The Center for American Progress's Think Progress blog attacked a Noel Sheppard post on NewsBusters and a handful of other conservative blogs today. Their crime? Citing climate change comments uttered by a weatherman.
Think Progress said:
The conservative blogosphere is pushing Coleman's junk science today. Matt Drudge links to NewsBusters' "marvelous" take on Coleman this morning. Red State [sic], Qando [sic], Sister Toldjah, and the Free Republic also join in by approvingly linking to Coleman's piece.
The right wing should check Coleman's credentials before touting his "scientific" work. As Coleman admits, his "expertise" is in weather - not climate change science. In fact, he "has been a TV weatherman since he was a freshman in college in 1953."
Think Progress doesn't believe a mere "weatherman" should speak his mind on climate, but...
...as recently as November 5, Think Progress promoted the climate views of a politician over those of a bona fide climatologist:
This morning, former vice president Al Gore appeared on NBC's Today Show to talk about global warming. Host Meredith Vieira brought up a Nov. 1 Wall Street Journal op-ed by climate skeptic John Christy, a former member of the IPCC. In the op-ed, Christy wrote, "I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the activity we see."
When Vieira asked about the op-ed, Gore noted that Christy "no longer belongs to the IPCC" and is "way outside the scientific consensus." He also sharply criticized the media for giving so much air time to such climate skeptics...
As Gore noted, scientists such as Christy are outliers, yet the media continue to give them an overblown amount of airtime.
Christy has a B.A. in mathematics and an M.S. and Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences. Gore earned a degree in government and then attended divinity school and law school.
If Newsbusters was foolish for citing a mere weatherman on climate issues (which I don't for a moment believe), what would that make Think Progress for citing a mere politician?
















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Right, cause, you know, the
November 9, 2007 - 00:37 ET by candanceRight, cause, you know, the guy who built The Weather Channel is just some dork with a couple trinkets and a text prompter.
Let them say whatever they want. Ten years from now it'll be something else and they'll all say Republicans were pushing global warming.
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Here's to GULLiberals
November 9, 2007 - 02:38 ET by maryerinme·te·or·ol·o·gy /ˌmitiəˈrɒlədʒi/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[mee-tee-uh-rol-uh-jee]–noun
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Meteorlogist -
November 9, 2007 - 17:01 ET by BeowulfMeteorlogist - Meteorologists are scientists who study the atmosphere to see how it affects the environment and to predict the weather and climate trends.
Nope, no expertise on Globull Alarming there. Once again, WaPo is right and everyone else is wrong. We should all be ashamed of ourselves...
The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers
They've been telling us "the
November 9, 2007 - 11:36 ET by taznarThey've been telling us "the point of no return" is in about ten years for just about ten years now. Gore's been beating the climate change drum for a good 30 years now and by the time "An Inconvenient Truth" made its debut, the data was already years old.
They'll never believe world destruction isn't just 10 years away (really, we know it for sure this time...).
John Coleman is on the radio right now.
November 9, 2007 - 00:38 ET by mastersofdeceitThis is so weird Coleman is on the al rantel show right now. If you can get KABC 790am check it out.
He just had a great line--" it used to be that peer review caught the bad science"
Gasp, the Oscars AND Global
November 9, 2007 - 00:40 ET by wiwfGasp, the Oscars AND Global Warming are political?!
The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy
lol. Some dork just called
November 9, 2007 - 00:43 ET by mastersofdeceitlol. Some dork just called in and said "coleman gave himself away when he said 'democrat' party"
Kinda makes you wonder
November 9, 2007 - 13:26 ET by MikeBKinda makes you wonder about that dork, doesn't it? If the Democrat party were democratic, they would be for the death penalty, they would be against partial-birth abortion, they would be against gun control (read confiscation), they would be for enforcing the nation's laws on immigration, they would be for securing the border, they would be for lower taxes, etc., etc., etc.
Also, if it were the Democratic Party, the party members would be Demcratics. After all, members of the Republican Party are Republicans.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
The right wing should check
November 9, 2007 - 01:34 ET by Joe 1956The right wing should check Coleman's credentials before touting his
"scientific" work. As Coleman admits, his "expertise" is in weather -
not climate change science....
