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Skeptical Authors on Climate Science

3 points by jackfoxy 16y ago

hga 16y ago
A reply by "Enemy of the State Number #38": http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/writing-for-pjm-helped-make-me-enemy-of-the-state-number-38/?singlepage=true http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/writing-for-pjm-helped-make-me-... Which is a fair characterization as the root source, a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (i.e. the official publication of record for a unit of the government) article (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/06/04/1003187107.full.pdf+html http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/06/04/1003187107.full...) links to this page and "argues that the skeptical scientists — the article calls us 'climate deniers,' trying to equate us with Holocaust deniers — have published less in climate “science” than believers in anthropogenic global warming (AGW)." As the author says: "Professor Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society, is number 3 on the list. Dyson is a friend of mine and is one of the creators of relativistic quantum field theory; most physicists think he should have shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard Feynman. MIT professor Richard Lindzen, a meteorologist who is also a member of the National Academy, is number 4. Princeton physics professor William Happer, once again a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is number 6. I’m in good company." And let me preemptively further Goodwin this thread with a few quotes from the comments: "This sort of reminds me of when Hitler got several hundred scientists to sign (on pain of death) a letter declaring Einstein was wrong. Einstein’s famous retort was: 'If I was wrong if would not take hundreds, it would only take one.'" (Einstein was very rigorous about demanding proof, e.g. he said about one of his relativity theories that he would not accept it as being right unless several specified experiments all produced the predicted results.) "The National Academy of Sciences clearly has no sense of irony. While using the term “denier” in order to associate those with non-aligned views with Nazi sympathisers, it uses exactly the same tactic which was used in Hitler’s Germany to suppress so called “Degenerate art” (Entartete Kunst)."

3 points by jackfoxy 16y ago

hga 16y ago

A reply by "Enemy of the State Number #38": http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/writing-for-pjm-helped-make-me-enemy-of-the-state-number-38/?singlepage=true http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/writing-for-pjm-helped-make-me-... Which is a fair characterization as the root source, a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (i.e. the official publication of record for a unit of the government) article (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/06/04/1003187107.full.pdf+html http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/06/04/1003187107.full...) links to this page and "argues that the skeptical scientists — the article calls us 'climate deniers,' trying to equate us with Holocaust deniers — have published less in climate “science” than believers in anthropogenic global warming (AGW)." As the author says: "Professor Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society, is number 3 on the list. Dyson is a friend of mine and is one of the creators of relativistic quantum field theory; most physicists think he should have shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard Feynman. MIT professor Richard Lindzen, a meteorologist who is also a member of the National Academy, is number 4. Princeton physics professor William Happer, once again a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is number 6. I’m in good company." And let me preemptively further Goodwin this thread with a few quotes from the comments: "This sort of reminds me of when Hitler got several hundred scientists to sign (on pain of death) a letter declaring Einstein was wrong. Einstein’s famous retort was: 'If I was wrong if would not take hundreds, it would only take one.'" (Einstein was very rigorous about demanding proof, e.g. he said about one of his relativity theories that he would not accept it as being right unless several specified experiments all produced the predicted results.) "The National Academy of Sciences clearly has no sense of irony. While using the term “denier” in order to associate those with non-aligned views with Nazi sympathisers, it uses exactly the same tactic which was used in Hitler’s Germany to suppress so called “Degenerate art” (Entartete Kunst)."