Startling Number of Scientific Papers Disputed Human-Caused Global Warming Last Year - weather.com: "If there really is solid, peer-reviewed scientific literature that proves human-caused fossil fuel emissions aren't the chief cause behind the global warming we've experienced over the past several decades, Powell says it's nearly impossible to find.
"If I knew sitting here talking to you, of some really significant piece of evidence that shows that global warming is wrong, I would rush out and write a paper and send that to a journal," Powell said.
"They would no doubt publish that paper and I would become famous," he added. "And I’d have my assistant talking to you, because I’d be too busy receiving accolades.""
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How would a skeptic get a paper published?
Only recently we saw a whole journal shut down because of one paragraph that cast doubt on the orthodox position.
I see similarities between AGW and mobilism and continental drift prior to the discovery of plate tectonics.
S. J. Gould wrote that at Harvard, the PhD candidates and post-docs could not openly discuss the theory of continental mobility and did so only on the back stairs.
For a term paper in the early 1960s I used vertical plate movement to do a geomorphological study of Saudi Arabia. I concealed the source of my inspiration because, although plate movements were known in the 1960's, you could mention them only in connection with vertical tilting of sub-continental blocks, not something as big as Saudi Arabia.
Reaction to continental drift in America:
http://www.geoscience-environment.com/es767/background.htm
References to continental drift in Science Magazine, 1923-1997:
http://www.geoscience-environment.com/es767/science.html
Mobilism and continenatal drift:
http://www.geoscience-environment.com/es767/index_es767.html
I find the comments about continental drift astonishing. I well remember learning about it in geography at the age of 12 in the UK in the 1950s.
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