Beam me to Planet Gore !
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:
Related Links:
More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing - April 23, 2009
NASA's James Hansen: Skepticism 'can confuse the public'
Monkton's Report: 35 Inconvenient Truths: The errors in Al Gore's movie
Monckton: Have the courage to do nothing...US Congress told climate change is not real
Monckton's Letter to Represenatives Ed Markey & Joe Barton - March 30, 2009
Al Gore Challenged to International TV Debate on Global Warming By Lord Monckton - March 19, 2007
Scientific Smackdown: Skeptics Voted The Clear Winners Against Global Warming Believers in Heated NYC Debate – March 16, 2007
Lord Monckton Declared Victor in Global Warming Debate – By His Opponent! – August 19, 2008
Debate Over Whether 'Global Warming is a Global Crisis' – March 6, 2009
Climate Depot's Morano debates former Clinton Official Romm - April 6, 2009
This from the same people who can’t tell with a very high degree of certainty whether it will rain tomorrow, or not.
Let Schneider debate Professor Lindzen of MIT - he will get his a$$ handed to him.
I’d do my first ever Pay Per View to see that!
No rain forecast here today but it was pouring when I got up. When I checked the forecast it said there was a slight chance of rain. IOW, they don’t seem able to tell if its raining right now.
Did anyone tell this idiot that Australia just set a record for its lowest temperature in recorded history ? How is that possible in his models ? Or is that something else he cannot explain.
I’ve decided that man has as much to do with global warming as the ants in my yard have to do with the sprinkler system!
You can't talk about Fight Club unless you're a member of Fight Club.
In his dreams. All he has to do is continue to be a cretinous horse's ass, dropping Gorean phrases like 'the science is settled' and there is a 'scientific consensus' that anthropogenic global warming is the only game in town, lie about and distort the facts a lot and hope people don't detect his political blinders.
I’ve decided that man has as much to do with global warming as the ants in my yard have to do with the sprinkler system!
LOL
Only on PAY PER VIEWWWW!
And who assured us we’d suffer a nuclear winter if Saddam ignited the Kuwaiti oil fields.
Schneider was one of my Profs when I was in graduate school. Back then, he was preaching Global Cooling. I think that he discovered that there was a lot more money in Global Warming.
He was one of the first guru’s of climate models, NCAR had a brand new Cray that was his pride and joy. I contributed some really junk data to that model. Probably still there today.
12? How about 2?
Ask Schneider about sun spots. That would annihilate any of his claim of annihilation from the get go.
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