«Wulf's often - vivid re-creation... a reminder of what a glorious writer Humboldt was... Among the many delights are the quotations taken directly from Humboldt's letters... Wulf properly seeks to reclaim him as the
progenitor of modern climate science, as the first to realize the interconnectedness of nature.»
As scientists looked for ways to get around the problem,
critics of modern climate science dismissed the tree ring data as unreliable and accused scientists of cooking up tricks to support the theory of global warming.
Last summer, James Hansen — the
pioneer of modern climate science — pieced together a research - based revelation: a little - known feedback cycle between the oceans and massive ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland might have already jump - started an exponential surge of sea levels.
«Over time I have begun to suspect that there is something dubious about the
tendency of modern climate science to shy away from absolute temperature as the dependent variable — or indeed other absolute parameters such as rainfall, sea level etc., and to treat most dependent variables, other than the assumed pCO2 «independent variable» in terms of arbitrarily defined «anomalies».
I'm struggling with your first paragraph where you talk of Montford claiming «
all of modern climate science, is a fraud perpetrated by a massive conspiracy of climate scientists and politicians, in order to guarantee an unending supply of research funding and political power.
If you don't know much about climate science, or about the details of the controversy over the «hockey stick,» then A. W. Montford's book The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science might persuade you that not only the hockey stick, but
all of modern climate science, is a fraud perpetrated by a massive conspiracy of climate scientists and politicians, in order to guarantee an unending supply of research funding and political power.
And while Tyndall's research is widely accepted as one of the foundations
of modern climate science, Foote has faded to relative obscurity.