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Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch
May 7, 2008
Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch
You know your state is in trouble when the chairman of your commission to address the global warming crisis cites one of the newsweaklies as grounds for established scientific fact. That is the case with the University of Iowa's Jerald Schnoor, who chairs the Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council. He wrote in his environmental science journal in 2006:
In its April 3 special edition, Time magazine has declared it. The debate on global warming is over. And humans are causing it (at least, most of it). Meanwhile, according to a recent poll, 71% of Americans already believe that global warming is occurring. So what has taken the Bush Administration so long? The lack of leadership on climate change and energy policy by President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and their cadre of oil executive cronies borders on malfeasance.
This, again, is from the leader of a so-called study commission that is supposed to be objective in its look at global warming issues -- except that, of course, they are not allowed to discuss the science of climate change.
On second thought, I guess that makes him a perfect fit.
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And how does one address
And how does one address these proponents that Global Warming is a real phenomena? They are, perhaps, all part of a larger "conspiracy"?
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007
InterAcademy Council
Joint science academies’ statement 2007
Joint science academies’ statement 2005
Joint science academies’ statement 2001
International Council of Academies of Engineering and
European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Network of African Science Academies
International Council for Science
European Science Foundation
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Federation of American Scientists
World Meteorological Organization
American Meteorological Society
Royal Meteorological Society (UK)
Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
American Geophysical Union
American Institute of Physics
American Astronomical Society
American Physical Society
American Chemical Society
National Research Council (US)
Federal Climate Change Science Program (US)
American Quaternary Association
Geological Society of America
Engineers Australia (The Institution of Engineers Australia)
Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London
European Geosciences Union
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
International Union of Geological Sciences
How do you know their members support the theory
John, please provide some evidence that the members of those groups support the hypothesis of CO2-driven global warming.
We know, for example, that the IPCC's Summary for Policymakers was written by bureaucrats rather than by scientists and differs from the text it claims to summarize.
Did the members of the American Physical Society vote on the issue and, if so, what was the result of that vote?
Good Points
You might also ask about the number of IPCC scientists who later complained that their contributions to the report were used in ways that were never intended.
I was once a member of a professional organization that had a political agenda that I personally disagreed with (nothing to do with the current climate controversy). Many of their official positions were promulgated with no input from the general membership. I stayed with this organization for a number of years because of certain tangible benefits of membership. I am sure that many other organizations are similarly structured.