Patrick Moore, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, has a new book out, ”Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom” (Moore, 2021). It is a factual book on climate change, but it also mentions pandemics. How could these two topics have something in common? An old acronym, GIGO – garbage in, garbage out – connects the two ideas.
Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIGO was first used in 1957 by George Fuechsel, an early IBM programmer and instructor. It refers to a computer concept of poor input results in poor output.
Programmers will exacerbate garbage into the computer by including any personal biases. A computer at this point cannot think for itself. Even A.I. might not truly think for itself but rather be faster at picking the best options based on the whims of its programmer. I believe certain people try to program the computer to produce the desired outcomes. It does, but only after receiving input from a human. Unfortunately, I believe all humans have some biases.
This is what ties pandemic and climate change together forever. People are using their inputs and then saying the computer produced a factual output. It is computer “magic,” except it truly is not.
Moore’s Book
Back to Patrick Moore’s book. On page 33, Moore writes, “In addition, many of these predictions are based on simulations, which are computer-generated models created by authors who decide what they want their model to predict and then build assumptions into the model that provide them with the results they are looking to achieve. It’s all founded on a very self-fulfilling prophecy and has nothing to do with real science, which is about observing real situations in the real world, not inserting numbers designed to obey formulas on a computer.”
Connect the Dots
I believe you can connect the dots to both climate change and the pandemic by the horrible computer models used to predict the outcome. In the pandemic case, Alex Berenson thrashed the Imperial College, in London, in his series, ”Unreported Truths About COVID-19 and Lockdowns” series (Berenson, 2020) and by AEIR in the article, “How Wrong Were the Models and Why”. Berenson was the first person to look at Neil Ferguson’s earlier GIGO.
In climate change, there are too many research studies that are GIGO, plain and simple. If you want further information, I urge you to read Moore’s book, “Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom” (Moore, 2021).
He writes not with computer models, but by observing the real world.
