Here's another place that the DOGE could save the American taxpayers a few bucks: Defund all the "climate modeling," much of which is a classic example of "garbage in, garbage out."

The United States, of course, isn't the only organization wasting money on this.

Climate models have been the basis for concern about climate change for more than 35 years. The US government, the United Nations, and organizations across the world have used model projections to warn about global warming and to demand a shift to renewable energy. But Trump administration budget cuts at NASA, NOAA, and other federal agencies threaten to shut down the models, the heart of climate change alarmism.

We can't do much about the United Nations, of course - except to take the ultimate step of withdrawing, and personally, I'd be supportive of just such a move. But we can do something about the major efforts here, that are paid for in whole or in part by our tax dollars. 

This is something the DOGE would do well to focus on. These aren't necessarily branches of the federal government we would want to eliminate, but the president could... encourage some of these agencies to focus only on their sole purpose. NASA, for instance, should once more start producing some results concerning getting us back into space. That is their purpose, right? Of course, Elon Musk is showing them up rather badly there.

There are more than 40 climate models operating across the world, with 13 of the leading models located in the US. The US models are operated by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in New York City, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Princeton, New Jersey, and the Department of Energy (DOE) in Boulder, Colorado. Each of these organizations has been ordered to reduce staff as part of Trump administration budget cuts.

And there's another thing; why all this duplication of effort? Never mind; that's a question that answers itself. It's in the nature of government to grow ever larger and more intrusive, and every petty bureaucrat that's ever existed has been laser-focused on expanding their fiefdom - and what you see here is the result.

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While there are great fiscal arguments to be made here, and the linked article makes them, my concern with this is mostly that the government is wasting money on a big pile of the kind of thing you would find under the south end of a northbound horse. These models are too often working backwards from a conclusion. They are set up not to evaluate climate change, but to support it. That makes this waste of taxpayers' money even more egregious. 

This isn't science. This is anti-science. The scientific method does not work backwards from a conclusion. Applying the scientific method involves making observations, gathering data, forming hypotheses, testing those hypotheses, and either confirming them through reproducible experimentation, and then either confirming the hypotheses or refuting them. These models are not doing science; the agencies running these models don't release their raw data, they don't release their operating assumptions, they only produce predictions based on... What? We don't know, and yet we're expected to keep paying for it.

There's another problem. As I'm endlessly pointing out, the Earth's climate is a vast, chaotic system, with trillions of inputs and outputs, all taking place at any given moment. Any computer models that we can devise are, compared to the actual global climate, about as sophisticated as a stone hand-axe as compared to a nuclear weapon. Any predictions from these models should be taken with enough skepticism to reach from Earth to Saturn.

I think it's safe to say we all know what purpose these models serve; they are aimed at supporting, not scientific inquiry, but an agenda that aims to convince us-or force us-to surrender our comfortable, modern technological lifestyle.

It's time that the government stopped spending our money on this. Make NASA focus on getting us back to space, or just get them out of Elon Musk's way so he can get us into space. Let NOAA go back to predicting the weather. Let the Department of Energy go back to facilitating American energy development.  The climate has always changed, and it always will, and if there is enough interest by the climate scolds to keep models like this going, let them raise money privately.