Robert
The language is a mouthful, no doubt, but the core arguments hold.
You have got to be joking when you suggest that there is “no factual case against climate science in general or climate modelling in particular”. At the 2009 WMO meeting Mojib Latif -the doyen of climate modellers- acknowledged what a lot of others also knew or were thinking but weren’t saying out loud: climate models are a failure across the board, and have the predictive value of astrology or fish gut reading [your pick]. And nothing has changed for the better since then.
Why are climate model fatally flawed? Because it is not possible to model one of the most complex, non linear, chaotic systems known to man, in which -crucially- there is not one single independent variable. The moment you treat even one variable as independent, you thereby introduce a fatal flaw into your model. How do we know? Because we have tried something very close to climate modelling in another system with very similar fundamental characteristics: proteomics. 10 years and a few billion dollars worth of R&D funds later, the entire effort was abandonned. For precisely the same reasons.
And no case against climate science in general? With all the respect due to our host, are you still – with a straight face- telling us that? After all we have learnt over the years about Hansen cooking the GISS numbers, the “follow the pea” selective statistical methods -including upside down splicing- that are the handywork of e.g. Mann, Steig, Trenberth or Dessler. Or after what we learnt from CG1 and CG2 or the inner workings of the IPCC?
That is not science as I was taught to understand it on my way to a PhD. That is “science” for a “cause” [dixit Mann. That is: not science at all.
To base -as we continue to do- far reaching economic and social policies on “science” that has been fatally hijacked by individual and institutional fraudsters and on models that have no scientific or predictive value whatsoever, is not only dangerously stupid but -because of the negative consequences- ethically and morally reprehensible.