Thursday, February 23, 2012

AGU hijacked by warmists; cleanup needed

I think AGU's problems go way beyond the embarrassment of having prospective felon Peter Gleick as the Chairman of their Scientific Ethics committee.
As his interview (audio here) with David Appell clearly shows, current AGU president Michael McPhaden is a committed warmist.
Around the 6 minute mark, he claims "more extreme droughts and floods" as evidence that CO2 is dangerous.  He claims that "the evidence is pretty much incontrovertible".   At the 7:00 mark, he claims that ClimateGate was "not about the science", and "there were five independent studies that exonerated the scientists involved from any wrongdoing".   At the 10:00 mark, he cites "more droughts and severe storms and floods" as alleged indicators of human impact on climate.  He says "we know from very simple physics why that should be".
At the 18:00 he claims that "there is a weight of evidence that tells us that climate is changing, that humans are responsible, and that we're putting both human systems and natural systems at risk".  At the 18:22 mark, he compares global warming evidence to a jigsaw puzzle with some pieces missing.  This seems oddly similar to Michael Mann's puzzle description in other interiew from this week (here,  24:10 mark).  It's almost like the two warmist Michaels are getting shared PR advice.
At the 20:15 mark, McPhaden starts trying to sell the climate scam by claiming the "solutions" will make us stronger economically and help our national defense.  Then this quote:  "The United States is gonna be left behind, potentially, unless we kind of read the tea leaves and understand what they're trying to tell us".
Consider warmist McPhaden's board appointments.  As Appell points out, McPhaden appointed left-wing English major and global warming zealot Chris Mooney to AGU's board.  After Mooney's resignation (maybe related to the impending publication of Mooney's book "The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--and Reality"), McPhaden evidently filled Mooney's board position with another warmist, "Climate Communication" director Susan Joy Hassol, who still lists Peter Gleick as a "Science Advisor".
McPhaden's other pick for the AGU board was warmist Floyd DesChamps, who "was a co-author of the landmark climate bill, the Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act (also called the McCain-Lieberman Climate Change Bill".
Note also that warmists Michael Mann and Ben Santer have become AGU fellows recently.
American Geophysical Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The American Geophysical Union (or AGU) is a nonprofit organization of geophysicists, consisting of over 50,000 members from over 135 countries. AGU's activities are focused on the organization and dissemination of scientific information in the interdisciplinary and international field of geophysics. The geophysical sciences involve four fundamental areas: atmospheric and ocean sciences; solid-Earth sciences; hydrologic sciences; and space sciences.

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