Vaikkakin haju, Archie, Willer ja jokunen muukin Uskova varmasti ottaa herneen neukkuunsa tasta niin laitan seuraavat poliittiset linkit tanne. Linkit keskittyvat "denier" tutkijoihin. Gorehan suureen aaneen viime viikolla ilmoitti etta kaikki denierit uskoo etta kuulento on lavastettu jossain Nevadan aavikolla ja toisti hajunkin viljelemaa lausetta (Uskovien mantra?) "denierit voidaan liittaa samaan kastiin litteeseen maapalloon uskovien kanssa". hajun on kuitenkin hyva muistaa etta kun littea maapallo keskustelu oli kuumimmillaan muutamia satoja vuosia sitten niin konsensus oli etta maapallo on littea. Skeptikot tai denierit taas vaitivat etta maapallo on pyorea. No, nythan me kaikki tiedetaan kumpi leiri oli oikeassa.
Eli, alustuksena seuraava kopio
tasta linkista. Kopioin sen tanne koska linkissa keskustellaan myos paljosta muusta ja taman toikin aihe on vain osa linkin sisallosta.
"Al Gore, as everyone knows, is the chief spokesman for this new ideology. Some of you may have seen him Sunday on 60 Minutes, where he was asked about those who don't subscribe to the view that global warming spells doom for mankind. They're often called "deniers."
"It's a tiny, tiny minority," he told Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes, comparing those who hold this view to people who believe the earth is flat. These are people who believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie set in Nevada, he said.
I found it ironic that Gore would compare these deniers to those who don't believe in space travel. One of those deniers is Michael Griffin, the head of NASA. Another is Habibullo Abdussamatov. He heads research on the Russian half of the International Space Station. A third is Eigil Friis-Christensen, the head of the Danish Space Agency. A fourth is Freeman Dyson, one of the best known scientists on earth today. The furtherance of space flight are among his many accomplishments. He developed nuclear pulse propulsion for the Orion project. He also developed the TRIGA, the research reactors used in hospitals and university labs around the world to produce isotopes. He does have a connection with movie sets, however. Dyson's theories about space travel inspired the Star Trek series.
Everyone in this room has heard of Al Gore and his conviction that global warming threatens us with extinction. And probably just about everyone in this room knows that the closest Al Gore came to a scientific achievement is the invention of the Internet. And probably just about everyone in this room accepts what Al Gore says about global warming.
On the other hand, possibly none of you know that Michael Griffin, the head of NASA believes that global warming isn't a problem worth wrestling with. This is an interesting viewpoint from the man who oversees the world's single biggest climate change research budget - $1.1 billion per year. Here is what he told National Public Radio in the US last year:
"First of all, I don't think it's within the power of human beings to assure that the climate does not change, as millions of years of history have shown. And second of all, I guess I would ask which human beings, where and when, are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now, is the best climate for all other human beings. ... I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take."
Was Griffin entitled to express his viewpoint? He holds a PhD in aerospace engineering. He holds five masters degrees. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the International Academy of Astronautics. He was unanimously confirmed to head NASA by the United States Senate.
No sooner did he express his opinion than he was called an "idiot" and said to be "in denial." He was called a "fool" and "surprisingly naive." He was called either "totally clueless" or "a deep anti-global warming ideologue." He then apologized and wasn't heard from again on the subject. And that's probably why you haven't heard about him.
I haven't been in touch with Griffin but I've been in touch with the other scientists I mentioned. In fact, I've been in touch with hundreds of scientists in fields related to climate science. I started contacting them about 18 months ago, to see if they really all were kooks or in the pay of the oil companies, as they've been described. I expected to find a half dozen or so dissenters. I had no idea that I would find a seemingly limitless number of scientists. If you want to read about some of them, you'll find them in my columns in the National Post. I've profiled several dozen of them, in my series called The Deniers. I've also just come out with a book by the same name -- The Deniers. It's available now on Amazon, and doing quite well – it's one of Amazon.ca's top sellers. My daughters are impressed that it's outselling Harry Potter.
From talking to these scientists, I have come to believe that a great many scientists -- probably the majority of top scientists -- don't believe that the science is settled on global warming. The list of so-called deniers includes the President of the World Federation of Science, who is also Italy's best known scientist. It includes France's best known scientist. It includes Britain's best-known scientist. It includes scientists from the world's top research bodies, bodies such as the Pasteur Institute and the European Space Agency and CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, a 50-year-old institution that has 20 country members and services half of the world's particle physicists. It includes the top climate scientists, legends in the field such as William Gray, who is considered by many the world's foremost authority on the prediction of hurricanes, and Reid Bryson, who has been called the father of scientific climatology and who is the world's most cited climatologist.
If you're like most people, you haven't heard all this. You have heard, instead, that almost all scientists are in basic agreement with Al Gore and with a UN agency called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is coordinating much of the research on climate change. You have probably also heard that 2000 or 2500 top scientists in the climate change field support the man-made climate change hypothesis. This figure of 2000 to 2500 top scientists has been cited literally thousands of times in the press. This is the main reason that the press provides for there being a consensus on climate change.
Who exactly are these 2500 scientists? To find out, I wrote the Secretariat of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, asking for their names and contact information. The Secretariat wrote back saying that the names are not public but that, in any case, the 2500 scientists were reviewers, not endorsers. These are not endorsers! These scientists are merely people who had offered their professional opinions on one or more of the numerous studies that had gone into the mix. Many agreed. Many, I knew, disagreed, because among the people I had profiled were some of the 2500 reviewers.
In other words, you've been had. And our governments have been had. There is no basis at all for the claim that there is a scientific consensus on climate change. The 2500 are not endorsers. They haven't even been asked to endorse the UN conclusions. There is not only no consensus, there is no concrete evidence for harmful manmade climate change. There are only models, predicting what will happen to the climate 50 or 100 years from now, when the weatherman can't even predict what will happen a few days from now. The most that can be fairly said is that there is a possibility -- as yet unproven -- that man is affecting the climate in a harmful way.
And yet, on the basis of no reliable evidence, and ignorance of the facts in the extreme, governments are making investments of billions upon billions of dollars. In Ontario, in our ignorance, we are abandoning coal plants, including some of the cleanest ones on the continent. We are reinvesting in nuclear, the cause of Ontario Hydro's bankruptcy, and the potential cause of another bankruptcy in future.
This way lies madness. A sane energy policy would see an abandonment of nuclear in favour of clean coal technologies that can become much cleaner still. Clean coal has become both cheap and environmentally attractive, as well as conservation and some renewables. The sanest energy policy of all would be for the government to get our of the energy business and do what the UK did in 1989 -- privatize the works and let the competitive market sort out the winners from the losers. As in the UK, the big loser in Ontario would be the nuclear industry. The big winners -- and this would be very good news indeed -- would be the taxpayers, the ratepayers and the environment."
Kyseinen kirjottaja on National Postin toimittaja. Uskovat ovat jo pitkan aikaa haukkuneet National Postia oljyorjaksi (ja BBCta totuuskanavaksi, hehee...). Seuraavasta linkista hanen selvitystaan
"Deniers" kirjan taustasta.
Taalta sitten loytyy
National Postin "propaganda"kirjoitukset merkittavista tutkijoista ketka eivat usko gorenialaisuuteen.
Ah, viisauden sanoja:
Howard Hayden, physics professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, was correct in describing the machinery of the climate model-hysteria industrial complex as one that takes "garbage in" and spits "gospel out."