There were yelps of alarm and the rustle of skirts being hoist knee-high
after I published a note on sources in my column last week, Dissidents
against Dogma. The panic was caused by one of the references to the work
of Professor Zbigniew Jaworowski who, as I wrote, has written
devastating onslaughts on the IPCC rallying cry that CO2 is higher now
than it has ever been over the past 650,000 years. Jaworowski has
pointed out the enormous inaccuracies in the ice-core data and the ease
with which a CO2 reading from any given year is contaminated by the CO2
from entirely different eras. He also points out that from 1985 on
there’s been some highly suspect editing of the CO2 data, presumably to
reinforce the case for the “unprecedented levels” of modern CO2. I
offered a couple of references to Jaworowski, one of them to an essay,
"Ice Core Data Show No Carbon Dioxide Increase", published in 21st
Century Science & Technology, Spring 1997.
It turns out that this is a publication put out by the LaRouche crowd.
Next thing you know, poor Jaworowski was being accused oif [sic] being a
neo-Nazi cultist, with kindred vitriol hurled at CounterPunch co-editor
Cockburn.
George Monbiot used to it as the excuse to add Jaworowski to the
enormously long list of books and articles he refuses to read because
they have not been “peer-reviewed”, thus leaving the honorary chairman
of the King Canute Action Committee safely sequestered from any
information that might discomfit his prejudices.
I strongly doubt that Jaworowski knows much or indeed anything about the
more sinister and odious aspects of the LaRouch enterprise, and sent
along his paper because they asked him to. The article in the Larouche
magazine merely repeats the claims and supporting arguments that
Jaworowski has published in other journals. I cited one of these, "Do
Glaciers Tell a True CO2 Story", The Science of the Total Environment,
144, 1992) pp 227-284.
full: http://www.counterpunch.com/cockburn06162007.html