Lemme get this straight - climate and weather is two different things? Where would we be without those Regressive "intellectuals"?
Mr. Sheppard can quote this then
November 9, 2007 - 01:34 ET by Lame CherryThis article then can be quoted showing how bogus global warming is from the Telegraph in the UK. It actually proves what I have been posting here in there is a literal political power grab continuously using scams to scare people.
While I do not have the link, the Canucks just released information using sediments in British Columbia pointing to solar output should decline soon and a global cooling take place.
4 November 2007
The deceit behind global warming
[the world is about to cool again]
By Christopher Booker and Richard North
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/04/eaclimate104.xml
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 04/11/2007
No one can deny that in recent years the need to "save the planet"
from global warming has become one of the most pervasive issues of our
time. As Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King,
claimed in 2004, it poses "a far greater threat to the world than
international terrorism", warning that by the end of this century the
only habitable continent left will be Antarctica.
Antarctic ice sheets may grow
Hempleman-Adams' experience of climate change | Video
Inevitably, many people have been bemused by this somewhat one-sided
debate, imagining that if so many experts are agreed, then there must
be something in it. But if we set the story of how this fear was
promoted in the context of other scares before it, the parallels which
emerge might leave any honest believer in global warming feeling
uncomfortable.
PHOTO: Polar bears find the Arctic sea ice shrinking, but many
scientists now predict that the world is about to cool again
The story of how the panic over climate change was pushed to the top
of the international agenda falls into five main stages. Stage one
came in the 1970s when many scientists expressed alarm over what they
saw as a disastrous change in the earth's climate. Their fear was not
of warming but global cooling, of "a new Ice Age".
For three decades, after a sharp rise in the interwar years up to
1940, global temperatures had been falling. The one thing certain
about climate is that it is always changing. Since we began to emerge
from the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago, temperatures have been through
significant swings several times. The hottest period occurred around
8,000 years ago and was followed by a long cooling. Then came what is
known as the "Roman Warming", coinciding with the Roman empire. Three
centuries of cooling in the Dark Ages were followed by the "Mediaeval
Warming", when the evidence agrees the world was hotter than today.
Around 1300 began "the Little Ice Age", that did not end until 200
years ago, when we entered what is known as the "Modern Warming". But
even this has been chequered by colder periods, such as the "Little
Cooling" between 1940 and 1975. Then, in the late 1970s, the world
began warming again.
A scare is often set off — as we show in our book with other examples
— when two things are observed together and scientists suggest one
must have been caused by the other. In this case, thanks to readings
commissioned by Dr Roger Revelle, a distinguished American
oceanographer, it was observed that since the late 1950s levels of
carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere had been rising. Perhaps it
was this increase that was causing the new warming in the 1980s?
Stage two of the story began in 1988 when, with remarkable speed, the
global warming story was elevated into a ruling orthodoxy, partly due
to hearings in Washington chaired by a youngish senator, Al Gore, who
had studied under Dr Revelle in the 1960s.
But more importantly global warming hit centre stage because in 1988
the UN set up its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the
IPCC). Through a series of reports, the IPCC was to advance its cause
in a rather unusual fashion. First it would commission as many as
1,500 experts to produce a huge scientific report, which might include
all sorts of doubts and reservations. But this was to be prefaced by a
Summary for Policymakers, drafted in con-sult-ation with governments
and officials — essentially a political document — in which most of
the caveats contained in the experts' report would not appear.
This contradiction was obvious in the first report in 1991, which led
to the Rio conference on climate change in 1992. The second report in
1996 gave particular prominence to a study by an obscure US government
scientist claiming that the evidence for a connection between global
warming and rising CO2 levels was now firmly established. This study
came under heavy fire from various leading climate experts for the way
it manipulated the evidence. But this was not allowed to stand in the
way of the claim that there was now complete scientific consensus
behind the CO2 thesis, and the Summary for Policy-makers, heavily
influenced from behind the scenes by Al Gore, by this time US
Vice-President, paved the way in 1997 for the famous Kyoto Protocol.
