The Trump administration wants to bail out failed contrarian climate scientists | John Abraham

A climate "red team" is just a polite way to describe bailing out scientific losersClimate contrarians, like Trump's EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, don't understand how scientific research works. They are basically asking for a government handout to scientists to do what scientists are should already be doing. They are also requesting handouts for scientists who have been less successful in research and publications - a move antithetical to the survival of the fitness approach that has formed the scientific community for decades.The helping handout would be through a proposed exercise called a "red team/blue team" effort. It is a proposal that would reportedly find groups of scientists on both "sides" of the climate issue (whatever that means), and have them try to poke holes in each others' positions. I will explain why this is a handout but first let's talk about the plan and how it interferes with the scientific process. Continue reading...