Extreme weather is changing minds on climate

Sorry, I’m not buying it . . . .
And neither is Hal Lewis, an Emeritus Professor of Physics and former department chairman at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who resigned from the American Physical Society on Oct. 6, 2010. The principal reason was laid out in the following portion of the letter “For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.
It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.” [See: http://www.thegwpf.org/hal-lewis-my-resignation-from-the-american-physi…]

Nor is Dr. David Evans, who’s responsible for developing the carbon accounting model that Australia uses to track carbon in its biosphere, a mathematician & engineer w/6 university degrees, PhD from Stanford;
“If the Argo data showed a warming trend, don’t you suppose it would be publicized endlessly?
So what’s going on? Our best data, from satellites and Argo, says that both the air and oceans have not warmed for at least five years now. In the short term, some cooling force is overpowering the warming due to human emissions.
. . . It is worth bearing in mind that there is no actual evidence that carbon dioxide was the main cause of recent warming—it’s only an assumption, and the calculations of future temperature rises derive most of their warming from an assumed water vapor feedback for which there is only counter-evidence.” [See: http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-warming-or-global-cooling-a-new-tre…]

And they’re not alone. The Petition Project [see: http://www.petitionproject.org/] lists 31,487 American scientists, 9,029 of whom have PhD’s, all of whom question whether human release of CO2 is causing or will cause catastrophic heating of the atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate, including such luminaries as Dr. S. Fred Singer, atmospheric physicist, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, and former director of the US Weather Satellite Service as well as Dr. Frederick Seitz, past President, National Academy of Science, President Emeritus of Rockefeller University. Other notable global warming skeptics include the likes of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Dr. Ivar Giaever, 1973 Nobel prize winner in physics, UN IPCC lead author Richard Tol, UN IPCC scientist Eduardo Zorita, Dr. Antonio Zichichi, president of the World Federation of Scientists, Solar physicists Galina Mashnich and Vladimir Bashkirtsev, of the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Hendrik Tennekes, retired director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.

To return to my earlier point, Michael Mann’s now debunked statistical models as well as the leaked e-mails from University of East Anglia that appear to show collusion on the part of leading climate scientists to manipulate and falsify data as well as acting to suppress dissenting opinions seriously calls into question the veracity of the existing body of climate science work.

We need to have real science being done by real scientists that believe in the scientific method, who welcome those who would challenge and put their theories to the test because THAT’S how real science is done and THAT’S how sound theories are developed. To take action to suppress dissenting voices and opinions such as the current crop of “climate experts” are doing isn’t science, my friend, it’s religion, and a pretty insecure one at that.

And by the way, you don’t need to go back millions of years to get a reasonable statistical sampling, just a few decades. I’ve been around long enough to actually remember newspaper headlines and magazine covers speculating that we were heading for a new ice age. That speculation occurred AFTER a steady rise in CO2 levels over a twenty year period. I would also point out that also predates Fox News. Furthermore, it’s pretty apparent that if you extend back a bit further to the 1920’s that you’re going to run into enough anomalous weather patterns to pretty well make hash of the theory that extreme weather is a phenomenon of just the last decade or two.