Posted on 05/24/2009 5:11:46 PM PDT by ClimateDepot.com
By Marc Morano – Climate Depot [Update: Former Colorado State Climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. accepts the global warming debate challenge. See: Pielke Sr. 'I would be glad to debate Dr. Schneider...he represents a 'narrow perspective on climate science' - May 25, 2009 ]
Professor Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, a prominent proponent of man-made global warming fears has publicly challenged scientists skeptical of warming fears to debate. (Schneider's public website with bio and contact info is here. ) Schneider was interviewed by Thomas Fuller of the San Francisco Examiner on May 24, 2009.
Examiner Excerpt: Question: More specifically, the principal skeptic websites (Watt's Up With That, Climate Skeptic, Climate Audit and Climate Science) that I look at regularly seem to think they are winning the day. They think data is coming in that questions the established paradigm.
Schneider: They have been thinking that as long as I have observed them and they have very few mainstream climate scientists who publish original research in climate refereed journals with them--a petroleum geologist's opinion on climate science is a as good as a climate scientists opinion on oil reserves. So petitions sent to hundreds of thousands of earth scientists are frauds. If these guys think they are "winning" why don't they try to take on face to face real climatologists at real meetings--not fake ideology shows like Heartland Institute--but with those with real knowledge--because they'd be slaughtered in public debate by Trenberth, Santer, Hansen, Oppenheimer, Allen, Mitchell, even little ol' me. It's easy to blog, easy to write op-eds in the Wall Street Journal.
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Question: How would you characterize the state of play regarding scientific discussion regarding anthropogenic contributions to global warming? What is happening in science today that bears on the debate?
Schneider: Not much change over the past few decades, except nature is cooperating with theory as formerly theoretical projections like heat waves and ice melt is now observed--at faster rates than predicted. All in IPCC and NAS reports. Why ice is melting faster than the models suggest is still not known, but certainly not encouraging!
For complete interview with Schneider see Examiner's article here:
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Professor: “On an annual basis what is the percentage of volcanic emmission as compared to human emmissions?”
QUOTE: "We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." ~ Stephen Schneider (in interview for Discover magazine, Oct 1989)
“The evolution of the scientific debate about anthropogenic [man-caused] climate change illustrates both the value of skepticism and the pitfalls of partisanship.”
“Scientists are most effective when they provide sound, impartial advice, but their reputation for impartiality is severely compromised by the shocking lack of political diversity among American academics, who suffer from the kind of group-think that develops in cloistered cultures.
Until this profound and well documented intellectual homogeneity changes, scientists will be suspected of constituting a leftist think tank.”
“On the left, an argument emerged urging fellow scientists to deliberately exaggerate their findings so as to galvanize an apathetic public...”
“Conservatives have usually been strong supporters of nuclear power. .. Had it not been for green opposition, the United States today might derive most of its electricity from nuclear power, as does France; thus the environmentalists must accept a large measure of responsibility for today’s most critical environmental problem.” ~ Kerry Emanuel - MIT
He sure will.
"Recently many people have said that the earth is facing a crisis requiring urgent action. This statement has nothing to do with science.
"Frankly, the very idea of consensus in such an immature and multi- faceted subject as climate change should be suspicious ab initio. Consensus is largely a propaganda claim designed to relieve ordinary people of the need to understand the issue. This is neither good for science nor for public policy. . " ~ Richard S. Lindzed the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT. Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus - Vol.15, No. 2, Spring 1992
Can you say "Earth Simulator"??
Cheers!
Volcanos and swamps
So when and where is this debate going to take place?
Steven Schneider quote:
“We need to get some broad based support,
to capture the public’s imagination...
So we have to offer up scary scenarios,
make simplified, dramatic statements
and make little mention of any doubts...
Each of us has to decide what the right balance
is between being effective and being honest.”
ping
bump
I’m a scientist...I don’t have a Phd...but I am perfectly willing to debate him.
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While I know man-made global warming to be a myth, Earth was warming for nearly a century due to natural cycles. That warming trend has ended for now, and we are currently cooling. Cooling, by the way is far more dire.
This information is not intended to be an attack on clean technology, or anti-pollution measures. We’ll take those issues on an individual basis, because some are good suggestions while others are asinine.
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The difference between computer models and actual field data are tremendous. The IPCC computer model is flawed, because the field data does not back up its findings. I would also like to add when CO2 was as much as 12 times higher, in earlier history prior to when man was on the planet, it was colder than now. Man contributes about 0.3% to CO2 emissions most C02 comes from other places. (animals, bio mass, etc.)
Dr. Roger Pielke Sr will shout down or talk over any comments made by anyone else.
It's the way of the Disciples of Global Warming. If you disagree, you need to be silenced.
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