· On global warming: «I'm not a scientist, but I read enough scientific literature to know
the whole global warming theory is bonkers.
For example, he was once quoted as saying, «I'm not a scientist, but I read enough scientific literature to know
the whole global warming theory is bonkers.
Not exact matches
Re # 8 (and to expand on # 13): I also think that a basic strategy of the
global warming deniers is to focus on one aspect of the science over which there is some combination of real and manufactured dispute and then try to make people think that this is the one crucial piece of evidence on which the
whole theory of anthropogenic
warming rests... and thus that the dispute over this aspect throws the
whole theory into question.
The hockey stick is one attempt at doing so because it provides a very visual impression of what is happening, but this in turn means a lot of people get the false impression that it is some kind of cornerstone that the
whole of
global warming theory is built on.
Well since the upward trend was well established, and his
whole «CO2 causes
global warming»
theory would be falsified by any other result (constant or decreasing temperatures) it is hardly surprising that Hansen's models would produce predictions of increasing temperature.
Because you can not simply hold that GWA is true as a scientific
theory — you have to embrace the
whole culture of
Global Warming down to the minutest detail!
The
whole problem with the
theory that cosmic rays (or lack thereof) are driving
global warming is that cosmic radiation has shown no trend over the last 50 years.
You add up the locals and it is considerably less
global warming, i.e. the
whole basis of the catastrophic
warming theory questioned.
He has bought into the
whole global warming thing and become a spokesman for the
theory.