Irish Climate Analysis and Research Unit (ICARUS), Supports Unverifiable Science - Directly Influencing Irish Government Carbon Tax Policy Makers.

 

http://icarus.nuim.ie/

ICARUS is the main climate research unit in Ireland and the above quote dominates the front page of their web site. A clear message from the IPCC to the Irish People. Notice the use of the word 'Likely', not exactly convincing science is it, especially now that it has been exposed as unverifiable and unreliable by so many International scientists.    http://www.petitionproject.org/index.php



The Head of ICARUS Professor John Sweeney served as a contributing author and editor of the IPCC influential Fourth Assessment, published in 2007. This fact might naturally lead one to believe that his scientific opinion on matters of Anthropogenic Climate Change are not exactly balanced.


His most recent report for the Environmental Protection Agency, prepared by the Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units at NUI Maynooth, projected that temperatures in Ireland will increase by more than two degrees by the end of the century with significant changes in rainfall. 

This is a very confident prediction of the future and I am curious about his scientific methods in forecasting especially when the experts at met eireann can only confidently predict temperatures a few days in advanced. Where does this confidence come from, a crystal ball perhaps!?


http://communications.nuim.ie/press/180609.shtml


Mr Sweeney is also on the board of directors of Friends Of The Earth Ireland who are also heavily engaged in persuading the Irish Government to bring in a Carbon Tax ASAP based on unscientifically verifiable science from the IPCC. In fact the Irish FOE Official Mission Statement is: To shift the balance of Irish policy and practice in favour of environmental justice and sustainability at home and internationally.

http://www.foe.ie/about/board.html

 Irish Government Climate Change Science Adviser Admits Pet Hate.  

"..the idea that this is an equally balanced topic.." 

   Professor John Sweeney

http://debates.oireachtas.ie/DDebate.aspx?F=CLJ20090610.xml&Node=H2&Page=3 


What Balance????

Icarus

In Greek myth, the son of the inventor Daedalus. Daedalus worked for the Cretan king Minos. When he fell out of favor and he and his son were imprisoned, Daedalus fashioned wings out of feathers and wax so he and Icarus could fly out of their prison. Icarus, however, giddy with the thrill of flight, flew so high that the sun's heat melted the wax; he plunged into the sea and drowned.

(Farmer in the Sky)             Ironically it just so happens that the scientific evidence from the Sun is currently melting the unverifiable projections of the Irish ICARUS.    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/science/space/21sunspot.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all    carbonman   Sept 2009