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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 16-Jun-2009 At 11:07:55 PM R James

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>What good would that do? I'm an engineer, not a climate scientist.
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As an engineer, you're certainly qualified to evaluate the available data to answer a few basic questions. My background as engineer and research scientist encourages me to evaluate the science as best I can. If I see that the popular theory isn't supported by real data, I have no choice but to question its validity :

1. Is global temperature is doing anything unusual (plenty of data available as far back as 450,0000 years) based on previous cycles?

2. Do the predictions of climate models match real data?

3. Is there any data to support the hypothesis that positive feedback dominates negative feedback.

When I come up with "no" to there type of questions, I cannot ignore what my experience and training tells me. Personal status quo is irrelevant. It all comes down to good or bad science.

How many people believe for example that the Murray Darling basis is drying up because of low rainfall caused by global warming? Yet, when I look at the rain charts from the Bureau of Meteorology for the past 100 years, I see there's no significant change in rain cycles. I've found too many false reports to believe anything until I at least do some degree of research myself. I've detected errors in satellite data for Arctic ice, which has now been corrected. Only this year, erroneous data was made public for at least 5 months due to a satellite sensor fault. (I have copies of the data before and after correction, yet you won't read about this in the media - happy to send it to you).
NASA/GISS published temperature data last year for October, which was actually a repeat of September data. It wasn't until skeptics picked up the error that they were even aware of it.

Mann's hockey stick was taken as gospel, and the world was going to be changed because of it. We now know it was wrong, yet they still want to change the world.

Does this give you an idea of why I'm not prepared to just believe bodies like IPCC, and why I urge others to check for themselves?