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1 Apr 11 - In testimony yesterday before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Committee on Science, Space and Technology, forecasting expert Professor J. Scott Armstrong of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania called on Congress to cease funding global warming research, programs, and advocacy organizations. Referring to an analysis he conducted with Kesten C. Green of the University of South Australia and Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Armstrong told the subcommittee, that forecasting procedures used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “violated 81% of the 89 relevant forecasting principles.” "The warming alarmists have not demonstrated the predictive validity of their procedures," says their report. "Instead, their argument for predictive validity is based on their claim that nearly all scientists agree with the forecasts. Such an appeal to "voting" is contrary to the scientific method. It is also incorrect." "In this ongoing study, we have, to date, identified 26 historical alarmist movements. None of the forecasts for the analogous alarms proved correct. In the 25 alarms that called for government intervention, the government impost regulations in 23. None of the 23 interventions was effective and harm was caused by 20 of them." Armstrong and his colleagues recommend that Congress:
“Based on our analyses, especially with respect to the violations of the principles regarding objectivity and full disclosure,” Armstrong told members of Congress, “we conclude that the manmade global warming alarm is an anti-scientific political movement.”
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