Unsafe Science Impact on Decisions Made by Governments & Businesses Whether or not a given nation or territory has a Carbon Price, Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), or some other method of trying to reduce Carbon Dioxide emissions, that is not the actual issue at hand, but a result of the issue of a lack of safety and reliability of the scientific findings and documentation produced. In the event that a Government or Business makes decisions on unsafe science, then the cost to them, and the wider World community is massive, with these decisions taken every day on science that has been hidden from some of the very best of the scientists in that field. I have been in hundreds of Board meetings of Corporations, Senior Management team meetings, Strategic Planning, Tactical Planning, Futuristic Planning, and other types of Planning meetings. I have been directly involved in explaining in some detail but in simple language the technology, giving demonstrations, supplying scenario options available for consideration, answering very many questions, and finally, making recommendations of what should be use, why it should be used and not other options, the likely costs, the likely timelines before the emerging technology will be available, the likely impact on their business and its operations, the anticipated to staffing levels and staff training required and how to transition staff to the new technology. Those major decisions that affect the lives of all of us eventually, the jobs of many, innumerable businesses in our community, our governments at all levels, and finally, the World we live in, must be made on safe and trusted and reliable Science, that the vast majority of the community accept and trust. The problem I am talking about is not whether the science is right or wrong, but whether it is appropriate for it to be Trusted by those who are not experts in that particular field. Western society developed 300 years ago, and gradually refined ever since, the Peer-Review Process to ensure that Science was Reliable, Trusted, and would the Highest Degree of Safety to the community that it serves, and that is how it must be again. We have had too many disasters to count in the Medical field of medications and devices that were rushed to market with lots of poor science, and a raft of Media Releases to generate the groundswell from the community in the hope of improving their health, only to find that the results were devastating for those who made the huge mistake of trusting Science that this new thing was safe, and then it was found that it wasnt. In the back of my mind is always Thalidomide, but sadly there have been far too many others. In the Agricultural field, we have had Dioxins, DDT, and lots of similar disasters. The Climate science problems with Climategate are an example of how the process was deliberately wrong and unacceptable, so we dont know, and cant trust, if the result are accurate or not. These are a few of the quotes I look at when pondering deep and difficult problems, and I am searching for the right question: We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong. - Bono Ask the right questions if youre going to find the right answers. - Vanessa Redgrave He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. - Chinese proverb And the last is something I learnt as a young man when I was reading about all religions and philosophies, as young people often do: Do not seek the right answer, but the right question, and then the right answer will follow - Buddhism
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 05:44:16 +0000
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