Actually I did read the Seitz article. I was amazed that Seitz seems proud of it.
Seitz characterized the 1990 views of two well known by now climate science deniers, i.e. Roy Spencer and John Christy, as representative of the 1990 views of most relevant scientists. I thought this was so far off the mark I ventured my guess that Seitz didn't know any climate scientists at the time. I cited the Toronto Changing Atmosphere conference of 1988 final statement to illustrate that the views of many climate scientists of the time were not anywhere near what the Seitz article asserts they were. A copy of the statement is* here*. The Toronto statement was signed off on by, for instance, Bert Bolin, John Houghton, Bob Watson, Stephen Schnieder, Mike McElroy, Peter Gleick, Zhou Xiuji, Digby McLaren, Kenneth Hare, Jill Jager, Godwin Obasi, Robert Socolow, etc. There were a total of 400 invited delegates from 40 countries. Read the first two paragraphs of the Toronto statement and consider the statement's recommendation for action that the world's policy makers were being asked to implement: a 20% reduction in the 1988 level of global CO2 emission by the year 2005 as an initial global goal, the aim being stabilizing the level of CO2 in the atmosphere which was then thought to require a reduction of 50% of the 1988 global emissions. The Seitz article summarizes what he thought the views of the relevant scientific community were, i.e. "most scientists lack conviction" about doing anything. Its ludicrous. The rest of the Seitz article, i.e. the argument that in essence, most climate scientists of the time didn't have a clue, is not standing up as history unfolds, and was not powerful at the time. On Wednesday, August 7, 2013 2:55:00 PM UTC-7, Russell Seitz wrote: > > David 's failure to read the article is evident -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
