cross-check the results in new ways.
5. If you can get people to do that, and all the findable errors are found, all the analyses prove to be consistent and error free, and nobody can come up with a better explanation than yours, then your idea will be accepted.
I score IPCC 0/5 on that list.
Gee, someone should make that list his signature line....
Last edited by denton; 12/25/09.
