Cambridge, MA Officials Upset About Computer Predictions of Future Hot Weather

Cambridge City Hall in Winter

The steering committee behind the CCVA used the best available science to give projections of the future, [said John Bolduc, the environmental planner for the Community Development Department (CDD), and] members acknowledge there is uncertainty. [. . .] The projections represented would happen if nothing was done to improve climate change. [. . .] The project steering committee [included no astronomers, no computer scientists, no geologists, and no meteorologists.] [C]ity manager Richard Rossi [said] “I don’t see a lot of young people at meetings in Cambridge. The younger generation will be key,” It is easier to fool young people who seldom have a large store of information on which to base their decisions. All of this "science" is based on computer models, predicting the future. None of what nature does or will do is included in those projections. The models are meaningless without knowing what nature will do. The earth heats and cools itself with and without man. What do the computer models know about the years 2020 to 2030, without knowing what nature will do? "The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." and "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20151209/NEWS/151206315/?Start=1

Cambridge looks to create action plan for climate change
By Natalie Handy
nhandy@wickedlocal.com
Posted Dec. 9, 2015 at 5:07 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle