"bringyagrogalong" <
sof...@aapt.net.au> wrote in message
news:f0462f23-5e05-44fa...@qt7g2000pbc.googlegroups.com...
http://tinyurl.com/7833zps
Well let's see what these people have got to say about that:
Lord (I have a cure for AIDS) Monckton; Tony (I believe in the
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) Abbott; Ian (I am a member of
Gina Rinehart's mining lobby group) Plimer; and Alan (I was arrested
in a public lavatory on two counts of outraging public decency) Jones.
A thoroughly discredited and unsavoury group of weirdos if ever there
was one.
It should be amusing to watch that bunch of discredited dull-witted
lowbrows trying to defend the activities of a discredited lowbrow anti-
AGW organisation. LOL
All the world's science academies and scientific societies of
national or international standing *bar none* who believe ?that human
activity is contributing to global warming must be pissing themselves
laughing.
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STILL PUSHING YOUR FAKE CONSENSUS?
Why Leftists/Warmists Feel They Can Push The Lie That Most Of The World's
Top Scientists Are Believers In Manmade Global Warming
OR
How To Fabricate A Fake Scientific Consensus
THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS IS A TOTAL FAKE!
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ALSO: Keep in mind the following quote:
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps
US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists
worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct
from natural variation."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
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So what is the source of the view that "most of the world's top scientists"
believe in catastrophic manmade global warming?
As usual, it's another typical leftist/warmist distortion of the true facts.
It comes about because the directors of the world's scientific
(undemocratically elected) organisations are mostly believers in the
"climate change is manmade and dangerous" claptrap despite the fact that
most of the members disagree.
ANY DISSENT FROM GENUINE SCIENTISTS IS RUTHLESSLY SUPPRESSED!
This phenomenon appears to be widespread.
Here is a case in point where the members of the APS revolted against their
directors' climate alarmism and one climate scientist even resigned in
protest ...
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Scientist Revolt Against APS Alarmism
Regarding the National Policy Statement on Climate Change of the APS
Council:
2 Nov 2009
An Open Letter to the Council of the American Physical Society
"As physicists who are familiar with the science issues, and as current and
past members of the American Physical Society, we the undersigned urge the
Council to revise its current statement* on climate change as follows, so as
to more accurately represent the current state of the science:"
"Greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous
oxide, accompany human industrial and agricultural activity. While
substantial concern has been expressed that emissions may cause significant
climate change, measured or reconstructed temperature records indicate that
20th 21st century changes are neither exceptional nor persistent, and the
historical and geological records show many periods warmer than today. In
addition, there is an extensive scientific literature that examines
beneficial effects of increased levels of carbon dioxide for both plants and
animals."
"Studies of a variety of natural processes, including ocean cycles and solar
variability, indicate that they can account for variations in the Earth's
climate on the time scale of decades and centuries. Current climate models
appear insufficiently reliable to properly account for natural and
anthropogenic contributions to past climate change, much less project future
climate."
"The APS supports an objective scientific effort to understand the effects
of all processes - natural and human --on the Earth's climate and the
biosphere's response to climate change, and promotes technological options
for meeting challenges of future climate changes, regardless of cause."
APS News; January 2008 Volume 17, Number 1
http://www.openletter-globalwarming.info/Site/open_letter.html
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True Scientists Respond To APS Lies
The APS Responds!
Deconstructing The APS Response To Dr. Hal Lewis Resignation
October 13 2010
Below is the press release from the American Physical Society, responding to
the resignation letter of APS fellow Dr. Hal Lewis made public last Friday,
October 8th.
APS Members Dr. Roger Cohen, Dr. Will Happer, and of course Dr. Hal Lewis
have responded in kind, and have asked me to carry their response on WUWT. I've
gladly obliged, and their inline comments are indented in blue italics in
the document below.
October 12, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tawanda W. Johnson
Press Secretary
APS Physics
529 14th St. NW, Suite 1050
Washington, DC 20045-2065
Phone:
202-662-8702
Fax:
202-662-8711
tjoh...@aps.org
APS Comments on Harold Lewis' Resignation of his Society Membership
WASHINGTON, DC
In a recent letter to American Physical Society (APS) President Curtis A.
