Climate and Weather
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The last-cited scientist, William Happer, doesn't deny that the increase in CO2 and thus global temperature is from human activity, he just thinks it might be a good thing. That kind of echoes Arrhenius' first statements from over 100 years ago when he pointed out that increased CO2 would mean no more ice ages.
Why dont you ask him?
That was quick.
More confirmation.
Harper is among "researchers who see global warming as something less than a planet-ending calamity"...
Straw men are always easy to defeat.
I always carry a couple blue tips in my shirt pocket.
Delusions of grandeur Magoo?
Do your own home work Scarecrow.
Get someone to read and explain the article to you, then you can tell us what you think it's about.
Done and done.
Dumb and dumber...
Sheriff Joe
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That's OK, just more evidence in having him committed.
Bruddah IZ
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Bruddah IZ
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Bruddah IZ
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a.k.a. as a denier to some here.
Bruddah IZ
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Depends on the quality of the straw.
Hüsker Dü
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No wondering why you admire strongmen, dictators and egomaniacs.
Hüsker Dü
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William Happer, born 1939 (age 77–78), is a climate change denier and Professor of Physics at Princeton University, specialising in MRI imaging. He has no training in climate science. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the George C. Marshall Institute and is on the Academic Advisory Council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a denier think tank.
As a direct response to the claims made and scientific evidence used in this piece, Media Matters for America, a progressive nonprofit watchdog group, published a specific response addressing several points posited in the op-ed. Beginning with a reference to Schmitt and Happer as "authors with no peer-reviewed papers on the topic and ties to groups funded by the oil industry," Media Matters presents contrary evidence to the information in the op-ed, citing work by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, NASA, the World Bank, the National Research Council, Smithsonian Magazine, the New York Times, Skeptical Science, and several other scientists and academics. This response goes on to expose the authors' history, illustrating their lack of peer-reviewed research on the topic and their ties to the oil industry. Media Matters' profile on Schmitt highlights his former position as Director at the oil industry-funded Heartland Institute. Happer's profile identifies his status as current chairman of the George C. Marshall Institute, a recipient of funding from the oil industry as well as the Koch brothers.
Jack Williams, the director of the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research and geography professor from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where Schmitt serves as an adjunct professor, also responded critically to the piece. "I think they're ignoring the scientific evidence," Williams posits, "...it's a bit of a one-sided perspective on the effects of CO2."
Bruddah IZ
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Hanapaa!!