Consensus? You’re Having A Laugh!
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and western governments are forever telling that there is “a consensus amongst scientists” and that “the science is settled”, in favour of their opinion of course
This stance is utter, unadulterated bullshit designed to stifle the debate which would inevitably demonstrate the flaws, and indeed, the dishonesty in their arguments.
Bad science?…yes…Political spin?…yes…Downright lies?…yes…Consensus?…not a chance sunshine.
These are a few of the prominent scientists in the field who disagree with the hysterical, hyperbolic nonsense distributed by the majority of western governments and their political appointees in the quango otherwise known as the IPCC. I shan’t discuss the Manhattan Declaration since a significant number of the signatories are economists rather than climate scientists.
Dr Chris Landsea - Lead Author on Atlantic hurricanes for IPCC AR4 - resigns from IPCC for announcing conclusions contradictory to the data, saying “ I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound. As the IPCC leadership has seen no wrong in Dr. Trenberth‘s actions and have retained him as a Lead Author for the AR4, I have decided to no longer participate in the IPCC AR4
Dr Richard Lindzen - Professor of Meteorology at MIT and IPCC Lead Author - resigns from IPCC saying “ My colleague and I repeatedly found ourselves at loggerheads with persons who insisted on making authoritative pronouncements, although they had little or no knowledge of our speciality.” His position with regard to the IPCC can be summed up with this quote: “ Picking holes in the IPCC is crucial. The notion that if you’re ignorant of something and somebody comes up with a wrong answer, and you have to accept that because you don’t have another wrong answer to offer is like faith healing, it’s like quackery in medicine - if somebody says you should take jelly beans for cancer and you say that’s stupid, and he says, well can you suggest something else and you say, no, does that mean you have to go with the jelly beans?”
Dr Paul Reiter - Professor of Entomology, Pasteur Institute - resigns from IPCC and only managed to have his name removed from the list of contributors after “strong insistence”. He has said “ Almost all reading and coverage of the IPCC is restricted to the highly publicized Summaries For Policymakers (SPMs) which are written by representatives from governments, NGOs and business; the full reports, written by participating scientists, are largely ignored”
Dr Roger Pielke - formerly Prof of Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University and Senior Research Scientist at Co-operative Institute for Research in Environmemtal Sciences (CIRES) - resigns from IPCC list of contributors and resigns from Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) . He says of the IPCC in an article on his ClimateScience blog - “ There are errors, or at best selective information, in their findings. I am summarising four on this weblog” and summed up with “ These four examples illustrate the apparent selection of papers and data to promote a particular conclusion on climate change. The science community, and even more importantly, the policy community is ill-served by such cherry picking”
Dr Roger Daley - Principal constructor of the Canadian numerical weather forecasting system, and man acknowledged as foremost expert on computer modelling of weather - resigns from IPCC. He was cynical about the many world governments who make a big show of reducing greenhouse emissions while, for economic reasons, they had no intention of ever doing so. He was also critical of the huge number of pseudo-scientists who suddenly became ‘experts’ on global warming after the release of the IPCC report. He also said, in his very well-educated opinion as the scientist who created global atmospheric modelling: “Our systems cannot predict weather much beyond four days, so attempting to predict global changes 100 years from now seems questionable at best”
Dr Vincent Gray - PhD Physical Chemisrty, Cambridge - Long standing expert reviewer for IPCC slams IPCC, stating bluntly “Over the years, as I have learned more about the data and procedures of the IPCC I have found increasing opposition by them to providing explanations, until I have been forced to the conclusion that for significant parts of the work of the IPCC, the data collection and scientific parts of the work of the IPCC, the data collection and scientific methods employed are unsound. Resistance to all efforts to try and discuss or rectify these problems has convinced me that normal scientific procedures are not only rejected by the IPCC, but that this practice is endemic, and was part of the organisation from the very beginning. I therefore consider that the IPCC is fundamentally corrupt. The only “reform” I could envisage, would be it’s abolition.” he concluded; “The disappearance of the IPCC in disgrace is not only desirable but inevitable. The reason is, that the world will slowly realise that the ‘predictions’ emanating from the IPCC will not happen. The absence of any ‘global warming’ for the past eight years is just the beginning. Sooner or later all of us will come to realise that this organisation, and the thinking behind it, is phoney. Unfortunately severe economic damage is likely to be done by its influence before that happens.” His feelings were succinctly summed up in a television interview when he said “The claims of the IPCC are dangerous unscientific nonsense. All the science of the IPCC is unsound”
Dr John Christy - Prof. of Atmospheric Science, University of Alabama - IPCC Author - rebutts IPCC ‘consensus saying “I’ve often heard it said that there’s a consensus of thousands of scientists on the global warming issue and that humans are causing a catastrophic change to the climate system. Well I am one scientist, and there are many that simply think that is not true”. He also offers an interesting perspective on why scientists are reluctant to speak out (apart from risk to research funding) saying “The tendency to succumb to group-think and the herd-instinct (now formally called the ‘informational cascade’) is perhaps as tempting among scientists as any group because we, by definition, must be the ‘ones who know’ (from the Latin sciere, to know) you dare not be thought of as ’one who does not know’; hence we may succumb to the pressure to be perceived as ’one who knows’.
