I am a denier, a pejorative term applied to those of us who reject the contention that the debate is over. I am in good company. The deniers include those scientists who are directly involved in actual measurements of global temperatures, or those who base their positions on solid science, as opposed to those who base their opinion on computer modeling.
A classic example of the latter is Dr. James Hansen of the Goddard Space Institute, whose presentation to Congress ignited the global warming frenzy and predicted double-digit warming and catastrophic consequences, based on a flawed computer model. An example of the former would include Dr. Richard Lindzen, the Alfred Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is often referred to as the world’s leading climatologist. He said it best:
“The current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world tempemperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman’s forecast for next week which use the same computer models.”[snip]
How many climatologists are deniers? No one knows, but a publication by Dr. Patrick Michaels, the State Climatologist of Virginia, entitled, “Is the Sky Really Falling?” lists 77 references to reputable climatologists, all of them deniers. The list now includes Dr. Hansen, whose predictions of warming have been steadily downgraded, and are now very close to those of the deniers. [ah, time marches on...]
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