Princeton Physicist: Global Warming is Bullshit

[festeringZit]

[ former director or energy research at Dept. or Energy ]

Science
Scientist fired by Al Gore was told, "science will not intrude on public policy".

Noted energy expert and Princeton physicist Dr. Will Happer has sharply criticized global warming alarmism. Happer, author of over 200 scientific papers and a past director of energy research at the Department of Energy, called fears over global warming "mistaken".
"I have spent a long research career studying physics that is closely related to the greenhouse effect", said Happer. "Fears about man-made global warming are unwarranted and are not based on good science."
Dr. Happer views climate change as a predominately natural process. "The earth's climate is changing now, as it always has. There is no evidence that the changes differ in any qualitative way from those of the past."
In 1991, Happer was appointed director of energy research for the US Department of Energy. In 1993, he testified before Congress that the scientific data didn't support widespread fears about the dangers of the ozone hole and global warming, remarks that caused then-Vice President Al Gore to fire him. "I was told that science was not going to intrude on public policy", he said. "I did not need the job that badly".
Happer's latest remarks were made yesterday, as he asked to be included in a Senate Environment and Public Works report of scientists disputing global warming alarmism. Happer joins 650 other scientists on the list, many of whom have been interviewed previously by DailyTech.
"Computer models used to generate frightening scenarios from increasing levels of carbon dioxide have scant credibility," Happer concluded.
In response to Happer's remarks, Senator James Inhofe, ranking minority member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said, "The endless claims of a consensus on man-made global warming grow less and less credible every day".

 

[artiesliver]

It would've been great if he actually said "It is bullshit."

 

[eek.]

"science will not intrude on public policy"

Sounds like what the Catholic Church was doing when Galileo told us the earth orbited the Sun.

 

[eek.]

"I did not need the job that badly"

Unfortunately, most people do because they lack the talent to be truly independent.

 

[pubguy]

It would've been great if he actually said "It is bullshit."

These guys do!!

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[pubguy]

I heard a weatherman say today that a white Christmas is forecast for all of Canada for the first time in 40 yrs.

 

[SayHeyKid]

There is literally no evidence pointing to this global warming theory. Unfortunately the establishment will most likely get their global carbon tax (tax on life).

 

[quantumleap]

From the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works web site:

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index....ecord_id=2158072e-802a-23ad-45f0-274616db87e6

UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims​

Study: Half of warming due to Sun! –Sea Levels Fail to Rise? - Warming Fears in 'Dustbin of History'​

'No evidence for accelerated sea-level rise' ​

 

[RobFunk]

I agree it's BS!

Anyways, lower the acceptable C02 levels please

 

[pubguy]

This is why we shouldn't always rely on Wikipedia. This is a fairly carefully worded fictitious account of global warming. * = man made


Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation.
Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 100 years ending in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-grida7a_0-0" class="reference">[1]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-Global_1-0" class="reference">[2]</sup> The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that most of the temperature increase since the mid-twentieth century is "very likely" due to the increase in anthropogenic* greenhouse gas concentrations.<sup id="cite_ref-grida7_2-0" class="reference">[3]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-Global_1-1" class="reference">[2]</sup> Natural phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference">[4]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference">[5]</sup> These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference">[6]</sup> including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference">[7]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference">[8]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference">[9]</sup> While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with these findings,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference">[10]</sup> the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference">[11]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference">[12]</sup>
Climate model projections indicate that global surface temperature will likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century.<sup id="cite_ref-grida7_2-1" class="reference">[3]</sup> The uncertainty in this estimate arises from use of differing estimates of future greenhouse gas emissions and from use of models with differing climate sensitivity. Another uncertainty is how warming and related changes will vary from region to region around the globe. Although most studies focus on the period up to 2100, warming is expected to continue for more than a thousand years even if greenhouse gas levels are stabilized. This results from the large heat capacity of the oceans.<sup id="cite_ref-grida7_2-2" class="reference">[3]</sup>
Increasing global temperature will cause sea levels to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation, likely including an expanse of the subtropical desert regions.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference">[13]</sup> Other likely effects include increases in the intensity of extreme weather events, changes in agricultural yields, modifications of trade routes, glacier retreat, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors.
Most national governments have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Political and public debate continues regarding what, if any, action should be taken to reduce or reverse future warming or to adapt to its expected consequences.

 

[Railbird]

the earth is going to be a fireball in very near future.


"Princeton Physicist" does that suppose to mean something?

 

[Railbird]

means a peon with a title to me

 

[BossTown]

From the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works web site:

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index....ecord_id=2158072e-802a-23ad-45f0-274616db87e6

UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims

Study: Half of warming due to Sun! –Sea Levels Fail to Rise? - Warming Fears in 'Dustbin of History'


'No evidence for accelerated sea-level rise'​

I clicked on that link just to confirm my suspicion that it was posted by that loon Inhofe. Sure enuf - it was.

 

[quantumleap]

I clicked on that link just to confirm my suspicion that it was posted by that loon Inhofe. Sure enuf - it was.

That's right. Just use name-calling instead of logically debating the quotes from the people posted on that web site.

hno:

 

[eek.]

I agree it's BS!

Anyways, lower the acceptable C02 levels please

:drink:

Do you know how much CO2 is in the atmosphere Rob?
It's a trace gas.
0.00035
that's 0.035 of one percent.

 

[RobFunk]

:drink:

Do you know how much CO2 is in the atmosphere Rob?
It's a trace gas.
0.00035
that's 0.035 of one percent.

Hey, not bad. What about deforestization and the green house effect?

I promise I will STFU on the matter if you have good answer here.

 

[eek.]

Where I'm at was under a mile of solid ice 10,000 years ago.
Mammoths, Neanderthal man and sabre toothed tigers have gotten extinct.

I don't doubt our levels of pollution, which are irresponsible and need to be sorted.
We've also fished the oceans bare, amongst other dumb stuff.

I do however, doubt that climate change is because of us, the earths climate changes constantly.
I do know at the same time, that climate change is the only thing that they can tax us for, and governments are very very hungry for more money generating opportunities.

 

[Woody0]

I heard a weatherman say today that a white Christmas is forecast for all of Canada for the first time in 40 yrs.

That's 37 years. We've had two feet of snow in Vancouver over the past 11 days and I shovelled another 3 inches of global warming out of my driveway today. So whats your point?

BTW it was 78 F on Baffin Island in the high artic this past summer and the polar ice shows extensive thawing each summer.

 

[Woody0]

I do however, doubt that climate change is because of us, the earths climate changes constantly.

It really doesn't matter. When sea level rises over 20 feet wiping out many coastal communities and climate change devastates crops there'll be fewer of us to debate whether we are in fact responsible for the changes.

 

[punter]

70's here today freezing on Tuesday.

Has nothing to do with the receding ice at the poles.