Callan, chair of the Princeton University Physics Department, Harold Lewis,
emeritus physics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
announced that he was resigning his APS membership.
In response to numerous accusations in the letter, APS issues the following
statement:
There is no truth to Dr. Lewis' assertion that APS policy statements are
driven by financial gain. To the contrary, as a membership organization of
more than 48,000 physicists, APS adheres to rigorous ethical standards in
developing its statements.
======================================
RESPONSE TO APS LIE:
We know that the existing 2007 APS Statement on Climate Change was developed
literally over lunch by a few people, after the duly constituted Committee
had signed off on a more moderate Statement.
======================================
The Society is open to review of its statements if members petition the APS
Council - the Society's democratically elected governing body - to do so.
======================================
RESPONSE TO APS LIE:
We have yet to receive a response to our Petition:
http://www.openletter-globalwarming.info/Site/Signatures__APS_Council_Study.html
.delivered last spring and signed by 260+ members and former members,
including nearly 100 Fellows, 17 members of national academies and 2 Nobels.
Driven largely by the ClimateGate revelations, the Petition asks that the
Society conduct an independent study and assessment.
As for democratic membership participation in matters of science, consider
the reaction to a grass roots outpouring of APS member opinion on the 2007
APS Statement
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200912/apscouncilors.cfm . "[APS
Councilor] was uncomfortable with the idea of a membership-wide referendum
on statements. He said that he was concerned that having a membership wide
vote on controversial issues could lead to the adoption of scientifically
unsound statements." Evidently physicists should be excluded from
inputting on a question of physics; only "physics monks" are entitled to do
so ex cathedra .
======================================
Dr. Lewis' specific charge that APS as an organization is benefitting
financially from climate change funding is equally false. Neither the
operating officers nor the elected leaders of the Society have a monetary
stake in such funding.
======================================
RESPONSE TO APS LIE:
The chair of the Panel on Public Affairs (POPA) that re-endorsed the 2007
APS Statement on Climate Change sits on the science advisory board of a
large international bank
http://annualreport.deutsche-bank.com/2009/ar/supplementaryinformation/advisoryboards.html
The bank has a $60+ billion Green portfolio, which it wishes to assure
investors is safe.not to mention their income from carbon trading. Other
members of this board include current IPCC chief Pachauri and Lord Oxburgh,
of Climategate exoneration fame. The viability of these banks activities
depends on continued concern over CO2 emissions .
Then there is the member of the Kleppner Committee (that reviewed the APS
2007 Statement prior to POPA) who served on that committee while under
consideration for the position of Chief Scientist at BP. The position had
been vacated when Steve Koonin left to take a post in the administration at
DOE. Soon after the Kleppner Committee report in late 2009, this committee
member took the BP job. BP had previously funded the new Energy Laboratory
at Berkeley, which was headed by current Energy Secretary Steve Chu.
======================================
Moreover, relatively few APS members conduct climate change research, and
therefore the vast majority of the Society's members derive no personal
benefit from such research support.
======================================
RESPONSE TO APS LIE:
This does not mention the firm expectation by federal government agencies
such as the NAS and the Presidential Science Advisor's office that the APS
will continue to support the huge funding machine that diverts billions of
taxpayer dollars into research that must support the alarmist credo. APS has
been silent on the documented practice by some climate "scientists" aimed at
preventing opposing research from being published.
======================================
On the matter of global climate change, APS notes that virtually all
reputable scientists agree with the following observations:
?Carbon dioxide is increasing in the atmosphere due to human activity;
?Carbon dioxide is an excellent infrared absorber, and therefore, its
increasing presence in the atmosphere contributes to global warming; and
======================================
RESPONSE TO APS LIE:
This passes over the fact that carbon dioxide absorption lines are nearly
saturated.
======================================
?The dwell time of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is hundreds of years.
