...urging from energy industry lobbyists,
If the reporting is accurate, neither is the Bush administration. They want to get rid of Dr. Watson because industry doesn't like him - i.e. the reasons are economic.
WOSG's argument is a little different; Watson is a politician masquerading as a bad scientist. Maybe, but if the Administration made that point, the New York Times didn't report it.
Duh!
Lobbyists are folks hired to represent someone. In this case the someone is the energy industry. It's lead, developed and directed by scientists/engineers. They understand what this is all about. The scientists there and elsewhere, don't believe the scare mongering BS out of the IPCC. That's why they send their reps, the lobbyists. Then Bush has his own sources, like the NSF. There report gave essentially the same numbers I did. The numbers I gave are the outside limits that no computer model can go beyond. It's a conservation of energy thing.
" If the reporting is accurate, neither is the Bush administration. They want to get rid of Dr. Watson because industry doesn't like him - i.e. the reasons are economic.
The reporting is from the NY times. They apply a left handed spin to their works before they are released. The reasons Bush has are scientific and economic. The industry and Bush's conclusions are based in reality. The NY Times should posit whether they can discern a difference in the intensity of storms differing by < 0.6% in energy. That's what the science of the NSF report said, but they also through in the speculatory mention that Earth might suffer huge storms, because of global warming. They're after funding and ears!
" WOSG's argument is a little different; Watson is a politician masquerading as a bad scientist. Maybe, but if the Administration made that point, the New York Times didn't report it."
They didn't, it's a leftist thing. The NY Times should posit whether they can discern a difference in the intensity of storms differing by < 0.6% in energy. That's what the science of the NSF report said, but they also threw in the speculatory mention that Earth might suffer huge storms, because of global warming. They're after funding and ears!
Bush considered the science and the economics, came to a conclusion and is basing his decisions on that. His conclusion is not only sound, it supports Freedom and prosperity for all. The warmists are only interested in promoting the prosperity and interests of themselves.
Even you can probably figure this one out, liberallarry.
On the other hand, you apparently believe that increases in global temperature here on earth are causing the corresponding observed increases in solar radiation.