Kyoto initiated stage three of the story, by formally committing
governments to drastic reductions in their CO2 emissions. But the
treaty still had to be ratified and this seemed a good way off, not
least thanks to its rejection in 1997 by the US Senate, despite the
best attempts of Mr Gore.
Not the least of his efforts was his bid to suppress an article
co-authored by Dr Revelle just before his death. Gore didn't want it
to be known that his guru had urged that the global warming thesis
should be viewed with more caution.
One of the greatest problems Gore and his allies faced at this time
was the mass of evidence showing that in the past, global temperatures
had been higher than in the late 20th century. In 1998 came the answer
they were looking for: a new temperature chart, devised by a young
American physicist, Michael Mann. This became known as the "hockey
stick" because it showed historic temperatures running in an almost
flat line over the past 1,000 years, then suddenly flicking up at the
end to record levels.
Mann's hockey stick was just what the IPCC wanted. When its 2001
report came out it was given pride of place at the top of page 1. The
Mediaeval Warming, the Little Ice Age, the 20th century Little
Cooling, when CO2 had already been rising, all had been wiped away.
But then a growing number of academics began to raise doubts about
Mann and his graph. This culminated in 2003 with a devastating study
by two Canadians showing how Mann had not only ignored most of the
evidence before him but had used an algorithm that would produce a
hockey stick graph whatever evidence was fed into the computer. When
this was removed, the graph re-emerged just as it had looked before,
showing the Middle Ages as hotter than today.
It is hard to recall any scientific thesis ever being so
comprehensively discredited as the "hockey stick". Yet the global
warming juggernaut rolled on regardless, now led by the European
Union. In 2004, thanks to a highly dubious deal between the EU and
Putin's Russia, stage four of the story began when the Kyoto treaty
was finally ratified.
In the past three years, we have seen the EU announcing every kind of
measure geared to fighting climate change, from building ever more
highly-subsidised wind turbines, to a commitment that by 2050 it will
have reduced carbon emissions by 60 per cent. This is a pledge that
could only be met by such a massive reduction in living standards that
it is impossible to see the peoples of Europe accepting it.
All this frenzy has rested on the assumption that global temperatures
will continue to rise in tandem with CO2 and that, unless mankind
takes drastic action, our planet is faced with the apocalypse so
vividly described by Al Gore in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient
Truth.
Yet recently, stage five of the story has seen all sorts of question
marks being raised over Gore's alleged consensus. For instance, he
claimed that by the end of this century world sea levels will have
risen by 20 ft when even the IPCC in its latest report, only predicts
a rise of between four and 17 inches.There is also of course the harsh
reality that, wholly unaffected by Kyoto, the economies of China and
India are now expanding at nearly 10 per cent a year, with China
likely to be emitting more CO2 than the US within two years.
More serious, however, has been all the evidence accumulating to show
that, despite the continuing rise in CO2 levels, global temperatures
in the years since 1998 have no longer been rising and may soon even
be falling.
It was a telling moment when, in August, Gore's closest scientific
ally, James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was
forced to revise his influential record of US surface temperatures
showing that the past decade has seen the hottest years on record. His
graph now concedes that the hottest year of the 20th century was not
1998 but 1934, and that four of the 10 warmest years in the past 100
were in the 1930s.
Furthermore, scientists and academics have recently been queuing up to
point out that fluctuations in global temperatures correlate more
consistently with patterns of radiation from the sun than with any
rise in CO2 levels, and that after a century of high solar activity,
the sun's effect is now weakening, presaging a likely drop in
temperatures.
If global warming does turn out to have been a scare like all the
others, it will certainly represent as great a collective flight from
reality as history has ever recorded. The evidence of the next 10
years will be very interesting.
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Plenty of Skeptical Scientists to choose from....
