Reddit mentions of The Deniers

stipulating that your appeal to authority fallacy stands in direct contradiction of observed 17 years of no warming and repeated failures of climate models, yes there are institutions accepting the $multi-billions in research grants fueled by interests who stand to gain $trillions from Enron-invented climate derivatives and taxation.

Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever resigns American Physical Society in protest of global warming stance

U.N. Scientist Rejects Nobel Prize Share, Denounces Climate Alarmism

Dr. Hal Lewis resigns American Physical Society over global warming "scam"

>"the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist."

Chief Research Scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Australia’s equivalent of the National Science Foundation says warming oversold, day of reckoning coming

The American Physical Society appoints 3 Climate Skeptics to Review Official Climate Position

Russian Academy Of Sciences Experts Warn Of Imminent Cold Period

1350+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic Arguments Against ACC/AGW Alarm

>Dr. Edward Wegman--former chairman of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Academy of Sciences--demolishes the famous "hockey stick" graph that launched the global warming panic. Dr. David Bromwich--president of the International Commission on Polar Meteorology--says "it's hard to see a global warming signal from the mainland of Antarctica right now." Prof. Paul Reiter--Chief of Insects and Infectious Diseases at the famed Pasteur Institute--says "no major scientist with any long record in this field" accepts Al Gore's claim that global warming spreads mosquito-borne diseases. Prof. Hendrik Tennekes--director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute--states "there exists no sound theoretical framework for climate predictability studies" used for global warming forecasts. Dr. Christopher Landsea--past chairman of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones--says "there are no known scientific studies that show a conclusive physical link between global warming and observed hurricane frequency and intensity." Dr. Antonino Zichichi--one of the world's foremost physicists, former president of the European Physical Society, who discovered nuclear antimatter--calls global warming models "incoherent and invalid." Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski--world-renowned expert on the ancient ice cores used in climate research--says the U.N. "based its global-warming hypothesis on arbitrary assumptions and these assumptions, it is now clear, are false." Prof. Tom V. Segalstad--head of the Geological Museum, University of Oslo--says "most leading geologists" know the U.N.'s views "of Earth processes are implausible." Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu--founding director of the International Arctic Research Center, twice named one of the "1,000 Most Cited Scientists," says much "Arctic warming during the last half of the last century is due to natural change." Dr. Claude Allegre--member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences and French Academy of Science, he was among the first to sound the alarm on the dangers of global warming. His view now: "The cause of this climate change is unknown." Dr. Richard Lindzen--Professor of Meteorology at M.I.T., member, the National Research Council Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, says global warming alarmists "are trumpeting catastrophes that couldn't happen even if the models were right." Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov--head of the space research laboratory of the Russian Academy of Science's Pulkovo Observatory and of the International Space Station's Astrometria project says "the common view that man's industrial activity is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a misinterpretation of cause and effect relations." Dr. Richard Tol--Principal researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies at Vrije Universiteit, and Adjunct Professor at the Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, at Carnegie Mellon University, calls the most influential global warming report of all time "preposterous . . . alarmist and incompetent." Dr. Sami Solanki--director and scientific member at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, who argues that changes in the Sun's state, not human activity, may be the principal cause of global warming: "The sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures." The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria

31,000 scientists reject 'global warming' agenda

The very idea that we know everything there is to know about global climate and can control it is vanity of the highest order.

First and foremost, the scientific method requires experimentation to confirm hypotheses.

The only way we can confirm your hypotheses is to wait a few thousand years.

The only experimental data you have are computerized climate models whose level of complexity is far, far, far less than that the real world.

What you're calling "science" is not science. It's politics with a veneer of sophistry.

Yes, the planet has been warming, and the greatest correlation has been with the solar cycle, as has global warming on the other planets in the solar system.

We are now in a period of almost zero solar activity, and the planet has not experienced any significant warming in the past ten years.

I predict you will use an ad hominem attack to dismiss this petition to reject global warming hysteria signed by over 31,000 American scientists. That's SOP for AGW-fascists.

The scientific method requires the free exchange of information without censorship, but AGW-fascists believe that anyone who does not accept your dogma should be destroyed.

>CSPAN2 PODCAST: The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud featuring Lawrence Solomon.


>BOOK: The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud**And those who are too fearful to do so by Lawrence Solomon.

