June 14, 2006

REAL CLIMATE SCIENTIST: “GORE’S CIRCUMSTANTIAL ARGUMENTS ARE SO WEAK THAT THEY ARE PATHETIC.”

The Canada Free Press published a guest column by Tom Harris that is a must read for anyone looking for some common sense and knowledgeable discourse on climate silliness and Al Gore’s doom-ridden prophecies.

Tom Harris is mechanical engineer and Ottawa Director of High Park Group, a public affairs and public policy company. Harris took the trouble to get scientists who know something about the subject to clarify what the issues are. Among them was Professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Australia; and Carter “is one of hundreds of highly qualified non-governmental, non-industry, non-lobby group climate experts who contest the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are causing significant global climate change. ‘Climate experts’ is the operative term here. Why? Because what Gore's ‘majority of scientists’ think is immaterial when only a very small fraction of them actually work in the climate field.

“Even among that fraction, many focus their studies on the impacts of climate change; biologists, for example, who study everything from insects to polar bears to poison ivy. ‘While many are highly skilled researchers, they generally do not have special knowledge about the causes of global climate change,’ explains former University of Winnipeg climatology professor Dr. Tim Ball. ‘They usually can tell us only about the effects of changes in the local environment where they conduct their studies.’

“This is highly valuable knowledge, but doesn't make them climate change cause experts, only climate impact experts.
“So we have a smaller fraction.

“But it becomes smaller still. Among experts who actually examine the causes of change on a global scale, many concentrate their research on designing and enhancing computer models of hypothetical futures. ‘These models have been consistently wrong in all their scenarios,’ asserts Ball. ‘Since modelers concede computer outputs are not "predictions" but are in fact merely scenarios, they are negligent in letting policy-makers and the public think they are actually making forecasts.’”

Don’t miss the rest of this story [click HERE] and find out why Gore is full of …well, HORSEFEATHERS.