November 9, 2007 - 02:50 ET by PopularTechThey can find all the Skeptical Scientists they need here:
NO 'Consensus' on "Man-Made" Global Warming:
19,000 Scientists declare that global warming is a lie with no scientific basis whatsoever (OISM)
4000 Scientists sign 'The Heidelberg Appeal' (Science & Environmental Policy Project)
500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares (Heartland Institute)
150 Scientists, Economists and Theologians sign An Open Letter to the Signers of 'Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action' (ISA)
105 Scientists sign 'The Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change' (Science & Environmental Policy Project)
77 Skeptical Scientists (Business and Media Institute)
60 Scientists call on Harper to revisit the science of global warming (Financial Post, Canada)
41 Scientists debunk global warming alert (Telegraph.co.uk)
27 Skeptical Scientists, 'The Deniers' (National Post, Canada)
Skeptical Scientists:
A. Alan Moghissi, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Aksel Wiin-Nielsen, Professor of Geophysical Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Alfred H. Pekarek, Ph.D. Geology, Associate Professor of Geology, St. Cloud State University, USA
Allan M.R. MacRae, B.Sc., M.Eng., P.Eng, Canada
Andreas Prokoph, B.Sc. Geology, Ph.D. Earth Sciences, University Tubingen, Germany
Anthony R. Lupo, Ph.D. Atmospheric Science, Purdue University, USA
Antonino Zichichi, Professor Emeritus of Advanced Physics, University of Bologna, Italy
Arthur B. Robinson, Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, USA
Arthur Rorsch, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Molecular Genetics, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Ben Herman, Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, USA
Bob Durrenberger, Retired Climatologist, Former President of the American Association of State Climatologists, USA
Boris Winterhalter, Ph.D. Geology, Helsinki University, Finland
Bruce N. Ames, Ph.D. BioChemistry, California Institute of Technology, USA
Bruno Wiskel, B.Sc. Honours Geology, University of Albert, Canada
Carl Johan Friedrich (Frits) Böttcher, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Charles Gelman, B.S. Chemistry, M.S. Public Health, University of Michigan, USA
Chauncey Starr, Ph.D. Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Chris de Freitas, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Christiaan Frans van Sumere, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, University of Gent, Belgium
Christopher Essex, Ph.D. Applied Mathematics Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Christopher Landsea, Ph.D. Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, USA
Claude Allegre, Ph.D. Physics, University of Paris, France
Clinton H. Sheehan, Ph.D. Physics, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Craig D. Idso, M.S. Agronomy, Ph.D. Geography, Arizona State University, USA
Daniel B. Botkin, Ph.D. Biology, Rutgers University, USA
David Deming, B.S. Geology, Ph.D. Geophysics, University of Utah, USA
David E. Wojick, B.S. Civil Engineering, Ph.D. Mathematical Logic, University of Pittsburgh, USA
David Evans, B.Sc. Applied Mathematics and Physics, M.S. Statistics, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Stanford, USA
David G. Aubrey, B.S. Geological Sciences, Ph.D. Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, USA
David J. Bellamy, B.Sc. Botany, Ph.D. Ecology, Durham University, UK
David L. Hill, Ph.D. Physics, Princeton, USA
David Nowell, M.Sc. Meteorology, Royal Meteorological Society, Canada
David R. Legates, Ph.D. Climatology, University of Delaware, USA
Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Ph.D. Professor of Hydrology, University of Washington, USA
Don J. Easterbrook, Ph.D. Geology, University of Washington, USA
Donald G. Baker, Ph.D. Soils, Geology, University of Minnesota, USA
Douglas V. Hoyt, Solar Physicist and Climatologist, Retired, Raytheon, USA
Duncan Wingham, Ph.D. Physics, University of Bath, UK
Eckhard Grimmel, Ph.D. Geography, University of Hamburg, Germany
Edward Wegman, Ph.D. Mathematical Statistics, University of Iowa, USA
Eigil Friis-Christensen, Ph.D. Geophysics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Elliot Abrams, M.S. Meteorology, Penn State, USA
Eric S. Posmentier, Adjunct Professor of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth, USA
Fred Michel, B.Sc. Geological Sciences, M.Sc. Earth Sciences, Ph.D. Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada
Fred W. Decker, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, USA
Frederick Seitz, Ph.D. Physics, Princeton University, USA
Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus, Physics, Princeton, USA
G. Cornelis van Kooten, B.Sc. Geophysics, Ph.D. Agricultural & Resource Economics, Oregon State University, USA
Gabriel T. Csanady, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia
Garth Paltridge, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia
Gary D. Sharp, Ph.D. Marine Biology, University of California, USA
Gary Novak, M.S. Microbiology, USA
George E. McVehil, B.A. Physics, M.S. Ph.D. Meteorology, AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist, USA
George H. Taylor, M.S. Meteorology, University of Utah, USA
George Kukla, Micropalentologist, Special Research Scientist of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA
George V. Chilingarian, Ph.D. Geology, University of Southern California, USA
George Wilhelm Stroke, Ph.D. Physics, University of Paris, France
Gerd-Rainer Weber, Ph.D. Consulting Meteorologist, Germany
Gerhard Gerlich, Ph.D. Physics, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Gerrit J. van der Lingen, PhD Geology, New Zealand
Gordon E. Swaters, Ph.D. Applied Mathematics and Physical Oceanography, University of British Columbia, Canada
Graham Smith, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Western Ontario, Canada
H. Grant (H.G.) Goodell, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, USA
Harry N.A. Priem, Professor Emeritus of Isotope and Planetary Geology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Hendrik Tennekes, Former Director of Research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, The Netherlands
Henrik Svensmark, Solar System Physics, Danish National Space Center, Denmark
Henry R. Linden, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Howard C. Hayden, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Connecticut, USA
Hugh W. Ellsaesser, Ph.D. Meteorology, Formerly with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Ian D. Clark, Professor Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada
Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology, University of Adelaide, Australia
Indur M. Goklany, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Jack Barrett, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Manchester, UK
James O’Brien, Ph.D. Meteorology, Texas A&M University, USA
Ján Veizer, Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada
Jay H. Lehr, Ph.D. Groundwater Hydrology, University of Arizona, USA
Jennifer Marohasy, Ph.D. Biology, University of Queensland, Australia
Joseph (Joe) P. Sobel, Ph.D. Meteorology, Penn State, USA
Joel Schwartz, B.S. Chemistry, M.S. Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology, USA
John E. Gaynor, M.S. Meteorology, UCLA, USA
John R. Christy, Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, USA
Joseph Conklin, M.S. Meteorology, Rutgers University, USA
Joseph D’Aleo, M.S. Meteorology, University of Wisconsin, USA
Keith D. Hage, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Meteorology, University of Alberta, Canada
Keith E. Idso, Ph.D. Botany, Arizona State University, USA
Kelvin Kemm, Ph.D. Nuclear Physics, Natal University, South Africa
Kenneth E.F. Watt, Ph.D. Zoology, University of Chicago, USA
Khabibullo Abdussamatov, Ph.D. Astrophysicist, The University of Leningrad, Russia
Klaus Wyrtki, Ph.D. Oceanography, Physics, Mathematics, University of Kiel, Germany
Lee C. Gerhard, Ph.D. Geology, University of Kansas, USA
Luboš Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physicist, Harvard, USA
Madhav Khandekar, Ph.D. Meteorology, Florida State University, USA
Manik Talwani, Ph.D. Physics, Columbia University, USA
Marcel Leroux, Professor Emeritus of Climatology, University of Lyon, France
Mel Goldstein, Ph.D. Meteorology, NYU, USA
Michael Crichton, A.B. Anthropology, M.D. Harvard, USA
Michael D. Griffin, B.S. Physics, M.S. Applied Physics, Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, USA
Michael Savage, B.S. Biology, M.S. Anthropology, M.S. Ethnobotany, Ph.D. Nutritional Ethnomedicine, USA
Michael R. Fox, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, University of Washington, USA
Michel Salomon, M.D. University of Paris, Director, International Centre for Scientific Ecology, France
Neil Frank, Ph.D. Meteorology, Florida State University, USA