Ferenc Miskolczi - atmospheric physicist at NASA Langley Research Centre for 30 years resigns from NASA stating “unfortunately my working relationship with my NASA supervisors eroded to a level that I am not able to tolerate. My idea of the freedom of science cannot coexist with the recent NASA practice of handling new climate change related scientific results”
Dr Lubus Motl -theoretical physicist, Asst Prof at Harvard University and credited with significant contribution to string theory - criticises methodology of IPCC in his blog saying “These people are openly declaring that they are going to commit scientific misconduct that will be paid for by the United Nations“ and “If they find an error in the summary, they won‘t fix it,” Motl said. “Instead, they will ‘adjust‘ the technical report so that it looks consistent”
These are just a few of the more prominent scientists who do not buy into the whole IPCC driven ‘scientific consensus’ codswallop. Below is a list of others who also disagree.
What the politicians don’t seem to grasp (or choose to ride roughshod over) as they chant their ‘consensus’ mantra, presumably on the principle that if you repeat a lie often enough then people will believe it, is that if consensus is king in science then nobody these days would have heard of Darwin, Gallileo, Copernicus or Einstein…
The List
Reid Bryson - Called the father of modern climatology - Global Warming? Some common sense thoughts
Freeman J Dyson - Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton - Freeman Dyson on Global Warming Part 1 of 2 --- Freeman Dyson on Global Warming Part 2 of 2 --- Heretical Thoughts About Science And Society
Jan Veizer - Distinguished University Professor department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa - Esteemed Ottawa scientist says cosmic rays, not greenhouse gasses, cause global warming
Syun-Ichi Akasofu - Founding Director International Arctic Research Centre - Misleading Information on Global Warming - A clash between the views of physicists and of naturalists
Hans Erren - International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences Division of Exploration Geophysics, Delft.
Neil Frank - Former Director NHC
David H Douglas - Professor of Physics, University of Rochester - A comparison of tropical temperature trends with model predictions
Gordon Swaters
John Christy - Professor and Director Earth System Science Centre, NSSTC - University of Alabama in Huntsville - My Nobel Moment
Peter Stilbs - Professor Physical Chemistry at KTH - Global Warming - Scientific Controversies in Climate Variability
James Spann
Chris de Freitas - Associate Professor, Deputy Director of School of Environmental Climatology, The University of Auckland - Are observed changes in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere really dangerous?
