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June 25, 2007
More From Reid Bryson
Posted by Dave Blount at June 25, 2007 5:34 PM
From a recent interview with The Capital Times, here's University of Wisconsin at Madison's Reid Bryson, known as the father of scientific climatology, on the topic of the weather getting slightly warmer:
[T]here is no credible evidence that it is due to mankind and carbon dioxide. We've been coming out of a Little Ice Age for 300 years. We have not been making very much carbon dioxide for 300 years. It's been warming up for a long time.
On the impact of human-generated CO2 on the temperature:
It's like there is an elephant charging in and you worry about the fact that there is a fly sitting on its head. It's just a total misplacement of emphasis. It really isn't science because there's no really good scientific evidence.
On the alleged "consensus" that the global warming hoax is real:
Consensus doesn't prove anything, in science or anywhere else, except in democracy, maybe.
On why many scientists play along with the hoax:
There is a lot of money to be made in this. If you want to be an eminent scientist you have to have a lot of grad students and a lot of grants. You can't get grants unless you say, "Oh global warming, yes, yes, carbon dioxide."
On the media's habit of harvesting juicy global warming quotes from clueless first-year graduate students:
And that goes in the paper as "scientists say."
On the cult-like demand for conformity to a belief system that is not based on reality:
There is very little truth to what is being said and an awful lot of religion. It's almost a religion. Where you have to believe in anthropogenic (or man-made) global warming or else you are nuts.
On whether he's actually sat through Al Gore's A Convenient Lie:
Don't make me throw up. It is not science. It is not true.
Now the rebuttal, from Kool-Aid–guzzler Galen McKinley, an assistant professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, also at UW-Madison:
If you saw smoke in your house, it would be irresponsible not to get your family out, right?
That pretty much sums up the climate change apocalypse: suppositional hysteria based on imaginary smoke.
On a tip from Kevin.