Nils-Axel Mörner, Professor Emeritus of Palegeophysics and Geodynamics, Stockholm University, Sweden
Nir J. Shaviv, Ph.D. Astrophysicist, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Norman Brown, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of Ulster, UK
Ola M. Johannessen, Professor, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway
Olavi Kärner, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate, Atmospheric Sensing Group, Tartu Astrophysical Observatory, Estonia
Oliver W. Frauenfeld, Ph.D. Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, USA
Paavo Siitam, M.Sc. Agronomist, Canada
Paul Copper, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Canada
Paul Driessen, B.A. Geology and Field Ecology, Lawrence University, USA
Paul Reiter, Professor of Medical Entomology, Pasteur Institute, France
Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Ecological Climatology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Patrick Moore, B.Sc. Forest Biology, Ph.D. Ecology, University of British Columbia, Canada
Petr Chylek, Ph.D. Physics, University of California, USA
Philip Stott, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biogeography, University of London, UK
Piers Corbyn, B.Sc Physics, M.Sc Astrophysics, Queen Mary College, UK
R. Timothy (Tim) Patterson, Ph.D. Professor of Geology, Carleton University, Canada
Randall Cerveny, Ph.D. Geography, University of Nebraska, USA
Reid A. Bryson, B.A. Geology, Ph.D. Meteorology, University of Chicago, USA
Richard C. Willson, Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Richard S. Courtney, Ph.D. Geography, The Ohio State University, USA
Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT, USA
Roger A. Pielke (Sr.), Ph.D. Meteorology, Penn State, USA
Rob Scagel, M.Sc., Forest Microclimate Specialist, Canada
Robin Vaughan, Ph.D. Physics, Nottingham University, UK
Robert C. Balling Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Climatology, Arizona State University, USA
Robert C. Whitten, Physicist, Retired Research Scientist, NASA, USA
Robert Giegengack, Ph.D. Geology, Yale, USA
Robert H. Essenhigh, M.S. Natural Sciences, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK
Robert Johnston, M.S. Physics, B.A. Astronomy, USA
Robert L. Kovach, Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University, USA
Robert (Bob) M. Carter, B.Sc. Geology, Ph.D. Paleontology, University of Cambridge, Australia
Roy Spencer, Ph.D. Meteorology, University of Wisconsin, USA
S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. Physics, Princeton University, USA
Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D. Astrophysics, Harvard, USA
Sherwood B. Idso, Ph.D. Soil Science, University of Minnesota, USA
Simon C. Brassell, B.Sc. Chemistry & Geology, Ph.D. Organic Geochemistry, University of Bristol, UK
Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, Ph.D. Department of Geography, University of Hull, UK
Steve Milloy, B.A. Natural Sciences, M.S. Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Stephen McIntyre, B.Sc. Mathematics, University of Toronto, Canada
Sylvan H. Wittwer, Ph.D. Horticulture, University of Missouri, USA
Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Ph.D. Geophysics, University of Alaska, USA
Tad S. Murty, Ph.D. Oceanography and Meteorology, University of Chicago, USA
Thomas Schmidlin, Ph.D. Professor of Geography, Kent State University, USA
Timothy (Tim) F. Ball, Ph.D. Geography, Historical Climatology, University of London, UK
Tom Harris, B. Eng. M. Eng. Mechanical Engineering (thermo-fluids), Canada
Tom V. Segalstad, B.S. Geology, University of Oslo, Norway
Vern Harnapp, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of Akron, USA
Vincent Gray, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Cambridge University, UK
W. Dennis Clark, Ph.D. Botany, Sacramento State College, USA
Wibjorn Karlen, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden
William B. Hubbard, Ph.D. Professor of Planetary Atmospheres, University of Arizona, USA
William Cotton, M.S. Atmospheric Science, Ph.D. Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, USA
William E. Reifsnyder, B.S. Meteorology, M.S. Ph.D. Forestry, Yale, USA
William J.R. Alexander, Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa
William (Bill) M. Gray, M.S. Meteorology, Ph.D. Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, USA
Willie Soon, Ph.D. Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA
