Today's quiz question: FIve years after Gore said the science was settled, who said: "We say quite clearly that few scientists would say the attribution issue was a done deal"

If you guessed Ben "Beat the Crap out of Pat Michaels" Santer, you're a winner! Your prize is 100% of the cash that I've been awarded for running this blog over the last four years.

Scientific Basis of Global Warming Scare Crumbling, Experts Say | Heartlander Magazine

[1997] A much-quoted sentence in the official summary statement of the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that ". . . the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate." However, extensive interviews carried out by Kerr with leading climate experts reveal growing skepticism over just how much scientists really know. Kerr quotes Benjamin Santer, one of the IPCC report's lead authors, as saying: "It's unfortunate that many people read the media hype before they read the [IPCC] chapter" on the detection of greenhouse warming. "I think the caveats are there. We say quite clearly that few scientists would say the attribution issue was a done deal."