Four scientist quotes worth reading

(1)

 “The global warming mantra changes the whole nature of the Scientific Method, which hitherto, has been driven by evidence, evidence backed by data.  

 

The whole global warming thing does not even rate as an hypothesis because there is no data, and certainly no evidence that 420 ppm CO2 (or whatever, pick any number below 6000) drives climate change. 

 

It may cause mild warming, which is good, also because it greens the planet.  

 

Climate change as presented by the alarmists is a thought bubble, a dogma, which the Scientific Method cannot deal with because there is no data, no evidence.

 

Science will only progress when the veracity of data and evidence can be argued. 

Instead the alarmists base their whole case on flawed and incomplete computer models around so-called ‘climate sensitivity’.” 

Aert Driessen, 

Australia, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics.

(2)

"The current debates about global climate change are complicated by our not understanding the physics of the sun or of the earth’s atmosphere and oceans well enough to dismiss them as major causes of climate change on the earth. 

Dramatic climate changes like the medieval warm period at the time of the Viking settlements of Iceland and Greenland from about a.d. 900 to 1250, and the subsequent “little ice age,” from about 1250 to 1700, which led to extinction of the Greenland settlements, were certainly not caused by man-made changes in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. 

 

 

Subtle changes of the sun’s output and perhaps other poorly understood factors must have been much more important in causing those large climate changes than changing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide."
William Happer

 

 

 

(3)

"How does it happen that a whole generation of scientific experts is blind to obvious facts?...

 

Indur Goklany has assembled a massive collection of evidence to demonstrate two facts. 

 

First, the non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide are dominant over the climatic effects and are overwhelmingly beneficial. 

Second, the climatic effects observed in the real world are much less damaging than the effects predicted by the climate models, and have also been frequently beneficial. 

 

I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence"
Freeman Dyson

(4)

“Future generations 

will wonder, 

in bemused 

amazement,
that the early 

twenty-first century’s 

developed world,
went into a 

hysterical panic, 

       over a 

globally averaged
temperature increase, 

of a few tenths 

of a degree,
       and,
on the basis of 

gross exaggerations, 

of highly uncertain
computer projections, 

combined into 

implausible chains
of inference, 

proceeded to 

contemplate 

a roll-back of the
industrial age.”    
 Richard S. Lindzen, PhD
MIT Professor of Atmospheric Sciences,
member of the National Academy of Sciences,
and former lead author, U.N. Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)