The ORIGINAL ClimateGate Whistleblower is found

Remember that Roger Revelle, Al Gore's mentor, originated the CO2-to-Global Warming theory, and later RETRACTED IT! Al Gore then called him senile!

Watch the John Coleman video and bring this up when you talk with "AGW Believers."

New! Scientists who know that there is no significant man-made global warming have recorded videos to be displayed for the delegates to the International Climate Conference in Copenhagen.

Video: John Coleman

John coleman is the founder of the Weather Channel, the original weatherman on Good Morning America and now the lead meteorologist here at KUSI-TV.

Video: Joseph D’Aleo

Joseph D’Aleo is a certified consulting meteorologist, a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, first director of meteorology at the Weather Channel and now founder and president of Icecap.us

Video: Richard Lindzen

Richard Lindzen, PhD, is an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at Massachusetts Institue of Technology

Video: Willie Soon

Willie Soon, PhD, is an astrophysicist at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophyics

See videos here:

http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/78488007.html

And look what Wikipedia says about Roger Revelle:

” Alleged doubts about climate change

It has been alleged that near the end of his life Revelle expressed doubts about climate change, but his daughter wrote that Revelle

...remained deeply concerned about global warming until his death in July 1991. That same year he wrote: “The scientific base for a greenhouse warming is too uncertain to justify drastic action at this time.” Will and other critics of Sen. Al Gore have seized these words to suggest that Revelle, who was also Gore’s professor and mentor, renounced his belief in global warming.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. When Revelle inveighed against “drastic” action, he was using that adjective in its literal sense - measures that would cost trillions of dollars. Up until his death, he thought that extreme measures were premature. But he continued to recommend immediate prudent steps to mitigate and delay climatic warming. Some of those steps go well beyond anything Gore or other national politicians have yet to advocate.”

See the full “story” here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Revelle

“It has been alleged”!!??!! WTF?

In the last speech he gave just before his death he apologized for his theory and the expense and false conclusions it caused! (And God bless him for that.)

Why I thought I could trust Wikipedia for the truth. /s

Someone with a Wikipedia account should post this over there and we’ll see how long it stays up:

Gore’s ‘global warming mentor,’ in his own words

Written By: S. Fred Singer
Published In: Environment & Climate News > January 2000
Publication date: 01/01/2000
Publisher: The Heartland Institute

If Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius is the grandfather of greenhouse warming (ca. 1897), then oceanographer Roger Revelle is certainly its father.

Revelle, who died in 1991, started the remarkable series of measurements of atmospheric CO2 during the Intergovernmental Geophysical Year in 1957. As a visiting professor at Harvard University, he taught a freshman course attended by then-student Al Gore.

In his frightening best-seller, Earth in the Balance, Gore claims Revelle as his mentor.

If you know the book, you may be interested in what mentor/scientist Revelle said about global warming. It will make you less frightened.

OMNI interview

In March 1984—15 years ago, mind you—Omni magazine published an extensive interview with Revelle.

Omni: A problem that has occupied your attention for many years is the increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, which could cause the Earth’s climate to become warmer. Is this actually happening?

Revelle: I estimate that the total increase [in CO2] over the past hundred years has been about 21 percent. But whether the increase will lead to a significant rise in global temperature, we can’t absolutely say.

Omni: [If it happens], what will the warming of the Earth mean to us?

Revelle: There may be lots of effects. Increased CO2 in the air acts like a fertilizer for plants. . . . you get more plant growth. Increasing CO2 levels also affect water transpiration, causing plants to close their pores and sweat less. That means plants will be able to grow in drier climates.

Omni: Does the increase in CO2 have anything to do with people saying the weather is getting worse?

Revelle: People are always saying the weather’s getting worse. Actually, the CO2 increase is predicted to temper weather extremes.

Revelle’s letters

In a July 18, 1988, letter to then-Senator Tim Wirth, Revelle cautions that “we should be careful not to arouse too much alarm until the rate and amount of warming becomes clearer. It is not yet obvious that this summer’s hot weather and drought are the result of a global climatic change or simply an example of the uncertainties of climate variability. My own feeling is that we had better wait another ten years before making confident predictions.”

Revelle had made an even stronger statement just a few days earlier, in a July 14, 1988 letter to Congressman Jim Bates: “Most scientists familiar with the subject are not yet willing to bet that the climate this year is the result of ‘greenhouse warming.’ As you very well know, climate is highly variable from year to year, and the causes of these variations are not at all well understood. My own personal belief is that we should wait another ten or twenty years to really be convinced that the greenhouse effect is going to be important for human beings, in both positive and negative ways.”

Revelle’s writings

In the premiere issue of Cosmos, in 1991, Revelle and coauthors S.F. Singer and C. Starr contributed a brief essay, “What to do about greenhouse warming: Look before you leap.” The three write: “Drastic, precipitous and, especially, unilateral steps to delay the putative greenhouse impacts can cost jobs and prosperity and increase the human costs of global poverty, without being effective.”

They continue, “Stringent controls enacted now would be economically devastating, particularly for developing countries for whom reduced energy consumption would mean slower rates of economic growth without being able to delay greatly the growth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Yale economist William Nordhaus, one of the few who have been trying to deal quantitatively with the economics of the greenhouse effect, has pointed out that ‘. . . those who argue for strong measures to slow greenhouse warming have reached their conclusion without any discernible analysis of the costs and benefits.’”

Revelle and his colleagues conclude, “It would be prudent to complete the ongoing and recently expanded research so that we will know what we are doing before we act. ‘Look before you leap’ may still be good advice.”

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