Proving something on Fox wrong is like kicking the kid in the wheelchair over - this isn't worth much.

I'd like to see him and others address all of the issues raised in The Deniers

The author of this post asks a neutral, intelligent, question, and none of the following is aimed at this poster.

The climate change obsessives make up a figure, like 97%, and keep repeating it and repeating it until a lot of people believe it. However, more than 30,000 scientists, with names and credentials, have signed the Global Warming Petition Project against Kyoto and similar proposals, stating that carbon dioxide is not is not causing warming and may be beneficial. Let's assume that the 30,000 constitutes all of the "deniers," or the three percent. That would mean there are at least 970,000 scientists (the 97 percent) who "agree that climate change (warming) is happening." Could we have their names and credentials, please?

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One Nobel Prize winner resigned over his opposition to global warming theory.
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The obsessives set up experiments designed to produce the results they want, and people believe them, until they get caught.
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Some groups that attempt to do damage control when this happens are suspect themselves.
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And the poor soon-to-drown polar bears, balancing on tiny mounds of melting ice...well, um, not so.
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Instead of warming, we are actually cooling, and any efforts to decrease "warming" may increase the cooling, and since the quantity and quality our food supply depends on warmth and carbon dioxide, we are threatening our survival by attacking nonexistent global warming. (We inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. Plants "inhale" MUST HAVE carbon dioxide and "exhale" oxygen.) Click here for details

Thousands of years ago, much of the northern U.S. was covered in ice, yet it melted. Since there were no cars or industry and very few humans, some scientists say the warming and cooling are cyclical and caused by variations in sunspots. Today, some glaciers previously thought to be melting and getting smaller are actually advancing.
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Much more to come in response to other posts on this subject.

There are people - including many intelligent ones (scientists among them) - who believe the following ideas or are otherwise skeptical of MMGW (Man-Made Global Warming theory) and some of it's proposed solutions. I am not an expert on this topic by any means and am not suggesting the ideas below are proven/correct, but the fact that intelligent people (and others) can and do believe some of the following would explain a lot of the controversy.

Please don't hate/downvote because I am presenting an unpopular view, note that this is a discussion about why the topic is controversial, not about whether or not it is scientifically correct. Again, I present the below as ideas, not proven facts.

• The earth warms and cools in cycles regardless of CO2 emissions.
  
  
• Heating precedes CO2, and therefore cannot be the cause of said heating.
  
  
• Increases in CO2 and temperature have many positive impacts for plant life and humans.
  
  
• The idea of CO2 "forcing" may be mistaken when countervailing forces are factored in.
  
  
• There is tremendous economic and ego (prestige) gain to be had by supporting the MMGW (man-made global warming) theory, largely by way of government and NGO grants to universities and other groups to study/support the idea. Conversely, risking losing said grants/support to ones academic institution could be very bad news for someone doing so. Related, many jobs in climate research would disappear if not for global warming theory, as would the prestige of those supporting the theory if it turned out not to be correct.
  
  
• Scientists and academics can be very mistaken en-masse and for long periods of time, see for example http://amasci.com/weird/vindac.html
  
  
• The solar system is heating up as a whole, not just earth, suggesting some cause other than CO2 emissions to explain any increase in temperature.
  
  
• The solutions proposed by many environmentalists would have tremendous (negative) economic consequences with little if any positive benefit.
  
  
• People disputing MMGW theory are treated like pariahs. Not for example the likening to Nazis (note the word "deniers", taken from the phrase "holocaust deniers"), or accused of being in the pocket of oil companies, even when no connection exists.
  
  
• Other theories for warming exist, see for example http://www.petitionproject.org/review_article.php
  
  
• Much of the pro-MMGW claims are sensationalistic and fear-mongering in nature, see for example "An Inconvenient Truth"'s claims about polar bears, mass flooding, and hurricanes for example.
  
  
• Some high profile people such as [John Coleman (founder of the weather channel)] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13kRznssNCk), Bob Carter and Michael Crichton article and lecture dispute MMGW theory.
  
  
• Some top-notch scientists who study climate dispute the claims put forward by the IPCC, see for example this series, based on this book. See also http://www.businessinsider.com/the-ten-most-important-climate-change-skeptics-2009-7# and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming.
  
  For more material focusing on the skeptical viewpoint, see /r/climateskeptics.