Many of the comments/arguments these gentlemen have are addressed in the
last IPCC report. But of course we don't know everything, this is a
question of best available and accepted knowledge at any given time.
This reminds me of Project Steve http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/steve/
(sorry, could not resist...)
J
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 12:49 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: OT Probably controversial
> And here's a longer list of scientists on the opposing side
>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_
assessment_of_global_warming>
> including Robert C. Balling, Jr., director of the Office of Climatology
> and an associate professor of geography at Arizona State University...
> It seems all is not settled between Arizona State and the University of
> Arizona.
>
> I like to consider myself a fan of the scientific method which to me
> means that a theory must account for all the data points. It can't
> ignore the outliers without thoroughly explaining them. To do so ain't
> science in my book. One of the scientists mentioned here, Tim Patterson
> paleoclimatologist and Professor of Geology at Carleton University in
> Canada says: "There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and
> Earth's temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2
> levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million
> years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period
> in the last half billion years. On the basis of this evidence, how could
> anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2
> levels would be the major cause of the past century's modest warming?"
>
> Now there's one of them pesky data point outliers. Who's burying their
> head in the sand, I ask?
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>
> Johann Thorsson wrote:
> > If anyone wants to learn about the current status of our knowledge from
> > people who undeniably know what they are saying, then this link is a
gold
> > mine. Those who know this all and don't want to be mislead by
contradicting
> > or different information should probably not bother.
> >
> > http://podcasting.arizona.edu/globalclimatechange.html
> >
> > Johann, probably not an "actual scientists" (I am just ABT) but it is
hard
> > to disregard the people found in the url above.
>
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