The Vast Army Outside the "Consensus"
Here is a super review of the skeptic writers and scientists entitled ' Global Warming: Witness for the Skeptical Perspective' by Gerald T. Westbrook over at the Energy Tribune site. Here is the opening section of the piece:
Thomas Huxley stated that skepticism is the highest of duties and blind faith, the one unpardonable sin. Yet over the past decade, those skeptical of global warming have been attacked with increasing frequency, shrillness, and ugliness. The attacks tend to focus on the messengers. This article will review the skeptical perspective on global warming, and three categories of messengers will be cited:
1. Selected authors, primarily non-scientists, but with some unique perspective on this issue;
2. Distinguished veterans, mostly scientists, mostly retired;
3. Others, including active scientists, TV meteorologists, and state climatologists.
and here is the conclusion to this excellent piece:
The views of four non-scientist authors have been reviewed. These skeptics may be viewed as news reporters. This group of authors is competing with science reporters – from the New York Times, the Houston Chronicle, Nature magazine, etc. – over who can best tell the public the latest scientific news.
The views of 11 distinguished veterans have been noted. All are skeptical. Their lifetime publications, speeches, and comments give the nature of this group’s views on the global warming issue. Their views are more proof that a serious and valid debate exists on the global warming issue.
The views of active scientists have been noted via petitions. The views of TV meteorological and state climatological communities have been scrutinized. There surely is no consensus in favor of the global warming issue. There may be a consensus against it. The claim that “all scientists agree” is ridiculous.
The four key assumptions on global warming have been assessed. None have been definitively confirmed. Hence it is premature to find CO2 guilty. The very best one can say about the global warming issue and the KP is that it is premature. The very worst is that it is a hoax or a fraud.
Westbrook, formerly a hydrocarbons and energy economist for Dow Chemical, is an associate at the Center for Energy Economics, Bureau of Economic Geology, at the University of Texas at Austin.
Ed. For the record, I have a piece on the EU's Climate Challenge to the World coming up in the June issue of Energy Tribune magazine (and possibly on their website).
Peter C Glover
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