======================================
RESPONSE TO APS LIE:
Well, it depends on what you mean by "dwell time." If it is the
conventional half life of an impulse loading of carbon dioxide, the
statement is wrong - by a lot.. The IPCC's Bern carbon cycle model
http://www.climate.unibe.ch/~joos/model_description/model_description.html
gets a 16 year half life. If it is the time for the last molecule to get
picked up by a sink, the statement is meaningless. At the very least, the
statement is sloppy and hardly befitting a world class scientific society.
======================================
On these matters, APS judges the science to be quite clear. However, APS
continues to recognize that climate models are far from adequate, and the
extent of global warming and climatic disruptions produced by sustained
increases in atmospheric carbon loading remain uncertain.
======================================
RESPONSE TO APS LIE:
This is much better than the 2007 APS Statement itself. However, the phrase
"climate disruptions" is noteworthy because it is the new buzzword recently
introduced by Science Advisor John Holdren
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100054012/global-warming-is-dead-long-live-er-global-climate-disruption/
, evidently enabling advocates to assign any unusual weather event to human
causes. It is curious that that the APS press release happens to echo this
new phrase.
======================================
In light of the significant settled aspects of the science, APS totally
rejects Dr. Lewis' claim that global warming is a "scam" and a
"pseudoscientific fraud."
=====================================
RESPONSE TO APS LIE:
What we have here is a bait and switch. No one is saying that the
greenhouse effect itself is a scam. This passage seeks to transfer the 'scam'
charge from its real target to the trivial. The fraud/scam is to be found
in the continual drumbeat that the science is settled; that the effects will
be catastrophic; that it requires draconian economic sacrifices to avoid;
and that mandates and subsidies for rent-seeking corporations are justified.
======================================
Additionally, APS notes that it has taken extraordinary steps to solicit
opinions from its membership on climate change. After receiving significant
commentary from APS members, the Society's Panel on Public Affairs finalized
an addendum to the APS climate change statement reaffirming the significance
of the issue. The APS Council overwhelmingly endorsed the reaffirmation.
======================================
RESPONSE TO APS LIE:
Never mind that the Panel on Public Affairs is chaired by an individual
whose research funding stream (from BP) depends on continued global warming
alarm. And you have to keep your eye on the pea. The dispute was not over
the "significance" of the issue; it was over the alarmist nature of the
statement. The addendum used more than five times the number of words to try
to explain what the original statement meant. Not a good sign that they
got it right the first time.
======================================
Lastly, in response to widespread interest expressed by its members, the APS
is in the process of organizing a Topical Group to feature forefront
research and to encourage exchange of information on the physics of climate.
======================================
RESPONSE TO APS LIE:
Never mind that the Topical Group was proposed in a petition organized by a
group of five members that included Dr. Lewis. Also, the Council has not
yet approved a TG; therefore it is not in the process of being "organized."
It is being considered. No formal charter or bylaws have been set down.
What we have here is the first attempt to co-opt the TG for PR purposes.
This before it has even been approved by the APS Council.
======================================
Read the APS Climate Change Statement and Commentary:
http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/07_1.cfm.
====================================== RESPONSE TO APS LIE:
APS should be very reluctant to draw public attention to this Statement,
with its infamous phrase, "The evidence is incontrovertible," despite the
fact that nothing in science is ever incontrovertible.
======================================
About APS: The American Physical Society (
www.aps.org) is the leading
physics organization, representing 48,000 members, including physicists in
academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and
internationally. APS has offices in College Park, MD (Headquarters), Ridge,
NY, and Washington, DC.
Tawanda W. Johnson
Press Secretary
APS Physics
529 14th St. NW, Suite 1050
Washington, DC 20045-2065
Phone:
202-662-8702
Fax:
202-662-8711
tjoh...@aps.org
======================================
This page is available as a PDF here: APS Press Release Deconstruction
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/aps-press-release-deconstruction.pdf
======================================
Dr. Roger Cohen writes in with an addedum:
I would like to clarify one technical point for your visitors.
It relates to: "This passes over the fact that carbon dioxide absorption
lines are nearly saturated."