Wolfgang Thüne, Ph.D. Geography, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Zbigniew Jaworowski, M.D. Ph.D. D.Sc., Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Poland
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Anthony Watts, AMS Certified Meteorologist, Chief Meteorologist KPAY-AM, USA
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Art Horn, B.S. Meteorology, Lyndon State College, Meteorologist WVIT-TV, USA
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Don Webster, Retired Meteorologist WEWS-TV, USA
Douglas Leahey, Meteorologist, Canada
Eugenio Hackbart, Chief Meteorologist MetSul Meteorologia Weather Center, Brazil
Herb Stevens, Meteorologist WNYT-TV, USA
James Spann, AMS Certified Meteorologist, Chief Meteorologist WCFT-TV, WJSU-TV, USA
Jason Russell, Meteorologist, WTEN-TV, USA
Joe Bastardi, B.S. Meteorology, Penn State, Expert Senior Forecaster AccuWeather, USA
John Coleman, Meteorologist, Founder of 'The Weather Channel', Chief Meteorologist KUSI-TV, USA
Jon Loufman, Meteorologist WOIO-TV, USA
Justin Berk, B.S. Meteorology, Cornell University, AMS Certified Meteorologist, Meteorologist WMAR-TV, USA
Karl Bohnak, B.S. Meteorology, University of Wisconsin, AMS Certified Meteorologist, Meteorologist WLUC-TV, USA
Kevin Lemanowicz, B.S. Meteorology, Cornell University, Chief Meteorologist WFXT-TV, USA
Kevin Williams, B.S. Meteorology, Cornell University, Chief Meteorologist WHEC-TV, USA
Lee Eddington, Meteorologist Geophysics Branch, U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, USA
Mark Koontz, Meteorologist WFMJ-TV, USA
Mark Breen, B.S. Meteorology, Lyndon State College, Senior Meteorologist Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, USA
Mark Johnson, AMS Certified Meteorologist, Chief Meteorologist, WEWS-TV, USA
Nick Morganelli, Free-Lance Meteorologist, USA
Richard (Rich) Apuzzo, Chief Meteorologist Skyeye Weather, USA
Roy Leep, B.S. Meteorology, Florida State University, Meteorologist WTVT-TV, USA
Sally Bernier, B.S. Meteorology, Lyndon State College, Meteorologist WJW-TV, USA
Shane Hollett, Meteorologist WMJI-FM, USA
Steven Nogueira, NWS Senior Meteorologist, USA
Terry Eliasen, B.S. Meteorology, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Meteorologist WBZ-TV, USA
Thomas B. Gray, M.S. Meteorology, USA
Tim Kelley, B.S. Meteorology, Lyndon State College, Meteorologist NECN, USA
Tom Chisholm, B.S. Atmospheric Sciences, Lyndon State College, Chief Meteorologist WMTW-TV, USA
William Kininmonth, M.Sc, Colorado State University, Retired Head of Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
Social Scientists:
Andrey Illarionov, Ph.D. Economics, St. Petersburg University, Russia
Benny Peiser, Ph.D. Professor of Social Anthropology, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Bjørn Lomborg, Ph.D. Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Daniel R. Simmons, B.A. Economics, Utah State University, USA
Dennis Avery, M.S. Agricultural Economics, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
James Inhofe, B.A. Economics, University of Tulsa, USA
John J. Ray, Ph.D. Psychology, Macquarie University, Mensa, Sydney, Australia
Marlo Lewis, B.A. Political Science, Ph.D. Government, Claremont McKenna College, USA
Margo Thorning, Ph.D. Economics, University of Georgia, USA
Myron Ebell, M.Sc. Economics, London School of Economics, USA
Richard Tol, Ph.D. Economics, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Richard W. Rahn, Ph.D. Business Economics, Columbia University, USA
Robert Bradley, B.A. Economics, Ph.D. Political Economy, University of Houston, USA
Robert Higgs, Ph.D. Economics, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Roger A. Pielke (Jr.), Ph.D. Political Science, University of Colorado, USA
Ross McKitrick, Ph.D. Economics, University of British Columbia, Canada
Thomas A. Birkland, Ph.D. Political Science, University of Washington, USA
Thomas Gale Moore, Ph.D. Economics, University of Chicago, USA
Vaclav Klaus, app. Ph.D. Economics, University of Economics, Prague, Czechoslovakia
William Nordhaus, Ph.D. Economics, MIT, USA
Deceased:
Adrian H. Gordon, Meteorologist, University of South Australia, Australia (Died: April 12, 2000)
August H. Auer Jr., Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, USA (Died: June 10, 2007)
Duwayne M. Anderson, Professor Emeritus of Geology, Texas A&M University, USA (Died: October 4, 2002)
George H. Sutton, Professor Emeritus of Geophysics, University of Hawaii, USA (Died: January 25, 2004)
