Bob Carter v. Al Gore on Climate Change: Game, Set, Match
Al Gore has met his vanquisher in Bob Carter.
This one is for the hard drive (HT Rush Limbaugh’s Radio Show; also available with more excerpts at the SOB Alliance), but this is the best quote:
Professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, in Australia gives what, for many Canadians, is a surprising assessment: “Gore’s circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention.”
….. “The man is an embarrassment to US science and its many fine practitioners, a lot of whom know (but feel unable to state publicly) that his propaganda crusade is mostly based on junk science.”
But public attention turning into public ridicule, as appears to be happening as the junk science get revealed, is quite useful.
One critic doth not make a trend. Bob Carter has for years been obsessively publishing opinion articles about how global warming does not exist.
He’s just one of many scientists researching the issue. He is not the magic bullet that takes the wind out of the sails of the global warming argument.
One can find other scientists that say it does exist.
The trick here is finding out which ones were funded by the petroleum industry or business interests, those can be easily tossed out of the “unbiased” pool.
Comment by Steve Savage — June 16, 2006 @ 3:08 pm
No, the “trick” here is to find people who have solid science to back up what they claim, regardless of how they are funded. The tendency by critics to dismiss industry-based reports as “biased information from greedy profiteers,” while simultaneously anointing info from others as pure as the driven snow (when their agendas against business, capitalism, or Bush, or in preserving their comfy jobs can be just as strong or stronger) is very annoying and intellectually dishonest.
Carter’s piece notes that people engaged in climatology science, as opposed to scientists who work with imperfect computer models, who operate on the periphery of climate science, or who even have nothing to do with climate science, are divided at best on the question of global warming. The article quotes at least three other expert disagreers with the global warming premise.
Gore’s alarmism in the face of a divided opinion IS embarrassing. It uses junky science as its basis (game), it is uncalled for (set), and is extremely irresponsible (match).
Comment by TBlumer — June 16, 2006 @ 3:40 pm