Wednesday, March 11, 2009

THE EXPOSING OF REASON FROM... I WON'T SAY MADNESS FOR THE ALARMIST ARE VERY OUTCOME DRIVEN... EVIL...

2009 International Conference on Climate Change: Update #3

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Written By: Dan Miller
Publication date: 03/11/2009
Publisher: The Heartland Institute

NEW YORK--Willie Soon, a Harvard University astrophysicist and geophysicist with scores of peer-reviewed papers and books to his credit, said he is "embarrassed and puzzled" by the shallow science in papers that undergird the proposition that the Earth faces a climate crisis caused by global warming.

Soon told the second International Conference on Climate Change here, "We have a system (of peer reviewing scientific literature) that is truly, truly appalling."

Soon's criticisms echoed an earlier presentation at the 2 1/2-day conference that ended Tuesday and was attended by about 700 scientists, economists, and policy makers confronting the issue "Global Warming: Was it ever really a crisis?" John Sununu, former governor of New Hampshire, former chief of staff under George H.W. Bush, and a PhD in mechanical engineering, also lamented what he called the "restrictive distribution of research funds" through government channels.

He called for a "fairness doctrine" to be "applied to the funding of research and to the journal-review and publishing of papers."

Sununu and Soon both said global warming alarmists, particularly the politicians and the few scientists who wrote the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, have captured the scientific paper process, and in Sununu's words, have been successful in "taking control of who gets funding, who gets published, who gets acclaimed, and who gets demonized."....

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