Robert Geiggengack - Professor Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania - Al Gore Is A Greenhouse Gasbag
William Cotton - Professor the Department of Atmospheric Science CSU - Global Climate Change: A Sceptics Perspective
James O’Brien - Former Director, Centre for Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University - Atlantic Hurricanes: The True Story
Simon Brassell
Daniel Botkin - Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara - Science and soothsaying
Petr Chylek - Senior Scientist, Space and Remote Sensing Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Department of Physics and Atmospheric Sciences, Dalhousie University - Limits on climate sensitivity derived from recent satellite and surface observations --- Greenland warming of 1920-1930 and 1995-2005
Antonio Zichichi - President of the World Federation of Scientists
Henrik Svensmark - Director of the Centre for Sun-Climate Research at the Danish Space Research Institute - Influence of Cosmic Rays on Earth’s Climate
Richard S Lindzen -MIT Alfred P Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences - Is there a basis for global warming alarm? --- The fluid envelope - A case against climate alarmism --- Climate of Fear
Anthony Lupo - Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri Columbia - Global Warming Is Natural, Not Man-Made Hot Air
Marcel Leroux - Professor of Climatology, Jean Moulin University and Director of the Laboratory of Climatology, Risk and Environment - There’s No Global Warming, Because There’s No Global Climate
George Kukla - EGU Milutin Milankovic Medallist 2003
Edward J Wegman - Professor at the Centre for Computational Statistics, George Mason University - Congresional Testimony on ‘Hockey Stick’
Boris Winter Halter -Retired Senior Research Scientist and Coordinator at the Geological Survey of Finland - My views on global warming and especially on the man-made hype
Christoph Borel - Senior Technical Manager, Ball Aerospace
G Cornelis van Kooten - Professor of Economics and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Studies & Climate, University of Victoria
Gerhard Kramm - Professor University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Natural Science and Mathematics
Rafael Wust - Professor Marine Geology/Sedimentology, James Cook University
Robert M Carter - Research Professor at James Cook University - Climate Change - Is CO2 The Cause?
George Taylor - State of Oregon Climatologist - A Consensus About Consensus
Patrick J Michaels - Past President of the American Association of State Climatologists and former programme chair for the committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorology Society - Not So Hot
Geoff Austin - Professor The Department of Physics, The University of Auckland
Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen - Research Professor at James Cook University
Joseph D’Aleo - Warmest Year Declaration Full Of Pitfalls!
Nir Shaviv - Carbon Dioxide Or Solar Forcing?
William Gray - Professor Emeritus CSU Department of Atmospheric Science - Hurricanes and Climate Change
S Fred Singer - Distinguished Research Professor at George Mason University and Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia - Testimony before the Senate Committee on commerce, science and transportation --- Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules The Climate
Roy Spencer - received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Acheivement Medal in 1991, the MSFC Centre Director’s Commendation in 1989, and the American Meteorological Society’s Special Award in 1996. - Not that simple global warming: what we don’t know --- Cloud and radiation budget changes associated with tropical intrapersonal oscillations
Mike McConnell - Forest Hydrologist, US Forest Service - Open Letter to Dr Robert Davila and Gallaudet Community
Ian D Clark - Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa
Oliver W Fraunfeld - CIRES - Contributing Author to the IPCC Working Group 1 Fourth Assessment Report
Robert E Davis --- Climate Cycle or Climate Psychic?
R Timothy Patterson - Director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre - Read the sunspots --- The geologic record and climate change
David R Legates - Director of the Centre for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware - Where’s the data? --- Revising 1000 years of climate history
Eric Posmentier - Professor Earth Sciences Dartmouth University
Ben Herman - Professor University of Arizona’s Department of Atmospheric Physics
Robert C Balling Jr - Professor of Climatology, Arizona state University - Inconvenient Truths Indeed
Thomas Schmidlin - Professor of Geography, Kent State University and Certified Consulting Meteorologist
Willem de Lange - Professor Department of Earth & Ocean Sciences, University of Waikato
Don J Easterbrook - Professor Emeritus Department of Geology, Western Washington University - Global warming: Are we heading for global catastrophe in the coming century?
