Some scientists are OK with Miranda

[tewiremu]

The beauty of the Geek! The opening par nearly made my balls drop off:

It's a good time to be a geek. We live in an era in which most people have little idea how most of the hi-tech stuff they rely on works, but they know it's awesome and have accorded superhuman status to the few who possess the scientific know-how.

But if you're a climate scientist using state-of-the-art modelling techniques....BOOOOO!

[Matthew Of Canberra]

Yeah, I hate to be grammar nazi (grandma nazi?), but I'm absolutely sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that no published, credible scientist is ok "with" miranda.

I think you meant to say "by" miranda :-)

I suspect she also watches the weather report, like anybody else, completely oblivious to the fact that it's based on (yes, you guessed it) "models".

Oh, and in case she's reading this ... this higgs bosun thing is a demonstration that models, even 40-year-old models, can be ultimately shown to be correct. So, when you have a whole bunch of models all pointing in the same direction you'd better have, you know, some sort of factual basis for questioning them. Something other than .... oh, I don't know.

[tewiremu]

I hate to be a spelling Nazi, but a bosun is a ship's officer. A boson is a particle named after Satyendra Bose, who was a contemporary and collaborator with Einstein : )

[Sammy Jankis]

I also see that Miranda announced via Twitter that she got to meet Donna Lafromboise, a photographer/journalist who believes there is no scientific consensus surrounding AGW. If you want an example of the caliber of her arguments look no further than her website:

Global Warming Theory 101

We can't predict next summer's weather reliably.

But we claim to know - within a few degrees - how hot it will be 100 years from now.

Woah, I hadn't even thought of that! How embarrassing for the scientific community! AGW has been totally pwned!

*munches on humble pie*