The statement is fact, but it does not by itself imply that additional
amounts of atmospheric CO2 will not cause significant warming.
Straightforward radiation transfer calculations have established that the
effect of doubling atmospheric CO2 would be to increase global average
temperature by only about 1ºC. - if there were no other climate effects
involved.
However, these other effects, generally called "feedbacks," can amplify or
attenuate the primary radiation altering effect of additional CO2.
The most prominent feedback is the "cloud-water vapor feedback," which is
very difficult to calculate or determine empirically.
The IPCC says these feedback effects are in aggregate large and positive,
giving rise to their most recent estimate of 2ºC to 4.5ºC for doubling, with
a most likely value of 3ºC.
However, a substantial body of other research points to a much lower value,
much closer to the zero feedback value of 1ºC, or even lower.
The actual aggregated effect of feedbacks is a critical aspect of the
debate.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/13/aps-responds-deconstructing-the-aps-response-to-dr-hal-lewis-resignation/
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Top Climate Scientist Warns: The Warming Is Exaggerated And We Can't Stop It
Anyway
March 10 2011
On Monday this week, one of the world's top climate scientists exposed both
Brown and Gillard for the dangerous shysters they are
Here's some of that that damning testimony of John R. Christy, Distinguished
Professor of Atmospheric Science, Alabama's State Climatologist, Director of
the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
and former Lead Author of IPCC assessments.
THE FLOODS WERE NOTHING UNUSUAL, AND PART OF NATURAL VARIABILITY
The tragic flooding in the second half of 2010 in NE Australia was examined
in two ways,
(1) in terms of financial costs and
(2) in terms of climate history.
First, when one normalizes the flood costs year by year, meaning if one
could imagine that the infrastructure now in place was unchanging during the
entire study period, the analysis shows there are no long-term trends in
damages. In an update of Crompton and McAneney (2008) of normalized disaster
losses in Australia which includes an estimate for 2010, they show
absolutely no trend since 1966.
Secondly, regarding the recent Australian flooding as a physical event in
the context climate history (with the estimated 2010 maximum river height
added to the chart below) one sees a relative lull in flooding events after
1900. Only four events reached the moderate category in the past 110 years,
while 14 such events were recorded in the 60 years before 1900. Indeed, the
recent flood magnitude had been exceeded six times in the last 170 years,
twice by almost double the level of flooding as observed in 2010. Such
history charts indicate that severe flooding is an extreme event that has
occurred from natural, unforced variability.
THE WORLD ISN'T WARMING ANYTHING LIKE AS FAST AS THE GLOBAL WARMISTS'
MODELS WARNED IT WOULD
As noted earlier, my main research projects deal with building climate
datasets from scratch to document what the climate has done and to test
assertions and hypotheses about climate change....
I have repeated that study for this testimony with data which now cover 32
years as shown above (1979-2010.) In an interesting result, the new
underlying trend remains a modest +0.09 C/decade for the global tropospheric
temperature, which is still only one
third of the average rate the climate models project for the current era
(+0.26°C/decade.)
There is no evidence of acceleration in this trend. This evidence strongly
suggests that climate model simulations on average are simply too sensitive
to increasing greenhouse gases and thus overstate the warming of the climate
system ...
TRYING TO "STOP" GLOBAL WARMING WITH THINGS LIKE A CARBON DIOXIDE TAX OR
EMISSIONS TRADING IS A WASTE OF MONEY
The evidence above suggests that climate models overestimate the response of
temperature to greenhouse gas increases. Even so, using these climate model
simulations we calculate that the impact of legislative actions being
considered on the global temperature is essentially imperceptible. These
actions will not result in a measurable climate effect that can be
attributable or predictable with any level of confidence, especially at the
regional level. Thus, if the country deems it necessary to de-carbonize
civilization's main energy sources, sound and indeed compelling reasons
beyond human-induced climate change need to be offered.
Why on earth are we persisting in this folly?
http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/Media/file/Hearings/Energy/030811/Christy.pdf
WARNING:
GREENIE WARMIST CLAPTRAP FOLLOWS .
