Chris,

 

There's nothing like a good analogy and the tobacco industry is nothing like a good analogy.

 

On the other hand, there are some 500 plus government scientists who compose the IPCC along with some 300 academics who contribute.

 

They hold meetings in many exotic and not so exotic parts of the world at taxpayer expense - a perk that’s worth its weight in vacations.

 

Any academic who delivers a paper that supports anthropogenic Global Warming will get an “in-house peer review” and a certain notoriety if it contains a little horror. The media lap up disaster scenarios.

 

Also perhaps a nice (all expenses paid) trip to Addis Ababa.

 

The many scientists who dissent from the ‘known truth’ must go through the journals of their particular discipline, or to the publications “Science” and “Nature” – both of which support the Global Warming hypothesis.

 

At one time, I had intended to subscribe to Nature and collected a bunch from a friend last time I was in England. But its failure to condemn the IPCC for “cooking the books” – producing a First Assessment Report that removed all dissent – thereby establishing a consensus, annoyed me.

 

I didn’t subscribe.

 

I was a member of the AAAS for a couple of decades and delivered a bunch of superior papers (my evaluation). The best part of membership was the weekly issue of “Science”.

 

I think Science is better than Nature, but its solid support for Global Warming makes it  suspect.

 

There is a consensus on Global Warming. We know it because the IPCC tells us there is. So, when a UCLA professor examined 1,000 papers by scientists and found that they almost entirely backed Global Warming, Science published it.

 

Climatologists know this isn’t true. It’s like Germany in the thirties. Some 95% of Germany supported the Nazis. However, wherever you went, you kept running into the other 5%.

 

A Liverpool scientist specializing in catastrophe science decided to check her findings. He found that the opposite was true. Most of the papers did not support Global Warming.

 

So, he sent a letter to Science. Two or three weeks went by and he received a note from Science saying his letter was too long for publication. So, he shortened and re-sent it.

 

More weeks, then a letter saying they could not publish it because it had appeared on the Internet.  (It wasn’t, says the writer.)

 

So, Science refused to publish a letter from a reputable scientist that directly refuted a paper they had earlier accepted.

 

I’m glad I resigned from the AAAS.

 

I use capitalized Global Warming to describe the heavily politicized output from the IPCC factory. Of course there has been global warming over the last 30 years, just as there was global cooling over the previous 35 years or so.

 

If you want to use ‘climate change’ go ahead. Climate change has been occurring for the past 10,000 years, or 10,000,000 years. In fact from the beginning of things on earth.

 

Chris, I’ve given you plenty of information to attack. But, it’s not enough to simply say “No, it isn’t.” Try to increase the substance of the argument, which means you should cut out the non sequiturs, the clever little remarks, and the ad hominems.

 

Just ad to the discussion.

 

Harry

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Futurework] Global warming?

 

Remember how the tobacco industry obstructed for decades the tide change

in scientific "opinion" about smoking and cancer?  They simply paid a few

"scientists" for insisting that smoking is healthy, just so they could

assert that "there is still no consensus" that smoking is harmful.

 

The same game happens now with "global warming" (misleading and silly term

btw -- climate change is the correct term).  Can we ever learn from history

in order not to repeat it?

 

Chris

 

 

 

 

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