Stewart Franks - Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering, The University of Newcastle
Robert L Kovach http://pangea.stanford edu/people/cv_nav?php?personnel_id=294 - Professor Emeritus of Geophysics, Stanford University
Fred Michel http://www.nrsp.com/people-fred-michel.html - Director, Institute of Environmental Science, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, Carleton University - Letter to the editor of the Toronto Star http://www.nrsp.com/michel_letter_17-04-04.html
Charles Wax http://www.msstate.edu/dept/geosciences/people/wax/index.html - Professor of Geography, Mississippi State University and State Climatologist for Mississippi
Nils-Axel Morner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils-Axel-M%C3%B6rner - retired head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics Department at Stockholm University - Claim that sea level rising is a total fraud http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2007/2007_20_29/2007_25/pdf/33-37_725.pdf
Salomon Kroonenberg - Full Professor of Geology at the Department of Geotechnology, Delft University of Technology
Willie Soon - http://www.tcsdaily.com/Authors.aspx?id=161 - Physicist at the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics - What is the Earth’s 20th Century temperature Trend? http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=062404I
Jay H Lehr - http://prfamerica.org/biography/Biography-Lehr-Jay.html - Science Director with the Heartland Institute and President of Environmental Education Enterprises
Arthur V Douglas - http://flarecreighton.edu/douglas/biography.htm - Retired Chair of the Atmospheric Sciences Department, Creighton University
Garth Paltridge - http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/scieng/iasos/index.asp - Emeritus Professor, former Director of the Institute of Antartic and Southern Ocean Studies, and CEO of the Antartic Co-operative Research Centre - The politicised science of climate change http://quadrant.org.au/php/article_view?article_id=961
Lee C Gerhard - http://www.colorado.edu/caw/bios.html?id=300year=2003 - Senior scientist Emeritus, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas - Geological constraints on global climate variability http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Reference-Docs/Gerhrad_Climate_Change.PDF
Ole Humlum -http://folk.uio.no/olehum/ - Professor of Physical Geography at the Institute of Geosciences, University of Oslo - Climate 4 You website http://www.climate4you.com/
Olavi Karner - http://www.aai.ee/~olavi/ - Research Scientist atmospheric science, Tartu Observatory, Estonia - Temporal variability in local air temperature series shows negative feedback http://www.aai.ee/~olavi/EE2007-ok.PDF
Gerald E Marsh - http://www.gemarsh.com/about/ - retired physicist, Argonne National Laboratory - Climate Change, The Sun’s Role http://arxiv.org/ftp/arvix/papers/0706/0706.3621.pdf
Frederick Wolf - http://academics.keene.edu/gen_science/faculty.htm - Professor of Physics, Keene State College
Tom Victor Segalstad - http://folk.uio.no/tomvs/prof.htm - Associate Professor of Resource and Environmental Geology at the University of Oslo - CO2 and the “Greenhouse Effect” Doom http://folk/uio.no/tomvs/index.htm
Bjarne Andresen - http://www.fys.ku.dk/~andresen/Bahome/welcome.html - Professor of Physics, Orsted Laboratory, University of Copenhagen - Global temperature - politics or science? http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03uoc-gt-031507.php
John T Everett - http://www.ocean assoc.com/ - Former Director of NOAA Fisheries Division of Research, Member National Academy of Sciences Panel on Ecosystem Indicators of Climate Changes, IPCC lead author and reviewer - Congressional testimony, April 2007 http://www.climatechangefacts.info/ClimateChangeDocuments/StatementOralJohnEverett.htm
Chris Walcek - www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/walcek.html - Atmospheric Scientist and Professor, University of Albany (NY), Senior Research Associate at the Atmospheric Sciences Research centre - Chris Walcek Interview http://media.www.ualbanyezine.com/media/storage/paper685/news/2007/05/05/ClimateChange/Chris.Walcek.Interview-2886067-page2.shtml
James P Koermer - http://www.Plymouth.edu/ceaps/faculty_member.html?fac=koermer - Atmospheric scientist and Professor of Meteorology and the Director of the Meteorological Institute at Plymouth State University
Jos de Latt - http://www.knmi.nl/~laatdej/Curriculum_vitae.html - Specialist in atmosphere composition and climate research at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute - Mixing politics and science in testing the hypothesis that greenhouse warming is causing a global increase in hurricane intensity http://www.knmi.nl/~laatdej/2007BAMS2335.PDF
William Kininmonth - http://www.multi-science.co.uk/climatechange.htm - former Head National Climate Centre, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, former Australian delegate to World meteorological Organisation Commission for Climatology, scientific and technical review - Don’t Be Gored Into Going Along http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20876,8-7583,00.html
Thanks to Sebastianjer’s wunderblog http://serbian.wunderground.com/blog/sebastianjer/archive.html?tstamp=200802 for compiling the list
Update: List of 500+ peer reviewed scientists who have expressed disagreement with the 'consensus'. http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=21978
DJ