Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition? In science, as in any area, reputations are based on knowledge and expertise in a field and on published, peer-reviewed work. If you need surgery, you want a highly experienced expert in the field who has done a large number of the proposed operations.
You published “No Need to Panic About Global Warming” (op-ed, Jan. 27) on climate change by the climate-science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiology. While accomplished in their own fields, most of these authors have no expertise in climate science. The few authors who have such expertise are known to have extreme views that are out of step with nearly every other climate expert. This happens in nearly every field of science. For example, there is a retrovirus expert who does not accept that HIV causes AIDS. And it is instructive to recall that a few scientists continued to state that smoking did not cause cancer, long after that was settled science.
Is Manhattan underwater? Are we below scenario C? Hansen has proven himself somewhere between grossly incompetent and insane, and he tells us not to listen to these highly accomplished people.
Claude Allegre, former director of the Institute for the Study of the Earth, University of Paris; J. Scott Armstrong, cofounder of the Journal of Forecasting and the International Journal of Forecasting; Jan Breslow, head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism, Rockefeller University; Roger Cohen, fellow, American Physical Society; Edward David, member, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences; William Happer, professor of physics, Princeton; Michael Kelly, professor of technology, University of Cambridge, U.K.; William Kininmonth, former head of climate research at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric sciences, MIT; James McGrath, professor of chemistry, Virginia Technical University; Rodney Nichols, former president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences; Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer, designer of Voyager and SpaceShipOne; Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and former U.S. senator; Nir Shaviv, professor of astrophysics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Henk Tennekes, former director, Royal Dutch Meteorological Service; Antonio Zichichi, president of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva.
Pardon my French, but Hansen – who does not have a degree in climate science – is quite an arrogant A-Hole.
failure rate for plastic surgery, michael kelly cambridge climate change april 2012
Breathtaking arrogance, laughable false analogy.
See here: http://motls.blogspot.com/2012/02/wsj-publishes-collective-letter.html
Warmista are not at all similar to medical doctors; quite similar to astrologers. All the hairsplitting nonsense they seem to love to discuss goes right past me. Pick any of their prognostications – Manhattan should be under water by now; temperatures rising with CO2; Lake Powell bone dry and the desert Southwest deserted; by 2012 we should be able to see all kinds of historically unprecedented climactic phenomena. Where are the observations?
Sorry Jimmy: experience and qualification count for nothing. Throughout history, absolute amateurs with no experience have been able to be successful at a myriad of endeavours.
Reliability and success is everything, and you have neither.
Its easy to show Trenberth’s claim that global warming continued over the past decade is false:
http://reasonabledoubtclimate.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/kevin-trenberth-the-dishonest-scientist/
Is he a liar or so wrapped up in his fanatical views that he can’t see the truth?
Hey!!!! You’re not being fair to all the other breath-takingly arrogant a-holes who think they know something! Pliat, Mann, Phil, deep dodo, Gav…… Tamino is now disagreeing with a statistician about what graphs and averages mean. Boy, you’d thought he’d learned after his first spanking by one. Their hubris is something else.
Yeah…the planet hasn’t gotten any hotter. And most of the researchers that article mentioned have been proven to be frauds. I’m sick of these assholes ruining science.
Well, that certainly brought the believers out in force. (This is probably most of the fabled 77.)
And look who’s no. 3 on the honor roll! Our own Texan titmouse! Our own Ms. CCC