Friday, June 26, 2009

Numbers Of Climate Change Skeptics Swelling!

As Obama and his Democrat cabal work to Rahm through the heavily flawed Cap & Trade Bill, aka Waxman Malarkey, other countries that were pushing for similar legislation have backed away from similar laws.

Today's Wall Street Journal Online has an article, The Climate Change Climate Change detailing others growing skepticism over the claims of man-made Climate Change.

From the article we see,

Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as "deniers." The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S.

In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming. In the Czech Republic, where President Vaclav Klaus remains a leading skeptic, today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to tap Claude Allegre to lead the country's new ministry of industry and innovation. Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted. New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country's weeks-old cap-and-trade program.

The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. -- 13 times the number who authored the U.N.'s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. Joanne Simpson, the world's first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak "frankly" of her nonbelief. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming "the worst scientific scandal in history." Norway's Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the "new religion." A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton's Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists' open letter.)


What is driving this "collapse of consensus?"

Reality!

5 comments:

Marsden said...

Before anyone decides that the scientific community is somehow divided on this issue, you need to check out this list of scientific organizations that support the conclusion that man-make global warming is real, and a real problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change

Every single one you can link back to the original source. It's a long list. You'd get writer's cramp just trying to copy the organization names down.

Lew Waters said...

Wikipedia? We are to accept it as factual after years of the left telling us it is the most unreliable?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/12/15/scientists-denounce-ap-hysterical-global-warming-article

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/02/global-warming-pause.html

http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/0026

http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/scientists-increasingly-dissent-global-warming-proponents

David Appell said...

It has been my impression that skeptics did not believe in the concept of "consensus." We've been told time and again from everyone from Inhofe to Crichton that scientific truths are not a matter of counting up one side versus another.

And, indeed, science is not a democracy?

But now that you supposedly have larger numbers (you don't, actually), the concept of consensus is again acceptable?

Which is it?

Lew Waters said...

Funny, David, you have touted consensus all along as proof, yet as the consensus crumbles, now it doesn't matter?

Keith Moore said...

We do, actually, David. Unfortunately for your fantasy-loving side of the debate, the truth has a really pesky tendency to ruin your entire day. This is why Obama and his buddies want us to swallow the cap-and-trade nonsense: they have to act before the proletariat can figure out that they were hoodwinked.