Comments on: NASA Climate Scientist Says "We're Toast"

Two Decades After His First Warning, Global Warming Expert Says Situation Has Worsened

[gdw666]

"But those who have seen it had the same general impression: Gore conveyed the science correctly; the world is getting hotter and it is a manmade catastrophe-in-the-making caused by the burning of fossil fuels."

Yopu seem to have missed the part about most not having seen it.

[gdw666]

Oct. 12, 2007

The verdict couldn''t have come at a less convenient time for Al Gore.

One day before Friday''s announcement that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a British High Court judge ruled that Gore''s global warming film, "An Inconvenient Truth," while "broadly accurate," contained nine significant errors.

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"But those who have seen it had the same general impression: Gore conveyed the science correctly; the world is getting hotter and it is a manmade catastrophe-in-the-making caused by the burning of fossil fuels."

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"Nigel Calder is probably not a household name in America, as he used to be the editor of the British science magazine New Scientist..."

Over 40 years ago... shhh....!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Calder

[gdw666]

Yes, do see it your self. Especially thus part that was omitted. (By accident I ams sure.)

"The AP contacted more than 100 top climate researchers by e-mail and phone for their opinion. Among those contacted were vocal skeptics of climate change theory. Most scientists had not seen the movie, which is in limited release, or read the book."

Note that "most" had not seen the movie or read the book.

[terrorislami]

Former Science Mag Editor Speaks Out Against Global Warming Hysteria

Calder wonderfully explained how a ten percent uncertainty in science is not something to be easily dismissed:

The small print explains %u201Cvery likely%u201D as meaning that the experts who made the judgment felt 90% sure about it. Older readers may recall a press conference at Harwell in 1958 when Sir John Cockcroft, Britain%u2019s top nuclear physicist, said he was 90% certain that his lads had achieved controlled nuclear fusion. It turned out that he was wrong. More positively, a 10% uncertainty in any theory is a wide open breach for any latterday Galileo or Einstein to storm through with a better idea. That is how science really works.
http://newsbusters.org/node/10756

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Former Science Mag Editor Speaks Out Against Global Warming Hysteria

Nigel Calder is probably not a household name in America, as he used to be the editor of the British science magazine New Scientist, and is more recently an author and BBC screenwriter. With that as pretext, he wrote a column for the Sunday Times in which he absolutely slammed the recent hysteria and junk science surrounding anthropogenic global warming

When politicians and journalists declare that the science of global warming is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works. We were treated to another dose of it recently when the experts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the Summary for Policymakers that puts the political spin on an unfinished scientific dossier on climate change due for publication in a few months%u2019 time. They declared that most of the rise in temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to man-made greenhouse gases.

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Gore gets a cold shoulder

ONE of the world''s foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don''t understand how the atmosphere works".

Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.

His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.

"We''re brainwashing our children," said Dr Gray, 78, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. "They''re going to the Gore movie [An Inconvenient Truth] and being fed all this. It''s ridiculous."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/gore-gets-a-cold-shoulder/2007/10/13/1191696238792.html

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The article continues,

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-06-27-gore-science-truth_x.htm

"The AP contacted more than 100 top climate researchers by e-mail and phone for their opinion. Among those contacted were vocal skeptics of climate change theory. Most scientists had not seen the movie, which is in limited release, or read the book.

But those who have seen it had the same general impression: Gore conveyed the science correctly; the world is getting hotter and it is a manmade catastrophe-in-the-making caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

"Excellent," said William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. "He got all the important material and got it right."

Robert Corell, chairman of the worldwide Arctic Climate Impact Assessment group of scientists, read the book and saw Gore give the slideshow presentation that is woven throughout the documentary.

"I sat there and I''m amazed at how thorough and accurate," Corell said. "After the presentation I said, ''Al, I''m absolutely blown away. There''s a lot of details you could get wrong.'' ... I could find no error."

Gore, in an interview with the AP, said he wasn''t surprised "because I took a lot of care to try to make sure the science was right.""

have a wonderful week, people, catch you later

[miami_21]

a view from behind bars; i believe this guy but....i also believe that before it gets that bad we will run out of oil, alot of folks will die, a new energy will be perfected and the problem of global warming will take care of itself along with the overpopulation.

have a nice day.