Tuesday, February 01, 2011

[Eighteen Junk] Scientists ask Congress to put aside politics, take 'fresh look' at climate data - The Hill's E2-Wire
There are no Democratic or Republican carbon dioxide molecules; they are all invisible and they all trap heat.
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Climate change deniers cloak themselves in scientific language, selectively critiquing aspects of mainstream climate science. Sometimes they present alternative hypotheses as an explanation of a particular point, as if the body of evidence were a house of cards standing or falling on one detail; but the edifice of climate science instead rests on a concrete foundation. As an open letter from 255 NAS members noted in the May 2010 Science magazine, no research results have produced any evidence that challenges the overall scientific understanding of what is happening to our planet’s climate and why.

The assertions of climate deniers therefore should not be given scientific weight equal to the comprehensive, peer-reviewed research presented by the vast majority of climate scientists.
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John Abraham, University of St. Thomas
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Andrew Dessler, Texas A&M University
Peter Gleick,* Pacific Institute
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Michael Mann, Penn State University Pamela Matson,* Stanford University
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Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University
Ben Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Richard Somerville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research

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