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2 Nov 2009
Open Letter to Senate
A GAGGLE IS NOT A CONSENSUS
You have recently received a letter from the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), purporting to convey a "consensus" of the
scientific community that immediate and drastic action is needed to avert a
climatic catastrophe.
We do not seek to make the scientific arguments here (we did that in an
earlier letter, sent a couple of months ago), but simply to note that the
claim of consensus is fake, designed to stampede you into actions that will
cripple our economy, and which you will regret for many years. There is no
consensus, and even if there were, consensus is not the test of scientific
validity. Theories that disagree with the facts are wrong, consensus or no.
We know of no evidence that any of the "leaders" of the scientific community
who signed the letter to you ever asked their memberships for their
opinions, before claiming to represent them on this important matter.
We also note that the American Physical Society (APS, and we are physicists)
did not sign the letter, though the scientific issues at stake are
fundamentally matters of applied physics. You can do physics without
climatology, but you can't do climatology without physics.
The APS is at this moment reviewing its stance on so-called global warming,
having received a petition from its membership to do so. That petition was
signed by 160 distinguished members and fellows of the Society, including
one Nobelist and 12 members of the National Academies. Indeed a score of the
signers are Members and Fellows of the AAAS, none of whom were consulted
before the AAAS letter to you.
Professor Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor Fred Singer, University of Virginia
Professor Will Happer, Princeton University
Professor Larry Gould, University of Hartford
Dr. Roger Cohen, retired Manager, Strategic Planning, ExxonMobil
List of 160 signers of the APS petition available at
http://tinyurl.com/lg266u
http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=4286
Warmest Regards
Bon z0
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps
US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists
worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct
from natural variation."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville |
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