Posted on 04/11/2020 1:56:33 PM PDT by rktman
The first time I laid eyes on climate science pioneer Fred Singer was in a scenic elevator at the Marriot Marquis in NYC, in March of 2008. The hotel was hosting the premiere International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC), and I was there to cover the event for American Thinker. Dr. Singer was there not only to dazzle the crowd of noted skeptical climate scientists, economists and policy experts from around the world, but also to launch his new Non-IPCC report, a rebuttal to the agenda-driven propaganda of the then recent IPCC Fourth Assessment (AR4).
Singer’s unique, soft-spoken wit was imbued in his writing, as in this example from 2007 where, in his characteristic good-humored fashion, he took on the IPCC’s typical mistake of confusing cause and effect:
“Some cite the fact that the climate is currently warming and the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing. This is true, but correlation is never proof of causation. In Europe, the birth rate is decreasing and so is the number of storks. Does this correlation prove that storks bring babies?”
In that same piece, Singer also dismissed the canard of “consensus” in climate science:
“But even if a majority of scientists had voted for human-caused global warming, that's not how science works. Unlike in politics, the majority does not rule. Rather, every advance in science has come from a minority that found that observed facts contradicted the prevailing hypothesis. Sometimes it took only one scientist; think of Galileo or Einstein.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I was unaware he had passed.
I used to read his stuff regularly in the Washington Times.
He was an intellectual giant.
I always wonder - what was on the menu?
We lost a good one in Mr. Singer. RIP sir.
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Amen to that. A voice of reason fighting the scam invented and promulgated by the “How to get rich by selling the threat of climate change” crowd.
He will be missed.
No doubt some sort of International fare.
I was fortunate enough to take a college course from Fred Singer. He taught me a new way of thinking. Great mind. Big loss. Blessings to his family
I knew Fred Singer at the University of Virginia. A physicist by training, Fred was a member of the Environmental Sciences department, but he used to hang out occasionally with some of the economics faculty at morning tea at the Colonnade Hotel pavilion on the Jefferson-designed Lawn. Singer knew more about the oil industry (prices, production, and market structure) than any of the economists, and he was especially insightful during the OPEC-II oil disruptions of 1979. Singer always considered himself a climate-change “skeptic,” not a “denier.” His dissertation committee at Princeton was comprised of John Wheeler, Robert Oppenheimer, and Niels Bohr. Not too shabby.
Fairly erudite gaggle of appraisers it appears.
Singer was truly a giant in the field.
I read his journal articles in 1965 space and planetary atmospheric science in grad school. Followed him ever since.
SALUTE
I read his journal articles in 1965 space and planetary atmospheric science in grad school. Followed him ever since.
SALUTE
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