What happened to the nice global
warming scientists promised?
What happened to the nice global
warming scientists promised?
Not exact matches
In my piece weighing the merits of very different strategies for giving ice - dependent polar bears a chance in a
warming world, I
promised I'd post the views of some of the biologists, sea - ice researchers and climate
scientists who've been tracking relevant questions.
In my previous blog post, I showed how one anonymous op - ed writer tried to casually drop the «reposition global
warming as theory rather than fact» phrase into his piece to insinuate skeptic climate
scientists received illicit industry money in exchange for the
promise to lie to the public.
According to a report at the time by Sovereignty International, Professor Robert Watson, the former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was asked in a press briefing in 1997 about the growing number of climate
scientists who challenge the conclusions of the UN that man - induced global
warming is real and
promises cataclysmic consequences.
Claire Parkinson, now a senior climate change
scientist at NASA, first began studying global
warming's impact on Arctic sea ice in 1978, when she was a
promising new researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
But it looks like an increasingly desperate move when seen in the light of mainstream
scientists scratching their heads about the global
warming hiatus, and the non-manifest problems that climate change orthodoxy of yesteryear
promised we should be expecting by today.
While the window for global decisive action is rapidly closing, climate
scientists should not make careless
promises about their ability to reduce uncertainties in climate scenarios over the next few years, and thereby provide our governments with excuses to shun their responsabilities until they know more detail about how fast and adverse their regional impacts of global
warming will be (compared to those in other countries).
Waston was asked in a press briefing about the growing number of climate
scientists who challenge the conclusions of the UN that man - induced global
warming is real and
promises cataclysmic consequences.