Science in Denial

Here's the raw truth:

All the computer [climate] models are wrong. They have not only failed to predict the future, they can't even predict the past. . . . The only way to make them "work" is to take the known results and then fiddle with the software until it finally produces them. That's not how honest science is done. . . .

Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing. When a hypothesis -- or a computer model -- fails to correspond to the actual real-world data, you throw them out. That's what the real climate scientists are doing. They have found, in recent years, a very close correspondence between global climate and variations in the amount of radiation the Earth receives from the Sun.

What matters right here and now is that it is time for the world's scientists to apostatize from the Church of Global Warning. It is a false religion. It is based on lies, and its leading prophets know that it is because they're the ones faking the data or stretching it to ridiculous lengths to pretend that the real world hasn't already ruled against their claims.

-- Orson Scott Card, meridianmagazine.com, 3/13/07