Letter: Not pretending to be a climate expert and neither should they | The DE

Recently, Dr. Phil Jones of CRU (one of the most adamant global warming activists) stated there has been no global warming since 1998. This was after Climategate. Recently, the Institute of Physics (36,000 members) rebuked IPCC for the fraud perpetrated by the “Climategate” group. Why the need to cheat?

Dale E. Wittmer
professor in engineering

Melting around the Antarctic peninsula actually slowing CO2 rise

The whole global warming scare is built on postulated feedbacks magnifying the trivial warming observed in the 20th century. The feedback identified below is therefore MOST pesky. It is REDUCING the alleged warming cause, not amplifying it. So what is the SUM of all the feedbacks going to be? Nobody knows. Recent observations of clouds suggest that it could in fact be negative (cooling) overall

Global warming: It has to be catastrophe

We have a surplus of people pretending to know the truth about climate change, and the truth they pretend to know is uniformly disastrous.

These people have a lot invested in being prophets of doom--their own self worth seems to be dependent on it, as anyone who has tried to talk to these people can attest to. Most scientists are the first to admit uncertainty and doubt, and have more clauses and conditions in their speech than a Beverly Hills lawyer. But not these guys. They're not walking around with sandwich boards saying The End is Nigh--they're carrying tablets of stone.

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