Greens leader Bob Brown claimed the Brisbane floods were caused by
coal-miners:
"It's the single biggest cause, burning coal, for climate change and it must
take its major share of responsibility for the weather events we are seeing
unfolding now."
That one statement alone - nonsensically false, alarmist and opportunist -
should have reduced him permanently to a figure of fun in a healthy
democracy.
And now Julia Gillard claims we need nothing less than a great tax on carbon
emissions, to totally transform our economy, if we are to help save the
planet from "apocalyptic man-made warming."
Why do journalists credit these two shameless alarmists and their
fraudulent, ruinous schemes to "fix" a problem that exists nowhere but in
discredited computer models?
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"Heir To Einstein" Scientist Tries To Knock Some Sense Into A Thick Warmist
Skull
"The climate of the earth is an immensely complicated system and nobody is
close to understanding it."
"Among my friends, I do not find much of a consensus. Most of us are
sceptical and do not pretend to be experts. My impression is that the
"experts" are deluded because they have been studying the details of climate
models for 30 years and they come to believe the models are real."
February 27 2011
World renowned physicist Freeman Dyson starts an email debate with a warmist
journalist from the Independent - one that ends with a bollocking:
From: Steve Connor
To: Freeman Dyson
You are one of the most famous living scientists, credited as a visionary
who has reshaped scientific thinking. Some have called you the "heir to
Einstein", yet you are also a "climate sceptic" who questions the consensus
on global warming and its link with carbon dioxide emissions. Could we start
by finding where we agree?
I take it you accept for instance that carbon dioxide is a powerful
greenhouse gas that warms the planet
(1); that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have risen since direct
measurements began several decades ago
(2); and that CO2 is almost certainly higher now than for at least the past
800,000 years
(3), if you take longer records into account, such as ice-core data.
Would you also accept that CO2 levels have been increasing as a result of
burning fossil fuels and that global temperatures have been rising for the
past 50 years at least, and possibly for longer (4)?
Computer models have shown that the increase in global temperatures can only
be explained by the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations (5).
Climate scientists say there is no other reasonable explanation for the
warming they insist is happening (6), which is why we need to consider doing
something about it (7).
What part of this do you accept and what do you reject?
From: Freeman Dyson
To: Steve Connor
First of all, please cut out the mention of Einstein. To compare me to
Einstein is silly and annoying.
Answers to your questions are:
yes (1),
yes (2),
yes (3),
maybe (4),
no (5),
no (6),
no (7).
There are six good reasons for saying no to the last three assertions.
First, the computer models are very good at solving the equations of fluid
dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full
of things like clouds and vegetation and soil and dust which the models
describe very poorly.
Second, we do not know whether the recent changes in climate are on balance
doing more harm than good. The strongest warming is in cold places like
Greenland. More people die from cold in winter than die from heat in summer.
Third, there are many other causes of climate change besides human
activities, as we know from studying the past.
Fourth, the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is strongly coupled with other
carbon reservoirs in the biosphere, vegetation and top-soil, which are as
large or larger. It is misleading to consider only the atmosphere and ocean,
as the climate models do, and ignore the other reservoirs.
Fifth, the biological effects of CO2 in the atmosphere are beneficial, both
to food crops and to natural vegetation. The biological effects are better
known and probably more important than the climatic effects.
Sixth, summing up the other five reasons, the climate of the earth is an
immensely complicated system and nobody is close to understanding it.
[..] Thick-headed warmist claptrap snipped.
Dyson answers .
From: Freeman Dyson
To: Steve Connor
When I was in high-school in England in the 1930s, we learned that
continents had been drifting according to the evidence collected by Wegener.
It was a great mystery to understand how this happened, but not much doubt
that it happened. So it came as a surprise to me later to learn that there
had been a consensus against Wegener. If there was a consensus, it was among
a small group of experts rather than among the broader public. I think that
the situation today with global warming is similar. Among my friends, I do
not find much of a consensus. Most of us are sceptical and do not pretend to
be experts. My impression is that the experts are deluded because they have
been studying the details of climate models for 30 years and they come to
believe the models are real. After 30 years they lose the ability to think
outside the models. And it is normal for experts in a narrow area to think
alike and develop a settled dogma. The dogma is sometimes right and
sometimes wrong. In astronomy this happens all the time, and it is great fun
to see new observations that prove the old dogmas wrong.
Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments
have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become
politically incorrect. As a result, the media generally exaggerate the
degree of consensus and also exaggerate the importance of the questions.
I am glad we are now talking about more general issues and not about
technical details. I do not pretend to be an expert about the details.
[..] Thick-headed warmist claptrap snipped.
Dyson answers .
From: Freeman Dyson
To: Steve Connor
I have this unfortunate habit of answering email immediately, which is in
the long run not sustainable. So I will answer this one and then remain
silent for three days.
Of course I am not expecting you to agree with me. The most I expect is that
you might listen to what I am saying. I am saying that all predictions
concerning climate are highly uncertain. On the other hand, the remedies
proposed by the experts are enormously costly and damaging, especially to
China and other developing countries. On a smaller scale, we have seen great
harm done to poor people around the world by the conversion of maize from a
food crop to an energy crop. This harm resulted directly from the political
alliance between American farmers and global-warming politicians.
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by
politics more than by science. If it happens that I am wrong and the climate
experts are right, it is still true that the remedies are far worse than the
disease that they claim to cure.
I wish that The Independent would live up to its name and present a less
one-sided view of the issues.
[.] Thick-headed warmist claptrap snipped.
In desperation at the continued, thick-headed warmist claptrap emanating
from Connor, Freeman Dyson just gives up.
From: Freeman Dyson
To: Steve Connor
My three days of silence are over, and I decided I have no wish to continue
this discussion. Your last message just repeats the same old party line that
we have many good reasons to distrust. You complain that people who are
sceptical about the party line do not agree about other things. Why should
we agree? The whole point of science is to encourage disagreement and keep
an open mind. That is why I blame The Independent for seriously misleading
your readers. You give them the party line and discourage them from
disagreeing.
With all due respect, I say good-bye and express the hope that you will one
day join the sceptics. Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as
it is for a good scientist.
Yours sincerely, Freeman Dyson
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/letters-to-a-heretic-an-email-conversation-with-climate-change-sceptic-professor-freeman-dyso-2224912.html
Warmest Regards
B O N Z O
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps
US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists
worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct
from natural variation."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
"A major problem has been the co-option of climate science by politics,
ambition, greed, and what seems to be a hereditary human need for a
righteous cause."
"What better cause than "saving" the planet, especially if one can get
ample, secure funding at the same time?"
William Happer, Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, Princeton
University.
"The claim is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8ºK in
about 150 years, which, if true, means to me that the temperature has been
amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely
improved in this 'warming' period,".
Nobel Laureate Dr. Ivar Giaever:
"If climate has not "tipped" in over 4 billion years it's not going to tip
now due to mankind. The planet has a natural thermostat"
Richard S. Lindzen, Atmospheric Physicist, Professor of Meteorology MIT,
Former IPCC Lead Author
"A core problem is that science has given way to ideology. The scientific
method has been dispensed with, or abused, to serve the myth of man-made
global warming."
"The World Turned Upside Down", Melanie Phillips
"Computer models are built in an almost backwards fashion: The goal is to
show evidence of AGW, and the "scientists" go to work to produce such a
result. When even these models fail to show what advocates want, the data
and interpretations are "fudged" to bring about the desired result"
"The World Turned Upside Down", Melanie Phillips
"Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the
environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try
at condemning fossil fuels!"
http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/threat-ocean-acidification-greatly-exaggerated
Before attacking hypothetical problems, let us first solve the real problems
that threaten humanity. One single water pump at an equivalent cost of a
couple of solar panels can indeed spare hundreds of Sahel women the daily
journey to the spring and spare many infections and lives.
Martin De Vlieghere, philosopher
"All it takes to find oneself called a 'denier' is to seek a sense of
proportion about environmental problems"
Mark Lynas, The God Species