Heinz Lettau, Professor Emeritus of Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, USA (Died: August 4, 2005)
Helmut Metzner, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Botany, University of Tubingen, Germany (Died: September 20, 1999)
James P. Lodge Jr., Ph.D. Consultant in Atmospheric Chemistry, USA (Died: December 14, 2001)
John R. Apel, Ph.D. Physics, Johns Hopkins University, USA (Died: August 16, 2001)
Larry H. Brace, B.S. Physics, University of Michigan, USA (Died: August 28, 2005)
Michael J. Higatsberger, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna, Austria (Died: January 7, 2004)
Paul Handler, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Illinois, USA (Died: January 24, 1998)
Robert E. Stevenson, Ph.D. Oceanography, University of Southern California, USA (Died: August 12, 2001)
Roland (R.A.D.) Byron-Scott, Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Meteorology at Flinders University, Australia (Died: January, 2004)
Thomas Gold, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Cornell University, USA (Died: June 22, 2004)
Tor Ragnar Gerholm, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Stockholm, Sweden (Died: June 27, 2007)
William (Bill) A. Nierenberg, Ph.D. Physics, Columbia University, USA (Died: September 10, 2000)
William Mitchell, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Oxford, UK (Died: October 30, 2002)
The Anti "Man-Made" Global Warming Resource
The sad thing is it isn't
November 9, 2007 - 03:07 ET by ckc1227The sad thing is it isn't just Think Progress who feels this way, it's the entire global warming establishment. Climate scientists are to be questioned as everyone knows that failed politicians and Hollywood stars are the TRUE experts on the complicated subject of climatology.
We officially live in bizarro land.
No, the REAL sad thing is
November 9, 2007 - 07:34 ET by TheCableGuyNo, the REAL sad thing is that there is a website with no climate expertise whatsoever questioning the bona fides of a man that, by their own admission, has been involved in weather since the late 1950s.
The fact that TP felt the need to "debunk" this man (so pathetically, I might add) shows you that it's all political.
global warming doesn't have to be real
November 9, 2007 - 09:17 ET by lunaticcringeradioit's a scarey story to sucker our young uns into believing a liberal/socialist agenda. so long as you indoctrinate enough young uns into believing this liberal version of santa clause they will have a fresh batch of socialist voters they grew and harvested all on a lie that was concoted to destroy capitolism, and by the time they have grown to vote the sun will have dipped back into it's inactive cycle again and we'll be in a cooling stage again. the horrible thing will be that they will be so screwed up by what liberal/socialists have raised them to be has all turned out to be a lie they will have so much psychological damage as to believing the truth from anyone they will be useless to society forever. a lifetimes supply of government dependant voters.
lunaticcringeradio
I'm hurt! The MSM reads
November 9, 2007 - 09:24 ET by Free StinkerI'm hurt!
The MSM reads Newsbusters but still hasn't noticed my List?
Then again, they haven't noticed the exceptional economy, so I guess I should be upset that they haven't found lil'ole me.
If Newsbusters was foolish
November 9, 2007 - 11:06 ET by dscottIf Newsbusters was foolish for citing a mere weatherman on climate issues (which I don't for a moment believe), what would that make Think Progress for citing a mere politician?
I'd sooner take the word of a person who passed their college classes in environmental science, than a person who got a D minus.
Al Gore is running a very clever con game, I think the dolts on the left have finally figured it out, he is getting the environmental wackos to support nuclear power...
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. dscott's corollary: The line between malice and stupidity is called depraved indifference.
so we should listen to Hollywierdos instead?
November 9, 2007 - 13:33 ET by wizardjrAw come on now. This guy at least has credentials. Instead, we're supposed to listen to folks who barely graduated from high school and make a living pretending to be someone else? Some day I'd like to visit the alternate universe these folks come from.
Warmers say some of the
November 10, 2007 - 05:59 ET by danboWarmers say some of the dummest things.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT