The
Disgraceful Episode Of Lysenkoism Brings Us Global Warming Theory
Trofim Lysenko became the Director of the Soviet Lenin
All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the 1930s under Josef
Stalin. He was an advocate of the theory that characteristics acquired
by plants during their lives could be inherited by later generations stemming
from the changed plants, which sharply contradicted Mendelian genetics.
As a result, Lysenko became a fierce critic of theories of the then rising
modern genetics. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lysenko_evil_eyes.jpg
Under Lysenko’s view, for example, grafting branches of
one plant species onto another could create new plant hybrids that would be
perpetuated by the descendants of the grafted plant. Or modifications
made to seeds would be inherited by later generations stemming from that
seed. Or that plucking all the leaves off of a plant would cause descendants
of the plant to be leafless.
Lysenkoism was “politically correct” (a term invented by
Lenin) because it was consistent with certain broader Marxist doctrines.
Marxists wanted to believe that heredity had a limited role even among
humans, and that human characteristics changed by living under socialism
would be inherited by subsequent generations of humans. Thus would be
created the selfless new Soviet man.
Also Lysenko himself arose from a peasant background and
developed his theories from practical applications rather than controlled
scientific experiments. This fit the Marxist propaganda of the time
holding that brilliant industrial innovations would arise from the working
classes through practical applications.
Lysenko’s theories also seemed to address in a quick and
timely manner the widespread Soviet famines of the time arising from the
forced collectivization of agriculture, rather than the much slower changes from
scientific experimentation and genetic heredity. Lysenko was consequently
embraced and lionized by the Soviet media propaganda machine.
Scientists who promoted Lysenkoism with faked data and
destroyed counterevidence were favored with government funding and official
recognition and award. Lysenko and his followers and media acolytes
responded to critics by impugning their motives, and denouncing them as
bourgeois fascists resisting the advance of the new modern Marxism.
The V.I. Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences announced
on August 7, 1948 that thenceforth Lysenkoism would be taught as the only
correct theory. All Soviet scientists were required to denounce any
work that contradicted Lysenkoism. Ultimately, Soviet geneticists
resisting Lysenkoism were imprisoned and even executed. Lysenkoism was
abandoned for the correct modern science of Mendelian genetics only as late
as 1964.The
Theory of Man Caused Catastrophic Global Warming This
same practice of Lysenkoism has long been under way in western science in
regard to the politically correct theory of man caused, catastrophic, global
warming. That theory serves the political fashions of the day in
promoting vastly increased government powers and control over the private economy.
Advocates of the theory are lionized in the dominant
Democrat party controlled media in the U.S., and in leftist controlled media
in other countries. Critics of the theory are denounced as “deniers,”
and even still bourgeois fascists, with their motives impugned. Those who
promote the theory are favored with billions from government grants and
neo-Marxist environmentalist largesse, and official recognition and
award.
Faked and tampered data and evidence has arisen in favor
of the politically correct theory. Is not man-caused, catastrophic
global warming now the only theory allowed to be taught in schools in the
West? Those in positions of scientific authority in the West who have
collaborated with this new Lysenkoism because they felt they must be
politically correct, and/or because of the money, publicity, and recognition
to be gained, have disgraced themselves and the integrity of their
institutions, organizations and publications.
The United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
is supposed to represent the best science of the U.S. government on the issue
of global warming. In January, the USGCRP released the draft of its
Third National Climate Assessment Report. The first duty of the
government scientists at the USGCRP is to produce a complete picture of the
science of the issue of global warming, which is what the taxpayers are
paying them for. But it didn’t take long for the Cato Institute to do
the job of the USGCRP with a devastating line by line rebuttal,
The Missing Science from the Draft National Assessment on
Climate Change, Center for the Study of Science, Cato Institute, Washington,
DC, 2012, by Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. Knappenberger, Robert C. Balling,
Mary J. Hutzler & Craig D. Idso. Check it out for yourself if you
dare.
Both publications are written to be accessible by
intelligent laymen. See which one involves climate science and which
one involves political science. All the climate alarmist organizations simply
rubber stamp the irregular Assessment Reports of the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
None of them do any original science on the theory of
anthropogenic catastrophic global warming. But the United Nations is a
proven, corrupt, power grabbing institution. The science of their
Assessment Reports has been thoroughly rebutted by the hundreds of pages of
science in Climate Change Reconsidered, and Climate Change Reconsidered:
2011 Interim Report, both written by dozens of scientists with the
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, and published by the
Heartland Institute, the international headquarters of the skeptics of the
theory of anthropogenic catastrophic global warming. Again, check it out for
yourself. You don’t have to read every one of the well over a thousand
pages of careful science in both volumes to see at least that there is a real
scientific debate.
The editors of the once respected journals
of Science and Nature have abandoned science for
Lysenkoism on this issue as well. They have become as political as the
editorial pages of the New York Times. They claim their published
papers are peer reviewed, but those reviews are conducted on the friends and
family plan when it comes to the subject of anthropogenic catastrophic global
warming.
There can be no peer review at all when authors refuse to
release their data and computer codes for public inspection and attempted
reconstruction of reported results by other scientists. They have been
forced to backtrack on recent publications relying on novel, dubious,
statistical methodologies not in accordance with established methodologies of
complex statistical analysis. Formerly respected scientific bodies in the
U.S. and other western countries have been commandeered by political activist
Lysenkoists seizing leadership
positions.
They then proceed with politically correct pronouncements
on the issue of anthropogenic catastrophic global warming heedless of the
views of the membership of actual scientists. Most of what you see and
hear from alarmists regarding global warming can be most accurately described
as play acting on the meme of settled science.
The above noted publications demonstrate beyond the point
where reasonable people can differ that no actual scientist can claim that
the science of anthropogenic catastrophic global warming has been settled or
that there is a settled “consensus” that rules out reasonable dissent. Indeed,
31,487 U.S. scientists (including 9,000 Ph.Ds) with degrees in atmospheric
Earth sciences, physics, chemistry, biology and computer science have signed
a statement that reads:
“There is no
convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane,
or other greenhouse gases is causing, or will in the foreseeable future,
cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the
Earth’s climate.” See here. Some consensus. Real science, of
course, is not a matter of “consensus,” but of reason, with skepticism at its
core.The Decline and Fall of the Theory of Anthropogenic Catastrophic Global
WarmingThe alarmist claims of the UN’s IPCC are ultimately based not on
scientific observations, but on unvalidated climate models and their
projections of future global temperatures on assumptions of continued
increases in carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the burning and use of
fossil fuels.
The alarmists are increasingly in panic because the past
projections of the models are increasingly divergent from the accumulating
actual temperature records. Those models are not real science, but made
up science. And no way we are abandoning the industrial revolution as
the Sierra Club is hoping based on model fantasies and fairy tales.
The Economist magazine, formerly in lockstep with the
Lysenkoists, shocked them with a skeptical article in March that began with
this lede: “OVER the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface
have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar. The
world added roughly 100 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere between
2000 and 2010. That is about a quarter of all the CO2 put there by humanity
since 1750. And yet, as James Hansen, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, observes, ‘the five-year mean global temperature has been
flat for a decade. . . .’”Reality is not complying with the alarmism of the
UN’s global warming models, just as it refused to do for Trofim
Lysenko.
Remember all that hysteria about melting polar ice caps
and the disappearing ice floes for the cute polar bears? As of the end
of March, the Antarctic ice cap was nearly one fourth larger than the average
for the last 30 years. The Arctic ice cap had grown back to within 3%
of its 30 year average. (The formerly declining Arctic ice was due to
cyclically warm ocean currents).
Global sea ice was greater than in March, 1980, more than
30 years ago, and also above the average since then. Remember the alarm about
the rising sea level? Yeah, that has been rising, as it has been since
the end of the last ice age more than 10,000 years ago. Just exactly as
it has been, at the same rate. And anyone you know that has been scared
by this alarmist propaganda has been successfully played by whatever media
the fool has been relying on. Murderous recent winters in Europe are killing
as well belief in alarmist global warming on the continent.
University of Oklahoma Professor and geophysicist David
Deming reported in a recent column, “The United Kingdom had the coldest March
weather in 50 years, and there were more than a thousand record low
temperatures in the United States. The Irish meteorological office reported
that March “temperatures were the lowest on record nearly everywhere.”
Spring snowfall in Europe was also high. In Moscow, the
snow depth was the highest in 134 years of observation. In Kiev, authorities
had to bring in military vehicles to clear snow from the streets.”In the Northern
Hemisphere, Deming adds, “Snow cover last December was the greatest since
satellite monitoring began in 1966.” That reflects similarly bitter
cold winters in North America as well.
Despite claims by global warming Lysenkoists that soon
children “won’t know what snow is,” on February 6, 2010, a blizzard covered
the northeastern U.S. with 20 to 35 inches of snow. Three days later
another 10 to 20 inches were added. These developments should have been
expected from known indisputable facts.
Carbon dioxide is a natural substance essential to the
survival of all life on the planet. It is effectively oxygen for
plants, and without plants there would be no food for animals to survive.
Because of the increased atmospheric CO2 agricultural output is already
increasing.CO2 is also a trace gas in the atmosphere, representing only
0.038% of the total atmosphere, up only 0.008% since 1945. That tiny
proportion of the atmosphere is supposed to produce catastrophic global
warming that will end all life on the planet?
The historical proxy record shows CO2 concentrations in
the distant history of the earth much, much greater than today. Yet
life survived, and flourished. Moreover, the basic science of global
warming is that the temperature increasing effect of increased CO2 concentrations
declines as those concentrations increase. So stop worrying and enjoy
the agricultural abundance in your grocery store.
A tip off regarding reality should have been apparent from
the dodgy propaganda involved in changing the labeling of the problem from
“global warming” to “climate change.” Of course, Earth has been
experiencing climate change since the first sunrise on the planet. We
are not going to abandon the workers’ paradise of capitalism because climate
change will continue.
Another tip off should have been the effective admission
by global warming alarmists that they cannot defend their position in public
debate. The day the theory of anthropogenic catastrophic global warming
died can be dated from the time that one leading alarmist was foolish enough
to debate James Taylor of the Heartland Institute, a video of which can be
found on the Heartland website at Heartland.org.
Still another tip off should have been the practice of the
alarmist new Lysenkoists to respond to dissenting science with ad
hominem attacks. That apparently reflects poor public schooling
that never taught that an ad hominem attack is a logical fallacy,
as Aristotle taught more than 2,000 years ago. My how western science
has fallen.
The basic science shows that global temperatures are just
not very sensitive to CO2 itself. Even alarmists will concede
that. Where they get their alarm is with the modeling assumption that
the CO2 induced temperature increases will produce positive feedbacks that
will sharply increase the overall resulting warming.
The better recent science indicates, however, that instead
of positive feedbacks, the naturally stable Earth would enjoy negative
feedbacks restoring long term equilibrium and stability to global
temperatures. Then there is the man caused, global warming, fingerprint that
the U.N.’s models all showed would result in a hot spot of particularly large
temperature increases in the upper troposphere above the tropics.
But the incorruptible, satellite monitored, atmospheric
temperature record shows no hot spot. That is further confirmed by
modern weather balloons measuring atmospheric temperatures above the
tropics. No hotspot. No fingerprint. No catastrophic, man
caused global warming. QED. The revival of western science requires
that the new Lysenkoism be discredited. That is going to require quite
some work, given the extent of the infestation.
Source: Forbes: The Disgraceful Episode Of Lysenkoism
Brings Us Global Warming Theory by Peter Ferrara, 4/28/13
Comments:
Our federal government continues to pour trillions of
printed dollars into “man-made climate change” abatement, because they are
Lysenkoists. They need to be replaced
from the bottom up starting with this November.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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