Posted on 06/18/2007 9:45:14 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' Posted by Noel Sheppard on June 18, 2007 - 11:46.
Reid Bryson, the 87-year-old considered to be the father of scientific climatology, has once again spoken out strongly against anthropogenic global warming theories being regularly disseminated by alarmists in the media and the scientific community.
In an interview published by Wisconsin’s Capital Times Monday, Bryson spoke about the money involved in this "religion," and when asked about soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" marvelously responded (emphasis added throughout):
"Don't make me throw up...It is not science. It is not true."
But Bryson had loads more to say on this issue (better fasten your seatbelts!):
There is no question the earth has been warming. It is coming out of the "Little Ice Age," he said in an interview this week.
"However, there is no credible evidence that it is due to mankind and carbon dioxide. We've been coming out of a Little Ice Age for 300 years. We have not been making very much carbon dioxide for 300 years. It's been warming up for a long time," Bryson said.
Think Bryson will be interviewed any time soon by Katie, Charlie, or Brian? Regardless, the article continued:
The Little Ice Age was driven by volcanic activity. That settled down so it is getting warmer, he said.
Humans are polluting the air and adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, but the effect is tiny, Bryson said.
"It's like there is an elephant charging in [sic, the room] and you worry about the fact that there is a fly sitting on its head. It's just a total misplacement of emphasis," he said. "It really isn't science because there's no really good scientific evidence."
Just because almost all of the scientific community believes in man-made global warming proves absolutely nothing, Bryson said. "Consensus doesn't prove anything, in science or anywhere else, except in democracy, maybe."
For the alarmists who love to depict every skeptic as being on the take of oil companies:
Bryson, 87, was the founding chairman of the department of meteorology at UW-Madison and of the Institute for Environmental Studies, now known as the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. He retired in 1985, but has gone into the office almost every day since. He does it without pay.
"I have now worked for zero dollars since I retired, long enough that I have paid back the people of Wisconsin every cent they paid me to give me a wonderful, wonderful career. So we are even now. And I feel good about that," said Bryson.
How refreshing. Can the alarmists in the scientific community – and folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore – claim that they are doing their “work” for nothing? Read on:
So, if global warming isn't such a burning issue, why are thousands of scientists so concerned about it?
"Why are so many thousands not concerned about it?" Bryson shot back.
"There is a lot of money to be made in this," he added. "If you want to be an eminent scientist you have to have a lot of grad students and a lot of grants. You can't get grants unless you say, 'Oh global warming, yes, yes, carbon dioxide.'"
Bryson then pointed out how the media work:
Reporters will often call the meteorology building seeking the opinion of a scientist and some beginning graduate student will pick up the phone and say he or she is a meteorologist, Bryson said. "And that goes in the paper as 'scientists say.'"
The word of this young graduate student then trumps the views of someone like Bryson, who has been working in the field for more than 50 years, he said. "It is sort of a smear."
Of course, then some ignoramus will copy the opinions of this graduate student and dissiminate them throughout the blogosphere as yet another example of the consensus. NewsBusters members should be very familiar with this:
Bryson said he recently wrote something on the subject and two graduate students told him he was wrong, citing research done by one of their professors. That professor, Bryson noted, is probably the student of one of his students.
"Well, that professor happened to be wrong," he said.
Sound familiar? And this is why many view all of this nonsense as “junk science”:
"There is very little truth to what is being said and an awful lot of religion. It's almost a religion. Where you have to believe in anthropogenic (or man-made) global warming or else you are nuts."
Yep. I’ve witnessed that as well. Of course, what is the real science involved:
While Bryson doesn't think that global warming is man-made, he said there is some evidence of an effect from mankind, but not an effect of carbon dioxide.
For example, in Wisconsin in the last 100 years the biggest heating has been around Madison, Milwaukee and in the Southeast, where the cities are. There was a slight change in the Green Bay area, he said. The rest of the state shows no warming at all.
"The growth of cities makes it hotter, but that was true back in the 1930s, too," Bryson said. "Big cities were hotter than the surrounding countryside because you concentrate the traffic and you concentrate the home heating. And you modify the surface, you pave a lot of it."
Yet, the most wonderful part of this interview was:
Bryson didn't see Al Gore's movie about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth."
"Don't make me throw up," he said. "It is not science. It is not true."
Bravo, Mr. Bryson. And thanks.
I wonder if they will beat him into submission and issue a retraction for speaking his mind, kinda like they did the the NASA scientist?
Global warming is the Y2K for the first decade of the 21st Century. It is a scam and a diversion tactic that will waste squillions of dollars globally while Iran builds a nuclear weapon and while China and the rest of Asia prepare to break the US hegemony and while the Mullahs (who do not care about global warming or anything other than their death cult) plot to take over the world...
Now THAT is the Inconvenient Truth!
ping
bump
I wish these so-called experts would just shut up. Have they not heard the debate is OVER. Laurie David says so.
...”However, there is no credible evidence that it is due to mankind and carbon dioxide. We’ve been coming out of a Little Ice Age for 300 years. We have not been making very much carbon dioxide for 300 years. It’s been warming up for a long time,” Bryson said.
From todays Mammoth volcano watch page (in CA around Mammoth Lakes) CO2 trend: The diffuse carbon dioxide gas flux in the Horseshoe Lake tree-kill area has shown little change from the relatively high levels of 50 to 150 tons per day sustained for the past several years; see details.
Wow Gore’s movie really does come with a barf alert!!!
Not just an alert, it comes with real barf.
I think that Global Warming is just a scam for some to make some quick money. Climate has been changing since I was born.
If it hadn't, we wouldn't have needed any hot weather babes on TV, right? (smirk!)
Oh! Excues me!! I meant meterologists!!!
Perhaps it is but it is something else in the larger sense.
It is "a scam for some to" gain centralized governmental control of economies by foisting a fake crisis upon us.
Socialists want to have "planned economies" because within the regulation of planned economies are the control handles to tax, steal, redistribute and to saddle normal economies with every socilaist agenda for planned outcomes.
Instead of equality under the law, they want equality of outcome...or, at least, outcomes as they want to percieve them.
No, the real threat to our world is not natural global cycles like the heating and cooling that has occured each 1500 years, or the government study grants, but instead it is the false-hoods that those leftist think tank grants are putting in place so as to have the false justification to rape and pillage a free world.
Planned economies were the central ingrediant of communism and nazism as shown clearly 50 years ago by Hayek in The Road to Serfdom.
BTTT
excellent
bttt
If only "wasting money" like Y2K were all it would do...
This global warming scam is more like the eugenics junk science of the early 20th century. It's going to cause a lot of people to die needlessly.
bump
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.