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Climate Alarmists Criticise Climate Alarmism
You really couldn’t make this stuff up:
Exaggerated and inaccurate claims about the threat from global warming risk undermining efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and contain climate change, senior scientists have told The Times.
Environmental lobbyists, politicians, researchers and journalists who distort climate science to support an agenda erode public understanding and play into the hands of sceptics, according to experts including a former government chief scientist.
Excessive statements about the decline of Arctic sea ice, severe weather events and the probability of extreme warming in the next century detract from the credibility of robust findings about climate change, they said.
Such claims can easily be rebutted by critics of global warming science to cast doubt on the whole field. They also confuse the public about what has been established as fact, and what is conjecture……
Colloid Chemist Sir David King is quoted:
“When people overstate happenings that aren’t necessarily climate change-related, or set up as almost certainties things that are difficult to establish scientifically, it distracts from the science we do understand. The danger is they can be accused of scaremongering. Also, we can all become described as kind of left-wing greens.”
Hmmm:
Antarctica is likely to be the world’s only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remains unchecked, the government’s chief scientist, Professor Sir David King said last week. He said the Earth was entering the ‘first hot period’ for 60 million years when there was no ice on the plane and “the rest of the globe could not sustain human life”. The Independent on Sunday, 2 May 2004
CRN note: I believe that Sir David disputes some of what was attributed to him in The Independent, although he didn’t dispute it or complain at the time as far as I know. No, he waited until it was repeated in ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ documentary response to Al Gore’s AIT.
“If all the ice on Greenland were to melt, sea level would rise by seven metres. Is that likely to happen? Well I was saying six years ago unlikely [but] I’m afraid that that’s having to be revised… 80 percent of our human population lives within less than a one metre rise of sea level so imagine the destabilisation of our geopolitical system with a sea level rise of the order of one or two metres. And that is on the cards I’m afraid.” Sir David King, London, 19 June 2008
H/T CCNet. Do read the entire Times article – the alarmist Met Office, which ‘barbecues’ taxpayers’ money, is also quoted.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:40 am
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